Twenty five years ago British imperialism demonstrated its cold, calculating cruelty in the face of Irish Republican prisoners who felt they had no alternative but to make the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle for political rights, embarking on a hunger strike that would tragically end with their deaths. Gerry Ruddy of the Irish Republican Socialist Party has sent us an excellent and intimate analysis of those events, highlighting the need to build a revolutionary movement based on Marxism and rooted in the working class across all boundaries. Read the article on the Socialist Appeal website.
This latest of Ken Loach’s films is well crafted and well
thought. It has been thoroughly researched and really gets under the surface of
the processes and the events that helped shape the current situation on the island of Ireland.
“We urge all republicans to turn towards the working class
movements, get active in the unions, and raise issues that while relevant to
the immediate interests of working also form a bridge towards more radical and
revolutionary demands.” We reproduce the editorial from the latest e-mail
newsletter The Plough (Volume 3, Number 25, 14 June 2006) of the IRSP. We have
their kind permission to reproduce it.