Urgent action is needed on behalf of the Winchester prisoners convicted of the London Three of them are still being force-fed in an attempt to break their hunger strike. The condition of Dolours Price in particular • causing grave concern.
Just after the force foeding began, Dolors wrote thi description offit to her parents: It happened on the 19th day of my hanger strike, 1 was scared stift alien The worst bit was when I couldn't get my breath as the tone was going down selnen to crown tal t was sick afterwards and brought every thing up again ...
Hugh Foeney described it thus: A wooden contrastion hoie te toe is torea down my roal. A tunnel 15 put into the tube and the liquid is poured down." Dolours Price has continued to vomit violently cach tune uis nas dartner weasened ner condition, and makes each day a waking nightmare. Her life and the lives of the other langer strikers are in danger, but the The class war is moring towards decisive battles and Aims of Industry has smelled a whiff of gripe-shot. This right wing propaganda group, financed by big business to defend 'free' enterprise, has launched a major campaign which is budgeted to the tune of £500,000. They will publish leaflets, posters and newspaper advertsements chamouring about the threat of Labour wrecking the in Britain? they refuse to give in while their demands are refused. The treatment die Winchester prisoners are recolving is vicious and vindictive. All they are asking is the whene their relatives can visit them. Yet the response to inen acowen, und to nei bunger strice nas Deen brutal: It contrasts vividly with die cases in which murder, had thesr requests cranted to be transterred Tro the North of noland to serve their settlences in Engish prisons On New Years Day a picket of fifty people rallied outside Briston prison, They protested at the treatment of the prisoners and tie fact that by constanty switching them from prison to prisan the authoritier A food of resolutions and lotters from the Labour Movement must descend on the Home Office demand of the prisoners demand to be returned to seave their sentenices in jails in the North of Ireland.
Tuesday's picket outside Brixton prison protesting against treatment of Winchester prisoners economy with its paltry nationalisation proposals.
The campaigo was kicked off on 27 Decembor with an ad in the Des Mirror headlined: The End of Freedom in Britain"", an id which has subsequently appeared in a number of other papers. Il clains that the Communist Party and its alles are out to destroy the siberbes" which are inseparable from a free economy We are soberly informed that the 10% of Railwaymen, led by Mr. Buckton, who reject the British Rail offer, are out to wreck' the cconomy. Il goes on: "The Minoms too are