Unionist forces during the course of the past three weeks.
British army hits out like a wounded beest.
due to be called in the spring.
a real impact on events.
Following the killing of Hugh Coney, • Republican prisoner, on Wednes day, 6 November, and the wounding of many others at Long Kesh concentration camp in Northern Ireland, protests have taken place all over the North.
The shooting came during an attempted mass break-out from Long Kesh. A tunnel 195 feet long had been dug from one of the camp com pounds to the perimeter fence, through which about 30 prisoners escaped, Hugh Concy was shot in the chest from an observation post by troops guarding the area as be man from the camp, by the next morning the remaining escapers bad been rounded up.
In the 24 hours following the shooting, the IKA retaliated by booting dead two British soldiers and blowing up two more with a booby-trap bomb.
In Concy's home town of Coalaland all factories, pubs and shops dosed for the day on Wednesday, and thousands took part in a silent protest march. In Belfast, 3,000 marched through the Falls in a torchlit procession. All over the North, cars, lorries and buses were hijacked and set on fire, and roads blocked by trucks containing bombs.
The Belfast United Workers Group called a one day protest strike for Friday 8 November, and ed to City Hall.
After the attempted break-out, helicopters with searchlights, troops, Red Weakly 14 November 1974 Page 2 The report we print below from our Irish comrades of the Revolutionary Marxist Group describes the second series of mass actions by the antiThese actions have brought a hysterical response from the British army. The level of repression of the Catholic ghettos is unprecedented as the This reaction by the British army has the same aim as the wave of sec tarian killings unleashed against the catholics over the pest weeks: to soften up the anti-Unionists in time for the Constitutional Convention The only relief to the beleaguered minority will be the complete removal of the British troops. Only with the complete discrediting of any idea that the road of imperialist salvation lies through handing over to the Loyalists will the barbaric concentration camp system be terminated.
The mounting opposition inside the workers movement has to be orga nised and given a focus. The projected Troops Out demo scheduled to commemorate Bloody Sunday on 26 January has to be made a priority: The crisis of imperialist perspectives is now so grave that we can now have and tracker dogs were thrown into the hunt for the escapers. As the troops moved into the camp, they attacked the prisoners with C5 gas, batons and rubber bullets. A priest called in to give the last rites saw 15 men spreadeagled against barbed wire being beaten by soldiers.
The dead man, 24-year-old Hugh Coney, was typical of many of the detainees in Long Kesh. Arrested on suspicion of planting a car bomb, he was held on remand for 11 months.
Although acquitted at a jury trial in Belfast, he was rearrested, tortured, interrogated and detained; since them he had been held without trial tor 18 months Over 100 women attended a school
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Belfast University students were stoned by Loyalists as they march-