Video & Torture Of Marian Price Belongs To Us All

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Tuesday February 07, 2012 11:20 by BrianClarke - AllVoices

Its a Time to Organize Not for Armed Struggle

James Connolly wrote:

“An Irish Republic, the only purely political change in Ireland worth crossing the street for, will never be realised except by a revolutionary party that proceeds upon the premise that the capitalist and the landlord classes in town and country in Ireland are criminal accomplices with the British government, in the enslavement and subjection of the nation. Such a revolutionary party must be socialist, and from socialism alone can the salvation of Ireland come.”

Spirit of Freedom

James Connolly wrote:

“An Irish Republic, the only purely political change in Ireland worth crossing the street for, will never be realised except by a revolutionary party that proceeds upon the premise that the capitalist and the landlord classes in town and country in Ireland are criminal accomplices with the British government, in the enslavement and subjection of the nation. Such a revolutionary party must be socialist, and from socialism alone can the salvation of Ireland come.”

Mairead Farrell grasped just before the British murdered her, Engels’ insistence on the need to win the masses, as a condition prior to the revolutionary transformation of Irish society which requires agitation and organisation of all kinds, including trade union and parliamentary work to win the widest layers of working class support prior to revolution.

Engels himself said in his introduction to Karl Marx’s, The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850;

"The time of surprise attacks, of revolutions carried through by small conscious minorities at the head of masses lacking consciousness is past. Where it is a question of a complete transformation of the social organisation, the masses themselves must also be in on it, must themselves already have grasped what is at stake, what they are fighting for, body and soul. The history of the last fifty years has taught us that. But in order that the masses may understand what is to be done, long, persistent work is required, and it is just this work that we are now pursuing, and with a success which drives the enemy to despair."

Following the Bad Friday Agreement in 1998, direct British military presence on the street in Occupied Ireland was de-escalated but the British apparatus are most certainly intact and its repressive laws remain with all of their “special powers,” wheeled out when required as the re-introduction of political internment without trial demonstrates. The 40 years of “armed struggle” by the provisionals was betrayed and the ultimate sacrfices of brave volunteers, instead of weakening British occupation actually strengthened it. The sacrifices of those volunteers never the less still inspires but its a question of responsible, principled leadership.

In 1971 Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights was violated by the brutal British, in a systematic manner. Ordinary working people in 1971 were hooded, deprived of food, drink, sleep, made to stand against walls over a period of close to a week, subjected to "white noise" and tortured. Between 300 to 400 Irish people were in just once instance alone, brutally tortured in Palace Barracks between September 1971 and the Spring of 1972. A British Foreign Office Minister admitted in the House of Commons in January, that 38 cases of breaches of Human Rights by Britain had been referred to the British Government.

The British continued to use and promote state sponsored terrorism while they developed and refined, powers, repressive methods, technical equipment in occupied Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, which their industrial/war complex continues to export with great profit to the rest of the world's repressive regimes, to oppress their people. All over the world daily there are workers, trade unionists and the people's activists assassinated, tortured, jailed, interned using techniques developed and tested in occupied Ireland by the British. Often state terrorists are trained by the British and financed by the City of London, sourcing their armaments from the British industrial/ war complex with huge profits.

The recent case of Marian Price has highlighted the return by the British, to political internment without trial and re-awakening memories of the horrors Britain's concentration camp in Long Kesh, where ten hungers striker died. Marian Price herself who was previously brutally force fed in prison, after going on hunger strike, is again being tortured by the British with almost nine months of solitary confinement in an all male prison, which a UN expert has deemed torture.

Marian Price was very active in the civil rights movement in the late 1960s. She was in the Burntollet march to Derry in 1969 which was brutally attacked by British forces, before they subsequently slaughtered 14 unarmed innocent working people protesting on the streets of Derry. Marian a professed socialist, is also highly regarded by most Irish republicans, opposes the Adams/McGuinness faction. It is speculated that this may be the real reason for her current internment and daily torture. The issue is believed to be tied to the struggle with the British/Adams/McGuinness axis and snuffing out all oppositon.

Within this context Marian's daily torture by the British, it really is an attack on all working people worldwide, including the people of no property without work. Sooner or later worker's and people of no property movements, will all come under the same form of attack. Under conditions of more and more severe economic and industrial struggle, it will get harder and harder for ordinary people to stay healthy and alive not just on the island of Ireland but across all of the world.

Ireland's working people and those of no property will be confronting, both the paramilitary British forces of the PSNI and the neo-colonial Gardai using techniques tested on Marian and her comrades. Success or failure depends on how well workers’ movements are led on principle and how they are organized, who oppose all repression. This act of brutal British repression against Marian is an act against all. We need to organize like the Armagh/H-Block Committee did, before PSF hijacked it and jumped on the electoral bandwagon or gravy train.

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