Aberdare Cables men maintain their occupation

'Dennis Poore (company chairman) says he won't negotiate under duress.

'But if we just resume work all our powers of negotiation are gone.

'There's considerable support for our stand everywhere we've been so far. Just on the industrial estate round here every trade unionist knows he could be the next to lose his job.

*At Norton-Villiers in Wolvernanselon. hampton it wants to transfer our has said work, all sections are blacking any transfer of production.' Long Kesh letter: A comment WE WERE pleased to receive the letter from a Lorg Kesh prisoner which we published yesterday. (The writer attached his name, hut and cage number, but we withheld these for obvious reasons.)

It is encouraging to know that such interest by the victims of British imperialism. Our correspondent is absolutely right to stress the unity of interest between British and Irish workers.

If the Irish • workers are left isolated then, indeed, the streets will run with workers' blood not only in Ireland, but in England, Scotland and Wales as well.

stressed the point made by our correspondent that the British generals regard the army's brutality against the working class tempts by the government and a G&MWU secret ballot.

The ballot is believed to have gone almost 100 per cent in favour of continuing the occupation, which began unofficially and is against closure. A Department of Employment official has been trying to get negotiations started about redundancies. of Ireland as valuable practice for future struggles here, just as the role of the British army in places like Aden developed the techniques that are now being used in Ireland.

However, we would not like the Long Kesh internees to think -because they may not have received Workers Press regularly —that we have not realized the importance of the fight against British imperialism, its Irish supporters and its repressive emergency powers.

From the very beginning we opposed the sending of British troops into Northern Ireland in 1969—unlike the British Communist Party and the International Socialism group who applauded Wilson's action and said the British army had a 'peacekeeping role!

Workers had some trouble getting their side of the case reported in the local newspaper, the 'Aberdare Leader' part of the Thomson group, which published a management statement on the front page last week.

The paper refused to publish an answering letter from three shop stewards on the grounds We have regularly covered the struggle of the Irish workers ever since and recently published a detailed report of the courts set up by the British ruling class to 'review' the cases of the Long Kesh political prisoners.

Yesterday we carried a centre-spread on the Emergency Powers planned before we received the letter from Long Kesh.

Immediately the Diplock Commission's recommendations were published, we said: 'Martial law proposed for Ulster' and stressed that the judicial procedures proposed were similar to those established by the Greek colonels after their military coup Our correspondent stresses the torture methods employed in Northern Ireland. He is absoJames Robertson, has a brother on the board of directors of Thomson Regional Newspapers.

The occupation is getting increasino in the area and a large creasing support from other delegation of cable men led the Cardiff May Day march. Another delegation travelled to Merthyr Tydfil for the SLU's May Day march and meeting. lutely right and we published a pamphlet (still available) 'Ulster Dossier: a Torture Casebook' by Stephen Johns in October 1971.

We gave extensive coverage to the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry on January 30, 1972.

We have also published, over the last three years, regular series of articles in the entire history of the Irish struggle. We welcome the letter from this political prisoner of British imperialism and we assure him that there will be no let up by against the Tories in Britain, and in Northern and Southern Ireland.

Our task is the construction Britain and lut i Treland as secsections of the Fourth International.