Despite Stormont ban Marchers defy army in Ulster
By John Spencer
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announce increases on January 21.
etc.); price rises January 3. MORE THAN 5,000 Irish workers January 10. defied a British army and Stormont ban yesterday and rallied against soap and shampoo company. internment in Belfast.
Ulster toiletries trade' 'sell-out?
1. Bus and train fares are going up.
warning by Miss Devlin times the correct amount!
MP, told a weekend antiinternment rally in Armagh that the people of Ireland would be sold out within a month by 'traitors in our midst'.
Miss Devlin predicted a year'. Westminster-Stormont 'compomise agreement' which would release some internees, lead to others being charged and possibly establish a political amnesty in two or three years.
She said the agreement was already on the cards. 'Before a month has passed, you will be asking, "Where are the people who which results.
potential itself will be raised...
millions out of work.
Bernadetto Devlin led the struggles and who demanded the unconditional forces the discipline. release of all internees?"?
She urged people not to Tories' real plans. accept these 'non-existent concessions' and to go on fighting until every internee and political prisoner released. stoppages...' Miss Devlin was addressing a crowd of about 400 at a street-corner rally.
During the meeting an army helicopter hovered overhead. inevitably be political struggles.
• A two part interview with Miss Devlin will start in tomorrow's provide in the strike itself.
and labour movement. PHEN Belfast Six columns of protesters were allowed to pass through army barriers on their march through the Catholic areas to the Falls Park. - The marchers ignored army announcements that the rally broke regulations under the Special Powers Act. They chanted anti-army slogans at soldiers who drove past the columns telling protesters to go back.
Banners said 'Free internees 'End military dictatorship' vious, high march which was organized by the N Ireland Civil Rights Association.
It seems the authorities vere keen to allow yester.
day's protest against internment to enable left' and 'radical' leaders to regain some Sotholic dinimunity. with the The political rehabilitation of these reformist leaders becomes vitally necessary to the Tory compromise solution which will be worked out in tripartite talks between the Tories of Westminster, Stormonth and Dublin later this It is the treachery of these elements which prompted Ten Se tie Bilast Lodse contin ent to the rally.
column and rifles arthe the Catholic Whiterock Rd. now' and Thousands still inW Pakistan's jails PAKISTAN'S ruling clique proved themselves in the war against the Bengali people to be among the most repressive and bloodthirsty dictators in the world.
But they have also directed their repression against the people of the country's western wing.
President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, has, made demagogic attacks on the 22 families which domfor isnte Pakistani capitalIn a bid to force them to disgorge much-needed foreign exchange, he has even put two leading jute employers, Ahmed Dawood and Fakhrududdin prisoners, communists, lett-wingers, trade unionists and members of the national minorities, still languishing in Pakistan's jails.
Many of the 10,000 political prisoners have been held under medieval conditions for They include over 3,500 members and supporters of the Kasan Muzdur Party, seized by the army after a series of peasant land occupations on the NW frontier.
Party president Ishaq, a former army major, was jailed in 1951 for an alleged left-wing plot against the state.
On his release in 1956 he began to organize the peasants in his native NW frontier province.
When peasants under his leadership started to occupy the feudal landlords' holdings, troops were moved in and the lands wére cleared by Ishaq and his comrades have been in prison ever since.
A similar fate overcame the movement for a plebiscite in so-calléd 'Azad' (Free) Kashmir.
Over 3,000 supporters of self-determination have been in prison IoI years. 'Azad' Kashmir was occupied by Pakistan in 1949.
Baluchistan, in SW