A Secretary of the International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Terry h Earcain, is presently in Turkey as part of a fact finding delegations organised by the Committee For Struggle Against Torture Through Isolation (IKM) and the Association of Families and Friends of Political Prisoners (TAYAD).

The IRSP has long been engaged in solidarity work with both Kurdish and Turkish revolutionaries, such as the DHKP-C. Like the IRSP itself, the DHKC-P combines the struggle against imperialism with the fight against native capitalism, seeking to secure the interests of the masses of their nations peoplewho are the working classthrough the establishment of a socialist society. In recent months, the IRSP has been continuously active throughout the 32-counties of Ireland, as well as in Scotland, England, Canada and the United States in drawing attention to the hunger strike presently under way by revolutionary prisoners of war in Turkey and attempting to build support for the prisoners demands.

Mr. h Earcain, who had previously attended the international Kurdish Congress in exile in a display of solidarity with the Kurdish people of Anatolia, will be staying with Turkish activists while in the country over a three day period, providing an independent witness to the manner in which the Turkish government deals with those seeking justice for the political prisoners, or otherwise opposed to imperialism in Turkey.

The IRSP salutes the heroic political prisoners in Turkey, presently on a hunger strike which has claimed 25 lives, and joins in raising one of the central slogans of the DHKP-C:

For independence against imperialism, for democracy against fascism and for socialism against exploitation!

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