Brit Elections: Three reasons to spoil your vote - IRSP Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - IRSP Billy Lynch, IRSP PRO County: Belfast PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE DATE 1 June 2001 Three reasons to spoil your vote - IRSP The Irish Republican Socialist Party have called on supporters to spoil their votes on polling day in support for three principles, 1/ political status for political prisoners, 2/ An end to sectarian politics, 3/ support for Turkish political prisoners currently on hunger strike. Ard Comhairle spokesperson Paul Little said following this weeks Ard comhairle meeting: "The IRSP have considered the options for its supporters in the upcoming elections long and hard and it is with regret that we have to advise that the only practical action for republicans and socialists to take is to spoil their vote. "There are currently a number of political prisoners being held in British jails, no political party standing in the elections is supporting their right to political status. "Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement sectarianism and sectarian attacks have increased ten fold, there are more people living in fear now than at any time in the past 30 years, all the mainstream political parties are playing the sectarian card in an attempt to bolster their electoral support. "No political party standing in the elections is prepared to make a stand against American support for the corrupt regime in Turkey which is forcing political prisoners and their families to die on hunger strike." In conclusion the IRSP representative said: "The IRSP are not an abstentionist party, this is the first election in decades that we have called for a spoilt vote and we do so with regret but the options open to voters are very clear , either they vote for continued sectarianism, criminalisation and support for American imperialism or they use their vote as a protest against the above injustices." STATEMENT ENDS ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-06.04.01-18:50:56-14367