Bloody Sunday 50: British state murder with Eamonn McCann and Kate Nash

SWP TV live event with:
· Eamonn McCann, journalist and leading figure in the civil rights movement. He is author of the classic account of the outbreak of the Troubles 'War and an Irish Town' and 'Bloody Sunday in Derry; What Really Happened?'
· Kate Nash, sister of William Nash killed on Bloody Sunday and daughter of Alex Nash who was wounded going to help his son. She is one of the organisers of the annual Bloody Sunday March.
· Colm Bryce, socialist from Derry

On the 30 January 1972 British soldiers murdered 14 people in broad daylight on the streets of Derry.

Those killed had been on a march to protest at the British government policy of internment without trial. Most were shot in the back as they tried to run away.

The massacre, which became known as Bloody Sunday, was a deliberate attempt to suppress a mass movement for civil rights in the North of Ireland.

In the months and years afterwards the British government claimed all those killed and injured were ‘gunmen’ and ‘terrorists’, until they were finally forced to admit after huge protests and a lengthy inquiry that all of the victims were innocent.

Yet 50 years later, not a single soldier, never mind the generals and politicians who ordered the massacre, has ever faced trial.

Now the Tory government want to give a blanket amnesty to every British soldier, no matter what their crimes. It is important that we remember what happened on Bloody Sunday and hold the British state to account for its crimes in Ireland and across the world

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