It was the times and the circumstances - that's were the similarity to the IRA lies. If you were working in in an inner city school like I was - the black kids in England caught a whiff from across the Atlantic of what the Panthers and SLA and all those groups were giving out. In the USA the call to arms must have been deafening in the ghettoes.

In much the same way - Irish parents were approaching Thatcher - a few years later and saying - look our children are joining paramilitary groups and getting involved - we are not crimiinals, we don't want this happening to our children - but of course they drew a blank with that heartless bitch, Thatcher.

Read of George Jackson's visits from his Dad, weary and broken with the whols situation, when he was in prison. There is little in the human condition that cannot be comprehended with a little empathy and compassion.