Wednesday, January 7 marked a grim milestone for the Prisoners for Palestine campaign. To demand that the United Kingdom stop arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the group has been coordinating the largest collective hunger strike in British prisons since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher’s government allowed ten Irish Republicans to die rather than grant them status as political prisoners. For protester Heba Muraisi, January 7 was her 66th day on strike, the same day on which Bobby Sands, the most famous of those Irish martyrs, had died. Though Heba was losing her ability to speak, she was determined to continue even in the face of death, saying, “I’m choosing to continue this because for the first time in 15 months, I’m finally being heard.”

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