Socialist Challenge1980Socialist Challenge No. 132, 31 January 1980Orange lunatics
Socialist Challenge No. 132, 31 January 1980 · p. 12 of the scan · 142 words
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page 12 of the scan
In April, despite two weeks when the TOM march was prominent in the Scottish media, the Loyalists could muster only a few hundred counterdemonstrators who shuffled along throwing the • odd beer Front's links with the Orange lunatic fringe stem from their attempt to make up for the scant appeal of their rabid English nationalism north of the border.
John Tyndall is the scheduled speaker at the rally, though this was announced prior to his resignation as NF führer. Tyndall's father was Ulster Protestant. The rally has still to ger police permission. The leader of Glasgow's Labour Jean McFadden, says group would not want to see the National Front marching Glasgon's streets'.
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