Challenge EMEMBER BLAIR PEACH-DISBAND THE SPG AMNESTY FOR SOUTHALL DEFENDANTS STOP THE TORY RACIST LAWS Assemble Ipm Speakers Corner Marble Arch arch via Scotland Yard to Rally in Trafaler Sor When the police investigators searched SPG lockers, they were called from the room. and some of the lethal weapons had Members of the police investigation team felt that attray charges should be made against the SPG eficers involved. This has been quashed by the DPP, under pressure from senior Scotland Yard The police confirmation of the accounts given by Southall residents of the events surrounding the murder of Blair Peach comes at a time when a 're organisation' of the SPG has just been The re organisation - giving the SPG more senior officers and restructuring the group into four rather than seven groups -amounts to no more than a cosmetic operation. Both the police and the government are determined to maintain the SPG as an élite force to use against demonstrators and strikers.
The treatment of the police murderers is in stark contrast to the ordeal of the 350 Asians arrested in Southall on 23 April. For them, there have been huge fines and imprisonment following their conviction on crudely invented evidence.
For the SPG murderers, there have been apologies, lies, a cover-up, and protection. The latest revelations underline the need to step up the campaign to disband the SPG and for an amnesty for the nice of the Black Freedom march being i Youth in June, and the national demonstration being organised by the Blair Peach Committee for 27 SUBSCRIBENOW 12 months £12.50; 6 months £ 6.50 12 months - Surface Mail £12.50 - Airmail Multi-reader institutions: Double the above rate enclose a donation for the Fighting Fund of , POs and Money Orders should be made payable to plète and return to: socialist Challenge, seo upper Street, London 1ol