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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 147, 15 May 1980 · pp. 3-5 of the scan · 471 words

The scan: sc-n147-may-15-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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This father who reported it to the The next day James went back to the graveyard where the guns were hidden, , just to make sure the Army had collected the That's when he was shot in the back and died. The SAS killers were later acquitted But what, it may be asked, have such incidents got to do with the British working class?

few Irish people may killed now and then; the SAS might have a long record of torKenya, Malaya, and Oman, but does this really have recalle . lU Back to Jean Rook: 'On 14 May we may turn strike crazy. But, today, we are heroes and not scared by union mobsters or stirred by little Len Murrays.' Note the connection - the and strike breakers are "terrorists' and trade are 'mobsters'.

Which makes it very simple: the heroes of the ruling class are IF you believe everything you read in the Fleet Street press, the SAS are so secret that no one knows the names of those in the regiment or the bases from which they operated. their work, the names of the officers and men are known to only the top Army brass', said the Daily Mail on o May. easy to penetrate. As well as the headquarters at Bradbury Lines in Hereford, the SAS is also stationed at Chelsea barracks in London. In the North of Ireland it operates from Holywood barracks, a few miles from Belfast. the SAS is Colonel B M Franks. The head of 'intelligence' at Chelsea barracks is Major Andrew Nightingale. leading officers are Major Derke Newell and Major Mike Wingate-Gray.

Sgt Barry Davies, one of the top secret' SAS men who assisted the German commando unit which stormed the hi. jacked Lufthansa jet at Mogadishu. 1974 he was awarded the MBE. What for? Would you beneve 'services to community poral Ronald Temerley and Sergeant Allan Bohun. 'Because of the dangerous and clandestine nature of In fact the much-vaunted security of the SAS is quite As Socialist Challenge reported last week, the head o • Two other Further down the ranks there is the interesting case of Davies has also served in the North of Ireland, and in relations in Northern The two SAS men who murdered John Boyle were Cor.

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