Hands off! | IMGpapers 1980

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trate, which tends to project an 'image' of the candidate.

•Since the electorate has to mark a name on the ballot paper, it's obviously necessary to get across the identity of the candidate. But the em. phasis of the Socialist Unity campaigns in Britain was both to project policies and to argue for and help to initiate the actions needed to win them. Candidates were at pains to say: 'Don't rely on ON 28 August, iwo sup porters of Hands off Ireland! and Gerry MacLaughlin of Provisional Sinn Fein were found guilty at Cardiff magistrates court of distributing 'abusive and insulting' literature. and of obstruction of the police.

Their crime was to sell Hands off Ireland! (published by the Revolutionary Communist Group) ana Republican News at a streel meeting in Cardiff in September 1979. If this harassment goes unchallenged, where will it end? Cardiff is not an isolated example. Twenty-two supporters of Hands off Ireland! have been arrested in the past year.

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