that's the Their rule as an instrument of Tory terror against youth, blacks and the working class becomes plamel SeC repression mounts daily.
Phil Robins, a professional footballer, was shot by Merseyside police during the loxteth uprising on 6 July: He and an officer were helping people aftected bv Co gas when he was hit in the chest blood was squirting through his hands.
As he tried to get away he was hit again in the back." days later it was revealed that he had been shot with Ferret tridges' form of CS Carsic. The cartridge pack warns, ricaae-penetralion only. not fire at any person or crowd.
inflict serious injury should it strike anyone within a range of approximately 300 yards.
The US firearms company who manufacture the cartridge condemned une police action: 'If you're going to fire them directly at you might as well fire live ammunition because you'd have the same effect.
Dragged In a series of raids on Brixton's 'Frontline', TVs, windows, zutals. mattresses doors were smashed to bits.
Maureen Boyle, wife of a local councillor Was needn= ed to the ground by a Brixton Chris Mullin reported Tribune that he saw two young black women in Brixton being dragged into an unmarked white men in shirt sleeves.
Thev claimed to be police but it took several minutes of argument to make them identify themselves.
When one finally did so, he held his finger firmly over his number and no detail could be noted.
Brixton on 10 July PLASTIC bullets in Toxteth, wholesale destruction of houses in Railton Road, Brixton, indiscriminate arrests and house to house searches throughout Britain grim picture of police activity. careful fiction that British police are unarmed, act only in a defensive way and are concerned about community relations has been totally discredited.
Ten cal" gas As Mulin went to note the van's number, one of the men brandished a truncheon at him and only just stopped short of coshing him.
men called out shit and white trasin, that's all that lives around here.
In Leyton, East London, a black man with a history of mental ilpeople Iness locked himself in a garden shed. A social worker called in police, ten of whom and smashed down the shed.
On arrival at the psychiatric hospital he was dead'. The family have called shop for an inquiry into the affair.
The day is long gone, it it ever existed, when ponce kept 'consent' of the community.
Firearms in Since 1968 surveillance and control techniques become more with computers, modern equipyoullg ment ot every description. tional para-military co-ordination and tion.
Over the past ten years there has been an almost 700 per cent increase in police, far criminal use.
More than 12,000 rank and By Toni The Gorton Ferret barricade penetrating cartridges and police marksman firearms ToCes have units.
Brixton drew away one 'Black aroune me nosers.
incident, which vestigation responsible arrived areas Strathclyde. Strikes 'found to be It goes such Britain's Group. rorce order through the Tactical rorce control' last week. have sophisticated, While SPGs meant to training, tions.
Units, arms issued to outstripping file police are trained to use and several local special firearm week, plainclothes police were openly displaying sidearms by caretully arranging their sportsjackets The Special Patrol Group, police concluded for ine death Zeal Blair Peach in Southall years ago, is organised in some trom Hampshire to policy of › by different names Special Operations support Aid Group or Task At least 400 members are attached to the Royal Ulster Constabulary to whom chief constables went tor advice on 'riot are officially provide saturation policing in areas of high crimi they are clearly a para-military force used in public order situablack In addition, Police Support supposedly for assisting in civil defence after a nuclear war (!), are primarily organised laws for demonstrations and strikes Training of the estimated battles class the tions, 11,000 strong PSUs is in 'riot shielther forces inconde the Other forces include Special Branch, which gathers intelligence about political and trade union activitv. and the 1. legal Immigration Intelligence Unit which has been involved in the recent swoops on tactories Scarci of 'illegal' The intensity of the repression of the working class in the inner citv areas . Thatcher's government. It is not simply a few cops running 'amok' and out of although this is undoubtedly happening:
little too much police zeal may result in a slight embarrassment but the objectives are clear. Isolate Get the population used to increasingly militarised police on the streets, isolate and intimidate militants among the and white youth, sual C the hell out of workers in their they are most vulnerable, prepare the way for that limit rights of assembly, especially demonstrations and picketing, and impose harshe on those infringing the law. Battles Why? Because the ruling classes know that social tensions are going to get worse not better. There is no possibility capitalism of returning to full employment, to homes and health care for all.
Thatcher knows that big the horizon, when the central forces of the working class are going to fight to defend the class against the ravages of the economic crisis. Fight Earlier this year she backed miners wasn't prepared then but she intends to be next time. Ideologically and materially she is putting her class in the best position to defeat workers in struggle.
Her forces are being trained in the north of Ireland and in the streets of Britain against the youth — it's up to the working through Party, black, Labour rally, youth and women's organisato take the lead now in our defence.
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