IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Repression

Red Weekly No. 3, 19 May 1973 · p. 4 of the scan · 242 words

The scan: rw-no3-may-19-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 4 of the scan

sectarian murder campaign has the effect of further terrorising the nationalist community. But wade using the protestant extremists in this way, the main aim of the White Paper policy is actually to solate them and diminish their weight in the community. An increasing recourse to repression is taking place in most of capitalist Europe. But what a workshop. For both Britain and other NATO also spoilt, Sugar was scattered over meats, countries, Ireland is a laboratory for new mothods of counter-insurgency and civil control The Army of the future is being trained in Nortbern Ireland. At present, in Britain itself the state is not yet ready to shoot British workers. But there is a continual erosion of bourgeois democracy already taking place. The main brunt of this increased repression is being felt by irish organisations in Britain and socialist groups in solidarity with them. The savage treatment meted out to the Belfast Ten i only one example of a method which is atready being used on a scale which is approaching the mass frame-up of the Shrewsbury building workers. The interpenetration of the army and the police, already achieved in Ireland, can be seen developing in the Special Patrol Group which specialises in anti-picket activities and was also responsible for the deaths of the two Pakistani workers in the Indian embassy.

Armed Men The British are demonstrating in Ireland that in the last analysis the state is bodies of armed

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