IMGpapers 1968–75

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

18 months for Pat Arrowsmith

Red Weekly No. 53, 23 May 1974 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 158 words

The scan: rw-no53-may-23-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 1 of the scan

The eighteen month sentence imposed on militant pacifist Pat Arrowsmith, is a measure of the desperation of a British ruling class faced with an increasingly effective movement for the withdeawal of British troops from Ireland, Pat was charged with distribution, and possesson of a leatlet witch pave infotiation about their rights to British soldiers who did not want to serve in freiand The court decided that this was contrary to the incite ment to Disaffection Act The licavy sentence was also a response to Pat'sspeech it court Slic brought our clearly the political roasons for bar actions, and the political motives behind the CUTES Hit Anowspith won sids respeer an roard of apposition to nuclast acapons. The labour movement must demand that the Labour Gevernment quash this vicious speech about the British Array.

page 2 of the scan

The buresucrats of NALGO, the local frey Drain, to return and instoad voted The urgency for widespread and decis ALAN BENNETT

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