state have been having a cracking time recently.
crupted at Red Lion Square, Essex University Campus, Windsor Great Park and on last Saturday's antifascisı demonstration.
state, and tough measures to introduce la w and order, are coming out into the open with batons swinging.
Tribunal Jooming in the background the police aimed on Saturday to be less open in their violence.
ver from zoughing up free-lance reporters, banging the heads of antiFront route and working off their spleen aganst supporters of militant pacifist Pat Arrowsmith Prisoner Pat Arrowsmith when she spoke from the IMG platform at the anti-rascist raliy in Hyde Park, failed. Lines of militants linked arms to "arrest Arrowsmith."
Unrestrained police violence has ENCOURAGED The coppers, encouruged by the baying of the ruling class for a strong froad casting intervice.
to get in.
After the bad publicity of Windsor Greal Park and with the Scurman This did not prevent them howefascist demonstrators on the National Police attempts to arrest escaped were forced to call off operation REVENGE They took their revenge lacer as a friend of Pat explained in the following report to Red Weekfy:
"We tock her to the Peace Picoge baken which was closed. Then we look het to Peace Newr who offered her sanctury. It was trom thore khe did hệc toi nưor Thent some police turned up and tried Wie told them to go away and geta. warrant. Later they returned in force: three police cars, two paddy wagons. sevetal constables and one soman constable with a warrast.
Because of Pat's request (she is a pacifisti we all went to the top room and tat oo toc topt Tenimg auns and siging: "We shail not be moved."
For a few minutes the polike were helpless, Then they turned nasty and dragged us around. They grabbed Pat and took her with one PC on cach ankle and oso of cach arist. They dragged her on ber back down the stairs with her head hunging every step on the way down.
was held with a black leather glee over my mouth-to stop me senging and shouting-a PC was knesing me in the groin and the woman PC was holding my as asked by Pal."
The "liberal" Home Secrerary, Ruy Jenkins will no doubt develop myopia about this incident and all the other instances of thuggery com mitted by his police force.
Violence against demonstrators and militants is either played down oramoothed over by some phoney state Inquiry. The uniformed thug of the state are defending law and order as they understand it-capilalist law and order! That is also Jenkins' law and order. He is deeply committed to running the capitalis system and bas no alternative but to give unswerving support to the violence on which it rests.
The Tiberal" image of this rightwing Labour leader is being torn to shred.. The chronic economic and social crisis leads to the erosion of its traditional institutions and tears the mask off the facade of liberal capitalism leaving the fenkinses of this world no room for manceuvre All the 'urbane' and 'civilised' Mr. Jenkins can do is prop up the arm thar brings the truncheon crastung down