swoping powers it has ever had outside of wartime.
against the entire Irish community in Britain. POLITICAL The importance of the ban on the IRA is not legal (for this reason the police have not been too enthusiastic THE NEW LAW proposed by the Labour Government to crack down on the Irish republican movement in this country gives the state some of the most The only peacetime precedent is the Prevention of Violence Act introduced by the Conservative Government in 1939, also in the wake of a spate of bombings connected with the Irish situation. That Act-on which the present law is very closely modelled — led to a massive wave of police harassment directed ventional police interrogation'. But "breaking' means much more than simply oblaining information -it means getting suspects into a state anything, especially if they are as Ward and Sean O'Connell.
Secretary has to deport suspected Act, can be applied against UK cititime needed to break a man by conwhere they will agree with just about psychdlogically disturbed as the Special Branch's latest 'catches'-Judith The new powers which the Home terrorists are also very ominous. They exist over and above the powers that already exist under the Immigration drawn up under the Tories 18 months The rea threat of the law is not against all the supporters of the Irish strugale in this country, without hav The police will not move into den a move should arouse opposition cause the Government to waver, But new law, then the state will make it shows his real colours HYSTERIA AND CHAUVINISM swept the House of Commons like a tornado last week. The Tories seized on Jenkins" Bill with glee. This was their kind of politics.
Capital punishment, greater powers for the police, sweeping powers to deport -not just blacks but now the irish- and every demonstration against the bloody war in Ireland can be made illegal. The Tories had a field day. Today it's the frish, tomorrow it is the British working class The Labour MPs were blown over like a pack of cards. The capitalist state whistled and like well trained dogs they came to heel, Prostrating themselves before the altar of patriotism, they sold out the working class. Brian Walden muttered about 'vengeance', Andrew Faulds talked about the 'reintroduction of capital punishment"
Two of the Shrewsbury pickets are still in jail. The judges, the lawyers