PAPER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP WEEKLY 12 DECEMBER 1974 No 80 1. The 200 supporters of the Islington Tenants Campsign received rough handling from the -counting on the High Court's recent Act.
CRAMMED IN The police are revelling in the powers given to them under the Prevention of Terrorism No sooner had the Act been rushed throught the House of Commons than the Irishi police began to prepare for an indiscriminate wave of arrests and deportations.
Surrey's Assistant Chief Constable said of the first batch of twenty people detainod: They will be detained futher until we have satisfied ourselves one way or the other." The Guildford police station could not cram in all the people roped in by the Surrey police, and so some detainees were taken to other local stations.
John Rallerty was arrusted on the Satunday, only hours after the Act became law, and by Tuesday had been put on a plane to Dublin, Rafferty was one of six people who have so far had exclusion ondRoy Jenkins has made sure that appeals from people issued with exclusion orders wilt not set tangled up in any liberal nonsense by appointing Lord Alport as head of the body that will hear these upoeals. Alport is a former director of the Conservative Political Centre, and was once High Commissioner for Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
He also served fot a time in the Artists Willes, the foterunner of the SAS - the specialises in assassinations and bombing TUS HOCK johs, The SAS are known to have had a hand in a mumber of the sectarian murden in Belfast. Jenkios need not lose any sleep worrying that Alport will be soft on the STRATEGY The strategy of the police is quite clear People known to be, or suspected of beine sympathetic to the Republican cause are deporled as quickly as possible. They see this as a way of frightening the entire brish intmigrant population into submission since any one of them could he bundled out of Britain at any tine, By using their sweeping powers of det ention the police have seren day's to force confessions from those arrested, or get out of the arrested people names of other allegod Republican symputhisers, If they cannot break a suspect or that person has nothing to tell them then they can always have them deported.
The police also hope to usu the threat of deportation as a means of building a circle of informers and provocateurs.
As the implications of this Act are seen more and mere in practice, the urg ency of huilding a united working class resistance becomes apparent. One way of doing this is to win support for the IMG's Open Letter calling for repeal of the Act and for troops out of Ireland. The Labour MP for Glasgow Goran, Harry Selby, is among those who have added their name Ryder does admire some aspects of Labour's policies. He thinks that the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation set up by Labour between 1964-70 did a good job. As it mainly concentrated on re-orgunising industry into bigger and more powerful monopolies and introd uced massive redundancias one can un derstand why.
For years he has been critical of British Layland. He has felt that productivity is too low and its employment rail is toc high. No doubt when he goes in to intro duce mass sackings and make the workfores work even harder Wilson will be proud of his protage.
You do not employ the Ryders of this world if you are seking a socialist solution to the crisis. You do emplay them if you are seeking a down-to-earth, no nonsense capitalist solution.