Finson to closed prisons.
Shrewsbury 2.
Unlike the trade union leaders and the left Mis, Jenkins knows that the jailing of the Shrewshury 2 was not body of the British legal system It tailt law and order".
LAW AND ORDER
The Labour Goverument is also de Termined to maintain Taw and order They know that it is a vital weapon in the fight to save capitalism. This why Jenkins will not release the picketsand when the pickets refuse to accept the rules of the capitalist prison sytem he cracks down on them As the days of Warren and Tomlinson's prison sentences drag by, the official campaign has reached a dead-end. The choices are clear national strike. or useless protests to an adament deSender of capitalist law. As no action • being ptepared to give these pratcuts any muscle, Jenkins can afford to show his contempt by inflicting even The march of the Wigan Builders Action Committee provides a lastsisp chance for developing national strike action. By making a direct appeal to the trade union movement Interviews to the Workers Press, This is nothing more than a crude way to try and present the WRi as the only some blemisht on an otherwhe healthy group that is righting on Strewsbury.
At a time when the trade union bur war done by the ruling class to main- baucrac and the stalinists are joining forces to keep the Shrewsbury camp aign within the confines of protest politics this is scandalous, Neither the WRP, the IMG, mor the International Socialists at this stage on theit owa can defeat the combined forces of the bureaucracy and the CP. A united front of the revolutionary left may he able to swing the situation around towards a real compaign to fight the Labour Government and win these workers' release.
ABSTAIN The IS reluse to trý and impose a united fron on the WRP and thereby abstain on the struggle The WRP see Shrewshury as a party building stunt and manoeuvre to keep the campaign under their orginisational control harsher punishment on the Shrewsbury Those policies play into the hands of the hureaucracy Again the IMG reiterates only national strike action can free the impris oned workers To get such strike action demands the unity of the entire reyolutionary left.
As members of the Liverpool IMG we gave THU uined that one of the main problems Onler, vir, the handling of political or Mark fisted this second only after managainst the state anu private property challenge the funcnon of the police in captaist society. This is ady they are ing worken than they are to the moguls HE CARES DOING TIME the force - rather hurticly. Twenty of Another 20 are awaiting trial. Forty-five more are suspended from duty: in rackets such as detes, prostitution, and bending evidence for indicted 'ortenders' who could afford to buy their way out of trouble. The Krays, the Richandsons, the Tibbs and the Humphreys being firm believers in the ethos of cupitalism were never avers: lo buying off coppers, MP's and other politie spirited servanes understandahle aversion to such practices a particularly remunerative sourer of pickets have the connections with the establishment enjoyed by Mc Alpine's, Poulson and the Kray brochors. Not many Baothby, or wine and dine the local police commissioners.
whin believe that the main job of the pol Ice is to catch the big-time crime operators.
Sir Robert Mark, Metmpolitan Police Commissioner does not subserhe to that naive In his anitaal repuet for 1972 he expl acing the police was dealing with Public The police force boartily endone Mark' enditons on police services in Englanil and point of view. Political actions directed Sure lor 1972-3 much more vindictive and bostile co strikRecently 300 cappers have resigned from their more unlucky materare doing tane. Lan the year beror:
Many of that maticy crew were involved police force Workers fighting the system have an and are not considered by the police to be incore. Nor do people like the Strewsbury NAME.......
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WEEKLY HOME SECRETARY Roy Jenkins has moved Des Warren and Ricky Tom- Jenkins can do this because he knows that the trade union leaders and the Teft MPs have no intention of organising national strike action to free the