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Socialist Press no. 106, 28 June 1978 · scan p. 12 · about 313 words

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Published by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR rinted by Anvil Printers (TU), London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office FUND Another good week for the Special Fund with £100.11 arriving including Winsford £10; Oxford £33.11; Liverpool £15; Sheffield £15; Central London £5.00.

Our total now stands at £1729.51 and with a little over a month to go to the end of the fund we must stand a good chance of going well over the top.

By how much we do depends on you.

All donations to the Fund should be sent to:

WSL Special Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR While both the European Commission for Human Rights and Amnesty International have found proved the allegations of torture of detainees in Northern Ireland, Labour Minister Roy Mason has refused to shift from policies of barbaric repression to prop up imperialist interests.

Mason's contemptible retort about "self inflicted injuries" mirrors the South African police claim of "suicide" by black detainees from the top of police buildings.

Acquiescence

Mason has had the full acquiescence of Labour • Party "lefts" and the Southern Ireland bourgeoisie in organising the massive police state repres sion in Ulster: totalitarian surveillance of all Catholic homes; systematic torture of suspects by plain-clothed interrogators at Castlereagh RUC barracks; the physical attacks on the legal Provisional Sinn Fein; and the closest collusion between roving bands of plain clothes SAS murderers and the Loyalist paramilitary squads.

The Labour government is responsible for the anti-working class so-called "Prevention of Terrorism" Act, and for the repeal of prisoner of war status from detainees.

But all these measures have not, and will not break the will of the anti-imperialist movement.

On April 27 this year, at 4 am, 50 individuals from the Catholic community were arrested by 300 heavily armed RUC men

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 106, 28 June 1978