NF attacks march
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Seven years after the premeditated murder of 13 unarmed Civil Rights demonstrators by the First Paratroop Kegiment in Derry, "Bloody Sunday" was commemorated by a march from Speakers' Corner to a rally on the Embankment last Sunday.
As the marchers assembled they were suddenly attacked by a screaming mob of 50 or so fascists of the National Retaliation was swift and the fascists decisively dispatched, and the 1200 strong march led by the Provisional Sinn Fein banner wound its way through the West End.
Noticeably absent were the Stalinists of the CPGB and NCP and the Militant Group: and trade union banners were sparse.
The WSL contingent was strident in its demands, focussing on the need for the Yorkshire NUM to remove its sponsored MP, Butcher Mason-a point later taken up by a Provisional Sinn Fein speaker at the terminal rally.
The police, who earlier had denied the marchers the right to use megaphones, later surprised the marchers by defending them against repeated fascist attacks. At one point in Oxford Street, an attempted fascist assault was smashed by an unprecedented display of strong arm tactics of the police who arrested about 40 of them.