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Members of the in London, Oxford and Aylesbury have been campaigning for youth to join the anti-sus demonstration called by the London Area Labour Party: Young Socialists and PNP Youth for Saturday 7 April.

The SUS law has been increasingly used by the police and in particular the Special Patrol Group to harrass black youth in London.

The demonstration, which begins in Camberwell in South London, will march to Brixton where L Division of the Metropolitan Police has a particularly bad record on the use of SUS and where 150 members of the SPG recently carried out systematic harrassment of the black community:

Abolition The SYL will be calling for the abolition of the SUS law-a section of the Vagrancy Act 1824-which permits police to arrest someone suspected of being about to commit an arrestable offence and which carries a possible 3-month prison sentence.

An accused person need not have committed a crime and will not be able to opt for trial by jury.

The SYL will also be calling for the disbanding of the viciously anti-working class Special Patrol Group, and for the repeal of all other legislation that attacks the democratic rights of the working class.

This includes the Prevention of Terrorism Act, used by the Labour government to harrass thousands of Irish workers, few of whom have ever been charged and fewer still convicted of any crime; he conspiracy laws • which have been used against black youth in London; and the Criminal Trespass Law which enables the police to break up occupations of factories, hospitals, schools, and nurseries etc. and arrest the occupying workers on criminal charges.

The demonstration assembles at 1 p.m. at Camberwell Grove, London SE5 on Saturday April 7 The assassination of Airey Neave by Irish republicans has brought forth from the Tory press an entirely predictable wounded cry for vengeance.

Nor is it a matter of any surprise that in searching for the phrases to best express their anger and distress, the leader writers of Fleet : Street have achieved most nakedly an expression of imperialism clothed in the language of the Victorian empire builders.

Indeed it is not so much what the press has said which is a matter for comment, as what has been left unsaid.

For nowhere amongst all the threats, demands for increased oppression, and vitriolic nationalism is there to be found so much as a whisper of criticism for the Labour Government.

Given all

Despite the capitalists' decision to dispense with a government of social democracy for the time being, they acknowledge that the Labour Government has given them everything they ever wanted on the question of Ireland.

Or as the Guardian said on the day following the successful bomb attack:

"Any temptation to take Mr.

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