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Women's paper of t League ilable price 6p plus 7F n WSL, 31, Dartmouth , London NW5 1HR. SPG against the attacks of the Tory state machine has now assumed critical importance.
Bill Hemmings, one of Leicester's growing number of young unemployed last Friday joined Yorkshire miner Martin Hughes in prison facing a three month sentence for using threatening behaviour on the streets of the city.
The magistrates would no doubt justify this piece of legalised savagery on the grounds that Hemmings, like many other working class youth, has had previous encounters with the police and courts.
Let there be no mistake however: this was class justicę of the first order.
The capitalist courts are there for only one purpose: to defend private property and the rights of all those who preach the annel nf exolnitation.
YVONUI privilege and prejudice.
For this reason there was no murmur of disquiet from the assembled dignatories who graced the magistrates' bench, about the invasion of the city on April 21 by over 4,000 armed thugs drawn from all parts of the country.
They roamed the streets for seven hours indiscriminately wielding truncheons and riot shields, accompanied by alsatians trained to attack and maim.