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Socialist Press1979 1979-10-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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A quarter of a million pounds was spent by police on this exercise as barricades were built along the beach and police boats patrolled the sea.
The conference was permitted by the Tory council last April. In May Labour gained control and sought to have the Front banned.
Denning judgement Lord Denning in another of his classic anti-working class Appeal Court rulings said that the rights of contract overrode the powers of the council.
The police were using this as a training exercise. They had little to fear from the local
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