Police warned of BM violence
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This is no cranky warning UNEMPLOYMENT Tational Demonstration GLASGOW Saturday 21 February am. Blythswood Squarr called by the from the lunatic left': it is the declared opinion of a major article in the weekly Police It warns police that the BM is not only organising and initiating street violence now, but preparing the. ground for armed and uniformed fascist gangs to launch violent attacks on ethnic minorities and the labour movement.
Police Review estimates the BM's membership at between 2,500 and 4,000 "but these numbers do not include the hairless hangers-on who underline political convictions by booting lone Asians."
What disturbs the police is the prospect that such attacks might prompt the labour movement to respond by establishing armed workers defence squads.
What should disturb workers is that the BM has been able so far to wage its attacks without meeting the necessary organised labour movement response.