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To the thousands of being the clearest example; their workers and youth who have attacks on demonstrators (from first hand experience of the Work March); their attacks on police forces's strikebreaking, individual militants (the so-called picket-beating, intimidatory "justifiable homicide" of union Tole, the news that a team of militant Liddle Towers, beaten to six "porn squad' policemen are death in Newcastle; the Irish and now on trial charged with gated under the so-called Prevencorruption should come as no tion of Terrorism Act); their surprise. readiness to attack revolutionary The "porn squad" men's names groups (the raid on the Workers will simply be added to the growing harassment and intimidation of list of nationally-known detectives working class youth and in particand special detachments found ular the immigrant community (the Notting Hill youth indicated their view of the police.

The Conference or Wage Control and Union Democracy. guilty IOnBATSAAL IaDEN IO . --:1d.. -1.- terrantiantine TOT various forms of corruption.

ROTTEN So rotten are the leading echelons of the force that it was revealed in the current trial that when one of the accused, Sergeant Kilkerr, attempted to make a clean breast of things to his commander at Scotland Yard, he found that his commander himself was already awaiting trial!

The corruption and the perversion of even the most basic forms of 'justice' which are being revealed - generally years after the events themselves have passed -stand in stark contrast to the consistent and firm stand of the police in defence of the employers and against the struggles of the working class.

NO SOFTNESS No hint of softness or corruption is to be found in the police attacks on picket lines (their protracted efforts to secure the jailing of the Shrewsbury pickets Photo: Sue Boafo Bradford police prepare to attack anti-fascists.

Red Lion Square to the Right to other suspects held and interroRevolutionary Party); o their daily Notting Hill "řiot".)

In each of these cases the real class role of the police as armed defenders of the rule of capital through repression of the working class comes through loud and clear. Only in between such events do the police fill in time booking drunken drivers or searching for stolen handbags.

HYPOCRITICAL

But wherever one section of the bourgeoisie seeks, to flout the hypocritical "morals" of their own system, corruption reigns in all quarters - whether it be drug peddlers, porn-brokers, shady stock brokers or embezzlers.

This is the lesson to be taken from the 'Porn Squad' case. The police are obscene. Under socialism the police force would be disbanded and replaced by workers' militia and defence squads, answer; able at all times to the workers' movement. Until then, the corruption will continue.