[Protest against deportation of journalists Agee and Hosenball…]
Socialist Press1977 1977-06-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Protest against deportation of journalists Agee and Hosenball: 100 Irish people have been deported under a virtual press blackout. Secretary does not even have to tell them they are banned. The first they might know about it would be the heavy hand of police and immigration officials on their shoulder at a port or airport.
This web of repression against the Irish community is developed even further by political proscription under the Act, as the booklet points out:
'The Home Secretary can now make an order banning any organisation which appears to him to be concerned in terrorism in the United Kingdom and connected with Northern Ireland affairs, or prompting or encouraging it... ened by a clear statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland, and by more clearly linking this demand with its correct points against the PIA.
And in failing to press the few Labour 'lefts' who have opposed the Act to carry through a serious fight on these issues within the Labour Party and trade unions, PAPTA allow them to get away with individual gestures.
Nevertheless, at 25p plus 15p p&p the booklet is still to be recommended, and is available from PAPIA, 18L, Upper Street. London NI.
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