Conference -no change
Socialist Press1978 1978-05-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Uniformed and plain clothes police lead Trades SSS strengthening of the state's repressive and strike breaking apparatus.
The picket-busting Special Patrol Group that savagely attacked Grunwick pickets last year has been built up under the watchful eye of Labour ministers; Labour leaders brought in the army to smash the firemen's strike; and now thousands of police are brought out to contain or prevur." every demonstration by the lab-ur movement.
The Leeds police operation took place in the same week as a military crackdown by occupying imperialist forces in West Belfast sealed off the Catholic ghetto areas in order to stop a demonstration by republican supporters, and arrested leading members of Provisional Sinn Fein.
Both in Britain and internationally the Lib-Lab government stands for repression and all-out defence of capitalism.
The warning is unmistakeable. The whole workers movement must be mobilised to break this reactionary alliance between right wing Labour leaders and the Liberal Party that now threatens the most fundamental democratic rights.
Those trade union bodies that backed the Leeds march must be called on to take the lead in this fight, and to take action to defend the two victims of this latest round of repression.