Isn't he incorrigible, though? You'd have thought that a clever man like Capt. Robert Maxwell (and after all he must be clever to have accumulated a personal fortune in excess of £3,000,000) would have had enough of trying o get his hands on slipping papers after th hambles over the News of the World take-ove But there he is again, eyes fixed on the LSE's strategy of exemplary repression has collapsed in the courts of bourgeois order. Seen by the Vice-Chancellors and Principals, as well themselves, as being in the forefront of student revolt, the LSE authorities in liaison with Edward Short and Shirley Williams have taken it upon themselves to set an example and nip the student movement in the bud. have spared no expense to achieve this end They have called in the police to close the school, proposed and practised staff spying on and wheeled out the apparatus of injunctions and trials. In short, they have sacrificed the most important totems of their ideology academic "class neutrality' and intellectual "impartiality'. But instead of managing to isolate or expel the militants, the LSE authorities have shown themselves up as mean and arbitrary petty despots.
Twelve cases went before the courts. Adams stated categorically that the cases were being brought by outside authorities. The magistrate corrected him: These cases, he said, "were brought and have been pursued at the insistence PARLIAMENTARY SELECT the Labour Party.
And of course Capt. Maxwell hasn't lost a fraction of his acuteness. He has looked to the future, beyond the next election, beyond fat Ted kissing Elizabeth's hands, and he has seen Inal the Parliamentary Labour Party opposition will inevitably be fragmented. This almost certainly means that Wilson will go and that there will be an hysterical wrangle over the Party's leadership. Maxwell imagines, and he could be right, that the decisive influence in the cannibalistic rite of choosing Wilson's successor might be the voice of the Sun, committed, as it would be under his ownership, "steadfastly to the cause the Labour Party Maxwell couldn't care less about the Sun as a newspaper and he doesn't give a toss if it loses some He wants to be Kingmaker.. or maybe someday, King.
of the college Of the twelve cases, nine were dismissed, including Bateson and Nigel Harris. Three were given conditional discharges and made to contribute a total of £13 towards the cost of the gates. Val Greenwood (one of these three) was also fined f10 for assaulting a policeman after Adams forced everyone who was drinking at the bar on the night the gates were taken down to submit to an identity parade. The LSE authorities still have outstanding injunctions, some applying to the people who were tried. to prevent *further disruption of the school'. If they go ahead with an arbitrary prosecution of students who, like Martin Tompkinson, have already been cleared in court, they will see the rapid collapse of the injunctions system. There was one particularly interesting feature of the shambles in court. To state publicly that you will take down a gate with a screwdriver only constitutes a threat of civil trespass; no criminal offence is involved. So gates can be taken down 'non-violently" if you please and, providing you don't use sledgehammers or explosives etc, the police won't stop you.
COMMITTEE AT THE LSE SAT MAY 17: Housing demo and march, basically called by Notting Hill Squatters. Meet at 2.30pm at Colville Gdns, Notting Hill.
SAT MAY 17: SALE OF CHINESE GOODS AND FILM SHOW. Edgar Snow's Documentary *One Fourth of Humanity and A Case to Answer', a Granada TV "World in Action' film about Hongkong. 6.30pm at Devonshire Street House, 30 Devonshire Street, W1. Organised by SACU (Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding: tel: 387-0074).
SUN MAY 18: Mass rally Trafalgar Square at 1pm: EQUAL PAY NOW FOR WOMEN CAMPAIGN. Organised by National Joint Action Campaign for Women's Equal Rights, Rainham Road, Rainham, Essex, RM14 7RL.
MON MAY 19-TUES MAY 20: Angry Arts Film Society is showing "THE ORGANISER' with Marcelle Mastroianni as a pioneer trade union organiser in Northern Italy, at Unity Theatre, i Goldington St, NW1, 7.30pm both evenings. Tickets 5/- or membership 2/6 from AAFS, 6 Bramshill Gdns, NWS. tel: 263-0616.
FRI MAY 23-MON MAY 26: the Ruskin College Kitson Committee is planning a march and demonstration over Whit weekend concerning political prisoners in South Africa, in particular Dave Kitson who was a student at Ruskin College and a member Draughtsmens Union. Kitson was sentenced to Civyear ighs Movement is advities in this Rights Movement revolutionary attitudes. The march goes from Ruskin College to Trafalgar Square, London.
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