who try to stand up for their rights within the prison. To date thero has been remarkably Stile interest taken ahout the isue. If should not be forgotten that the Home Office has designed these units for those they describe as sabrersive and trouble-maker/. In effect Diese are the people with the courage to attempt to improve thie appalling living and working conditions they ate Torped to endure inside We who have grier ances outside prison have the right to take action. Inside they have to grim and bear it -or else Sentencing to this regime involves a minimum 6 mooth period of sensory deprivation which has been designed la create framework which will heip to bring the prisoner to realise that it is in his own interest to mind his ways! Alternatives to Prison (RAPi concerning the campaign against the control units recently introduced as a form of punishment for those the sensory degration experiments canied out on interaces in Northern Ireland in 19717 Here we have again the involseneat of doctors and psychologists, and now for the purpose ot behaviour modification.
This Insidious trend in social control minst be stopped now.
Prisoners ate a forgotten minority.
They can be subjected to this reglane of tortere. He cannot allow peuple to be treated in this way, We, on the out side are in a position to be able to do something, Three members of oue soc iety are incarcerated in these capes Bathin cager Press reports of thou Jali give canes for sinni. Action must the taken now.
For further information about control whits and how you can help ir is time people seatised the significan in this campaign contact Radical Alt ce of this sinister developmeet in the penal ematives to Prim, Easdicume Hoes system. (Some parallels can be drawn with Loudon E.2 (16, 01-981-0041). and vote at Market Ward meetings bearing false, backdated subscription records; and that voting by now-members had been based on deliberately lying to Asian workers, s.p. a motion of censure agains assluent lest-Wing councillor Steve Evans was motivated by alleging that he wa a racist, etc.
brought before the encuiry included the use of writs in courts to slence oppastionists and the revering of the ideotity of of Labour Party members to their empiayers. This is only the tip of the icchong..
The purpose of the NiC enquiry was to shut up the left, and the case of Eddie Milne has shown how ruthlessly this con A vigorous fight has therefore to be conducted within the trade unions to extend Une basis of tie enquiry and discipline the guilty meisbers In this and in other campsigns on key issues, the left inside the Labour Party must unite with other forus outside the Labour Parcy fighting in the interests of the working class. This is the only way of resolving the dilemma confronting thousands of militants who still see the Labaur Party as the only credible political instrument of the Labour movement, but are degusted by its betrayals.
Bert Rothschild