IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Troops impartial? - a load of old rubbish'

Red Weekly No. 94, 27 March 1975 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 281 words

The scan: rw-no94-mar-27-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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the death of a striker under the wheels of a scab's lorry. Like many other workers, the Scottish lorry drivers thought the troops were there 'to keep the peace and saw no threat in the actions of British troops in Ireland to the rights they were fighting for.

In six years there, the British Army hus turned the North of Ire land into a laboratory for the dev. elopument of techniques of repress ion. It has trained its soldiers in what it euphemistically calls "riot control' In reality what that means is -boa ford showed his comrades in the Communist Party what sort of de monstration he wanted: he set the police on placard carriers and ord cil delegate.

brought to a hall up a side street Various right wing and Communist Party bureaucrats were heckled in During Friday the troops took 1,000 tons of rubbish through the incinerator gutes Street, Glasgow G.5l.

Wilderness Tip at Bishopriggs, one of the three commerciaf tips used by the army after the incinerators were closed to them. The next day they wern banned from using this as well-except for the dumping of burnt rubbish ered the arrest ol an IS Trades CounIn the City centre, the demo was 200 yeards from the City Chambers.

dispust before the crowd drifted off.

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s troops to:

HEATHROW stration, Reidford instructed and supervised the breaking up of the contingents of the revolutionary left by the police. crical tirade against infantile fringe grope'. ion — the only one permitted.

To mose cates sno compaaeu that dey had come to discuss how to According to Edinburgh Trades Coun cil Secretary, Jolin Henry, the composit

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