The decision of the scabs on the Labour Council to give freedom to the racist and anti-working class poison of the National Front has created Glasgow's Red Lion Square.
A defence campaign must and will be waged for the dropping of all charges against all those who were so savagely attacked and arrested whilst opposing the fascists. It must sound out a warning to Glasgow's Labour Council and their freemasons Gestapo that this is the price they will always have to pay for any assult on the labour movement.
The IMG supports all calls for mass deputations to the Corporation, for mass of the dropping of all charges. The lesson that the labour movement taught the fascist NF on Saturday 24 May must now be taught to the Labour scabs who permitted members of their own class to be beaten, bloodied, or arrested by allowing the NF to stage an open provocation.
all obstacles off the road that try to stop a successful defence campaign. The IMG will take its stand for the broadest-based defence campaign and will demand loud and clear that all charges be dropped against all the anti-fascists.
IMG militants will fight at every level - on the pickets, in the demonstrations. and in the dock - to show the Labour scabs that they cannot with impunity use troops against strikers or police against the labour movement.
the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians; and Maggie Osborne, secretary of the Scottish Immigrant Labour Council.
Others arrested include John Reidford, general secretary of the Glasgow Trades Council; lan MacKay Glasgow secretary of the Communist Party; 14 members of the International Marxist Group; as well as many members of the International Socialists and other political groups.
Members of the shop stewards' committees at Rolls Royce, Albion Motors and John Brown Engineering were also arrested.
The brutality of the Glasgow police and their open support of the fascist NF has aroused massive anger in the locai labour movement. Jimmy Milne, the general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, said: This was Gestapo-style tactics ....They just waded in, punching, grabbing and kicking anyone they could.....| will be demanding an immediate investigation of the police conHowever, because of the discipline and militancy of the united front of 500 antifascist demonstrators in the face of fists, boots and police batons, there was no Kevin Gately. Despite the arrests, the Glasgow labour movement has issued a clear and unmistakable warning to the fascist scum - and the Gestapo-like thugs who hired themselves out as the fascists' protectors - that fascist ideas will not be tolerated in Glasgow strike action to back these deputations, and for mass pickets of the Courts in support On Saturday a united campaign barred the road to the NF. Now we must sweep Andy McMahon, a Labour Party councillor, called it 'Glasgow's Red Lion Square'. He added: "The police used strong-arm tactics...and I will be reporting back and demanding action.
The Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove, Neil Carmichael, insisted that he would 'see the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Chief Constable to ask why the meeting was allowed to take place...' He says he will also call for a full investigation into the brutality of the police. Another Labour MP, Jim Sillars (S. Ayr shire), was amongst leaders of the Glasgow labour movement working on the Saturday night to get the pickets out of jail.
REAL CULPRITS Meanwhile, the real culprits remain unrepentant. Police boss Dunnford says his blue-uniformed hooligans used only necessary force and claim their action was 'taken to ensure