Mathew Lygate had a passionate hatred of the capitalist system. He knew that the bos ses robbed and exploited working people and he hated the barbarism and savagery that capitalism had unleashed on humanity.
His determination to fight the capitalists was so intense that he was prepared to risk his freedom to rob their banks in order to get funds for his operations. When the police brought him before the courts they didn't even try to prove that he took one penny piece for himself.To them he was a 'nutter'-one of that strange species which believes that the money and resources of capitalist society actually belong to those that have created them.
Lygate was driven to despair by the poverty and cruelty of capitalism. He got impatient and decided to try and solve this by taking his own individual actions.
Brian Hosle was a man who accepted-nay, fervently believed in the values of capitalism. He pimped off the unfortunate women who are prostitutes in Glasgow and extracted money from them by the use of terror. He hated black people and when he cold-bloodedly murdered a black man he said: It's just like shooting a dog. Most of the money from Hosie's rackets lined his own pockets or was used to finance the Orange murder gangs Both these men appeared before the Scottish courts. On the most flimsy evidence a 'learned' judge sent Mathew to jail for 24 years. Hosie-self-confessed racist, murderer and extortioner-got life'. That means that at the most he will serve 10 sy Cars No judge cared about Mathew's ideals. He was a revolutionary who wanted to "steal back the money that the capitalist class had stolen from the working class. Hosie's offence was to kill a black man. He had not threatened the system that the judges defend. That is why Mathew Lygate got 24 years and the National Front hoodlum Hosie got his sentence.
-Jeff Kina that the public highway was not imp eded or any public property damaged.
The Labour Council that upheld the letting of the Halls to the NF made their position very clear from the begining. Fresh from smashing the dustcart drivers' strike, councillor Dick Dynes justified granting the fasc ists the right to use the Halls by say ing that "to refuse to let would interfere with the law and morality of Mr Dynes, however, has yet to invoke the 'morality' of politics against his former Labour Party council colleagues who are facing charges of corruption.
Again the lessons of Red Lion Square have been driven home. Rehance on capitalist law, the police and Labour councils is useless if the fascists are to be stopped. When ever fascism rears its head violence will occur. The only way to stop that is by the mass, militant action