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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

LABOUR CLIQUE MUST GO

Red Weekly No. 104, 5 June 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 393 words

The scan: rw-no104-jun-5-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

tions in 1961 Sixty-five have been sent for trial in ten groups over the first three weeks of September, all charged with forming part of a disorderly crowd. The remaining BENEFIT RALLY FOR DEFENDANTS Kingston Halls, Paisley Road, Glasgow-Monday 9 June, 7.30pm.

Defendants from IMG, IS, CP plus songs from Matt MeGinn, The Laggan, Chilean folk group TICKETS 25p from 18 Carrington Street, Glasgow (332-8728)

IMG DEFENDANTS SPEAK ATBirmingham Tues 10 June Oxford Weds 11 June or Thurs 12 June Fri 13 June Canterbury Sat 14 June London Sun 15 June Leeds Tues 17 June Contact your local IMG branch for ume ano venue. ALL last week, militants of the Glasgow labour movement trooped through the Glasgow Sheriff Courts and the Govan Police Court. In the aftermath of the police riot against the anti-National Front mass picket of the Kingston Halls on Saturday 24 May, it has become clear that the 78 arrests represent the largest frame-up in Scotland since the mass arrests at anti-Polaris demonstra13 are charged variously with breach of the peace, police assault, assault, malicious damage, etc. appear at the Govan Police Court next Tuesday for charges to be finalSPEAKERS: Charlie Montgomery (defendant, former candidate for EEPTU Exec)

GLASGOW IMG PUBLIC MEETING 'Kingston Hall- the real guilty men' SPEAKERS: Steve Potter (IMG Representative at Scarman Tribunal)

IMG Defendants Thursday 19 June at 7.30 p.m. in the McLellan Galleries, Sauchiehall St. (Details: 332-8728) ised and pleas to be taken.

These are to sponsors among the Labour Corporation bosses are already reaping the whirlwind of their organised thuggery. The response of the Glasgow working class was described by John Reidford, Glasgow Trades Council Secretary and one of the many local labour leaders arrested, when he addressed the Glasgow District Council to demand a ban on future use of Glasgow halls by the fascists: I have never known such fury and frustration among the ordinary people of this city!' BRUTALITY few reminders of the notorious brutality of the city's police. But on this occasion the Strathclyde Division and its 'Support Units' may well have bitten off more than they can chew. The Scottish press has been filled with photographs of demonstrators being punched and kicked in front of a completely But the police rioters and their The workers of Glasgow require The leaflet called for:

into the police riot.

"Support Unit.

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