lang All a leading member of the the police that they had specific who make this country not wor iternational Marxist Group, was a rested by two members of a Special Patrol Group police squad outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday eveming. He was there as part of a mass protest against the visit of Portu guese dictator Cactano to Britain.
While Ali and a group of demonstralOTs were moving to join another group of pickets they were charged the police, who surrounded the demonstrators and made nine arrests, Tariq Ali in front line of IMG contingent on last Sunday's demo. instructions to 'get Tariq Ali.
This rove is undoubtedly part of a campaign to threaten and monstratons.
Tariq Ali commented to Red Weekl *One incident really struck me. A young Indian militant from Walsall was arrested along with me and was subjecled to the most vicious racist Green police station for Ali's rolease jibes front the police. Remarks like reported that jokes about illegal "you may be an illegal immigrant for immigrants were rife among the It was clear from the behaviour of all we know" and it's people like you living in" were constantly hurled at him. This really shows how we can expect the police to act, given the Dea leeway they have to persecute black militants after the recent House of Lords ruling It makes it very clear how ugent it is to fight back against this new attack," IMG militants waiting at Paddington police on duty.
Photo: Peter Harrap (Report!
We reprint below a slightly shortened version of a statament issued by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International on 10 July.
tions in solidarity with the Leeque have been hold in fifteen cities across the United States, in a in Frankfurt, turned out for protest meetings against the banning of the League, addressed by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Rudi Dutschke.
In France local protests have been held in a numbor of provincial centres, organised by the local branches of those organisations which are supporting the League nationally (Communist Party. Socialist. Party, United Socialist Party, the trade union federations). Last week mans public sales Meanwhile the international campaign in defence of the Communist League continues, Demonstranumber of Canadian cities, and in Quebec, Five thousand people in West Berlin, and another 2,000 the former, Communist League, should be released from custody pending his trial. This decision was immediately appealed try the. Goverrment, and Krivine remaine in prison until the appeal is heard. Another militant of the former Communist League, Pierre Rousset, is also still in prison. Here in Britain new signatures have been obtsined for the letter of protest to French President Pompidou over the banning of the League, These include John Gollan, national secretary of the Communist Party; Monty Johnstone, prominent Communist Party intellectual; Ernie Robarts, NEC. A local demonstration against the banning of the Communist League is being organised by of the newapaper Rouge (formerly the organ of the Communist League) ware organised throughout France, with great success. On 10 July a French court ruled that Alain Krivine, a leading member of Assistant General Secretary of the AUEW; and Pater Doyle and John Forrester of the Labour Party IMG militants in Merseyside for this Saturday, and another is pianned for the Midlands on 28 Julv