DON'T SHOOT. HE MAY BE ONE OF OURS:

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Wing) are ways of testing and refining these plans.

The Labour Government has carried on where the Tories left off. Indeed, the Special Patrol Group (probably responsible for the death of Kevin Gately at Red Lion Square in 1974) was set up in 1965 by a Labour Home Secretary. And it was a Labour Government which sent troops into Northern Ireland Labour Successive Labour governments, while setting the seal on the development of the repressive apparatus of the state, have at the same time claimed to be representing the interests of the working class. We should demand that the present Labour Government shows us how it is safeguarding those interests - including revealing to the workers' organisations what contingency plans are being laid what changes are taking place in the police and Army, and what measures they propose to ensure that the police and soldiers can exercise their democratic right to organise in trade unions.

And our first step must be to demand immediate withdrawal of the troops occupying Northern Ireland. * The History and Practice of the Pol itical Police in Britain by Tony Bunyan (Julian Friedmann publishers, E4.95).

Joint police-Army operation at Heathrow