11 police behaviour last weekend a anything to go by. we are likely to see a sharp increase in anti-Irish provocations in Britain in the coming months. As the Chile demonstration was dispersing last Sunday, the police moved in on a crowd of militants who were chanting Free, Free, the Beifest Ten', In the scuffling that fol lowed, four people were arrested, three of them Irish, As they were being taken into custody the police made remarks such as, Bloody Irish bastards, why dont you go home?'. One Irishman wus seriously roughed up by the policehe had replied to their jibes by asking what the British. Army was doing n Ireland. Jim Kemp, a leading member of the London Joint Sites Committee, was also the target of racialist comments. He has black hair and a tanned complexion, and was greeted by a policeman who said, "Another foreign bastard-why don't you go home?, Jim is in fact a Scotsman, The police were obviously prepared for a controntation. Both the IMG contingent and the Belfast Ten Detence Committee were surrounded by Irish Flavin are charged with conspiracy to cause a breech of the peace during the Anti-Internment League demon stration on 5 February 1972, which took place after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. One year and seven months after the events, with little or no press coverage, the State is trying to victimise these rishmen. a part of its effort to discourage solidarity in Britain with the strug gle in Ireland.
There is only one reply that can be given, and that is to dely the witch hunt, and to fight within the Labour moverent to win support for Irish victims of British justice. And there must be maximum support for the Belfast Ten Defence Commit tee demonstration. This was origi mally scheduled for last Sunday, but was postponed because of the Chile demo, it now starts this Sunday, at 2.30p.m. from Charing Cross Embankment, marching to Speakers Cor ner, where there will be a rally ad. dressed by prominent Republicans and members of the Labour and SocFurther cetails from 88 Roslyn Road, London N.15 programme of laid' to the Chilean military. It is not a coincidence that the man named by the new military dictatorship to represent them in Britain should be Rear-Admiral Buzeta, head of Chile's naval mission In this country.
Trade unionists in the Tyneside area have already launched a campaign to stop work on the ships and to try and prevent them being returned to the blood-stained hands of Chile's military bosses.
The Wallsend Labour Party put out such a call last Saturday On Monday a meeting organised jointly by the Communist Party and the International Marxist Group initiated a campaign on the question, directed at local trade unionists. They have since gained the backing of the South Shields Trades Council for a demonstration in Wallsend this Saturday.