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Windsor - shape of things to come

Red Weekly No. 66, 5 September 1974 · p. 8 of the scan · 174 words

The scan: rw-no66-sep-5-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 8 of the scan

One of those arrested is held upside down so that his head hits a railing THE MASSIVE police operation to break up the Windsor Great Park festival last Thursday, 29 August. showed that Red Lion Square was very much the shape of thing to come as far as other sections of the population are concerned.

Batons swinging, squads of cope moved in on the thousands enjoy ing the festival with a degres of violence which upset even sections of the bourgeois press "The police formed a long line and walked towards the bandstand They smashed down everything in their path, including all the tents and shelters which had been built. Geoffrey White in the Daily Mail.

*They smashed chrough the linked arm cordon, hurling people aside like dolls. Anyone who resisted was cut down. - Keith Dovkants in the London Evening Standard.

saw an arrested youth being held down by four policemen and being kicked in the body by a fifth Women were dragged off by their hair. Youths were kicked and

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