TORIES WHIP UP

THE TO 'law and restored, juries.

Already they have the police, formed 'heavy mobs' to pickets and stepped use of phone-tapping.

RY reactionaries are in fi order. A large body of natural life sentences armed special smash These measures have been seized to create an atmosphere of panic and hysteria, particularly among the middle class.

Evidence of the Tory 'law and order' crackdown is voluminous: • In January a Yorkshire miner, Ernest Critchley, married with two young children, was given a year's jail for poaching. He was caught with ten pheasants in a bag. • At India House on February 20 two teenage Pakistanis were shot dead by members of the 'shoot to kill' Special Patrol Group whose police nickname is the 'Central London Commitment'. At the inquest last Friday two officers were commended for their 'courage' in shooting the boys, who were waving toy plastic pistols. • On March 15 24 building workers appeared in court at Shrewsbury charged with conspiracy under an 1875 Act. They face a total of 210 charges. When building workers, steelmen and dockers arrived to picket in their support they faced a 1,000-strong contingent of police from the new 'riot squad'. • Last week pickets at the St Thomas's Hospital site in south London were manhandled by the police anti-picket squad thus allowing a coachload of scabs to move on to the site. The police have broken the picket line each day for the past week. • At the Fine Tubes factory at Plymouth on Monday seven pickets were arrested during an angry clash with the police. Special police reinforcements were drawn from other constabularies to smash a national picket organized by the strike committee.

-WHO SAID IT?'THE STREETS of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without.

'We need law and order! Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. We shall restore law and order.' -Adolf Hitler, Hamburg, Will throat nanding them want hanging and trials without • Also on Monday Mr Justice Croom-Johnson sentenced a 16year-old boy to 20 years' imprisonment for mugging. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a man and robbing him of five cigarettes, a bunch of keys and 30p.. His accomplices, aged 15, got 10 years each. • Yesterday Leeds pickets were pushed, shoved and sworn at by charged with standing ist want police and their shop of a vehicle'.

Behind these sinister developments in the police and the judiciary is a deliberate Tory strategy: they want to mobilize the middle class with a series of scares and hysteria-charged court cases.

For example, the direct result of the bomb incidents in central London has been the establishment of a full-time "security committee under the chairmanship of Earl Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal.

This is the first time in peacetime that the military, the intelligence services, the police and the civil service have set up such a command.

And why? We must ask why?

Is there any evidence to show that there is going to he spread bombinging to be wideFor muggings throughout the country? Is there shortly to be a takeover of embassy buildings by immigrant children waving rubber daggers and cap guns?

These suggestions are patently ludicrous-and the Tories know it. Heath and his cronies are whipping up this atmosphere to prepare for a massive counter-attack on the trade unions and the working class.

And when it comes to violence and brutality this is a government of experts. In Northern Ireland they introduced horrific torture techniqes at Holywood barracks and then legally whitewashed the shooting of 13 innocent civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

It is the same government which has created record postwar levels of unemployment and pursued policies which deliberately increase the cost of living beyond the reach of ordinary working men and women.

Shoppers are 'mugged' on the high streets every day of the week by the Tories' food policy. Food prices have gone up 15 per cent since the so-called freeze began in November while wages have been held down by all-powerful legal restraints.

It is a government which can be up to its ears in giving away North Sea oil rights in a multi-million pound scandal, and yet K id ING The face of Tory law and order. Top, St Thomas's Hospital site workers take a_beating from the newlyrormea anti-picket police squad. Above (| to r) the story of four judicial actions: Paul Storey, aged 16, who got 20 years for 'mugging'; John Poulson's case has abruptly ended following the anonymous repayment of his major debts; Belfast mother of 11, Mrs Groves, lost her eyesight when hit by a rubber bullet fired at point blank range by a Para; Alex McDonald, chairman of Distillers, the multi-million pound whisky empire which marketed the drug thalidomide.

jail a . 16-year-old boy for 20 years for stealing a few fags and 30p.

The same people in parliament and the judiciary who are screaming for law and order today are significantly silent about the Poulson case which has been mysteriously buried.

An anonymous group of business men have paid Poulson's debts thus forestalling further interrogation of the bankrupt and the likelihood of more big names coming out.

La/418 In the face of this sort of activity William Whitelaw, the Ulster Secretary, has the hide to say that British trade unionists are 'terrorists'.

The real terrorists are the government and its agents who, for example, were responsible for shooting Mrs Emily Groves at point blank range with a rubber bullet thus causing the loss of her sight.

The soldier responsible for firing the shot was a member of the First Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, the followers of Brigadier Frank Kitson. But who trains these thugs? Who pays the torturers?

It is arrant hypocrisy for this hated government to talk about 'law and order'. The working class can and must answer this reactionary conspiracy by launching an all-out fight to remove the Tories from office

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