'THE PERSONAL INITIATIVE OF KIM IL SUNG'

virtues and the popular method and style of work' He is also described as "peerless national hero ever-victorious ironwilled brilliant commander and one of the great leaders of the international commovementand munist working-class movements • He is also obviously modest man, as this official handout shows, and as is noe picture of the proved by gigantic statue erected in front of the Museum of the Korean Revolution.

The North Korean's purpose the Thomson Organizatior substantial sum in order to produce this propaganda supplement is obscure. We are not invited to visit the earthly paradise even told whether can. There are no advertisements for its products, not even this time for the works of Kim Il Sung, which seems be a major export, if North Korea is all it says it is, it would be expected that "The Times' would be the last place in which it would be necessary to proclaim it and the last place in which to recruit supporters or win sympathy.

Perhaps Kim Il Sung wants to follow in of the Soviet and Chinese bureauThe eight - page North Korean supplement which appeared in "The Times' on April 11 (commented on yesterday) was followed by another the next day. For all we know, top people may be getting regular handouts from president Kim II Sung in future.

The second instalment was well up to the standard of the first and there was no flagging in the insistence that all good things in Korea flowed from 'the personal initiative of Kim Il Sung'.

It spoke of 'native-cadres trained under the profound care of Kim Il Sung' at the Kim Il Sung University. Tenyear compulsory schooling is leader President Kim Il Sung'.

One woman textile worker recounts how 'she has become Labour Heroine in the benevolent bosom of President Kim Il Sung'. We are shown the schools in which children learn 'the glorious history of the revolutionary struggle of Marshall Kim Il Sung, who has brought them the happy life of today'.

To the same glorious leader belongs the revival of Korean art and literature exemplified by the 'Song of General Kim Il Sung' with which the Mansudae Art Troupe begins every performance at home or abroad.

Physical culture and sport pay their tribute to 'the wise leadership of their great leader [guess who?]'.

If he didn't actually invent sport, it was he who 'indicated the unique way for dynamically promoting physical culture through a mass movement and for developing its theory and techniques from the standpoint of Juche' This second supplement which, like the first, must have cost thousands of pounds, contains an appeal for the reunification of Korea on the three principles put forward by President Kim Il Sung.

The people of South Korea must be waiting with joyful

Tuesday's programme did a slick picture of George Sewe 'Crime Squad' (Documentary) ATV. Tuesday April 10. 'Special Branch'. Episode 1. Wednesday April 11. 'This Week'. Thames TV. Thursday April 12.

A Birmingham member of the force leans back with satisfaction, gives a cheery grin: "Well', he says 'we've put away 20 top villains this year right bastards.' And so, adds the commentary, the Crime Squad relax and celebrate. Drinking and chatting they reminisce over the villains they despise, those they trust and those they admire: since 1963 this élite in the police force has been functioning and drawing men in from the ordinary police Men consider it an honour to be engaged in work where the bureaucratic methods are cut to a minimum, the paperwork disappears and time is given to the really purposeful pursuit of 'the better class of villain'.

Tuesday's programme did a great PR job for the cops who hobnob with that strata of the Mafia and other villains who really count in what was made to appear to be the new glamorous aristocracy in the This sham attempt at digging below the surface to give an inside account of the day-to-day lives of the Crime Squad with its taxing activities (anything from eight to 100 hours a week, chats with the wife to indicate there was no going home for these dedicated men); the filming and the dialogue, the intimate scenes between the police and their informers, the cosy chats on bribery and corruption, the high-powered look cultivated to a special level to impress by the team from ATV, all added up. to stamp quite firmly on the mind of the public that law and order today is Big Business.

Not only big business but big propaganda too: the police do well in television today. 'Special Branch', starting • up again on Wednesday night, gave an equally fast-moving, out to contain some nails and was postmarked Bedfordshire. Our man in Oldham comments sourly: 'Strange how this "bomb" scare just happens to occur when the hospital workers in the area are struggling slick picture of George Sewell as the tough, single-minded Detective Chief Inspector with the fashionable black girl friend, a French ex-wife, a working-class background.

All very smooth, elegant dialogue and the conflict of the young man on the make (Patrick Mower at his best), working with Sewell on a job to track down a villain who was busy in the gold bullion line. Topical stuff. Plenty of fast cars and racy chat, smart camerawork to match.

The police shown as increasingly aristocratic. A real role to play in society. Hitting the high spots.

There are many faces to the police force today.

But the gaunt visage of reality best revealed itself in "This Week's' edition devoted to the Special Patrol Groups. Formed in 1965, this body of 204 men, specially trained, was given an attempted probe by director Peter Tiffin and came up blandly asserting innocence on all fronts.

'We are not armed for ourselves - but to protect public' ... 'we are forced semi-final between Celtic and Dundee at Glasgow's Hampden Park ground.

He spent a weekend in the cells and was hauled before the Glasgow Sheriff Court last Monday. this situation by the climate and the international situation' 'No, none of us like being armed.' They are all unhappily forced to stand by their orders and appreciate that six (so we are told) men every day in the London area are toting .38 Webleys with 12 rounds of ammunition to be used on the most stringent criteria.

Their real role is starkly revealed at the sight of the rigorous firearms training to which they are subjected: out on the field. These nice chaps who naturally feel no inclination for the task, are busy riddling dummy bodies with bullets—aiming, of course 'for the widest part of the body— which happens to be the chest'.

Many were upset by the shooting of the two Pakistanis at India House. Nonetheless, when pressed, a good member of the SPG will never fail to stand by his orders.

And when pressed their chief, "acting on decisions taken at the highest level' cannot bring himself to suppose when the time will come for this unhappy state of affairs April Left: The shootings at India House, London. Police crouch against a wall while inside members of the SPG shoot down two Pakistani youth. forced on the police by 'the international situation' - to cease.

Their targets for the future cannot be spelled out by their own men. But with the crisis assuming present proportions it will be the working class next in line.

The preoccupation with law and order and its exploitation by the television companies ('Z Cars', 'Barlow', *Special Branch' and the rest) is an integral part of the Tory government's moves towards a corporate state and dictatorship a calculated ploy in the current climate economic and political crisis to sustain the middle Class in their political confusion and personal anxiety.

Threatened on their most vulnerable fronts - property and morals-they scurry into the channels which they have been trained to inhabit, as potential agents for the right There is an impressive array of cops on the scene today: all developed and highly gifted in interpreting the meanest and most ambiguous letter of the law to their own ends, or rather those of the state. Programmes on television like these and others are designed as first-class advertising for the state and its developing "arms'.

To sow seeds of uncertainty at all costs, amongst not only the ranks of the Mafia new and old, but in any man, who like the entire body of the working class in industry, civil service, health service and the like, is forced to enter the realms of criminal activity in order to demand a decent standard of living.

The police are the living emblem of the true inner life of the state: the true intent behind all the pretence of democracy which persists in language and promoted philosophy. They are the bedrock of the society which is steadily taking shape in the hands of this ruling class, with its back to the wall and its inevitable need to smash the working class.

The police force, throughout history (in Italy and France in the 1920s, in the 1917 Russian Revolution itself has, unlike the armed forces, rarely if ever, deviated from the role for which it has been trained.

There are no grounds for supposing that matters will be any different in the coming period in England. But the subtle and complex training, the new divisions and their unlimited powers within the force today ultimately reflect the fact of real fear at its base: fear of the potential and existing strength the working class which is on a scale SO formidable that the most diverse powers and "talents' are required within police force to cope with BOOKS