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Brutal eviction by Tories

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 159, 9 May 1970 · scan pages 2, 3, 5

Topics: Housing and rents, Tory government, Police and the courts

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ANGRY neighbours protested bitterly yes brutal police action which evicted Mr and Whitmee and their five children from tl Sewell Road, Abbey Wood, SE London.

About 50 police fought a 45-minute battle with more than 100 workers and housefrom the area who Lyn: formed a human wall to prevent the eviction.

Police arrested three men in the course of the fight, opp in which they were drenched with water before breaking down the door for bailiffs to enter.

Building workers from the nearby Thamesmead Estate THE 'gun-runi turned out in force to resist the Dublin F the eviction attempt. dramatically 1 Injured ment in the Sc Several people were injured, -policing parti including 15-year-old boy of British impi taken to hospital with head It now app injuries. alleged 'plot'— A neighbour told Workers cabinet Ministe Press that the police had and third punched women in the chest originally unco and indiscriminately attacked British secret s children and old people. MIS and MI6. !

Mr Whitmee, formerly an Special Branch assistant caretaker for the volved. Greater London Council, was Interpol, acci sacked 18 months ago after reports, was ci a dispute with his supervisor. vestigate arms He and his wife have five continent. children, four boys and a Michelle, eight-year-old Fest girl who is mentally handicapped. Meanwhile, i Michelle needs a garden to pite Lynch's play in, but the GLC have close the rank: refused rehouse the Fianna Fail p Whitmees in a flat with a in Irish ruling garden. to fester.

Shocked Mr Whitmee was not available for comment yesterday as he is now under contract to the Fleet Street News Agency.

However, next-door neighbour Mrs Brenda McDonough, whose flat has become an crisis. iterday at the of capitalist shipbuilding, Mrs N orman tern at Cammell Laird's. heir ho me in Lynch and Devlin oppose workinglass action parliament has unmasked revolutionary action by the : Lynch govern- working class, in complete real role of the outh of Ireland and irreconcilable hostility to Sition on behalf MR CHARLES HAUGHEY Republican 1 was also inering Viste in Dublin, desattempts to s of the ruling arty, the split class continues The sacked 1 Ministers voted with the rest o if their party in support of Lyn ch (in effect, in favour of their : own sackings) during Thursdi ay's confidence debate, but th le issues raised by the split are now right out in the ope The Fianna i government ot force to end parti ment remains a The more tl he question of

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every intention using force to maintain it.

And at this juncture the revisionists' heroine Bernadette Devlin can announce:

Now, when we have come to a crisis of armed intervention, it is time to get round the table again to discuss the constitution.' What constitutional discussions are possible with a government which uses armed force to keep Ireland dismembered?

The Labour government has already made it very clear that it regards the , Govern-

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