IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM ACT SET UP IN CARDIFF

Red Weekly No. 174, 11 November 1976 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 267 words

The scan: rw-no174-nov-11-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 11 of the scan

Cynical The cynical disregard for normal bourgeois standards of justice evident in the original trial was continued in the appeal hearing. The whose Murrays were not allowed even to attend the hearing; and when they instructed their lawyers to withdraw their appeals in protest, said that the hearing had to go on. Clearly justice was not being done, but it had to be 'seen to be done.

and heinrich Boll sent to demand The threatened execution of the means and represents.

Government in the final Like followed PTA defence LAST WEEK some 70 Cardiff people had a chance to see and to discuss just wha the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act The occasion was a performance by the Cast theatre grouc play The Other Way AroUnd by a discussion. major theme of the plav-the link between the and British intervention in Ireland-came across clearly.

The discussion which followed focussed on what should be the basis for a local campaign against the Act. A motion and around Cardiff and Newport success of meeting W dk achieved despite conscious sabotage by local Transport & General Workers Union Originally the play was to have taken place in Transport House, but the hall was cancelled by the TGWU on the excuse involved. is once te ment were involved. cancellation was especially deplorable since nation ally the TG WU is opposed to the PTA.

Apparently Cardiff TGWU have adopted a citterent atutude D conaborang with the backers of the PTA in banning

page 12 of the scan

21 November details: Assemble Marble Arch 1lam for 12.30pm departure, TrafSeptember be implemented. In WEEKLY LF

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