hands of the Hampshire police.
Arrowsmith toure the -area tences By acts of and sackings in ine JUST WHAT it means to be an Irish activist in Britain was chillinolv illustrated by two separate incidents this week. Ont was the story that made the ruling class press: how pacifist and "troops out militant Pat Arrowsmith had been awarded E200 in compensation as a result of treatment she had received at the In October last year Pat was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in Aldershot. She was held for five hours and strip-searched. Her 'crime' was that she had dared to distribute "troops out" leaflets in civilian areas of Aldershot.
The leaflets in question were confiscated by the police, who doors anc Pars arrest AROGAIS demanding the leaflets from puzzled householders.
made to members of the British Withdrawal From Northern Ireland Campaign to return the leaflets, nave retused to nand tnem back. ney now deny the promise vated by. nosulty to those trials near the end of their senCrOUD secure than at any time since it took over.
Serious economic problems have been dates silarpened as a result or tre didos purges ITHS - past ine secret police has been unable to crush the underground opposition movement; and was ever made country. -DESPITE the police imprisonment in 1972 for activity motisocialism CInE activity consisted of nothing more than the distribution of a leaflet pointing out The consutunional nonE or CIZens nOEle vote for the single, official list of candispeech in his own defence. Mueler did not contest ne tacts our continued strongly to assert the obvious motivated by his Pat's award is one small defeat for the forces of repression in was probably caused by the difficulty even they had in convincing the public that Pat was a "terrorist". Unfortunately the same problem is unlikely to arise in the case of Sean Campbell, ex-secretary of Luton Provisional Sinn Fein, now enduring ten years in jail after being framed by police agent Kenneth Lennon on a charge of 'conspiracy to rob"
Sean has recently suffered horrifying treatment at the hands of orison warders at albany sie or wint. he was one of TIVE Irish political prisoners beaten up by the guards, and suffered a smashed leg and smashed hands. Amnesty International have -peen tole inarsean s inunes leave nim couchine biogo and mi: head injuries mean he is unable to pay attention or concentrate'.
The final macabre touch is that Sean has now been put in sontar connement and nas lost osudays feis siors As the crisis of the regime deepens. the meticulous legal charade of 1972 is Denne replace by language inal lo here reminiscent one issus moscow nais On 26 October the party daily Rude Pravo published article accusing Mueller for the first time of "participatio in activities which cannot be termed and of involvement in formulating and preparing a plan aimed at ine overinto Mueller is supposed to have 'allowed Tor ine DOSSiDITITY armed coup d'etat and of the physical liquidation of , it seems, is the response to criticisms of the treatment of -ast european assisents such as ma few days earlier at a public meeting in Paris eacine memper or me rench commu nist Party It can by no means be ruled out that a orepared in prague ane matin muene will be one of its first victims.
The Committee to Defend Czecho slovak Socialists was formed in the summer of 1972 following the wave of trials that had just taken place. It is com posed of a number of individuals from British left and the Czechoslovak socialist emigration and in CUTTHITE monins win be anemoune to encourace the maximum response in the British labour movements to the latest threats of
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