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to 'suspect" persons and organisations.
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That is why for him. MAURICE JONES and his family returned to Labour's Britain last Sunday, The year was 1977 though Jones could be forgiven for thinking it was 1984. Hounded out by the Special Branch, he returned accompanied by miners* leader Arthur Scargill. Waiting for him was a reception committee consisting of five Special Branch operatives and a snatch squad of police toughs. The latter refused to let him talk to his lawyer. They manhandled him in front of his young daughter and behaved in this tashion quite deliberately, thus symbolising the contempt of the state for the militant wing of the trade union movement. They chose to publicly Insult the best-known militant trade-union leader in Jones' case is not that unusual. What is remarkable Jones is an everyday occurrence. The barriers at Britain's frontiers are the erected by the British intelligence and the Special Branch are not repression. They Ideclogically motivated and trained. Their enemy is the working class movement and especially the Marxists active within Telephone tapping, Job discrimination, Special Branch files on a broad layer of individuals (including left MPs and trade union leaders such as Jack Jones), and the regular opening of mail exists on a wide scale. In London alone there are seven area offices for opening mail addressed anti-Labour current exists within British Intelligence. Prospective applicants for Jobs in the Intelligence organisations can be pretty sure of employment if they Michael Foot. as Depuly Prime Minister, was not allowed to see the files on the because he himsell had not clearance. That is why no left 1l1:m0cras lawRe to aname over sensitive Ministries (Foreign Office, Home Office and Defence).
As the social crisis deepens and as the Labour Government totters along on its last legs, the Special Branch and allied organisations become even more brazen. They and their bosses are eagerly preparing for MPs concerned at these developments must not be pressured into silence. They should demand to see the relevant files. They should subject Rees to regular and merciless harassment in parliament. To put it briefly, they should make life hell The strange case of Maurice Jones has still to be unravelled. We would not be unduly surprised if it were subsequently revealed that he was being blackmalled by the Special Branch because of some 'indiscretion" in the past. We hope that Arthur Scargill and the miners' union will not be satisfied with a whitewash, but will continue to press with all means at their disposal for a full enquiry. Some good could yet come out of all this.
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is the police's choice of victim. Because for Irish men and women as well as for black people in this country,