IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Another 'terrorist snared

Socialist Challenge No. 91, 12 April 1979 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 200 words

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RIGHT to the end the Labour continued relentless SCaTCHE for so defiled our glorious country. The prospective Labour candidate for Northwich, Barry Silverman, trade union leader Phil Flynn, pacifist Arrowsmith, and former Scotland Yard detective Arthur Evans have all been arrested the Prevention Terrorism Act in the last couple of years.

On April Fools' Day a new name was added Time Out journalist Ron MeKay.

McKay was held for 20 hours after stepping off a plane from Belfast at Abbotsinch airport, Glasgow.

His dastardly crime was that the he was unable to fill in correctly an embarkation card. Specifically, he could not remember the address he was staying at during an assignment in Belfast.

Pat The vigilant Special Branch officers then seized an article McKay was writing computers in the North of of Ireland, as well as his passport National Journalists membership card.

Mckay has now

charged under Section 8 of the PTA. For failing to remember the address in question he now faces a possible three months imprisonment.

So the Labour government's legacy to the people of the North of Ireland is not just prison camps and corpses. also includes the been

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spectrum evils.

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