Council of the Labour Committee on Ireland. LAST 14 July six senior police officers 'riot areas' in Britain flew to the North Ireland for a crash course in riot control from the Royal Ulster Constabulary - a course with special emphasis on snatch squads and plastic bullets. This is one of the many facts brought out in a new booklet just published by the 'information on Ireland' group.
In its forty well illustrated pages we are peen an culine or ine ongas or plastic bullet in the WRen colony, Hong Kong, a new lethal weapon made of wood and called the 'baton round', first used against i guerrilla army. Always it has been used agains a mass of people in revoll.
Jonathan Rosenhead, from the Britsh Society for Social Responsibility Science has described ulke a liver chart of the Northern hoch politic. Prery time lage numbers people hare lahon to the drechs to proes agams Britich guernment policic, there has been a dramatic number fired. in Nay las surge the lear for crample. the month Bobbe Sands died, the slaggering total of 16,656 were fired.
And the conscqnence of their usc hy Britain in outlined ( in1.
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ED- MAY 22,1981 URDERED BY THE BETISH ARMY • August 1981, 13 people, six of them children were killed. Injuries too have included blindness and brain damage.
And the army only pay condicoll clalll lion that no lability atlaches to themselves or the police. This means they can avoid the embarrasslaving officer has been convicted for any of the deaths or injuries.
Attempts by the army 1O Domay inese weduul) as next to harmless have been very successful. The army deliberately subsuurca me iern ber bullet' for the official lerm paton round'. Ma jor Clayton, Military Programmes Manager for the manufa uer Seerly.
!he Derrie 4101( ll taches Puerten! •!.! the aim was to get a slightly humourous image', and commented: 'looking back it does seem as if that aim was achieved' This booklet should be used widely within the By N 'Ndabeni ONE CAN be sure that there is one place in the Republic of South Africa where Geoff Boycott and his fellow cricketers playing. This is where Nelson political opponents of the apartheid are rotting must be one of the grimmest prison fortresses in the world.
Prisoner 885/63 is Indres Naidoo, by racist South African definition a 'nonwhite' (he would call himself 'black').
first UMKHONTO WE SIZWE (Spear of the Nation), the armed wing of the African National Congress, leadership of Nelson Mandela in the 1960's. He was arrested following the altempted sabolage of a signal box on a remote part of South African railways. Like so many of his fellow insurgents, including eventually himself, his arrest was brought about bt an informer in the group with which he was working.
In my introductory paragraph, Irefer to the prisoners 'rotting away' on Robben Island. This must he taken as a figure of speech. Il is difficult to imagine these men, once the leaders of a people struggling for their freedom, isolated for veurs, some of them tor life brutal treatment and degradation at the will not be Robben Island, Mandela and other away in volanteers lo up under the Nelson Mandela subiect to the 'guerrilla struggle' launched by the ANC suffered and are suffering unnecessarily. Armed actions are only practical once the masses are in motion - - otherwise they are only too easily repressed.
Minoritv "guerrilla actions' only waste valuable cadre. mute il eusier state to patch up its internal differences and pursue repression against the mas. movement. It creates the illusion amons the masses that there is a road to libera-
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ISLAND IN CHAINS NER 885/63 C Ten years on Robben Island by P