THE CRIMINAL Law Bill completing ITS passage m House of Commons, but support is growing for ine national aem onstration on Saturday 19 March against part 2 of the Bill.
The proposals in the Bill, first suggested by the lories in 1972, would make virtually every single occupation seen un reccut ycals a criminal offence; whether it be the type of occupation which has just ended at the Wildt Mellor Bromley TaCtOrY in Leicester, student occupation at the London School of Economics, houses occurring in London and elsewhere. Under the new Bill each of these actions would be open to immediate police attack - the iron fist of the Social Contract.
The TUC General Council now opposes the trespass proposals -apart from offences relating to the occupation of embassies -Labour Party nas sent a pressure delegation to the Home urging the Government to drop the Bill.
SUPPORT Further formal support is also Fees, the salaried staff section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, the National Union of Students, union ACIl, the Annual tradc. Council Conference. The Labour Party Young stituency Labour Parties and 37 trades councils have also stated their opposition to the Bill.
ACTION recent This huge formal support, the result of two years of campaignor ine ing, must now be turned into empty An essential pre-requisite for this is to penetrate the antisquatting smokescreen which the uses to support for their proposals, pretending the measures are directed solely at squatters.
In answering such distortions, militants need to point out both that the Bill is aimed at all forms of occupation, and that squatting is a Office legitimate form of direct which both fights homelessness and draws attention to the tens of thousands of empty througnour tne country For further details of the Campaign against a Criminal Trespass Law, the organisers of the cecisions body.
STUNT stration, SWP Ken Appleby fact that it had not confronted ine Nr. however ne forgor to mention that a coachload of his comrades were in beleaguered isolation outside the NF meetthe cine-technicians ing.
failed, even if your comrades are in danger?
Socialists. 30 Con that a real united anti-fascist movement can be built meeting called by the IMG on and Brian Heron, and Brian pective parliamentary candiWOlD up THE STATE AND RACE RELATIONS WOMEN houses 25p luct outl Get vour of the organising SUS 1.C.
DUE DOSC blacks until recently.
RED WEEKLY 3 March 1977
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