The statument went on to sy: "All means necessary to terminate those antisocial acts and the present scurrilous soupe co wonger and superata te the allegiance of our own members in the Republican Mavement will be rigorously applied' irish Times, 11 Januay 1975).
The Officials, according to the irish Times of 25 F'ebruary, said a military wing' of the IRSP was responsible for sectarian murders They went on to Command had revealed that Ferguson was a member of the IRSP's military wing. The statement went on to say: "The TRA... will act as thay docide and in their own time against anyone whom they establish to be concerned in the promotion of sectarian viplence... The fascist National Front is petting incrensingly rattled at the success of anti-fascist forces in denting its image as a respectable political force by denying it a platform from which to peddle its racist and anti-working class propaganda.
In many towns Labour-controlled Councils have been forced to deny them meeting halls. Now the NF app ears to be turning to more desperate and more traditional fascist tactics.
In LONDON the NF bave established a strong am squad of 100 to 150 thugs spectically designed to break up leftwing and immeane meetings Moetings organised by the Wandsworth & Battersca Trades Connell and the IS group have alIn BIRMINGHAM a similar attempt was made on 2 Match to disrupt a public mcclut on the Snois in the Car Industr organised by the International Marxist Group. During the course of the meeting after previously telling the police to exp ect trouble at the IMG meeting, and a large number of police were also notioed hanging around the hall Duriap the break certain amount of disruption, but the meeting continued with the second speak However it was clear to the IMG mem would attempt to start a light which would involve the police intervening and the IMG being held responsible for dam age to the hall and persons It was thereTose decided to end the meeting immedintely after the second sneaker and art empt to avoid a controntation. Thas was suceessfully carried out and the NF members left the meeting, allowing it to continue unopposed.
WARNING These incidents in London and Bir mingham should flash the warning Lights to the workers movement. The NE was so successfully opposed in Leciester and London last your, that they are very much on the defensive. The present political altuacion offers them great opportunities They would lave to march proudly through the streets proclaiming apposition to Britaio's entry into the EBC and calling country as unemployment ises once again.
But instead they find groat difficulty in holding even local meetings, let alone big national demonstrations. So they are waging a desperate defensive battle to get themselves back on the map and to try to physically demoralise those wha have fought against Lien so consistently in the recent past. Unless they do this. they risk being isolated once and for all in front of the workers movement./ In this situation, all meetings of the left and of immigrant workers luve to be well protected and puadded. The only soi ution to both fascist and police obstruction will be to prepare adequate self-defence by the orpinisations of the working class The NF are trying, in a very determined manner, to beat the bans placed on them by local councils On & March the No tried to hold a meeting in the market square at Hyde, near MANCHESTER, after being banned from the Town Hall by the Labour controlled Council However, despilo the fact that the NF had made the meeting
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