Agencies | Socialist Action 1983

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the North, and the 'anti-terrorist' or Special Branch units of police forces in both the 26 Counties and Britain con tinue to grow. Northern Ireland also has ThA largest population in Western Europe.

Liberties has documented how the use and abuse of emergency legislation to back up this military apparatus has led to an unacceptable deterioration of democratic rights in both Britain and Northern Ireland.

recorded its opposition to the use of plastic bullets, to courts and the use of the uncoroborated "supergrass' informer evidence. ana to the strip searching of women prisoners as a further incursion into civil liberties.

The arbitrary use of police powers in nationalist areas which range from inlimidatory • stoo and search to assassination of suspects ('shoot to kill' policy) can only be viewed as an attempt to break the resistance of the nationalist people to British rule.