ANTI IRISH | Socialist Action 1983

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were false, and the home secretary would have to recommend that they be pardoned or order a retrial. Denning said: "This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say: "It cannot be right that these actions should go any further." They should be struck out.' Six years later torture, false conviction and perjury are exactly what the police stand accused of - with the addition that Denning is shown up in his true light.

But the Birmingham six is not the only such case. Two other outstanding examples of frame-ups remain.

Paul Hill, Patrick Armstrong, Gerard Conlon and Carole Richardson — the Guildford four were all sentanced to life improsonment for bombing a Guildford pub and the King's Arms pub in Woolwich. An active service unit of the IRA, arrested in the Balcombe Street siege, admitted that they carried out the Guildford bombings as part of a series of almost twenty others. Before

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Socialist Action 23 Jan 1987 ACTiON SOCiAlist ON 11 JANUARY the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) held an advisory council to select its candidates for the National Union of