AN enquiry into police violence al tne nirst anniversary demonstration during the News International dispute has been called tor in an authoritative report published by the Haldane Society of socialist lawyers.
The report contains substantial evidence to call: 120 statements. back us use enou photographs and 25 reports from legal observers.
The main charges in the report are that police used truncheons and makeshift weapons at random, that mounted police charged people taking shelter at speed and without warning, that thev smashed windows of first aid vehicles, and that jourIlalists and photographers were singled out for attack.
Commenting on Home Secretary Douglas Hurd's rejection of demands for a public enquiry, one of the report's authors, Tony Gifford QC said 'He acted not as a d. police authority, but as a police mouthpiece'. been on strike for twoand-a-half years against the British-based multinational, BTR. on a two month tour of organised by the TUC, showing their play about the strike The long march' One of the touring strikers is NUMSA executive member, Khayo Madlala (centre right in the photo). He told Socialist Action that iney won peer overwhelmed by the enthey'd received in Britain.
Engineering workers formerly employed at the British BTR sub-