THE ANTICS of the police during the miners' makes clear that the increase in police powers over the last few years have not been designed simply to deal with 'minority' groups.
The real purpose of the increased police powers has been the use of the police as a highly organised weapon against the whole labour movement.
An DAIL of this operation is the Police Crimina Evidence Bill. This Bill, which will be returning to the :House of Commons for reading in the next few weeks ally shadow of doubt about the right of the police to use road blocks like they have done In lie The Bill will make them legal which means against strikers. Bill will aIso empower police to use intimate body anus and vagina DeoDle be detained without charge for four access avers. police will also be allowed the people not suspected of offence.
Unfortunately the labour movement has been slow to respond to the Bill. Perhaps it sees it as simply a black issue wnic Cal be ignored, just as it has shamefully Ignoreu ouel so-called black the nast. But now a laboul movement conference has called on the DeCI Bill by the National Campaign against the Police Bill. This will take place on Saturday Ma:
6pm Conwa:
Hall, Red here will re.
There will speakers from the TGWU, NGA, the National Society Motor Mechanics and the Labour Party NEC.
On the following Saturday the NCAPB is holding a national march assembling al Hyde Park at 12 midday.
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