SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Police riot at Armthorpe

· Socialist Action No. 72, 5 October 1984 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 295 words

The scan: 072-oct-05-1984-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 5-7 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 3 of the scan

now police have besieged Notts pit villages, miners for simply travelling trom one part of country to another. has no legal foundation whatsoever. whenminers are accompanied by qualified legal personnel the police have been forced to let through.

State of Siege

Holmes, Greenwich Branch NALGO Office, Borough Treasurer's Department, Wellington St, SE18. Each volume is priced £1.95.

cheques payable 'Greenwich branch NALGO'. the mining communities.

Wayne Frost, another Armthorpe striker told me cameras that overlook the pitvard had been knocked was built across the gates CONCICIO 2000 people who had come i400 miners at Markham THOUSANDS OF HEAVILY equipped police are being deployed at pits in South Yorkshire to escort a handful of scabs to work. The number of police used is not just to get the strikebreakers into the pityard. The aim is to terrorise the pickets and the people of One such incident occurred already at Armthorpe, near Doncaster, on 22 August. Guy Bennet, a young striker from Markham Main explained why Armthorpe was singled out. 'When we go picketting there are certain pits from the area that always turn ington and Hatfield. The police are trying to tie us down to our own areas, and stop us going to Notts When the police ara vasion There was an army of cheons and long clubs. "The pickets tried to one's house, and watched the riot sauads running ur him, ched up down the streets what was store them.' everyone arresting charging Willea fray.

'Miners were being VOTe way her bac the frame. five it's another own

page 4 of the scan

Socialist Action FOR TEN years now the old role of the Com. Black strikers stop apartheid's gold mines Miners lack thi

----- pull-quotes -----

quickly picked it up? his head as head.

← State of siegePlans for Coal →

Something wrong on this page?