Brocks fatal fireworks | Socialist Action 1983

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boosting the profits of the company manufactures lethal plastic bullets They said: •Fireworks give Immelise picasure lo millions of children and Lnel parents, „Dut plastic bullets have brought : families of the people (seven 0I them children aged 15 or under) killed in the North of Ireland, the countless people who have suffered grievous injuries. including blindness brain damage.

Brocks, whose factory is near Sanquhar in Dummesse nave concaci to supply plastic bullets to Ministry of Defence and British police forces, who • currently stock over 20,000 of them.

Last week the European Assembly for the second time called for plastic Labour Party conference has voted twice for such a CAMPAIGNERS have warned the British public that if they buy Brocks' fireworks this year they will which Plastic bullets kill and maimban, as did the Liberals in 1982 would be paradox. ical if local councils oppos ed to ine use oI plasti bullets were to buy large quantities of fireworks for public displays from their manufacturers. This year boycott Brocks.