Woolwich: cops swoop
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-12-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Hospital Closures, with speaker from St Mary's.
LEIGH: Sundays at 7.30 at the White Lion, opposite the Market.
Dec. 13: Ireland and the ish Labour Movement.
OXFORD: Wednesdays 8pm, at 44b Princes St. Dec.16: The nuclear threat.
OXFORD Socialist Organise Christmas bazaar, with cakes, tombola, bottle stall, darts, and Father Xmas. Saturday December 19, from 1.30pm, at Northgate Hall, St Michael's St. Entrance 10p.
ISLINGTON: Socialist Organiser meetings every other Tuesday at the 'Florence' , Florence St, near the Town Hall. Next meeting December 8. MORE THAN 500 striking school students and trade unionists joined a march against unemployment called in Woolwich on November 30.
The march, sponsored by the local Trades Council, NALGO branch and Labour Party, was called to coincide with a one-day strike of school students organised by the NUSS.
During the previous strike on June 1, more than 2,000 school students took part: this time police were brought in to prevent such support.
Squads of police manned school gates to stop youth leaving and stopped buses headed towards the march. When it began, after a delay of 1¾ hours, the march was diverted from its planned route and met by huge police presence.
And as the demonstrators dispersed, a carload of plain clothes police from Unit 4 of the SPG swooped upon two NUSS militants, Mark Rushton and Akey Kellman outside the Poly. technic.
In the ensuing scenes Tom Wareham, Vice President of the Poly union, was kicked in the groin by police. Two more were arrested. All four have been charged with 'threatening behaviour' A Woolwich Four Defence Campaign has been launched, and can be contacted c/o Thames Polytechnic.
MARSH
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Socialist Organiser no. 64 December 3, 1981 Page 3 Organiser