Ban Plastic Bullets
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-01-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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İNANCIALTIMES PLASTIC buliets have caused 14 deaths and countless injuries on the streets of Northern Ireland.
Seven of those killed were children, many simply bystanders while a riot was taking place.
Despite warnings that plastic bullets should not be fired directly at the face or upper body, the British Army uses them indiscriminately to punish people for being on the streets at the wrong time.
The use of plastic builets has been widely condemned. The European JOHN HARRIS Parliament passed a resolution condemning their _use in Ireland, and the last Labour Party conference called for their withdrawal.
Despite this, the Tories continue to maintain that plastic bullets are harmless It is increasingly importand have extended their availability to the British mainland police since the 1981 riots. There is also a fight still to be waged in the labour movement: after the Labour Party conference decision, front-bench Northern Ireland spokesperson Don Concannon stated that he would not implement LAW was set up from the that decision unless the Army were provided instead with other weapons of equal 'effectiveness' To highlight this issue, the Labour Committee on Ireland took the initiative "to prevent expulsions or BLOODY SUNDAY C disaffiliations under the National Executive Com- march: Sunday Januar mittee's register of organ- Park, Chapeltown Roa isations, and to defend the unity of the Labour Party Hammersmith North delegate Jen Lither shows Labour Party conference a plastic in calling a national labour movement delegate conference, to be held on February 26, from llam at UMIST, Barnes • Wallis Building, Manchester. Delegates' credentials cost £3 from Plastic Bullets Conference, Box 15, Hanging Ditch, Manchester.
The conference will discuss the role of plastic bullets in British repression in Ireland, and how to fight to get them banned.
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