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Reflections on the violence within Thurday's demonstrations
Accounts and discussions on the mugging and beating of some demonstrators in last Thursday's Paris anti-CPE march.
We've reported on the incidents of violence amongst those demonstrating in Paris in previous articles. What we understand to be a small number of youths robbing and attacking demonstrators in small gangs. In some incidents these gangs have been fighting one another.
Friday March 24: Summary of events
A round-up of today's main events, including unions meeting with Villepin, university occupations, rioting and mugging of demonstrators.
Summary of todays events:
-The five main trade unions to meet Villepin today at the Matignon (his official residence)
Dunblane - what made Hamilton tick?
This was published in Black Flag #208, in 1996 not long after the horrific massacre at Dunblane. The media at the time were pre-occupied with gun control, here Albert Meltzer argues that they missed the point.
The Dunblane Massacre -
What Made Hamilton Tick?
Squatting After the CJA
This article is from Black Flag in 1996 and was one of a series looking at the impact of the Criminal Justice Act in the mid 90s.
Squatting after the CJA
Hunt Sabbing and the CJA
This article, from Black Flag #208 in mid-1995, was one of a series looking at the impact of the Criminal Justice Act, which aimed to criminalise the activities of hunt saboteurs, amongst others.
The Full Sutton Prisoners' Strike
From Black Flag #207 comes this account of the strike by prisoners at Full Sutton
Crime and community
John Shute looks at leftist political group IWCA’s relationship to crime in the communities they serve.
Any serious critique of the Independent Working Class Association ought to accept that the fundamental premise of the IWCA is correct. The left has, as they state, abandoned the working class, and any effective resistance to capital can only be established on the basis of rebuilding a militant current within the working class.
BNP paedophile jailed
A former soldier and election candidate for the fascist British National Party in the Midlands has been jailed for 15 months after sending obscene images involving children to others.
Roderick Rowley (51), previously from Coventry, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years after admitting at Birmingham Crown Court 14 charges of making indecent photos, four of distributing them and one charge of possessing an image for distribution.
BNP 'arsonist' in court
A prominent member of the right-wing group the British National Party has appeared before a Lincoln court charged with multiple counts of arson and criminal damage.
Stephen Bailey (41) is accused of setting fire to sheds, litter bins and a car as well as a spate of car vandalism in the city's High Street.
Bailey has not entered pleas to 35 charges of criminal damage and 19 charges of arson.
Bailey, of St Botolph's Crescent, Lincoln, is accused of setting fire to sheds, litter bins and a car between May and November 2003.
Large-scale Massacre of Prisoners in Peru, 1986 - ICG
Poorly written but still interesting article about a massacre of prisoners in Peru in 1986.
From Communism #6
Social-democratic peace is nothing else but the peace of tombs.
The tombs of all the proletarians who struggle against the State.
International Solidarity with the Proletariat and its prisoners in Peru!
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We are publishing here a translation of an article that was first published in our Spanish review "Comunismo" (No.22 - June 86).
