Inside Story #3 1972

A cartoon of an undercover policeman approaching some hippie types "Now lads, how would you like to help us?" "Right on man, but we're already workin' for Special Branch"

Including: Special Branch spying on political activists, police raids and repression, photographer Quentin Jacobson jailed in South Africa, Sheikh Karume's rise to power in Zanzibar, the end of the Womens' Industrial Union, in-fighting in race relations organisations, letters, satire page, etc.

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