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On Wednesday the end of | Auguat a joint force of RUC and Army staged a massive raid on the Connolly Bookshop in Belfast's Andersonstown area, the main production office for the 'Socialist Fepublic' paper, The raid ececurred just as production of this edition of the paper was | beginning, It lasted from 2p.m, to Gp.,m, and during the course of {t the paper's editor, John McAnulty, and a member of the editorial board, John McGeown, were arrested and taken to Fort Monagh army post, At the conclusion of the raid the shop was stripped bare of all books, spapers, documents, correspondence and office equipment, Comrades McAnulty and McGeown were released after ofthe material taken was returned the next day - but so badly damaged as to be a complete write-off, All the shop's files and correspondeWe in PD/MSE see the continued on back page These elite unite quickly cevelop a right-wing neo-fascist {ideology and in Ireland where lwould get more excuses they would be quick to use their guns. Thera would soon be more summary executlions of the type the SAS earry out in the 6-Counties - and the Gouth-| ern Special Branch carried out in the late 193% and during the ver.
The: Coalition Government tried, | to turn-the-Seuth into a police atate but the lest election stopped them in their tracks. We must ; | stop Fianna Fail from going in the same direction as they did fm the 1930s,
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