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Socialist Republic1978Internment, repression and the courtsChurch, state and civil libertiesInternment, repression and the courtsChurch, state and civil liberties
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RAID ON SOCI CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 raid as part of a savage campalzn by Mason dgpinst the opposition press In the Morth, John McAnulty is not long free after being held for six months - ‘Internment by Remand' ona frame-up documents charge. John McGeown was arrested a few days before the raid and an article for the paper Was confiscated, And the raid te only one of a series of such attacks, Attacks on Fepublican News have included the arrest of trumpedup "subversion' charges of leading Sinn Feln members, ‘The Workers! Fesource Centre in Belfast has teen raided twice and fles of the information sheet ‘Irish Free Press! held, Physical attacks on the revolutionary press are only ~ the tip of the iceberg, The repression extends to the ‘respectable’ media as well, Recently the Independent Broadcasting Authority In Britain banned a 'This Week' programme on the Amnesty International report, The effect of censorship North and South is clearly shown by the fact that for two years they fave no clear report on conditions in the H-Blocks until Archbishop O'Fiaich's statemat We, rclcased, We in PD/ Mei believe that a major campaten against censorship ‘and in defence of the opposttion press both inside and outside the trade-unions Is an urgent weesasity. organise, fight-back ies This tesue of the Socialist Fepublic is being produced amid the rubble of the book-= shop, The editorial board gives notice to the British that we intend to continue producHon, We will fight to recover our files and for the thousands of pounds worth of damage caused, We refused to be forced underground and to accept the de facto Mlegality that the British are trying to force on us, We will work openly to defend our right to STOP PRESS:
446 we go to press word has come in of a major raid on a member's home in Andersonstown, The intertor of the house has been wrecked, This ts clear evidence that the campaign of harassment ts to continue and makes even more urgent the need for a united