keywords Policing, UK, United Kingdom, Militarisation, Weaponry, Civil Order,
Comments: 72 pages; The problems of the introduction of sophisticated weapons in the control of civil disorder in Britain.; Appendix 2 includes examples of 'harmless' weapons in table format (pp. 51 - 67).; Council for Science and Society.
Publisher: Barry Rose
Description: New Weapons, When is a weapon harmless?; Testing for harmlessness.; Social and Political Context.; Policing in Britain.; Control of Police and weaponry.; Possibility of a drift between military style in times of maintenance of civil order.
Comments: 28 pages; Prepared by a committee of the Haldane Club.; No 13 issued by the New Fabian Research Bureau.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz, New Fabian Research Bureau
Description: Part 1 - the Right of Public Meeting.; Part 2 - The Power of the Courts to Interfere with Public Meetings or proposed public meetings by 'binding over'.; Part 3 - the existing law as the right to search premises.
Comments: 66 pages; 23rd Sept 1988.; The Winchester Three were three young Irish citizens (Martina Shanahan, Finbar Cullen and John McCann) who were found guilty in 1988 of a plot to murder British politician Tom King, who was the Northern Ireland Secretary at the
keywords Spies for Peace, Regional Seats of Government, RSG, The State, UK, United Kingdom, Nuclear war, Security,
Comments: Blurb: The secret 'regional seats of government' are meant to ensure the state outlives the people, we want to ensure the people outlive the state.; Pamphlet about the 'Spies for Peace' co-published by Solidarity (UK), the ILP, the Syndicalist Workers Fed
Publisher: Independent Labour Party, London Members of Committee of 100,
Comments: 85 pages; Reprinted in 1988.; Foreword by Bert Ramelson.; Recount of the Shrewsbury Conspiracy trial due to a debate of the time on whether Construction unions should give up the fight against 'Self Employment'.
Comments: The case for coal, redundancy under miners, ballots and democracy, supporting the miners, legal challenge to the miners.; Illustrations by Phil Evans.
Author: John Baldwin, Martin Brady, Bertie Coster, Michael Davis, Jamie Doran, D.Foley, Garth, Alix Goodman, David Greer, Neil Harding, Paul Michael Hill, J. Hinds, K. Hobson, R.T. Hoskins, Kojak-Budgie, G. Lomax Macphee, M. O'Hara, V.L. Phillips, Jake Prescott,
Comments: 120 pages; The account of the Hull prison riot and its brutal aftermath by the prisoners themselves.; Written by Prisoners themselves.; One of the prisoners was Jake Prescot (also pictured on the front).
Publisher: National Prisoners Movement, Little @ Ltd,
keywords Greater London Council, GLC, Dorchester Labourers
Comments: The meeting of the Trades Unionists in Copenhagen Fields, April 21 1834 of carrying a Petition to the King for a remission of the sentence passed on the Dorchester Labourers.; Reproduced by County Hall Archivist, Greater London Council.
Comments: One of the first trustees of LRET, after State Research.; Council of Academic Freedom and Academic Standards, Report Number 4.; Campaign for Academic Freedom.