The Law and the Use of Troops in Industrial Disputes

  • Reference: P22-411
  • Author: Chris Whelan
  • Publication Date: 1979
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  • keywords Law, Trade unions, Armed Forces, Labour, Tony Bunyan
  • Comments: Working Paper 2, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford.; Critique of the 'Law's Objectivity'.; Cites Tony Bunyan.
  • Publisher: Z Print Parchment
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“Harmless Weapons”

  • Reference: P22-412
  • Author: Elizabeth Roselman
  • Publication Date: 1978
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  • 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.
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The Law of Public Meeting and the Right of Police Search

  • Reference: P22-403
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  • Publication Date: c.1932
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  • keywords Civil liberties
  • 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.
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Waiting for Justice

  • Reference: P22-404
  • Author: Martina Shanahan
  • Publication Date: 1988
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  • keywords Prison Justice, prison, Winchester three,
  • 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
  • Publisher: Calvert's Press
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Resistance Shall Grow: The story of ‘Spies for Peace’ and why they are important to your future.

  • Reference: P22-405
  • Author: Committee of 100
  • Publication Date: 1963
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  • 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,
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Shrewsbury Three: Strikes, Pickets and Conspiracy

  • Reference: P22-406
  • Author: Jim Arnison
  • Publication Date: 1974
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  • keywords Strikes,
  • 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'.
  • Publisher: MTUCURC, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
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The Miner’s Case

  • Reference: P22-407
  • Author: Labour Research Department
  • Publication Date: 1984
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  • keywords Miners Strikes, Coal
  • Comments: The case for coal, redundancy under miners, ballots and democracy, supporting the miners, legal challenge to the miners.; Illustrations by Phil Evans.
  • Publisher: Labour Research Department
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Don’t Mark His Face: Hull Prison Riot 1976

  • Reference: P21-402
  • 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,
  • Publication Date: 1976
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  • keywords Strikes, Prisons, Civil Liberties, Angry Brigade, Riot, Rebellion,
  • 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,
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Postcard: Dorchester Labourers

  • Reference: P21-398
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  • Publication Date: c.1984
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  • 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.
  • Publisher: Coptic Press
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Research Assessment: as strange a maze as e’er men trod

  • Reference: P21-399
  • Author: John Griffith
  • Publication Date: 1995
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  • keywords Education, Polytechnics, Class Systems,
  • 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.
  • Publisher: John Penri Press, CAFAS
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