IT'S NOT EVERY DAY Mou get roughed up by the police ang chatto Arthur Scargill ar well. Bur a Thursday this happened or he Grunwick picker fine to Steve Iner, TGWU shop steward the 1/524 brunch. Steve was standing on the pavement ether pickers after the scabs Bring to move away when the Patrol Group arrived and bushine us, Three or ms pushed over a garden wall ckily missed heing crushed The pickets responded by linkarms to allow the injured to be up and belped. The SPO en began snatching people from a picket and dragging them into isreet. Oneminute I was linked o the nextfour SPG officers had peed me out of line by my hair Punching and butting me they ground and they started kickingme — they kicked my arms no 1 couldn't roll Into a ball to protect myself.
I was loaded into a van and Surprise, surprise, 1 was charged with assaulting a police officer.
just been arressed in the palioe van. He was obviously very cave us a boost when one of the inst things he said was that what WIL CONCIWAS BENNET BALLEL He said be would do his best to organise it.
Atthe bobcestation some otthe olice were openly hoselle to Sargill especially the younger who interviewed him-and bey. in the words of another miner, 'were bucane around him Ike Other police weren'1 sure what Scargill on tbe bus Tanked a been. replied. and we got that bloody Scargill bloke as well. We nearly Scargill barted in Aye, you've CARETA WATERIESEA speakers include 'nest mandel quintin hoare denise avenas robin blackburn michael mass picket brought the sessions on gramsci poullantzas womens struggles ESTER sept 9,10, Ilth lowy spain The resolurion revolutIonstrategy were not
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