Ripping away the mask of British injustice Hospital, and the dying man's bed, without being moved to his father in Hammersmith painful death. tears. evidence. The Irish are given spe- cial treatment. They are hahitual- much-anticipated visit from rela ly moved to prison hundreds of moments the type of minds that Ireland. Contemplate for a few ment for prisoners associated, tives who have travelled from Republican movement, is in miles away the day before a however wrongly, with the cops, the ordeal of prison or how hooks is that they make flesh the brutalised and brutalising screws damned one of them. the screws the treatment at the hands of the left vague or abstract, about the - and they make you hate every backgrounds of Hill or Conion, The great strength of both torturers, the judges and the the judiciary performed. Guildford Four told by its two The horror of the tale of the best-known protagonists Liam Mac Uaid Reviewed by Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon Stolen Years by Paul Hill
rators, their experiences in prison. SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 29. December/January 1990/91 class Belfast, the lives of the nar- and Home Office spokespersons. Gerry Conlon and they will keep They will also rip away the mask from the urbane lawyers angry dignity of Paul Hill and depravity. Contrast that to the the public face of the British state, to reveal their and its your hatred sharp. Gerry's father Guiseppe. He went In my opinion the most tragic was himself arrested and framed. of proper food and medication to transparently innocent man, the British state, wearing its prison officer's uniform, deprived him would get their kicks from that Guildford Four was the fate of to England to help Gerry, and make sure he died a slow and Not content with framing a aspect of the case of the sort of thing. Officerx" Association on TV tell- the prison system, the police, the Scrubs, you ask yourself "did he judiciary and the British govem- both books, the naked hatred of The next time you see some bunch of lads the screws are in cozing weasel from the Prison On virtually every page of and prison govemors in par- ing the world what a caring Long Lartin or Wormwood piss in Paul Hill's tea?" ticular. collaborators these two books prevents you from discarding spector Tim Blake, who tortured Written in a competent jour- provided. You can see what In- rogation, looks like. Nothing is nalistic style with the aid of Names and photographs are pause in immediate succes- these books in mid chapter. Gerry Conlon during his inter- should be read without a Pade 32 Sion.
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nored the fight on the anti-union laws" is: did backroom deals, the end results of which Acts of faith helong to the world of priests. And by the way, the article by Theresa Conway contained yet more distortions about but leading memhers of CLPD played a role in drawing up the charter false. Not only did our daily Campaign Brief- ing and CLPD's pre-conference material fully of the Campaign for Free Trade Unions, on CLPD. To say that CLPD "completely ig keep them brief! Letters Outlook, PO Box 1109, any subject: but please We welcome letters on For a fortnightly Socialist Outlook! over 400 words will be cut. Send to Socialist which LPS based thier model resolution. are invarinbly pm-bourgeois coalitions. not to the sphere of socialist analysis. London N4 2UU Pete Willsman cover the issuc. CLPD Sorry to write to you two months on the Davy's whole argument - that PR would help the mobilisation of a real popular majority to win clections and introduce socialism - is based on an act of faith. He produced no evidence to show that PR has The ruling class have a better grasp of trot, bur the article by Davy Jones on PR ever had the mass chergising role that he claims. And he admits that in Britain the oly times that Labour might have had a mojority government under PR would have been 1945 and 1951, which was after the total smash of a world war; a situation that is unlikely to be If PR would be such a help to the working class perhaps Davy could explain the follow- • the fact that hig business has always supported and funded pro-PR organisations on • the fact that much of the hostile press the ground that such clectoral reform would • the fact that in practice PR Ieads to sor- needs a response (Owlook No 28). remove any threat of socialism; PR - no answer what PR would lead to. and media support PR: Charlie Van Gelderen is, of course, quite right to state that it is "Adios. Tariq All' (Socialist Outlook No. 28), If hus book Redemp- tion was actually funny maybe, in due course. he could have been forgiven. But the book is no nouncing that he has broken not only from the tionary socialism in general. A short pamphlet planation for Tarig Ali's tenegacy will do. So more than a nasty and vindictive way of an- polities of Emest Mandel, hut also from revolu- would bave served Ali's purpose hetter, assum- Even so I don't think Van Gelderen's ex- he is now middle aged. (47 | believe), and no longer broke, Quite so. But that cannot explain such a move in such a short period. At least not There must also be a political explanation picte misunderstanding of recent events in Eastem Europe. The real question is whether. this is just a personal misunderstanding or a deeper problem with certain analysis of what I would see as the |now ex| state capitalist and that would seem to rest on Tariy Ali's com- ing that he now has a senious purpose. Nasty and Vindictive Keith Flett Tottenham countner. would
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