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Socialist Outlook no. 48, September 2001 · 165 words

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Rance of police authority that 1 have not often seen. Sometimes people linked arms and at other times they sat on the road to prevent the police clearing it.

At one point a police car was surrounded by the crowd, to stop it moving. As scuffies took place :: various times the mood grew more heated and the police were often pelted with eggs. I would have assumed that in a city the size of Glasgow the police might have difficulty coaing with a protest le thes initially, but they would have the abrity to bring in large numbers of reinforcements within a relatively short time.

This did not happen. Eventually 4 police horses appeared, w. h were used to charge the crowd. Although the police did gradually gain contrar of the street they seemed very reluctant to arrest did not have the forces to do it. ok verlos boom the police gained control of the Santon A number of SSP activists

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