ended without any arrests. The barricades will continue to go up every me Harrington wishes to enter BICI Poly. The college Directorate still refuse to expel him, the NF to climh down or the law courts to go back on their decision that the protest is illegal.
Indeed, Harrington is now moving an injuncon against the Director of the Poly, David Macdowall. for a panic move in which he temporarily closed the college last Thursday, thus also perhaps making him in contempt court decision that Harrington must he allowed to attend his lectures. LAST THURSDAY 200 police, many in full riot gear, stormed into the Polytechnic of North London's Kentish Town site over barricades of tables, chairs and lockers put up by students protesting at the presence in the college of a top NF organiser, This attempt by the police to bring to a head three months of peaceful picketing of Harrington's lectures by the students fortunately Harrington first attended PNL two years ago Cule v his NF connections were discovered. Picketing then brought about his swift departure, but last March he returned, granted readon a philosophy course by the director.
The pickets, which like the barricades, were drawn from a wide section of stu(PNL Labour Clab)
dent opinion were then brought before the courts by Harrington's NF friends who sent a photographer the picket line to help them identity those prominent in the — 20 photos evenDIOLCSI tually being produced. However, due to the sudden amnesia of many lecturers asked to identify the students by the court, only two students have so far been named by rightwing, non-union lecturers.
20CEOu two, all 13 members of the students executive are to have injunctions served on organising the protest successful here would lead to the se questering of union funds and thus the collapse of Faced with the proSOCCI ot arrest and six months imprisonment for obstructing Harrington Mars-Jones had specially cleared his court of business last Thursday to deal with the expected arrests) the students had no option but to barricade themselves into the Poly when Harrington peared last Thursday and provoked the ensuing chaos. WITN a personal police bodyguard of and with all the students shut off in a different part Ine ounding Harr ington did finally make it inside to sit in the library for 20 minutes.
Action The police action and the threat of arrests has done nothing to deter the students though from their Mass meetings at Kentish Town have consistently voted by overwhelming maonlie. continue the action despite judicial uner threats. It seems then, that student and staff solidarity, student action, petence draconian police measures the dispute is set to continue escalate with the possibility of violence and mass arrests coming ever CIOSCE.
In these circumstances the students need as much support as possible in their efforts to deny this person a platform to spread his wisted views through the Polytechnic. Mass actions are now planned for every Tuesday afternoon Thursday morning when Harrington is due to turn up for his lectures.
There are wide-ranging implications not only for the student movement but for anti-fascists and anti-racists everywhere in this dispute. If Harrington is successful he could easily bring down a Students Union and send many of his opponents to jail quite possibly in line with his origina intentions when seeking readmission to the Polytechnic. RCP speaks IN ITS May 1984 edition the Next Step paper of the Revolutionary munist Party says: 'The left met the RCP's call for a national campaign to win a ballot for an all-out national (miners") strike with derision.' Who am I to quarrel Will a profound comment?
Moles bye view Is com. piled by Bob Penn. ington Contributions Should be seal to arre by Thursday am.
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