The Glasgow Appeal Court of April 29 took approximately 3 minutes to consider the Glasgow 2 appeal and to reject it. The highest judicial authority in Scotland has now confirmed that it is a crime to criticise British rule in Ireland and to support revolutionary forces opposing that rule. Mike Duffield and Kirstin Crosbie were arrested while selling Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! at Parkhead Glasgow in August last year. They were originally charged under the PTA and remanded in prison for a week. During this week a vigorous FRFI campaign forced the dropping of the PTA charges. A charge of breach of the peace was substituted.
The Appeal Court has confirmed that revolutionary communism disturbs the peace of the ruling class. However the current cost of this has been reduced from £275 to £125, plus 1 week in jail, the loss of your job and perpetual police harassment. Nevertheless, Mike Duffield and Kirstin Crosbie and all FRF1 supporters arc continuing to sell FRF1 in Glasgow and throughout the country. And every attempt to harass us and stop us selling will be resisted.
FRFI 10 May/June 1981
