LETTERS
Dear comrade
When we look at
the Government’s plans to hold terror suspects for three months without charge,
we should recall it was Apartheid South Africa Minister of Justice, John
Vorster who in 1963 enacted the General Law Amendment Act; better known as the
Ninety Day Law. This helped the Government to transform the country into a
police state. It was a gift any dictator would grab with both hands. The act
was a disaster for the people of South Africa.
The Labour
Government was knocked back with its law to give it similar powers in Britain. This collective which is forever singing the praises of democracy to us has
refused to accept its defeat. It is like an English bull terrier that has sunk
its teeth into a prime piece of meat; it refuses to let go. This prize will
mean so much to them in the near future.
Those who
believe this law is principally to defeat terrorism should think a little
deeper. Capitalism is moving into stormy waters, the type of which it has
never had to face before; it knows it shall need the new weapons it is forging
for the struggles to come. The working class must prepare itself.
Yours
fraternally
W Hunt-Vincent