International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Troops Learn How to Quell a Riot

· The Week Vol. 9, No. 5, c. 31 January 1968 · p. 4 of the scan · 133 words

The scan: The Week v9 no5.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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The above headline appeared in the Nottingham Evening Post on the 29th of January, accomranied by two photorraphs and the following cappion: "Training in practical internal security was piven at the week end to D Company of the Sherwood Foresters, Mercian Volunteers. The exercise at the Triumph Road Drill Hall included methods used for quelling riots and controlling crowds, "Speed was an essential part of the exercise and in the picture above the Volunteers race to 'fall in', as they would before settinre off to a trouble spot, An injured rioter, in the other photograph, needs "to be removed from the scene by stretcher, but the bearer must also he guarded against further attack, so a rifleman gives them protective cover, while they beat a hasty retreat." All the troops were fully armed.

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