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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 1 June 1985, British police brutally attacked people heading to Stonehenge in the “Battle of the Beanfield”. Police smashed the windows of vehicles the travellers and others were using, dragged people out through...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 1 June 1985, British police brutally attacked people heading to Stonehenge in the “Battle of the Beanfield”. Police smashed the windows of vehicles the travellers and others were using, dragged people out through the broken glass, beating them and breaking teeth, glasses and bones. They arrested 420 people, the biggest mass arrest of civilians in hundreds of years, systematically looted, smashed and burned travellers’ homes and 7 dogs were killed by the RSPCA. Authorities at the time were determined to destroy Britain’s traveller communities. This is a short account of what happened: https://libcom.org/history/1985-battle-beanfield https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1136147589903723/?type=3

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    O.M.G! This is the ultimate example of 1312. They really are all bastards.
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