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Bookshop raided

01 July 1995

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The co-operative Frontline Bookshop, in Manchester, was raided by police at the end of June. Detectives from Hampshire and Manchester arrived shortly after the shop opened with a search warrant and inspected anything connected with direct action movements. After perusing the anarchist books section, looking at books on the Angry Brigade and Red Army Fraction, they confiscated copies of the Green Anarchist magazine. They also took details of people who had responded to a Green Anarchist box number. The Manchester raid follows police raids on bookshops in Oxford in March which were also connected with the Green Anarchist group. Four members of the group have been arrested and are on bail for conspiracy to incite arson. Guardian 30.6.95; Observer 9.7.95.

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