File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9708, message 277


From: Bill Cochrane <wrc1961-AT-midland.co.nz>
Subject: Re: M-I: How Revenge became REVANGE
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:08:26 +1200


Comrades
	In Gary's entertaining post he writes:
>Bill has sent me off list an account for how he avenged himself on the
>right wing dirt that persecuted his dying father because Bill had played a
>key part in highlight of the great 1981 protests in New Zealand against the
>racist South African team.
Alas I must correct him and say that my roll was not key, rather I received
a small amount of publicity due to the random gaze of  the camera. My
presence on the field was as much by accident as by design. My luck held
even during the difficult process of leaving the playing field, the riot
cops were basically told by their commander that if the crowd attacked us
on mass they were to fend for themselves. Those of us not arrested had to
retreat from the field through a narrow gap between the stands. This gave
ample opportunity to the enraged crowd to pelt us with missiles and to
assault us (there were about 30000 of them and 300 of us on the field,
though some thousands were demonstrating outside the playing ground). I
avoided being hit by anything and affected my escape by blending into the
crowd, pausing briefly I must admit to inflict injury on a goon who was
beating up a middle aged women ( I harbor the belief that his dentist was
more than pleased by the fee he recieved for repairing the damage a steel
capped boot propelled by 18 stone can do).

Bill Cochrane
Ngaruawahia
New Zealand
wrc1961-AT-midland.co.nz




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