999: Briefing For Direct Action
Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, 1 April 1978
I WOULD HAVE LAUGHED at you for saying as much to me before, but Liverpool, with all its cool, uninspiring streets and grey sky has an aura about it to melt the heart of even the steeliest Sixties abolitionist.
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