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The article presents the program of action of the National Resistance Council in France. The plan contains the provisions that in order to assure better coordination, particularly between the military effort and that of the nation at large, the National Resistance Council will undertake to organize local resistance committees in cities, towns, villages and factories to supplement the already existing departmental committees and auxiliary militias led by engineers, teachers, civil servants and reserve army officers will be created to protect the French people from terrorism and to assure good discipline.

The article focuses on secret agents of Scotland Yard's special branch in Great Britain. It mentions that informer Kenneth Lennon had talked with blues singer George Melly about his job and Melly suggested that he told his story to the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) and asked for protection. It states that four days after their talk, his body was found dead which looked like an Irish Republican Army (IRA) execution. The council then released the statement of Lennon which resulted to a full parliamentary inquiry into the country's counterterrorist methods. It also mentions Kenneth Littlejohn, a convicted robber who escaped from prison, who admitted that the British intelligence hired him to penetrate the IRA.

The article reports on the repressive actions against the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) in December 1974 in Northern Ireland, Irish Republic and England. It states that the incident is in response to the bombings in Birmingham in November which killed 21 people and injured 184 individuals. It mentions that the campaign includes the arrest of any suspected I.R.A. members or supporters who will be found in any of the countries. It notes that several Americans were also arrested on charges of making illegal shipments in Ulster.