label stuck.
The figures given in the table provided by the Home Office show the total proportion of "persons arrested for being suspected of frequenting a public place with the intent to commit an arrestable offence". They refer to the Metropolitan Police District in 1977.
The table shows that Black people are arrested 11 times more often than can be expected when you consider the proportion of THE 'SCRAP SUS' CAMPAIGN was started by a group of Black parents worried about what was happening to their children in the near-hysterical, openly racist climate of the last few years. The media has seen to it that the whole of Black youth was labelled 'mugger' and certain sections of the police force did their best to make sure the Black people that live in London.
The Labour Party YS, both nationally and locally, give whole. hearted support to the Scrap SUS Campaign. Peckham YS invited a speaker from the Campaign and after hearing her passed a motion demanding the repeal of the 1824 Vagrancy Act, which was later passed by the GMC of the Party.
The YS Regional Committee, in conjunction with the British Section of the Peoples' National Camberwell to Brixton. Peckham YS members played an active part in the build-up to the demonstration, leafleting estates and advertising the event.
community was very enthusiastic, with many relating their experiences of police harassment generally to the leafletters. The march itself was very lively and had a good turn out of about 350 The Young Socialists do not believe this is an issue the Labour Party can duck for much longer. Party (Jamaica) youth wing, called a demonstration on April 7th from The response among the Black riots. We demand SUS laws RUDI BRIGHT (PECKHAM YS)
The election of a Tory government on a strong 'law and order' ticket will only eventually increase the massive hostility building up against the use of the SUS law.
We believe if our demands are not met, what will hit the streets in a few years' time will be far more devastating than anything experienced in the Notting Hill - The immediate abolition of the — No more frame-ups - End police victimisation of working people. position to know if supplies are being held back, if refineries are being run properly, if newlydiscovered fuel sources are being exploited or not.
It is only by opening the books of the oil companies-and taking them into public ownership that we can overcome their lies and distortions and stop them holding the country to ransom. It is only on the basis of the facts that a rational energy program. me can be created which will put people and not profits first.
Open the secret records of the energy industry!
- Continued surveillance by workers in the industry!
-Nationalise the oil companies!
ANNE WILLIAMS (T&GWU)
August 79 pagu