Mass Action Race Hate | IMGpapers 1976

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1 have been told that / cannot refer to coloured immigrants, so you will forgive me if 1 refer to niggers, wogs and coons.

The speaker was Kinaslev Read National Party leader and Blackburn town councillor. His obituary for Gurdip Chaggar? That was terribly unfortunate. One down, one million to go".

This is the backdrop to a systematic pattern of racist attacks in East London, where Read was speaking last week. Last weekend, ITV's "The London Programme, in an investigation of the attacks, came to the conclusion that thev showed all the signs of being premeditated and orchestrated.

The killing of the white youth in West Ham has had the same bucket of liberal whitewash as the deaths of Asians. A nats Known about iris oitence (including the fact that the white boy's three brothers have been charged with affray) points to the Asian striking out in self-defence. The police persist in their nonsense that these events have no racial connection.

rower namiets saw one or its bigges demonstrations since the war. Two thousand black people defied the racist terror that has resulted in an attack on аттаскас Те поноп оит тогаго оу Pakistani leader Sibghat Kadri that Asians had to rely on police and Government action. Howe stressed the need for black self-defence to huge applause from the capacity audience.

Elsewhere in East London, in Newham, not tar trom where Ningsley Mead was pouring out his venomous race-hate message, what had been planned as a demonstration against unemployment quickly took up slogans against the racist attacks and against the policies of the Labour leadership which allow TacisIu LO MOUrISi The demonstration marched through an area devastated by unemployment Figures from the East End show unem. Jim Callaghan has started the campaign of the Labour Party against racism, insofar as he has spoken on the subject in recent speeches.' This was the dynamic reply given to Red Weekly when we phoned up Transport House for details of the Labour Party home policy sub-committee's decision to take 'action' on the race This apology for inaction is in line with the decisions of the commi

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