Campaign unemployed. •Why are you on the march today?
campaign' Red Weekly spoke to three young Asian militants on the march: Qureshi, a member of the National Union of Railwaymen; Mohammed cent people on the streets, like in Leamington Spa the other day where they beat up a Bengali woman, set fire to her sari, and she died. We've got to get together and convince people that the NF want just to gain power and their only way is to make scapegoats of us and put the blame I think the setting up in Blackburn of an Asian Youth Organisation is a very good idea. One of their aims is to defend Act?
If families broken up.
SA SIaNS people know they can beat us and get away with it, they'll carry on.
•What about the police?
Mohammed Arif: As a law student I have to believe that they're just there to execute the laws and defend justice, but from what examples I've heard they seem to be with the National Front.
•You spoke about the laws. What do you think about the 1971 Immigration MA: Well, the British went over to India and they ruled it for two or three hundred years, and the black people there didn't have any rights. So now we've got every tigar to come over nere Ismail: My mother was in this country and she went back home. She's trying to come back here because I'm here with m older brother, but they won't let her in. They took her passport away in India.
She had a British passport and it expired. She tried to renew it, but they said forget it. The Immigration Act means We've had two meetings of the AntiRacist Campaign in Walsall. What sort of things do you think it can do?
Qureshi: First it ought to unite everyone, and west indians, and sympa thetic white people. We need to form a powerful campaign to really tell the NF inere s no way tney te going to win any support here. We need to work in the trade unions to convince people that the NF's policies are wrong MA: I'll give you an example. My friend went to get a job in Walsall and the shop steward said sorry, but we haven't got any jobs. The next day some white people came and he took them on the job. That snows there sracism nere I think blacks should organise in their unions to fight against racism, with the help of sympathetic choice between two very difference understandings of how to build an effective campaign against racism and the National Front, and also practice in that campaign. We don't minimise the importance of the large turn-out by Is members on the We do say that a muen arcer tum-our evasians ang white workers would have been possible if the IS had built the demonstration not solely as their property but in unity with other forces in the Asian community and labour movement; and that this is the way forward in the long fight against racism in this town.
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Arif, a student at Walsall Technical College; and Ismail, who is Qureshi: The National Front attack inno-