effect is of a grimly determined band of musical guerrillas steamroller over their targets.
Crass do not go in for subtlety or understatement. Worth seeing, don't cosy entertainment: Crass are out to shake you up. And they do.
HOARDING Issue No 9 25p from RAR Box aMr 27 [lerkanwell Cise, London, E.Cala (Please send large S.A.E.) evening's roughly not far from the Dominion.
The police for scribbling, the and anti-racists.
on the beat' (sic).
The attitude Nazis. For difference WHEN Blair Peach's body was 'lying in state' at the Dominion cinema in Southall, thousands upon thousands of. Asian men and women were filing past to pay their last respects.
the same time, a police constable from Southall police station was seen defacing a Blair Peach poster (see page further details) was initials This trivial and not unsurprising incident highlights the deep hatred which is felt by many police officers for socialists The Southall copper was not a member of the hated Special Patrol Group. He was just an average 'cop of the media was (with the exception of the Guardian) much the same. The Express and the Mail hated the funeral. The Telegraph ran a piece by Christopher Booker (a ecologist) consals Blair Peach to Horst Wessel, and by implication the SWP to the German Booker there was between the Nazis and those whom they seek to victimise.
Given the general climate in Britain it is, , therefore, a bold step by the Royal Court theatre to offer its premises for evening so that a tribute to Blair could be organised.
The idea was first discussed by the 'Friends Blair Peach', gradually the importance of such an evening began to be appreciated. It is to be a combination of culture and politics. But everyone was agreed that the function of such an evening woulc be to provide an answer to question: Who killed Blair Peach?
"There will be music, reconstructions and a lot else besides,' says John Ure, a member of the committee organising the evening. " The aim is not to get over-emotional or indulge in nostalgia, but to explain the meaning of what has happened and is continuing to happen in this country.' Plans are still being worked out, but Belt and Braces are co-ordinate the evening. Misty, reggae group from Southall, manager Clarence was nearly killed, will also be there.
The distinguished Marxist playwright Trevor Griffiths is writing a ideological special sketch on Blair, Bond has offered to help. Glenda Jackson will also provide her talents for the evening. In addition there will be Paul Foot, Tariq North to discuss the SPG, Southall, and racism in education. and The proceeds between the Blair Peach Memorial Fund and the Southall Defence Fund.
The latter, in particular, is extremely short of funds. supply, so book early. the sketches helping to the Memorial Fund. whose and Edward Ali and Dick will be divided Tickets are in short At the Royal Court theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1 Sunday, 15 July, at 7.30pm All proceeds to Southall Defence and the Blair Peach Tickets, £2 School, Bow Road, London E3.
WHO KILLED BLAIR PEACH? Demand an independent public engi in — s.a.e. to: Benefit, Phoenix Socialist Challenge 28 June 1979 Page 15
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