IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Self defence i needed against the racist wolves

Socialist Challenge No. 31, 2 February 1978 · p. 6 of the scan · 424 words

The scan: sc-n31-feb-2-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 2-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 6 of the scan

of the streets of HAUGHTON reports.

Gangs of youths in cars cruise black areas late at mith don white balaclava helmets, set about lone blacks with clubs and knives.

Allent tensua stocks — al of them resulting in the victims TEDLINAL HAMALEELEEAUCOL have been reported to the police predictably, tbe police have One of the vilest features of racist thuggery in the USA's Deep South has begun to make is appearance Wolverhampton.

with inquiries"

It was Wolverhampton's and deserabed the hoods worn b some of the town's footbal Cans at matches as "Klan style"

protection against circult TV cameras, Indications are that racist thugs rather than maverick football The Committee organise and Defence This- 15 The DAVID the for the National Front.

adopled arrived to protect the NE.

closed In ine and tbe two white couths 'hooligans" attacking blacks backeround le natlonal press headlined as a race riot Wolverhampton lasr Friday night. Between two and three hundred black youths leaving a the disco were determined to makt the streets safe, and headed for a pub known to he a hangaut press, will be A large police contingent and SETS SITE clashes that Tollowed seven hiacks were arrested and five police officers slightly injured, The following might. hoods were arrested Leaflets unging blacks to go around in groups at night circulated during the preceding Friday's clash, and Wolverhampton Racist Committee, witich meets as Socialist Chalenge poes to discussing the organisation of selt-detence groups in onder to make the The Committee will also campaign and fund in defence MR IVOR MORGAN, Nutional Front sympathiser at British Leyland's Longbridge plant in Birmingham, that giving Nazi-style salute marking his clock-card with a swastiks was harmless fun'. Fortunately this fascist's association with the hutchers of milliors of workers and Jens in Europe did not impress his work-mates at 200 workers in engine assembly department stopped against Morgan's uctivities.

forced the management at British Leyland to remove Morgan from the shop floor But talks with the unions at Longbridge indicole that they may only remove the fuscist to another department. No doult COINCIDE on the Longbridge Works are worried about Morgan's 'Freedom oF speech if he gets the sack Such considerations are an insult to the millions who died al the laads of the fascises, and the black workers who suffered every day from fascis attacks. Instead of discussing removing the fascist to another section of Longbridge, the anions make stoppage in East Works official and force Lesland le JUDE WOODWARD reports

----- pull-quotes -----

against in Brum

← More than an attack on free speech'1000 attend Socialist Feminist Conference →

Something wrong on this page?