spread throughout the country.
lower profile.
occasions, become a day of racist attacks and terror.
backed by all anti-fascists in London.
NAZIS IN BRICK LANE. Editorial 01-358 518019. Distribution/ Advertising 01-359 8371. 328/9 Upper Street. London Sunday against the Nazis THE EVENTS which took place in Brick Lane last Sunday and Monday are remarkable on many codets. The unity in action on the Sunday kept the Nazis away from the area. The strike on Monday and the subsequent events were not a 'white left adventure", as some diehard sectarians had thought, hat turned out to be a truly historic occasion. Its lessons must be leurnt and What is now a vital task is to keep Brick Lane safe on Sundays, The police had originally stated thut they showed no favouritism towards the Nazis, It was simply a question of 'first come, find served', But when anti-fascists turned up at 5.30um they subjected to constant harassment. There were five arrests. It was only when the Bengali youths arrived that the police adopted a What this means is that every Senday must become u day of action against the fuscists and racists in Brick Lane. This is not an easy task. For all working people Sunday is a day off and a day to be enjuyed. Bat for the Asiuns in Brick Lane it has, on many The local Isbour movement must now demonstrate that all it anti-racist talk is not just empty chatter. Labour Party activists and trade unionists must treat Brick Lane on Sunday as an urgent priority. The Anti Nazi League's local organiser has already stated that the ANL will be mobilising every week. This initiative must be What we are confronting is a gang of racist toughs who aim to secure thousands of votes in the East End hy demonstrating their prowes in terrorising the ethnic minority. We have to treat this as a serious test of our strength, both politically and in terms of our capacity to organise. So the slogan for the sammer in London is short and simple: OUT EVERY SUNDAY AGAINST THE THE GRUNWICK strikers finally admitted defeat last Friday were racism, writes TARIQ ALI.
All the major initiatives on bourgeols politicians. We have From 0I sen the growing attacks on ack poople by racist thugs. We have heard the incitements to racial hatred from Enoch We have SOCI Thatcher on "World in Action' sympathising with the 98 per cent of whites in this country who feel that they "rather swamped' by 2 per cent of blacks.
DRACULA We have seen the Dracula of Southall (otherwise knowi Syd Bidweil proudly informing the modin that he not olly come from the and Bsolated Margaret Labour policians.
Jane being cynical and out to ger votes.
There by being bold.
black oppression two centuries in States. responsible for dillerent FATALISM and white alarmed, ' they cians (inchiding democrats) have being the country as a attempl apainst it. has paralysed mavement. these | the major criminal remarks Bat what about the harassed back/Asiai communities in this country?
They are the scaperoils, Ebo Asian on the altars of British capital. sacrificial rams to be sacrificed policensen, journalist recently told me that he was amared by the cowardice of In the States we have racisE The sald, PROVED save oqually cough anti-racist polilicians. Of course both are But why doesn't Labour realise that and it could sew up the ethnic vore never one loosEr could be that the history of and the resistance to it stretches hack wardens, the United Britain it relatively recent phenomenon. les origins are situated in phase the area in development of capitalism not exist.
upper In addition, Labour politileft In it recently been too frightened by the extent of racist prejudice in witole to revealed, fight A Fahian Tatalism SCIOUS racist as ever. lahour It is certainly the case that racism seeps out of every pore of capitalist Britain. There is the racism of the state and t problem institutions. The police force is in this paralysis Te is a fact that there is a great agitation deal of sympathy for the NE in sections of the police. A wider laver are open racisis. -Their picket line, at Lewisham. and at Ladywood give the game away The police chiels are aware and STAIRS but withou. 100 much success. For, as Vorster much more effective to get black cops to deal with black rebel history.
There is the openly admitted acknuwledged This has been FALSERIE statistically proved and doct ward:
mented by the important PEI report of a few years ago have prisor magistrates. Judges doctors, and yes, some teachers as weil, It is certainly easier 1o a camel to pass through the cyc of a needle than to discover an and political life where racism does Exe reaches e in the reaches society, where the advent of petrodollars and Aran capila bas mean, that the flunkeys in tbe Mayfair hotels and Harrods are extru careful. Though even here, as Sir Richard Dobson the discuasion in private clubs is as virulently So the obstacle appears so be formidable. Many well-nicaling social democrats opposed so raciem get so depressed and demoralised by the extent ofthe that the result usually a self-induced political Dur socialism wilt be infinieels more ile propaganda, and actions of revolutionary socialists that has led to a small but perceptible change in In this tegard the Anti Nazi 1.eague initiative has had a major impact.
The carnivals, the meetings. the agitation, the mobilisations to defend black people have, at last, hegun to turn the tide. It is srill a small beginning, but with is possibiliti be growing mobuisanon the back community in the East End has led to the first strike against racism in British The decision af the Coventry busworkers to strike over police brutality and racis against a black bus driver is another Important step for The resolutions at numerous trade union conferences against fascism and racim, SPILTEL with the decision by a number of unions to affilinte to the ANL, reflect a growing desire to fight back OK, so we shouldn't get 100 escited. Wehave a long way 1D go. Bus we can take some hear from the fact that consiscent opposition to raciśm can lead to mobilisations of broader forces in the laboer movement. UNITY The problems sLiLl enormous and not least within the black communities -but they can be overcome by action and mobilisations Tor chere is no real material basis for working class racism today the accumulated ideological pro duct of Britain's past. Unless it Er eradicated there will be no socialist future
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