IMGpapers 1976–79

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

CAMPAGN AGAINST RACISM IN THE MEDIA

Socialist Challenge No. 64, 21 September 1978 · p. 6 of the scan · 333 words

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neur field, must be one of the most notorious right wing councils in absolutely refuses to stop the Front usine Is rooms. ERICA BARNETT reports.

The Mayor's only response to recent deputations from the trades council, the Young Socialists and the Anti Nazi League was so say that be belleved in freedom of speech for all, including fascists.

The Dewsbury and Huddersfield branches of the ANL staged a picket of the Leisure Services Office where bookings for rooms are taken.

Just to show how far this reactionary council were prepared to go, one of the pickets booked a room in the name of the Ko Klux Klan. No objection was raised.

In Dewsbury, a large picket of a National Front meeting in the Town Hall discouraged NF supporters from attending.

JUDGE JURY AND EXECUTIONER IN 1976, a total of by the Home Secretary.

519 were entorced. In 1977, there were 1,153 orders THIRTY members of the Journalists" COUTERLEIRE HELK an individual copy of Black and Front, a guide to race reporting written by NUJ president Denis MaeShane, As the introduction to the 24-page pamphlet notes: "Racism and journalisis are bound logether with the stickiest of verbal glue."

The union is advising Ils mesbers to hold newsroom meetings te discuss problems of race reporting and coverage of estremist organisa tions like the NF.

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OF the pamphlet ACACIS. weeks later TOUTE THE COSMOPOLITAN' magazine office in London was gruced by two dozen anti-rucist pickets on Friday over an article in this month's issue which sings the praises of a women NE activist.

newspaper und mugazine workers. demanded that Cosmo publishes their statement on the NF and S Nazi League The NU chapel committee at the Natiomal Magazines told the hundred journalists in the compuny that it could not support the complaint and advised them not to talk with the pickets Hopefully, the NUI's race relations sub-commitlee will be looking into the matter. THE NF

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