Campaign Against Racism in the Media.
sponsor of the League, made. THE LAST TIMEI was here al the Friends Meeting House was University stodent meeting to the meeting a very large man walked down from the wallery. came lo the front of the platform requested to speak.
There then followed debate - the most noisy debate 1 have ever attended about the skills that we are supposed to possess, that we expose what have guessed, was because the very targe man was hone other Chan Martin. Wehster.
As a consequence of this sort of debate. we gullible, good ocling liberals and others said. Yes. of course he should be allowed to speak.
Alwhich Webster took bold the microphone and spoke and he poke and he spoke and ihe chairperson for hies to stop speaking, and he didn't stop speaking, so an usher was asked to juvile bin to LESSON At which the entire gallers stood up and dennericed the dangling chains, yelling: The Nationa: Front The National Front':
Ar which some coufteous friends from the Metropolitan Police жетс Soviter ecoried sur imonted guest out of the room and we learnt a The issue is highls complex Television reporter JONATHAN DIMBLEBY spoke in London last week at the 'No Plugs for Nazi Thugs' rally organised by the Anti Nazi League and the Here we publish the speech that Dimbleby. a and very simple. Basically the around reality. It's a concept that can he appropriated by any old boodlum to justify any old deed that he or she wishes to perform.
IL is a concept alse bornowed by the establishment, a concept democracy, convenient. to Justily decisicns which are made on our behal! correctly, wiscly, properl mproperly as you wil CENSOR Te point broadcastin. and nesspapers spocca: editors edit, Editors suggest we don't say "fuck on the air: censors say ТПАГ can't hie happening in the Ireland as uccurately as some ol us would like to Win treat men Ike Vorste with courtesy and Nyerere we probabiy describe as a butcher: that's a misure of ediing and The question is not: Is there speech? But: Hos broadcasters und trcat the Natpnal Front? and Ibere are rules and thete are conventions, tolle more than in broadcastiog... thar in a constituency where you have 15 or 20 candidates who standing, from flat-carthers to Jonathan King, the progranune reports their activities doesn't have to inclade all of those people.
There ane editorial decisions made about their relevanice to the campaign. That sees to me to open important doors arcady talked at this meeting abour the tight conventional rather than legal right free time, free advertising, on party political broadcasts, to which opposed.
Al dont want to go mt this al great length - it socis to mei whenit's lot of von will know ir alreads, The basic and simple reason 1s that the Front challenges the very basis upon which rest the democrate principles to which we in this society are supposed то aspire. a that in They. are They are, by their owni mouth, Tascist.
HEnd been
democrats, would we with the thincsighi we now have say tha: according tothe BBC miles-and the Represen lation Peoples Act That Hillee should North of been constituencien demed the right to five asinutes ol sir time?
WUTE EXPOSE should Reis very important for asiat the same time so make it very clear that activities of the Nationst Front. Il is my belief problems of the last ten years has heen the belief that if sou ignore the Front it will go away The contrary was devastatingly proved in be the case.
National Front accurately and Lopenly, and by carelully using is wrong with the Front.
Alan Sapper cians* Linbon ant profoundly bot an end in ilsell. activines huren conter -That particularly anti-democratie white German say it, we can fight of thie RATS ahle that the by-election should Or course.
Exploi: theL •raierant we are in no an ariy of tats.
or the greas To do H. -the Pilate and saying: responsibilicy: the skills that we are supposed to possess that we expose what delivered with respect to what General of the TY Techn day. known Tors just said about their main plank being to gei sever, and rats whiom we have subject. to pill bock down that sewer he the fundamental point, that that's a means to an end; l's Alter that W's the Jews and socialisis and, of course. even the woollest of liberals whom they regard as sometune akin to criminals, probably havine travel the some chromosome deficiency.
should report - and during an diection penicd in context. means reminding people every Pengain fascist party. It needs to be said supremacist, racist, Tresur every time; we have the right to for that right, and we should do so.
Thatcher, Isere is a lendency to say reactionaries results decline, nor a serious party.
That is avers dangerous belief.
The National Front ery successfully. So we an distant future. people in tolerant society doine our jol properly in a struggle which in the case of the Froet is against Rats who come but al the sower, and rats who we have to We do not co it as some of acorg Lukacs, by playing Pontius We juss do as we're told and ger on with it. September which made preciFarc why is the Chronicle refusing to publish an advertisement for a book entitled The Holocaust Victims Accuse, whose author is none other than rabbi Moshe Jeader of an orthodox Jewish grouping in Nazi-Zionist during Twp. Surely police should net be defined so rigidly as to preveat knowledge disseminared which wie be ni same Interect the Chrombele's readers? Or is there more in il Lian even Chat?
knives are TORY I.EADER Peier Walker Han Maclood Memorial Lecture" les ThursMacieod reformer and Walker made fell use of his He delivered an impussioned broadside acainsi the purty leadership. He attacked un and strung language [for a Tory and virtuully made it abylous Icat if the Tories fured badly the koives would be ready to short route to Thatcher's back.
On its own, this would be nothing new. Walker Is a wellnown opponent of Thatcher Sut to add sult in the woend Jeudership, Books jus produced a Penguin Special by Russel entitied The PaTEr: Policies Divisions and Future Huisel males na secret of his views as a Tory. He savages Joseph descritling tbem as Tory and suggesting that a tierce litterast strapale is remone thent election, the Thuscherites probably hold their fire. whatever the ouscome ut the polks, there will be troubles for the Tors leaders in the not too NICOLAS KRASSO was ong of the leaders of the Hungariar sprising in 1956, Ar a pupil of gling. the communist philosopher Krasso was well-versed in what needed to revclutionary PrIE crisis. Is was he who proposed calling far support.* A successful benelit concert took place last Thursday. For other squatters the police raid was a normal hazard, But To Nicolas it was more traumatio Since the invasion of Hangary he has not been ahle sleeps at when the police raiders burst in at bam Nicolas was reminded Budapest. Certainly, while in a haze, the bulldozers could be Defend the squntiers! Defend the victimms of Hungarian Stalinism *The Picker of Bow Street squatters charged under the Criminal Trespass Act begins at Joans Ir's backed by several LONDONTAATS COMMISS teoants and residents associations, and CACTI A skeleton In someone's cupboard A CANADIAN visitor recently visited one of London's more enficieg tourist attractions the London Dengeon. To his harror, the visitor found thui the skeletons were real. But he thought thut this was: 100 ghostist to he true.
Being a meticulous searcher after the trath he made further Inguiries. The results of his Investigation revealed that the seleitons were real and thut thes had been imported bite country import control lobby take muler nice decens Beitish skeletons genred in Savour of bew grude stuff]. sporte question, T. Gerard & Co. is Weit Suses Lastly and more sensationally, our Canadion Informant was Fold that the skeletons"
of origin was Defiling the sacred graves of dead Muslims is sacrilege for believers. If this information b Pakistan Government is des. perale for foreign exchange ue some secret grave diggers ane ut work and engaged in saug NiN will nut let the matter rest there. Rumwirs that the skeletons were brught at cost the National Liheral Club have heen strongly denied.
Socialist-Challenge 23 September 1978 Paeg)
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