Political defeat | IMGpapers 1976

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An Anympathsten with Auri Nari and an activist in the League in Leeds can comment on your coverage of the Carnival/Brick Lane events (28 September).

First, your description of those who went to defend Brick Lane rather than to the Carnival as 'sectarian groups' is not very helpful in Clarifving the important political differences that exist within the anti-fascist moveSecondly, you say it is wrong that the NF decides where, when and on what political terrain we should choose to combat them', but what is the anti-fascist movement if not response to fascist organisations? We Fact, ways consider applicable, according to what the fascists do simply because we are part of an anti-fascist movement. That, after all, is what the recent opposition to the NF in Brick Lane has been.

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