for their racist views.
Lewisham:
Anti-Fascist Committee. No sooner was the Lewisham demonstration over than Fuhrer Webster was announcing the intention of the National Front to hold a further march. This is to be on 8 October in Tameside near Manchester, and will be preceded by a meeting at Hyde Town Hall. Already the Tameside anti-fascist committee, set up by Tameside Trades Council, has called for a counter-mobilisation to deny the Front a platform Webster has announced that the theme of the march will be "law and order". What he means by law and order can be seen from his reason for marching in The aim [of the Lewisham march] was simply to give heart to white people in Deptford who had voted for us and show they had not been forgotten as they had by all the trendies who run the country and do nothing but pander to black muggers! For black and Asian people in Tameside the law and order of the Front means more vicious police harassment of black people, the fascist thugs being left alone to attack black people, and tear gas and rubber bullets for the police to attack any opposition to the fascists. The law and order of the Front means terror for the black communities.
The Front must be refused a further platform to spread their policies of violence against black people - the labour movement must ensure that they do not march. Only a mass counter-demonstration, involving thousands of socialists, trade unionists and black people, which denies the fascists access to the streets can effectively do this. In every locality, the priority must be united action by the whole labour movement in support of the call by Tameside campaign as a solid bloc The battle of Cable Street, 4 October 1936 Lewisham 24 The Front'smarch through Lewisham was called on the prelext of protesting against 'black muggers'. One group of supposed "black muggers' are the Lewisham 24 charged by police with con spiring with each other and persons unknown to roc persons unknown' after carly morning raids on 60 homies in Lewisham on 30 May. No specific charges were brought. It seems that all the police are certain about is that they did it, or rather. intended to do it, - but just what, when, and how, thes 21593757 88 Since then the NF have heen determined to give the police support in any way they can. On 17 June they broke up an open meeting called by the Lewisham 24 Defence Committee, beatwoman unconselous. Then on July 2nd. they attacked a demonstration in support of the 24. On the first occasion no fascists were arrested, despite dramatic photographs of the incident. The second incident resulted in the police arresting 50 people - 23 of whom were anti-fascists One law for the white and one for the black?