Hundreds of black youths and leftists poured onto the streets of Birmingham on Saturday to protest against a National Front demonstration outside Winson Green prison.
The fascists were protesting against the imprisonment of Robert Relf, an avowed racist jailed for contempt of court for refusing to remove a For sale to an English family" notice from outside a none The NF's newly discovered hero has slogans, breaking an Indian's shop window. and in 1965 throwing a thunder flash at then Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, He was previously a member of the Nazi National Socialist Movement and the Ku Klux Klan. He A confrontation between the police and youths (nine teenagers and nine juveniles) plus one adult, charged with offences Is also an open admirer or kudol ness Although the Birmingham District Labour Party voted by 140 to 7 to support the anti-fascist demonstration, the almost simultaneous call for an end to immigration made by William Jarvis, Birmingham Trades Council president and chatman or me west midand cour ty counci, renected te backward senaments in secons orme soour nove ment on which the racists can breed.
However, a meeting of the Trades Council devoted entirely to this issue passed a resolution calling on Jarvis to willuraw nis statement, reatirming its policy of opposition to immigration controls by 83 votes to 52.
As with the recent anti-fascist demonstration in Bradford, it was the mobilisaпот то и то о 7 со TOTTENHAM tion of the black community on the 1,800 strong demonstration that was the distinctive feature. Demonstrators Tcotco to Donce cavaly chances will a hail of half bricks and staves. eight arrests were made, and the Birmingham Anti-Fascist Committee is establishing a defence fund for their costs.
A defence fund to help cover the costs of those arrested on the Bradford dem onstration on 24 April has been set up and ine rakistant workers Association.
Rhodes. Please send all contributions to: Manningham Defendants Fund, 41 Athol Road, Bradford 9.
Thirtywith the sponsorship of Bradford Trades council. me incan workers associaton The hon. treasurers are AUEW convenor Terry Farrer and Labour Councillor Brian meaningless concepts to a growing number