never allowed him to do. He never looked back.
The theme of race remained, and other ssues also came to the fore. On the Common Market he switched from being a supporter to an opponent, and the more vociferous opposition to the Common Market became in the workers movement, the more demagogically Powell exoloited the confusion sown by the Labour leaders with their talk of being ruled from Brussels and Parliament losing its sovereignty.
Ireland was easier. The man who was to ape Carson with his latter day flight to the Six Counties was a little Englander who had always ferociously supported 'the Union'.
Powell is more perceptive than most. When he saw the Heath Government nedoing for me orecio ce in a controntacon witn Ene miners in sanuary 114 youths instead.
crowd.
Another white man started hitting him with a metal bar. The police force is gaining quite a reputation for impartiality in Tottenham. Last week black youths were attacked by white thugs - in all probability from the National Party (whose headquarters are in the street where the incident took place). The police made no attempt to protect these youths, but showed their solidarity with the fascists by further weighing into the An eye-witness told Red Weekly that he and his friends were at the fair in Lordship Recreation Ground when they saw a wan drive through the crowd. They then saw white men inside the van handing metal bars, and even a sword, out into the large and noisy 'A man shouted "Get the black bastards" and then I saw the man with the sword going towards my friends, swinging it above his head. We all tried to get away, but one of us tripped over.
The forces of law and order came - to the rescue? Not a chance. The police simply took over from the fascists, sat on the youth who had already been beaten up, and pushed his face ir the ground and his hands behind his back. That youth was then arrested. They also arrested two of his friends. When our informant tried to find out why his friends had been arrested, he was thrown to the ground by a friendly neighbourhood policeman.
A similar attack by the police on young blacks took place in the same area only a month ago. The Black Parents Movement have auready called for an investigation or that incident, and they also state: 'Both the Black Students Movement and the Black Parents Movement believe that it is only when parents and youth join together to defend themselves against the police that these attacks will cease.
It is the responsibility of white trade unionists in the area to give unese demanos une complete support, and to remember that we are all potential victims of police and fascist violence. Racists. had to be seen as the first and necessary step. The reason was that blacks could not wait until it was possible to organis such a defence. They had to organise now.
Tariq also explained the burning necessity to mobilise for the demonstration on 4 July in London. He explained that although the political basis of the demonthe widest forces. A contingent had to be built on the demonstration on the slogans: For Black Self-Defence; Repeal Immigration Laws; and No Platform for Another demonstration has been called on 11 July, on a superior political basis closely approximating to the IMG's posi tion. The IMG will be supporting this demonstration, but thinks that the priorit) should be placed on mobilising for the larger demonstration on 4 July.
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