Tour gets big response | IMGpapers 1976

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Picket of Harlesden police station in London last Friday against another example of police repression: the beating up of six black girls NoW HANOS STOp OFF RACIST BLACK POLICE ATTACS KIDS Front', Mohammed Mumtaz Abbasi found himself arrested - under the Race Relations Act! The 30-year-old Pakistani worker explamca une racist use or mess laws to a meeting of 120 organised by the local anti-fascist committee in Sheffield last week.

Speaking at the meeting was Tariq Ali, who has visited a number of centres on a tour organised by Red Weekly to build for the 4 July demonstration. The response to the tour has been excellent.

BIRMINGHAM: The National Secretary of the Bangladesh Workers Associa tion, Tom Huk, shared the platform with Tariq Ali as well as speakers from the Saltley Socialist Society, the AfroCarribean Society, and Pakistani leader Sibghat Kadri. The management of the hall had been flooded with enquiries about the meeting, which attracted 150 - o1 whom hall were Asiar and West Indian workers. Tariq Ali was loudly applaudca when ne took up ene attack made on the IMG and the militant black youth by Sibghat Kadri, for refusing to place trust in the police and Race Relations machinery MANCHESTER: big enthusiasm for the 4 July demonstration came from the 200 strong audience. Sharing the plattorm was a leader from the local West Indian meeting, over 40 black people attended.

LEEDS: A lunchtime meeting attract ed over 150 students with a strong Asian presence: Speakers from the floor included members of the International Socialists, who made a very positive Commouton o me aiscussIon.

SKAKAra smauer our none theless lively meeting, the audience heard Textile Workers Union make a vigorous attack on racism and stress the necessity to fight for the full political involvement of the black community.

Sharp disagreement came at the meeting in Sheffield, where members of the Workers Socialist League attacker the fight of Red Weekly and the International Marxist Group for support for black self-defence. The comrades indi cated that only workers selt-detence could do the job.

Tariq Ali agreed with the comrades that workers defence must be the aim, explaining that the black self-defence