Police were called, and took a leisurely alf hour to arrive. After politely and inividually requesting the fascists to leave which took the best part of an hourhe police then allowed them to group utside the nail. Camden alactman armukh Singh was punched in the tomach as he left the hall, and some sians who parked their van several treets away returned to find all its tyres 2S1e0 To leave any anti-racist meetinghatever its political basis-unprotected is tterly irresponsible. Camden CRC must ow rapidly organise another meeting nd invite all local labour movement odies and black organisations to proide an effective stewarding force to put he fascists in their place. ick Brinsley Thursday voted to set up a Campaign Against Racism in the Media, whose aim is both to build united action inside the National Union of Journalists and other media unions. and to link up with black militants and anti-racists in the labour movement. By focussing initially on the local press and radio stations, it is hoped to bring together forces that can then tackle Fleet Street. Speakers at the meeting included Darcus Howe, editor of Race Today, A. Sivanandan, Director of the Institute for Race Relations, Inder Puri of the Asian Socialist Forum, and Charles Harkness, deputy general secretary of the NUJ. The actions proposed from the meeting were the formation of an open organising committee, and immediate support for the picket of London Broadcastk girls were recently beaten up by police in Harlesden while returning home from a club. To add insult to injury, they were irged on various counts, including obstruction and assault! This picket was mounted last Thursday when they appeared in court.
nto the tire community was on the defensive, and yet its members, in trying to defend themselves, were arrested and prosecuted for their attempts at self-defence, while all but a handful of the white aggressors went unchallenged."
Repatriation was the answer of the Government. It encouraged shipping lines to offer berths to blacks seeking a passage home. But these attempts at repatriation failed, and the violence subsided as the white working class moved into direct confrontation with the employers. The black community was left to its high level poverty and incredible unemployment rates.
But blacks were still under the constant surveillance and harassment of the police. For instance, in Cardiff the Alien Order of 1925 was used by the police to force all black seamen to register with them. In registering, those black citizens who were British were obliged to prove their citizenship. Of course, many were unable to do this and so were automatically relegated to the category of The production of a dossier of racist stories in the form of a pamphlet and a larger conference on the whole subject in the autumn were also projected.
Meanwhile several militant journalists in London are going ahead with official complaints under the NUJ's Code of Conduct against some of Fleet Street's more racist star reporters. This procedure, although limited in its effectiveness, is also useful in showing justifiably suspicious blacks that some journalists are willing to take every action open to them against their own "colleagues.
London EC4, is to be held from noon to 2pm on 27 July with the demand: "No media platform for racists.
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