BBC-TV's Grandstand, police, The all-embracing authority of the Public Order Act was suggested in those remarks. More practically it was being displayed in the streets Tford as Howell was speaking on 25 February: There, fascists and anti-fascists had been pret team demonstrating.
demonstrating.
TWO MONTHS The han is not restricted to one day in Ilford, but runs for don. Nor is it confined to specific anti-fascist and fascist organisations. It extends to all demonst amons except those *of a religious, educational, festive or ceremonial character customarily held".
Despite this, many saw the use of the Act as some sort of victory for the forces of democratic rights; the fascists A MEETING discuss asked whether it was viable to use the Public Order Act against football 'hooligans when he appeared on Howell replied he thought that this was a splendid idea and that he would draw it to the attention of the had been stopped marching and that was the This arguments appears origin of the Puhlic Order Act the Communis. Party and the National Council for Liberties opposed when introduced 1936, the story goes that the Act was introduced to combat Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts. But this is true only to a MOTE ELLERU The Mosleyiles were specitiof the Act in that one section of it aimed to probibit the wearing of uniforms CORACCHE objectives'. The Mosleyites uniform ot binck was n cise In point.
But this part of the Act has been rarely used; it is Section 3 Nation und the Friends of the the Act political which the police have recently employed, Under the terms of this section, should the police have reasonable grounds for apprebending that a procession may lead to serious public disorder" Street which led to the 1936 Public Order Act.
so specified'.
conditions tbey can they route of the did months on *The UNTI the local council Nation today.
This is not the case. ANTI-FASCISTS rally in Hyde Park in the "30s. It was the ability of the anti-fascists to sweep Mosley's Black Shirts and their police protactors off the streets at Gardiner's Corner and Cable the police the power to ban all public processions", but they also have the power to ban any ca b Pub processa rather As it turned out the ban invoked by NicKnee and Roes iveness of the in Ilford worked in favour of the fascists. They were allowed racist agitation' to leaflet and to hold a 1,000 strong public meeting. The han not prevent them from Rocks ago. fulfilling their main purpose to spread racist propaganda 382162 But it did prevent tbe prohibited that anti-fascists from their aim of stopping that cacist propaThis is why This NabOmE Front candicnie T Public the lord by election conld tell the fascists" rally: The police mounted a mapnilicent oper ЦЕНО 1350 That the use of the Public Order Act in Ilford worked in favour of the fascists is not surprising. A recent survey of the Act in the State Research Bulletin" came to Lie foliowing Street, conclusion: Two strands of 01-734 5831.
tion great importance enterge from the history of the legislation.
First, the extent to which the Act is used against the lef than the right; and, scord, the apparent meneer Act against the growth of fascist marches and This fear was shown to bo well founded in liford two Fascism can only be defeated by active mobiliThe Ulford -Dan mobilisation, while it allowed the Naional Front to meel and to organise.
was achieved through whose aun is indeed to keep the Order' legislation into public iu order'. Mosley and Hider promised much the same State Research Bulletin No 7. ArabaD on subscrinticI From State Research, 9 Poland Loadon wi. THE YOUNG National Front's offensive' in education has been more sound than fury. It has. though, intensified racist in schools: •Blacks 4 gas chamber reads a wall scrawling In school in Camden. North London.
cil teachers and school student:
PECT and encutraging, and teachers are racism in Westminster Hall. London on 16 March The ralls. which begins 3.45pm, Is being organized by All-London Teachers Agains Racism and Fascism, supremen of the Nationa loca Union of Teachers,_ together with the Socialist Teachers London branch of the Association Multi-racial Education and the CATEDLED SCHIS VASSIN ALTARE regards the rally as a public stand against parents, school students and public al large'. itself as the hasis of a more permanent which would ally itselt with other sections of the conununily in fighting racism and Tascism To this end the ference on 20 May.
Whether the campaign will be built rests parliy on the winness o lores such ar Teachers Apainst the Nazis 10 SU PUTE Bristol goes OVER FIVE bundred people who packed one of the largest political held in Bristol decided to branch League. reports Hurries Wordsworth. Labour MP Joe Ashton introduced the meeting, hell on 28 February, with anti-fascist film but reinforced its chauvinist line That Tascisen is not a very British