Defence Committee.
mobilise in a month of Sundays they all oppose the ANL.
MICK GOSLING says yes.
In tEc ccs l Some Senns the biggest crime of the ANL seerns to be chat it has won mass support.
Principaily through musical activities of RAR, it has: created an electric combination of music and politis which has drawn tens of thousands of working class youth into anti-fascist activity.
The decision to bold Carnival Tin Brixton was not accidenla! After all, it has one of the largest concentrations of West Indians in the country, is but a uce s lEtOw TaR LeaSIam and hasitself been the object of , racist ATALAN racism and police harassment are nile.
WELCOMED But what made Brockweil Park an even better venue for Carniva] 2 was the decision of Lambeth Council to underwrite InC C0sls 012 Mman8aco0 local carnival. Local Labour the marchers into the park.
everte ess. the to go ahead with the Carnival W'as a dilliul one The East End'i Brock Lane has been the 10Cu01 racist arracksthe fight back against them — nationally.
Bat the question facing the I combat them. THE DECISION of the National Front to stage a fascist parade through the East End last Sunday was an open provocation to the local community and the In the wake of the NF's announcement came a torrent of advice for the ANL. Divert the Carnival to the East End, arqued the Hackney and Tower Hamlets Every sectarian group in town jumped on the bandwagon to denounce the ANL for not diverting to the East End the forces they themselves could not - not least because So did the ANL and Rock Against Racism take the wight decision in pressing shead with the Carival?
ANL was not one of mobilising 50,000 anti-fascists against the NF march. it was whether The ANL was prepared to do battle the WIEN-TAAS Special Patrol Group on duty to guard the NF march.
DIVERTED That would bave been the concrete effect of diverting the Cornival → if it was ever to get mear the East End, This is not to say that the ANI should not have İrick Tane itself.
Both Tower Hamlets Defence Com mitter and lor all the solanan groups is that they had not decided whether their objective was the defence of Brick Lane oran attack on the NF march Consequently they helped to demoralise the who did turn up to defend Brick Lane and did exchude the NF from the most sensilive area of Spitalficlds.
Any criticisat of the ANL which makes stopping every Nazi march principle is wide of the mark — not beast because it would mean and of thar the NF docides where, waen, and on what political terrain we should choose to League and SEIL sent defend But the anti Fascists elTectively IA Tac an nooBEnE response t0 provocation could have donc serious damage lo the ANL matter of - and thus actually impodod the building of a mass movemeor MEA EHE US COULu Ard such a mass movement is self-defence activities in plices like Brick Lanc.
supporters who organised food The Sunday's NI against a indisponsable basis for Let US cal Bitter savage jail sentenoes handed down to tour East Enc Asian soutlis resenfly for the crimie of defending themselve:
gang of racists without a murmur of protest East End From the community, show that self-defence cannol be separa ted from mass mobilisation accept that proper organisation and co-otT-shirts and out spocial hessian Carnival al With these sources of income -and an extra bip push from thie Spied.
Next quarter witl STanGTE PLIEI Altab Photo: BOB WORKMAN (Gay Hams) dination more people sould have been sent to the East Enc Bisl ever 5,000 militants could not have altered the concrete the probleins facina Asians in the It would have been etree. Bur ar the end of the day the 5,000 would have gone Cour readers in the final week не hope to по over the lop!
This wees t145.36 came in Troms the summer lottery. And WirEneT, w hu ls off on holiday in a fea dass, has a bie stock of books from The Orber Hookshop to keep hint occuweek the special Socialist Challenge Chrisemas raffle will be announced. W'e WELTE BUL worries this DUT supporters Jisappearing fo holidays, we have exiended the prize list.
There's lots in store for the winners, bet once spain the lottery's success will depend on the efforts of our supporters and readers in helping our with the sale of tickels.
We have many other fundraising ideas to pur into practic in the next quarter This will help with the paper's trances, but thie only long-terin solution is a big boost to our sales and subscriprions, and a final push obtae bankers orders Euch week a lew more horders arrive in our offices, We can bow count on home, Who defends Brick Lanc when they leave?
The crux of the probiem in the Fas End in that despite the historic demonstrations MOTE strikes on 16 and 17 July, led by the Defence Consmittoc and the Nazi League, the community itself is not yet won as a body to its own defence This is che only hass lor permaneat self-defence.
But, as we know, it takes the death of a Gurdip Chagger or arouse community as a whole. Il is a sad Jact that anly Bengalis were repared to mohilise ugainst the NF march to Shoreditch on Sunday the ANL', who have boen denouscine the ANL since ins inception, will exploit the real uregu and discontent oi Las Sunday to their owe advantage But the problems of building a mass anti-fascist and anti-racisi movement in this country are more complex than they appear at firse sight.
RADICALISED The ANL/RAR alliance la radicalised tens af thousands of working class youth. One of the Caraival was the welcore by the black community of A time will come when these lasers will have to be mathised in force apart from Carsivals Nazis. Hur to have amninst the der o Sal tore N Tall provocacion, in all likelihoad walk into a police trap, and NOVIL ammunition JoT the fosses' press which had spen week witch-hunting the SWP It was not an easy decision. Brick Lane was on the minds of most of the demonstrators who marched from Hyde Pack to Brockwell Park. But it was a negenary decision.
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