and 14 February Indian Workers of support for Dave.
objective and which the You have initiative in campaign committee for multiracial education "solidarity hampton. What do you think of the racist remarks about this Nick Budgen, demand Powell's successor as Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South? further Budgen's remarks surprise me at all. He calls for stricter immigration education will Protestants to Given his past history this is For to not surprising. Three or four ycars ago he accused parents of daughters to the highest bidder.
We challenged him to appear their on the same platform as us to prove this false allegation. course he pie. He had no proof. also The general multi-racial delicate area. local authority is controlled by emso-called socialists, the Asian since its *action' will whole range of action that will sooner or later, over a period of Unity to decades.
cohesive and versatile revolutionary organisation.
This range is available only in the entire should be socialist movement, present, and of grasped as a whole in political mourners for Michael by white racists in Hackney, East London, raised their fists in angry defiance last Saturday as they passed Stoke Newington policestation, where Michael had to wait for 45 minutes before an ambulance THE TRIAL of Dave Stevens, the Wolverhampton anti-racist committee treasurer who was arrested on a demonstration last March, is due to start between 7 The defence campaign for Dave has had a big impact locally. N.S. NOOR, National President of the Association (GB), Roseblade how racism affects the Asian community in Wolverhampton and why they are campaigning for recently taken the forming - the in WolverEnoch don't controls multi-racial lead of ethnic minorities.
Asian Has it been effective? selling their Drift developing Of Labour had to eat humble question of education. education is Although this told Chris Of course. community has suffered more hands of the Labour council in Wolverhampton than anywhere else in We have had dozens of complaints from Asian parents whose children deserved grammar school places but were never allowed any. When we asked for the selection criteria they were never revealed, but were always kept as a state That is why we set up our committee, to campaign for for months. provision for the special needs Definitely. The issue is now in the public eye. There is a clear WIthin the Party, with people in favour of complete implementation of multi-racial Undoubtedly.
People are now prepared to fight back against all sorts of discrimination - not just in education, but in social security There is of course another, less exacting road to unity, the Socialist road which has led, many splits and Socialist Workers Party. The course o which produced that "unity" better discussed today than repeated provision, for example.
This is a major grievance among the community, isn't it?
They don't know their rights. The tribunals are a pack of racist parasites.
Often they don't even bother to cross-examine the claimant. They simply say Wait outside', because in reality they've made up their minds already.
am often present as an interpreter. The medical officer will say that this man is fit for work even though his own doctor says that he isn't.
They try all sorts of tricks to stop paying benefit, or again they can simply delay the claims It is these practical questions — education and social security which really affect the racists have to take up.
But despite everything, balance-sheet of our work in the last year is positive?
To certain extent we have already exposed racists in the administration, that the police and the judiciary.
Our acquittal rate of people charges trumped up against them is • staggeringly high — about 90 per cent. This now makes the police think twice they arrest "potential criminals"
It is not accidental that Dave Stevens has got a lot of support in the campaign that we have organised to drop the charges against him. Support from MPs, councillors, trade unionists - this reflects the work that we have done.
His trial will probably be in early February, and as of now we are leafleting and preparing for it.
We have called a community rally for the India Republic Day celebrations on 28 January. About 2,000 people will be there, and Dave Stevens will address the meeting togethe with MP Bob Edwards We are convinced that Bob Edwards will help to mobilise support for the first day of Dave's trial and to present our petition to the DPP.
The Indian community knows what Dave Stevens has done for them in the past. We will now be asking them to help him in return, and I'm sure the community will respond wholeheartedly and help build a huge picket for the first day of his trial.