IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

See you in on 21 April March against the NF

· Socialist Challenge No. 91, 12 April 1979 · p. 7 of the scan · 677 words

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media has The Front does support within the rights spite NF members.

But it is defender of rights of the threaten marchg George's Day.

much more the prominence election promise of a the airwaves. THE NATIONAL Front has good reason to choose Leicester as the location for its national demonstration on Saturday 21 The NF has spent £30,000 on its headquarters in the town, standing ne events.

Leicester's parliamentary constituencies, it putting up over LICSSALE in the local short, Leicester has become a stronghold for the fascists. his is where the irst branch of the Young National Front was set up, and last week the YNF picketed a Leicester meeting of the Labour Party Young Socialists on unemployThe YNF has also leafleted schools in the School Kids Against the Nazis group has been banned from one school for selling copies of SKAN and not lack Labour movement in Leicester. At one about it. factory, Bostik, the Transport Union convenor and seven of march the une umons snop stewards an behalf not simply to strengthen this base and further Paul Winston Leicester's Asian community that the fascists will on They hope to give national to Webster's "very, He SCISES very heavy racist campaign', There is one sure way of defeating this aim: mass action the by the anti-fascist movement on the streets of Leicester on 21 Anti Nazi League has demonstration, and Leicester AN has joined with the race sub-committee of the town's Arthur Scargill spelt out the messing held by Leicester ANNE, 160-strong For *We mustn't stand idly by and watch as the NF is allowed to parade through our streets.

WomenNazis •gainst here is nothing the Front would like better than for us to ignore them and do nothing *If the NF is allowed to ANL be CHELSE marching at the same time."

Speaking at the meeting on of ANL.

Socialist Challenge supporter stressed that there should be no reliance on a ban under the Public Order Act to deal with the Front.

In any event, he argued, the counter-demo had to go ahead to show the mass opposition to The Front will be fielding their Midlands candidates on march. Every Labour candidate should be supporting the counter-mobilisation. East End •JOIN a trade union, get organised in the workplaces and the sweat shops and the TUC and the trades union movement will support against and fascism.' That was the message from labour movement leaders at an meeting representatives of the black and Asian communities, sel defence organisations, and the unions last Sunday.

While Jack Dromey, secreof the South-east region TUC and Bill Keyes, general secretary of SOGAT, referred to the fascist menace and the racist killings, and acknow ledged the racism in the trade union movement itself, all they had to offer was a union recruitment campaign starting in June.

It was left to the defence committee leaders to point out that black workers have not been slow to join trade unions organise struggles. The problem was to gain support for those struggles.

Patrick Kodikara, Hackney and Tower Hamlets werence Committee local Labour MP Ian Mikardo why he hadn't proposed the abolition of the immigration laws, and whether he and the rest of the platform would be supporting the mass picket West Ham police station on 21 April against the 'sus laws and the intimidation of blacks by the police.

Ray Varnes, Socialist Unity candidate for Bethnal Green and Be pointed us that wind Webster Tyndall standing as candidates in the area, the racist threat would dramatically increase during the elections.

His call for the maximum unity of all the anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations organise a mass demonstration through the Brick Lane area on 29 April - the Sunday before polling day met with an enthusiastic response from the meeting.

An ad-hoc organising meeting is being held on Friday, 13 April, at 13 White's Row, off Commercial St, El, at 11am

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