BLACK self-defence made an important, If brief, appearance in Saltles, Birmingham, earlier this month.
On Saturday 28 April two ex-army white youths with their female companions abused und swore at a couple of Pakistanis who were working on their car in Parkfield Road, Suitley.
Pakistanis Nacem and his brother had enough, they battered these tro thugs who promised to with reinforcements.
At 9,50pm, some 20 to 30 whites with knives, Iron bars, chisels, and stones turned the battleground.
STEEL HILD Shouting and 'Kill the they smashed windows of Nacem's house und tried to get in.
As they ran off, one of the racists threw a chisel at Pakistani house It missed is target, but smashed through a window in the next door house. giving white 65-year-old woman inside a heart attack.
MITE BILE LAUDAEL for support, and to hold patrolled both streets. This was On 30 April, Denis Howell, and assured the The patrol carried on for a further two nights and then collapsed.
If such an incident recurs, the community elders will not find i1 30 easy assurances of the reformists and the police.
Terrified about the incident, 65 Asians From Parkfield Roud and the neighbouring street met the following day. Everyone at the meeting talked about the racism of the police.
Speaker after speaker referred to the system that is run in Pakisten do protect the villages, emphasised that needed to prolect themselves along these lines.
A rota was set up, so tiat ten WAS CO DILAN UNHA euch night. A military plas was drawn up to defend the streets.
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deposits in the process. By Colin Talbot The NF candidates polled an average of 638 votes, as against an average October 1974 clection, a fall of the almost 60 per cent. This is not due to the larger number of candidates, A comparison of the Front's top twenty candidates in 1974 with the same constituencies in this election shows a drop from in average 5,72 per cent of th oll to 3.4 per cent, a fall o over 40 per cent.
The reason for this slump is THE NATIONAL Front fielded 300 candidates in the elections, hoping to regain some of the ground lost because of the successful campaigning of the Anti The Front failed dismally, forfeiting £45,300 in lost two-fold, First and foremost are the big successes of the anti-fascist movement.
The NF 1,487 in the steadily 1977. following when the Front began to be the tions and pickets all over the COURTY The high election was undoubtedly the huge and heroic mobilisation in Southall.
Wherever they went, the NF met open and massive hostility - they had the Nazi label so to deny it.
The left vore has been falling since spring Wandsworth.
the period right-wing Thatcher.
point in this racist flag.
outbursts about black undermined the firmly pinned on them that they should spent most of their time trying overall This anti-fascist campaign was carried out mainly under the leadership of the revolutTonary left and black milicants.
reformists of the Labour Party and Communist Party by and large abstained, In with some notable exceptions Hackney and SELCH ERE which undermined the NF was the by The Tories stole the NF's Thatcher's 2,9 people *swamping' Britain, and thei general anti-socialist offensive Nazis still strength The anti-fascist movement candidates The 'unofficial picket of the NF's Glasgow meeting TV stations, about the NF. called by the Anti Naxi League Campaige Against the Media, look ham: place in 10 cities to coincide chester; with the NF party political, which was transmilled on 26 Cardiff. numbers of police guarded the BBC headquar ters in Portland Place, London aguinst a 200-strong picket. In Glasgow, 300 protested outside and similur picketed the BBC critically Members of ABS and ACTT work for BBC-TV In Bristol came out to join the pickets who demanded no uncritical cover. age of racists and fascists, and Southampton the trades council hanner was to be seen among the placards demanding that the BBC tell the truth not be complacent about the NF. Despite this set-back, they have retained important areas support- In the East End of London Tyndall and Webste polied an average of 6.8 per cent, a drop of only 20 per oent on previous figures London.
Deptford and Bermondsey, the NF vote dropped from 4.8 per cent to 4 per cent.
For the fascists this compares favourably with other areas of London, for cxample Tottenham and Wood Green, where they crashed from 8.2 percent per CeDT, decimation of their support in Wolverhampion, and other traditional areas of Standing only a couple of Wales and mounted at: BBC Pebble Mill, HirmingGranada TV. ManYorkshire TV in Leeds; BBC Newcustle: Anglia TV, Norwich; and the BBC in Misty victim A VICTIM of the police riot in Southall on 23 April remains Will in the Central Middlesex hospital.
Clarence Baker, manager of the regane group Misty, is suffering from a fractured skull and a blood clot on the brain Clarence was in the Poople Creative Arts and Education Centre in Southall when it was attacked by the police on the afternoon of the anti-fascist mobibsation. Scotland, it is clear that the fascists have no base in these Our optimism needs to be guarded. Not only have the Front managed to sustain their support in bast and South-east London, but they polled almost 200,000 votes nationally Given the success of anti-fascists in pinning the Nazi label on the Front, and the racist turn by the Tories, this vote could be an ominous sigr That a small bur strongly fascist hard-core is emerging.
The Front may be down, but they certainly aren't out.
We still have a long light ahead to ensure that they stay down, a fight which can only be made harder as the Tories step up attacks on fiving standards and democratic rights.
hal. TARRI A statement from People Unite explaits what happened The SPO stormed in...and brutally attacked and wounded 100 people or so in the house. They savagely used truncheons on helpless youths who were dragged from the house.
The police arrested 350 persons during the demonstration, 100 of them were from the house. The SPG ruthlessly and needlessly damaged and destroyed thousands of pounds worth of musical equipment, records and other propertyDamages are estimated at a minimut £5,000. The permanent damage Clarence Baker may suffer is yet another reason to back the call for the disbanding of the SPG and an independent inquiry into the police's murderous behaviour in Southall:
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