3.00pm; The fascists assemble in Clifton Rise, under massive police protection, The police attempt to •..and those who choose to ignore it or riot shields reets is a new phenomenon D explains, this is part and ent strategy of the political United States. There has been i mechods of riot control, and Moit of these method - the une of CS gas, rubber bullets, wate cannon and the like - have been 'Ignore them in the streets and vote against them at the ballot box."
respond to the National Front take the fascists by a different route — and the occupation moves as one to confront the fascists.
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example This is the advice of Merlin Rees, Labour Home Secretary, on how to fascists of the Unfortunately, if you are black, or a labour movement activist, it is getting more than a little in his head. difficult to ignore the fascists on the violence Just take the Lewisham area as an Deptford: Bola Femi, a young Nigerian, was attacked outside a pub by racists. His head was smashed, both his arms broken. A busman who went to his aid had to have 12 stiches Lambeth: A disco run by Lambeth Council for black and white youth was smashed by a gang of white dating the black community and encouraging area.
Those people who are attracted te the apparently tough solutions to the crisis offered by the fascists must be shown that the labour means business too - that it can and will defend itself and defeat the Front not just in the ballot box, but on the streets and wherever Tascisnu tries lo strike out. 4.00pm: The anti-fascists are re-assembling at Lewisham clock tower when the police decide on a show of force to demonstrate that they control the streets.
racist attacks in the movement SOCIALIST CHALLENGE SPECIAL ISSUE not. But we would ask - is it not only because of consistent mobilisations to deny a platform to the National Front that the press finally now almost unanimously admits that they are fasels? Was not the effect of Lewisham - the outrage displayed, not just by members of the far left but by the whole labour movement and local black people - to finally pia the fascist label on the Front and tear away their veil of respectability And