black people. If the trained thugs of the Special Patrol Group had bludgeoned Blair Peach to death on 23 April 1979, there would have been no great hue and cry, no soul-searching in the liberal Yes operations on that fateful day, almost the Scotland Yard chiets to see an against largest community ruined by an over-zealous SPG Inspector and his gang.
These reflections are prompted by reading the Report of the Unofficial published by the National Council for Committee Enquiry, * Civil Liberties.
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undertaking, Here the that a repetition of 23 The unofficial 'official' was outside this canard product and quotes the vile, racist abuse wnich innumerable Asians. On the other it still attempts La neutral course and implies that the state is somehow impartial. As a result it does that the SPG is a demand which has already been accepted by the TUC and the Labour Party conferences.
However there can be little doubt that the report will be denounced by and. Its backers the the media. It makes it fairly clear that the by refusing to tolerate any demonstration against the National provoked a situation: which ultimately resulted in the death of Blair Peach and serious injuries to also highlights the judicial frame-ups which were carried out by the magistrates who presided The question we have to ask and attempt to answer is the following: Why were the police able to defeat the - 10,000 people marched through Southall to commemorate Blair Peach a few days after his death secretary of the Indian Workers Association, Mr Khabra, who made a series of slanderous-and unfounded allegations against the Anti Nazi is not mentioned in the unofficial report.
In fact these attacks by Khabra were widely quoted in the local press and were clearly the basis for the concerica campaign launched consciously refused to do anything else. rival in Southall Youth Movement, was formed half a decade ago. The SYM undoubtedly layer community, IWA tended to be apolitical.
Incapable of taking up by Now goods. resorted to vulgar abuse and intimida.
One can appreciate their frustration, but in the medium term a refusal reformist politics was bound to be disastrous Thus in the IWA elections the SYM Sharma, DUL backed the forces which were well to the right of the local Labour Party!
Undoubtedly one major reason defeat suffered by the community on 23 April 1979 was a combination of the IWA's reformism and the SYM's refusal to understand that only united actions and a collective co-ordination could deliver the