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obduracy wounds.
day realities.
tion of that she Bilities, foolish. groups cannot racist friends Nor, force police.
The organisation Southall Was the which represented within the but its hostility to the of the Enquiry, Vishnu In normal times the police sides with reformists in order to isolate, defeat and smash all forces to the left. In Southall last April, the mood was Anyone who was on the streets was regarded as a legitimate target. Incapable of maintaining their margin of manoeuvre because of the of Scotland Yard the Terrust projecl received a severe blow to the head. It is still nursing its Meanwhile Southall has moved further to the right and further away organised politics Hopefully this is a temporary phase, but social. ists cannot afford to ignore presentIt is ironic that the police suffered their first major defeat at the hands of the black community in the St Paul's district of Bristol. Political organisaMany sort within this community is virtually non-existent.
leading Socialist Challenge supporter in Southall was so elated suggested we immediately produce a badge emblazoned with the motto: Bristol 1, Southall O. The idea was vetoed lest it offend some sensibbut the thought was Solution Sed The unofficial report says that we must prevent a recurrence of what happened in Southall. One of the measures it recommends is that the election deposit be raised so that small put candidates This is a joke. The fascists and their • will not teel unduly restricted by a proposal of this sort.
incidentally, will the police As racism continues to exist and grows will the hostility directed at the blacks by the After all there were no Nazi parades in Bristol a few weeks ago only solution is the selfresist all attacks. It is worth asking why it is only revolutionary socialists who recommend such a course. * Southall: 23 April 1979. The Report Unofficial Committee of , Published by the National Council for Civil Liberties, £2.20.