Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper, Published by Relgocrest Ltd. for Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London N1, Printed by East End (offset) Ltd. RACISM ' has violence and police harassment.
the of wolverhamnton Anti-'ncist Committee and Association.
ine IW.A.
•gainst racism will be seriously restricted:
* 90m we in particular the schools.
suppress the cultural identity of the black com and the wearing of turbans in some schools.
history in Wolverhampton. In the winter of 1978 the town achieved national 'notoriety' when black youth took action against racist A leading figure in exposing the racism of police was Narajan Singh Noor, president national president of the Indian Workers An outspoken critic against all forms of Noor now faces a libel action taken against him by a local headmaster for alleging that he is 'racist'. With legal fees alone likely to exceed £5,000, this could cripple both Noor and Moreover, if the courts and libel laws are: used against anti-racists whenever they allege that someone is a racist, our ability to campaign Wolverhampton permeates trade unions, where people live, and From the refusal by the local Labour-controlled education authority to provide tuition in ethnic ninority languages and Afro-Asian studies, it extends to overt attempts to munity - such as the banning of Sikh bangles NS NOOR - facing libel action now faces a libel action Junior School, home for wearing a turban.
be The and the IWA as hooligans.
Equality, Rhoden leaders who is under attack, ton.
It is because of his attempts to defend the right of an 11-year-old Sikh, Kulbinder Singh Bhamra, to wear à turban at school that Noor In April 1979 Kulbinder, & student at Grove Wolverhampton, was sent The headmaster, Rhoden, a local JP, insisted that he would not allowed back until his parents agreed that Kulbinder would not wear & turban.
The local IW A and representatives from all the local temples and Sikh organisations set up a Turban Action Committee to fight this decischool picketed.
Wolverhampton Express and Star, where oyer 40 pickets have been arrested in the curren NGÀ dispute, ran editorials attacking Noot.
But with threats of a parents' strike and legal action from the Commission for Racial WaN forced to re-admil Kulbinder and allow him to wear a turban. Now Rhoden is hitting back with the libel aetion against Noor, which is due to be heard a Birmingham Crown Court within a month.
The black community in Wolverhampton considers that it is not simoiv onecot: then but their whole culture. The court hearings will be picketed.
Donations to: Turban Action Committee', c/o Wolverhampton Anti-Racist Committee, Students Union, Wulfruna St, Wolverhamp London E2.
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