IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Racist murder in Swindon

Socialist Challenge No. 193, 16 April 1981 · p. 3 of the scan · 180 words

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police was apparent once 1979 aall Januar when was stabbed Peckham, South London, by a black wearing a sheepskin The police went Ludl around all colle and harassing blacks, especialdole office dispute, enforcing for the first time the provisions of Prior's Employment Act, limiting the number of pickets to During this stay by the SPG Lambeth Trades the permission the jurisdiction of the local community' and that 'the community may not survive this kind of policing' Predictably the police had refused to co-operate with the inquiry.

Brenda Kirsch was the A BLACK youth knifed and thrown through a shop window in Swindon last Friday night. Markland Chambers aged died later from his injuries when OSCO white youth chanted Naz slogans Michael Hobb has heen charged with murder.

On Saturday, about 8 predommanty black youth marched through the The leafleted Swindon foot around Nazi League materia The youth then ticket the sa They were that on the night of the murder the police had tried to round up black not the whites Socialist Challenge 16 April 1981 Page 3

← Inquiry'Stand up and be counted' says rail GEOFF HENSBY, secretary of Paddington No →

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