Mick works in the almost all-black plant at Ford Dagenham: 'My co-workers were euphoric over Brixton.
It really surprisea nic that even of the right-wing West Indian workers were 100 per cent behind the youth.
'They'd obviously had experience of their OWIl children being harassed by the police. Asian couldn't believe it was happening in Britain that people were actually fighting back.
'He saw it in the context of the growing of racist attacks and police inactivity Inen ' Asian workers are right now very of the Nationality Bill and a couple of very political Asians linked the Brixton uprising with the election Bobby Sands two great in week.
Doreen, who works in an East London food processing Diane said that 'surprisingly the main sentiment seemed to be that it people go lengths of burning down nubs and shops very dangerous for them, there something viously wrong.
'Two older white women said when no black workers were there that the should UC deported.
'The workers generally felt that the real problem is unemployment and unless we get Thatcher out that we would have is Brixtons everywhere. Considered John GEC Preston: 'There was an initial racist reaction sections of white workers.
'Then, as the facts Calle more considered reaction out there - that Brixton was a community uprising and Aiwas cue to me government s austerity programme.
al C black Liberties report of ficial Committee of Enquiry into the events in Southall on 23 April 1979 In 1974 assistant commissioner Gerrard Yard gave evidence to the ScarSquare in which he quoted the instructions then current: 'Truncheons are supplied to the police to protect themselves if violently attacked. In using workers in GEC but those I talked to were quietly euphoric, tinged with apprehension.
'The local Labour Party reacted by bringing forward the date of its rally with Alex Lyons.
Sharp 'In the North-west there is a growing trend to black fightback. The victory of Anwar Ditta nas been very significant and I think there will be very big support for the demonstration against the deportation of Nasira Begum.' rrank is a niler In a East London manufacturing plant: "There were very sharp confrontations between and older white workers' he says.
'The vounger ones taking the side o the Brixton youths. The black workers didn't say a lot except they WElC obviously "walking tall' said jokingly that he was going down to Brixton to do some shoppCivil received leads Unoftruncheons, protection Scotland crowd.
into Red Lion which police use of truncheon on 23 April should be judged have to the in- about escapable conclusion that on 23 April, police officers used their self- woodti sledge hammer; weapons against people in the almost handeed thes "In evidence to the Scarman inquiry, assistant commissioner Gerrard said that, in 28 years' service, he had never seen a ches in diameter.
weekend it down!
MRS Thatcher says that Brixton couldn't have been caused by unemployment. and her class don't have to face life on the dole. Coultas talked to two people who do. FREDDIE and VAL live in Handsworth in Birmingham. If their frustration and anger is anything to go by the Tories may soon face the sort of militant hostility that has emerged in Brixton right But she Valerie
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