Comyn that the coroner had acted gross irregularity. The bias had been shown.
The open verdict was unsatisfactory to the families. On evidence that had been shown was clear that police had failed to look for the truth about what had happened.
The police weren't satisfied with the verdict either, they had concentrated their efforts into their story of the fire starting as result of a fight at the party. The parents immediately called for a new inquest and as soon as they receive the transcripts or the summing up they will lodge all avocal The Action Committee will be organising an international commission of inquiry within the next few weeks, after conril 23 1979. '... the most serious and violent attacks come from the police' All the youths said that they had been bullied and coerced into statements which the there to charge the police with illegal activity?
that I know of. would happen is that the police would investigate trense ves blemish.
How do you see the problem of racist violence and right wing groups?
For the black community the most serious and tacks come The actions of those Front and other they groups complement any violence.
The authority and arbitrary powers on the police The Blair showed how the Special Patrol Group was itself acting illegally themselves against regarded as ordensive to he SULLS those without Slaic How should fight the police wing groups?
annihilation.
organisation you have.
form of wartare 1s politically working black the courts.
politically violence repression.
Black asalist Brixton.
violent ali the police. the National right wing that getting around confers Peach inquiry slalt who - this is Babylon.
the gatemen of Babylon black people and right La strong middle class There are two ways. One is the way you tight in Brixton. You ty hasn't organise, attack and disappear because to expose yourself at all after an event like the Brix- munity ton insurrection is to invite virOr like in New Cross where you can have create an a huge political effect on society by the nature of the political and 1 believe the most advanced problem. political warfare, not military. There are sections of the black nonua tion who say that you have to role oc as ordanisce as unc Donce. don't disagree with that but I which see it as important to win over those sections of the class i Class like the working and suffer at the mally hands of the police, the judges, have to organise fight police - in terms of organis. ing day by day against cases of LORS classes politica action defines itselt in relation to th work place and in terms of its naked relationship to the state.
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Most of the black youth and unemployed when they move their oppression mediately come up against the OU l state. So they're on the street or If by in an insurrection like Bristol or defending class If you're in the workplace you have your union meetings, then you have to find a way of your district secrelary ana lany you re ur against management. There are all these layers between you and your ultimate oppressor - the The minute the black youth and unemployed act they come up against the oppressive nature of own battles. the state and they are very clear And they have to deal with the police, the army, the judges he courts. It gives them a di erent sense of their politics It's not the same with the Asian working class. They have 'Blacks would march to protest police failure to stem racist attacks like the recent one in Coventry' The West Indian communigot an economically strong middle class. There is no part of the West Indian comthat can regulate conduct. It doesn't exist like to effective to control the black working clas and unemployed. But it can't therefore the black unemployed create a serious What do you think of the of anti-racist groups seem to be usually Yes, black people don't norparticipate in them. wouldn't say that they don't have a function.
Becaust racist violence comes from whites, then the extent to which these groups can mobilise white workers and secof white midale against these people then they can be important in creating alliances between the struggles of the black and white working classes. But if you expect the black working class to be part of these groups you misunderstand the nature of forming a white antiracist group you think you are the black working which incapable of detending itself this is starting from the wrong assumption. gramme Miriam Karin of the m accent television Anti-Nazı League was talking about 'poor blacks'. But blacks don't see themselves this way. We see ourselves as facing all sorts of economic racial and cultural oppression and al C quite capable of fighting our industries two thirds of the workforce black. Do you see that they have more force in society than the unemployed?
'We are the majority a Fords'. Certain forms of conduct have been observed at Fords Dagenham as when they had that internal insurrection a couple of years ago and broke they have power over production as in textiles, various parts of works, service industries, does confer on the black working class a power to influence the situation politically that we need to have.
For example who have overthrown British Governments or forced them to make U-turns in reccur limes - miners Tony Benn said recently that black people should come into Party, organise separately if the body.
Is in The governmeles whoe is in the government Labour or Conservative. You couldn't live in a colony as I did and believe that the Labour Party was a radical or anti-imperialist party.
Ine has always been seen as an alternative that wil staunch the rebellion of the working class when it becomes restive.
What makes the situation different now is this, that the crisis in the LP is part of the crisis in society In my opinion the party has to split and split again to make it a reliable instrument of activity for the working class One supports the general direction of the Labour Party towards a radical socialist parBenn is part The situation that Tony of will lead to a alcalci radicalisatior and democratisation in the Labour Party and the which have been a functional part of the LP These developments are of great importance for the black working class and unemployed as they are for the white. Black people may take up Benn's appeal when it becomes more real than it is at the Whatever else is said the problems facing the state today are the Irish national liberation wal, the unemployed and the restless working class. It is the coalescing of all these struggles that will make for serious change in Britain.
11 June 1961
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