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as police had succeeded in provoking a riot they whipped out rot shields which they had waiting, and tried to drive the youth down the Broadway.
Behind them the fascists charged out of the pub carrving weapons and petrol bombs which they'd brought to Southall to burn down black houses and businesses.
But the police got the worst of the fight, and were forced to retreat back to the pub under a hail of stones.
A highjacked police van was used as a tirelenter to set alight the Ham. brough Tavern, which won't be holding any more racist gigs for a while.
With the pub burning well and the skinheads forced out of Southall back towards Hayes, the situation began to But despite the damage. everybody realises that it was only the was lack om- community.
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F-DEFENCE the solution. All the evidence - from Blair Peach's death, to all the unsolved racist crimes, to the use of the 'sus' laws by the police, to their provocations in operations like Swamp 80 in Brixton -the cops cannot be considered allies of the black unemployment impels more jobless white youth into the fascist gangs, answers have to Ultimately only a planned economy under working class control can answer the economic wasteland In the meantime the trade unions, and the Labour of the Southall youth to the invasion that prevented far more damage and volent attacks The old community leadership has proved itself to be irrelevant at times When the word flew around that the fascists were coming they stayed in their houses. This was another nail in their cottin - southall naa won a step national demonstration to be held in Southall It has been called by the Indian Workers Front, the Indian Workers Association, Great Britain Southall Branch, the Indian Youth Associaand other local organisations support over the country will march through Southall to celebrate our victory and to push forward the message — self-defence is shows that paigns matter how small.
'If skinheads come in and beat up women, and the police aren't going to do anything about it, then we have to defend ourselves.
In April '79 we had 6,000 police chaperoning the Nazis. It was the same on Friday. The cordon was to protect the skinheads.' RAM SINGH, Southall resident Sat 11 July 1981, 2.30pm-5pm Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham All anti-fascists are invited to appreciate the life and work of Maurice Ludme Party should follow the lead of the organisations of the Asian and Afro-Caribbean black people and come forward with plans to beat back the racist attacks.
These plans should include organised self-defence of the black communities, labour movement camamong the unemployed youth mobilisations in response to every racist incident no When Ken Livingstone, leader of the GLC, calls for the 15 Asians who were arrested in Southall on Friday to be released because they were 'fighting for their liberty this should receive the backing of the labour movement. And when the Tory leader of Ealing Council claims that Livingstone is fight', we should say: 'Right on!' their Dremises munity Inal of what unions organisations told the truth.
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Asians. and mass encouraging people to comecause ves. but hid in houses and business The newspapers did not put the blame where it belonged They had headlines like RACE RIOT FURY and FIREBOMB RAMPAGE. Their reports put equal blame on the local youth and the fascist thugs! In this way self-defence of the com Is not described as heroic but as criminal.
The only victims, according to the press, are the police. Ir inis wav the mass media cove up what really happened and help prevent unity of black and white people against the racists. White people are led to believe black are troublemakers, instead of victims of fascist violence.
It is important that the truth happened on Friday night in Southall is told. Trade and community report of that really happened should write so that working people can be are the conclusions We must have coaches brought the skinheads to Southall on Friday were organised by a racist who runs the Last Resort music shop in Aldgate, East London.
shop prides itself on being available there and the comments of its owner, Mickey French, it scarcely disdains links with the fascist British Movement.
French, who is also the manager of the group which sup ported the 'Foreskins' at the Hambrough Tavern, told a London New Standard reporter on Monday: 'If an Englishman can't go and hear music in a part of England then what's it coming to? Our fathers all fought in the last war and we're proud of being British.
'Look, if you can't fly the Union Jack in London where On Monday, leaflets about skinheads being handed out in the Last Resort said: 'Racism was channelled towards the Pakistani population who unlike the West Indians did not in. tegrate with the whites. Instead they kept themselves in Leaflets distributed in the Hambrough during the gig were a little less circumspect. One publicised a 'White Nationalist Crusade for Race and Nation' with a march to be It said: 'We Nationalists give clear notice and warning that this will be the last passive public display of our anger and disgust with the race traitors of Westminster.
The manager of the 'Foreskins', Gary Hitchcock, told the heard somebody had fired shots at the Queen. cried. ' He does not seem to shed any tears over attacks on Protest against the Walthamstow murders! Demonstrate, this Saturday, 11 July Depart, Bakers Arms, Leyton. Assemble, Stanley Rd, 10.30am Called by CHAM Massacre Action Committee Funeral procession will depart from Town Hall in the afternoon. Those attending are asked to behave with dignity.
ANTI-FASCISTS from across London will be marching against fascist violence in Islington this SunOver the past weeks there have been a series of vicious attacks by fascists on left wing and com. munity centres in the area which were on a local The fascists first struck at The Other Bookshop, which is run in conjuction with Socialist Challenge turing her skull. Eight days later a community cenPress and other groups was burned down. The local Islington Gazette reported last week that an armed gang of skinheads had invaded a local squat and stabbed a man repeatedly. A few days before the police reported that a group of 60 armed skinheads in Finsbury had dispersed on seeDespite this obvious evidence of a series of fascist terror attacks the police comment on the burning down of Community Press was: 'There is not one iota of evidence to suggest a political Local labour movement activists have taken a I ne numerous Labour Party branches have backed the call from the local Anti Nazi League for this Sun ingham has agreed to join the demonstration across London are urged to attend this march to stop fascist violence against The Other Bookshop and other labour movement/community centres.
decked with Nazi slogans which In the forefront and to judoe bv the literatur areas were targets for Skins who went "Paki 'I'm a patriot, I was close to tears when / attacking Sheila Malone and frac-
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