By Socialist Challenge supporters in Southall THOUSANDS of local residents strolled up Southall's main street on Saturday morning to look at the charremains of Tavern.
Despite the presence of the police standing in front of the pub, many of these local sightseers could not resist breaking into big grins when they saw what was left of the previous night's racist watering hole.
The reason for this pleasure was simple - two years after we had been the murdered Blair Peach in the street, Southall youth had proved that they could take on and beat the police and the racist skinhead gangs.
On Friday night Southall was subjected to an organised invasion of British Movement and National Front skinheads. They had come to Southall What remains of the Hambrough Tavern to see a band - the Foreskins- playing in a local pub, the Hambrough. But in thugs dead in their tracks.
Asians.
ON Friday night in their way.
They smashed shop dows and beat up an woman shop assistant. plan was to frighten the people of Southall and good time Foreskins that was brough avern.
But local youth frightened of these bullies.
They came houses as soon as they heard ed the skinheads off the Broad way into the Hambrough.
Only two of the skinheads did not escape and they were hey are rescued and are rescued rested) by the police.
Youths use police shields police refused to go and arrest Socialist Challenge 9 July 1981
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who had ASIAN youth Southall have given the best possible answer to fascist attacks on their community. They came out onto the streets to stop the right wing It was obvious' that the police had no intention of protecting them, so they took their defence into their own hands and ended up confronting the police.
The police were shown to be more concerned with protecting the racists who had come into Southall specifically to beat up, harass and intimidate the The youth had no doubt what the invasion of 200 fascist skinheads would mean. The day before a Walthamstow, East London, after petrol had been This is the text of a leaflet distributed by Asian, anti Nazi, and socialist organisations in Southall fascist coaches to invade Southall. They marched down the Broadway shouting racist insults, giving out fascist leaflets and abusing and beating anybody who came Asian then have a were told to listening to • a skinhead band playing in the HamVOULD were not driving Southall.
and chasing, interested dian youth. (and But the fact the coaches bringing in the 200 or so fascists didn't go to the pub at all. They dropped the fascists in the middle of the Broadway, Southall's main street.
The tascists rampaged down the Broadway smashing the windows of Asian shops and beating up a shop assistant. As soon as it was realised what was happening, the local youth came boiling out of their houses and chased the where they took refuge in the Hambrough pub.
Two fascists weren't fast enough and received a good thrashing at the hands of the local youth before being rescued by the police, who now that the fascists were losing had put in an appearance!
The police put a cordon round the Pakistani woman and her three children died in met by a firm response skinheads came in any more of the skinheads.
Witnesses who recognise the skinheads who had beaten the shop assistant chil on TV Tho home and watch it on TV' •once tormed ures outside lo Hambrough to stop the local entering puD the fascists out From about 8.15 to 9.30pm the police did nothing but protect the fascists. Instead of tryucal with the trouble makers they only seemed to be with local Asian and West InThis is not unusual. Only weeks agc skinheads repeatedly gathered fascists up the street, grows almost daily. family forced to put trough une teller box could assıstanl In d socialist an iron bar.
of deal with the fascist thugs? For over an hour entering the side the drinking, the windows.
Lect of they have a Hambrough to protect the fascists and refused to go in and arrest the fascists who had attacked the shop keeper, in spite of the fact that witnesses of the incident offered to identify the people involved go home, and refused to do so, attempted to force them back. dated, and fought back with bottles, bricks, and eventually petrol bombs.
For almost two hours police made no attempt deal criminals, who were sitting in the Hambrough listening to music and getting tanked-up broke out, they had been threatening to arrest Asian and West Indian youth under the Public Order Act. As soon put through her letterbox and set fire to Two weeks ago an Asian doctor in Covent murdered in a racist attack, and in Peckham : youth was stabbed to death. The racist murd On Saturday, skinheads set fire to the Ealin munity Relation Council about four miles awa the Southall confrontation and beat up a blind munity relations worker, Kevin Glover.
Vicious racist attacks on innocent indivi have been going on for some time, but the r developments show a new boldness and les organisation on the part of the fascists. They mı The police are part of the problem - they ar outside the house of an Asian South Ealing and broke their windows. The famiThurssay in East London three move. young Asian children and their mother were burned to death in their own home after petrol was Two weeks ago a white shop North London bookshop had her skull fractured by a fascist with The police have very little enthusiasm for stopping these attacks because they Why did the police not gu into the Hambrough pub and they did noning but stop anyoouy nor Hambrougl Inpub the young Nazis listening music and drawing NF signs on Do the police normally procriminals to make good time? The Yes, the Instead, the police told the youth when the youth The youth refused to be intimithe real In the period before the fighting criminals are racists. E the black youth try back, that is a differer in the eyes of the la more than one hour crazy situation it was il that a light started be black youth and the p This must have be the police were wa: because they immedia duced riot shields and s violently drive us bai the Broadway The police got the the tight • Hails of sto broken bricks were thi Well bombs. A police car wa over, and lit up. Unti vones were ason excited youth at a fir soon stopped by other Later on the fasci tot the pud. They will armed with many w petrol bor they must have broug Inel on ine coacne. they could not have m