skinheads, large stores.
Yorkshire police claim that they found 38 milk bottles filled with petrol on 17 July on a demolition site in Horton.
On 30 July two of the defendad Taria Mochmood Ali Were Gata-Aura arrested in dawn raids.
Their homes were searched and documents were taken aWay i including. the minute book or ine United Black Youth League. The rest of the Genoas were picked up in the next 24 hours.
During the next two days they were not allowed to see written by a police officer and The signed by George Lindo under In the same year, Geoffrey Elliott, a white man was alleged to have given a detailed 'voluntary statement' to the Bradford police admitting to rape. This statement was subsecuentIv discredited when another man admitted to the crime.
The real issue charges against the Bradford 12 is not 'conspiracy' It is the right of the black community defend when police protection is not available.
Wing the Nazi salute.
Only two were charged and then only stealing petrol for their bomb. In Bradford police inaction over fascist attacks has harassment of black •urvellance nas occi barticularly intense over the last 18 behind the Hollis Watched Participants at a black conitself ference discovered were being watched and photographed by a police officer.
and friends of the defendanes police racism fight the Immigration Laws They had assault and gone direct police people. children with her in Britain.
As know paigns that that they it is not going w.
Tedives and secondly to campaigned for • Jaswinder Kaur wno was racing deportation because her marrage broke down and for An war Ditta who earlier this year won her five vear battle with the Home Office to have her sources.
Anwar says: all that it is because they have been active in these caminey nave been charged with this rubbish. But Black people are not going to take it.' THE explosion that took place in Bristol a year ago and was followed by those in Brixton, Southall and other British cities have led to investigations, reports and recommendations from a variety of Toni Gorton looks at three publications that give insights into questions of inner city problems, new moves on policing and civil liberties. Slumbering volcano?
Report of an enquiry into the origins of the eruption in St Paul's Bristol on 2 April 1980 This report provides a model by which other communities can enquiries into such events as Bristol 1980 or BrixIt details the moves which the Bristol Trades Union Council undertook in setting up an investigation into the St Paul's lan Mikardo MP chaired the team which included Pro Dummett, chairperson of the Blair Peach Enquiry, Bill Keys of the Society of Graphic and Allied Trades, a number of representatives of the West Indian Parents and Friends and Vull cus Director of Education ed invitations to participate.
rour main areas are coverec in the report; environment and and unemployment; education; and community relations.
The report states: 'In examining why unemployment is free.
among young than among young whites, the evidence shows that the blacks are more disadvantaged by the change in employment patterns because a higher proportion of them work in the traditional inwhich are shrinking and a lower proportion in the commercial sector which is ex'Another significant factor disadvantaging young blacks is direct discrimination On the trade unions: 'the trade unions are also at fault in naving adopted positive role in the development of an effective equal opportumues poncy Discrimination is faced by black youth in getting into the Youth Opportunities Program mes and the failure of the YOP general youth The conclusions of the En quiry are wide-sweeping in their scope. But on the employment prospects it warns 'All the cureconomic indicators that the present inlevel of unemploywill continue to rise, policies of the Government re and economic male hope of employment in employment imAgainst this background recommendations can be no more than palliatives.
Copies of this report are • from Ror Thomas, Morris ka, Bristol /. sena sup plu. 15p postage, make cheques payable to Bristol TUC Civil disorder and civil liberties Evidence to the Scarman Enquiry from the National Coun cil for Civil Liberties The NCCL decided to submit evidence to the Scarman • enquiry despite the call for boycott because it afforded opportunity detailed comments about polic ing in inner cities and the threa that repressive solutions, affec ting fundamental civil liberties, might be sought.
recommendations include: a review by the government of racist immigration laws; that CS gas. waleı call non and dogs should not be uscontrolling street disorder.
The report points to the totally ineffective methods for dealing with complaints against the police and the lack of accountability of the police to the community.
The available from bookshops or direct State research: bulletin no 25 August/September 1981 Research produces bulletin every two months givhenormalon from public sources on developments in state policy, particularly in the fields of the law, policing, ternal security, espionage and unc bulllal y. It also examines the link between these fields and business, , the Right and paramilitary organisations.
I mis Issue gives a run-auwi on the 'July riots' and believes that they represent a watershed in British policing that resources Brixton were so stretched that a military liaison officer was drafter into Brixton police Case troops had to be called in.
Other areas covered in clude: raids factories, police computers, racist attacks and new move. on riot control. Alaila Sereet, State Resear te 01-734 5831 r annum for dividuals community voluntary groups and trade unions Policing in the eighties critical conference in Cardiff on Linnited TreE accommod tion and reduced rail fares available for early bookings Registration £5 Furthe details from Penny Smith, Con Terence Administrator Faculty Box Cardiff (tel 0222 ext. 2558)