procedures of our police force.
I think the Met make a most telling point in their remark about knowing what behaviour is allowable. You the readers think that it use ple. police should not be racists. But the police and the Deputy great experience know better.
If people won't confess to crimes they did not commit what alternative have the police got but to beat them until they do confess? If the police did not do that, the amount of unsolved crime in Britain would be staggering and the public would moan about vigilance.
If the police were not racists how could they make sure Britain's immigration laws were carried out? If we did not have a racist police force it would be very inconvenient indeed for their bosses in the state machine who use the police lo keep black people down. force is only doing the job it is paid for and that is why the Deputy Commissioners are the best judges of their behaviour.
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Violence against suspects and Commissioners being people of Black of police A racist police under the headine Comthe general methods Martin advocates, but whether the Labour Committee on Ireland's campaign is the basket into which should place our eggs is another question.
far as 1 am aware the LCI's aim is to commit the Labour Partyto a campaign for a united Ireland. Contrarv opinion some ill-informed ultraleft circles, has always expressed support for united It did so even as it passed the 1948 Government of Ireland Act by Loyalists as the Ulster onstitution) Neither does a commitment to a united Ireland as such give us a cutting edge against the Labour Right today.
In New Socialist Denis clarify it?
The second problem the LCI deliberate policy of confining itself to Labour Party wards and constituenWorkers trade unions, especially dustrial unions, will be decisive in constructing any genuinely mass movement and any orientation the Labour Party should take this into account from the very beginning.
A debate has been going on in the trade unions some while now and this will find some reflection doubt, the Unfortunately the line of divide in that debate has not been a united Ireland policy versus a 'partition' resolutions in the trade union movement have So far been easily marginalised.
On the single occasion the CI raised its head outside internal Labour virtually the entire population of Mansfield turned out to give its tiny 'Dump Concannon' protest a bloody IIUSC In the face of the evidence on the ground, I need to hear more than convince me thatne LEi campaign general won't just be an expensive diversion from our struggle to build solidarity with the Irish Revolution. Ailean O'Callaghan 1/647 TGWU, Brent East CLP WOULD YOU care to answer the following question? Where does Socialist Challenge stand on antisemitism? It is a question which should not need to be asked, but evidently it is necessary A year ago a bomb left by French neo-Nazis ouside a French synagogue killed four people. Socialist Challenge condemned the attack and stressed the need combat semitism.
week. synagogue in Vienna was attacked by two men armed with submachine and hand Jews were killed and twen- clauds ty wounded Clearly, both cases lie all was to kill Jews.
But what was Socialist Challenge's response time NOTHING!
has changed in year? If anything, throughout Europe there han been anti-semi escalation anti-semitic cidents. The need for socialists to offer practical support and solidarity is increasingly urgent The crucial factor accounting for vour lack of response that the murders li Vienna were neo-Nazis, but members of a Palestinian splinter group.
SC's embarrassed silence belief that exposing and oppos ing such an act might compromise your solidarity the Palestinians against Zionism In reality rightening concession to plain anti-semitism and will be of no comfort to Jewish communities or to Jewish socialists struggling for a united fight against So please make it clear:
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