clubs raided, meeting places disturbed and events such as carnival blanketed Youths struck back at Brockwell Park Fair in 1973 and again in Chapeltown. Leeds, in 1975. However these were only the build up to the first massive explosion of Notting Hill Carnival in 1976, when as Sivanandan says *1600 policemen took it on themselves to kill joy on The youths, while satisfying their anger also learnt an invaluable lesson - that the boys in police authority was a question which was to pose itself this year with greater intensiIn showing how today's youth are responding to their situation, Sivanandan also reviews their parents" struggles against racist Labour *What Enoch Powell says today, the Tory party says tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after was a favoured way of summing up the Labour Party approach to the black The racism of the trade unions forced black workers to organise within their community, so that their struggles got bound up with the strugOne such example was the case of Sikh bus drivers fighting to be allowed to wear their turAlthough few of the Afro-Caribbean and Asian organisations that arose during period can claim to have significantly influenced British society, one after the other has come - coucanen housing, immigration, police harassment, im When in 1976, Asian women at Grunwicks smashed the myth of Asian passivity they were standing on the shoulders of all the other strug gles of the black community and their example established the potential strength of the emerg Sivanandan puts the 1981 events into their The question remains The answer must surely lie in taking the offensive, in forming national organisations which include all minority groupings to deteal to bring forward a programme for black rights, and to push forward the fight for Special double issue DAY to day councillor in Haringey. North London.
happen in 1982.
You are a full time official union that has •ITE black members. How is the situation ting them?
In the trade unions we see that when redundancy since it's usually black people who have they're the first out.
youth choose people" first.
racism such a recruitment practice at the fac tory gate is becoming a hell of a problem. There's racism in the workplace, destruction of traditional areas of black labou the textile industry, the new Nationality Bill, tion raids on factories - all affect black wor BERNIE GRANT is a London area organis National Union of Public Employees, with res ty for its positive action programme. He is in setting up a new organisation called the Bla Unionists Solidarity Movement. He is also Toni Gorton spoke to him about the effe year's events on black workers and what he t pressure on the 1 many black workers For , example, affec- hospital porter was ly. for black peop white people would hands. Now we're there's competition jobs Before, a black are bring along a cousi for a job, that's n *own pening. White pec taking these jobs.
Since the government discrim increased. Supervi lot of union officials and