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Socialist Challenge 8 April 1982 page 14 Over 3000 black, labour and anti-racist activists marched in Sex plosives. The next stage of their campaign will be a mass picket of Leeds Crown Court on
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Leeds on Saturday 3 April demanding that the me Aslan youts are Inreate tea with te imprisonment a round gunty of Karen timoressed. is clear i them that if orders are lost, it is the fault of management, in failing to act reasonably and to at least maintain their wage revers URY conspiring order' debate.
What do think of the demands by the GLe leaders to greate accountability by Lonaons police:
The big issue with the police 1S not calling for their accountability but calling for massive reduction in police power. This is avoided by all.
There should be a bar on stop and search. This Dowel • should be removec by the British parliament However. this can't be won without the mass of the black community and its allies -and this is on the agenda. Do you think there will be more uprisings this I don't know if there will be, but if there are I know wiele I slaila But we do need to advance to another stage, we ONE YEAR AFTER the Brixton riots there is widespread debate on community policing and 'law and order'. At the recent enormously successful First International Black Radical and Third World Book Fair, Toni Gorton talked to Darcus Howe, the editor of Race Today about how the black movement views the 'law and can't remain here forever. issue will arise seven de excen sion of police powers which might even possibl extend to an international mass movement developing now, generated from within the New Cross campaign and similar ones transcene stage and go further.
Out of tha dynamic will come another stage of political action against the state institutions such ine ponce and tne courts Yes, but in the face of the current developments the use racist crime statistics, moves on law and order and so is what you're say Ing enougur But against your examples I would sav that the events threat posed bu Thatcher isn't more reouired now!
We have to answer this historical logic. Were wel within own poised to make an historic political Within the next five to ten years there will be breakthrough.
One thing that is required now revolutionary patience and foresight and we have that abundance in the Alliance (Race Today Collective, Black Parents Movement, Bogle l'Ouverture). have now established ourselves as a formidable force.
What about your relation to the organised Gou movements We're part of it: as black influenced by and we influence what happens factories.
There is an enormous contest in the labour movement against those who have dominated it since 1926. I see this as a Major lask which we don enter from a position of weakness Is the black community concerned about recent developmentsi I don't think they're concerned but watching and waiting to intervene. There watching which denotes anxiety hopelessness but i haven't