A motley collection of thugs hit Oxford last Monday, 12 May, brought by National Front leader John Tyndail to attack an anti-fascist picket at his meeting in the Oxford Town Hall. But their assault-with meat hooks, bicycle chains and knuckledusters-was sent packing by a tightly stewarded demonstration.
Tyndall did finally manage to sneak into tne town Hall and nis depleted meeting began two hours late. Many of his thugs, however, had to send their therefore a partial success, but the demonstration-the biggest in Oxford for six years-showed the potential for united front anti-fascist work.
Consistent work by the Oxford ArtiFascist Committee brought together the IMG, the International Socialists, the Communist Party and the Workers SocialIst League, ably supported by tne .local women's movement and the local Gay Liberation Front, who formed the hard core of the stewards.
Apart trom support rom anu-rascisi Committees outside Oxford, a significant development was the turn-out of more than 100 local Pakistani workers, some of whom brought their families. Because they feared attacks on these people the 10120 D30 R-121 9-M 9-SOPM37S stration to a massive open-air rally, where nearly 2000 people heard speakers from all the organisations which had taken part.
The violence of the NF 'Honour Guard" had not however finished. Frustrated at not getting into tne meeung, some or tem roated the streets picking up individuals One student had to spend the night in coach, protecting them from a hostile crowd.
squarely on the shoulders of the local appeal to violence in their speeches.
*most of the problems of this country could be put right in a week if you put with the people wire stapon industry. ANNOUNCEMENT Red Weekly regrets to announce that the Irish Republican Socialist Party tour of Britain, jointly sponsored by the IMG and the IS, has the IRSP does not have the resources to send a speaker to Britain at many and another of the South of endeavour to co-operate with the IRSP in organising a future tour as hospital. The police showed their impartiality by escorting the NF assailants to their The responsibility for this violence rests Labour councillors, who booted the Race Relations Committee out of the Town Hall and allowed the NF to use the Town Hall to spread their racist poison. Indeed Webster and Tyndall deliberately underlined their Webster said he was "proud to be a racist', While Tyndall capped it all by saying that about ten thousand people in jail, starting ***************** ****************** had to be cancelled. Unfortunately Road, Moseley, Birmingnam the moment. During the next week it is involved in a tour of West GerRed Weekly and the IMG will Citee, in personal capacity The Trotskyists sought to maximise trade union support for the demonstr Labour contingents were organised and many unions chartered trains and buses to bring thousands of their members to the anti-war mobilis- where Because the ranks of the army represented a cross section of youth in society, the SWP and YA argued that for manoeuvre and prevented Washing ton from repeating in other parts of the world what it was doing in Vietnam The anti-war movement was a major factor in creating the conditions for victory in Vietnam. Socialists every- notably those campaigning against the presence of British troops in Ireland have much to learn from Злон м-18 311 10 2312130х3 31ment in the United States.