the directors of the radio station by the picket, which also demanded that a statement drawn up by the protesters should be broadcast. The first result of the action came immediately with Photo: JOHN STURROCK (Report The National Party's new supporters - kids and juvenile football fans. has proved decisively that there is an alternative to simply wringing one's hands over the way in which the media fuels racist divisions in the working class. Asians nearly every night in the area over the last two months. In a rare case of police action, six white youths had been arrested on the eve of the march while driving around the area, and charged with possessing offensive weapons.
Ine meeting that was heid in the Naz Cinema after the demonstration was stewarded by young Asians. Darcus Howe, of the Race Today collective, THE MASSIVE DISPLAY of determination by black people and anti-racist whites in London last weekend shows the potential for building a campaign which can fight the attacks on the black community. But each step of the marches in Southall, Whitechapel, Newham and Brixton revealed the gigantic obstacles that will be put in the way of a fighting alliance between black and white workers.
The hostility of many white workers and youth shows two things: the depth of the crisis in British society produced by the attacks on living standards and jobs, which the trade union leaders assist the Labour Government in carrying out; and the mountain of racist sentiment built up over the years as a product of Britain's imperial past - the robbery and exploitaion of India and Africa The speech by Kingsley Read of the National Party, who referred to to the Southall murder as 'one down, one million to go', shows the genocidal features of the fascist groups who make the running as a result of Enoch Powell's racist campaign. Racists should be prevented from mouthing such murderous rhetoric.
It is through firm action against the racists that an alternative for the whites who follow their lead can be shown to exist. It is through such campaigns that an audience for a workers' alternative to the But the laws which Labour and Tory Governments have introduced to deal with the 'problem' are racist in themselves. The Immigration Act seeks to put the blame for the crisis of British ground for racist ideas. raciste from the streets Diovment touchine to ser cent wit schoo: leavers ver to ba incuded. ne failure to fight unemployment in the area with workers at the STC plant in Silvertown left to fight, and go down, alone and the closure of Poplar Hospital makes Newham a fertile breeding The march was continuously heckled and sometimes attacked. The atmosOnere on the march was tense. onE woman informed the marchers that tney were just a lot or whites sticking up for the Pakis. 'It's disgusting.' Although the Asian contingent was small at the outset, the black contingent grew rapidly in size and spirit. Old men and young boys leapt out of their cars The racist youth were taught a sharp lesson on this new spitit when their auamet to arack une marchers wa: driven back by a well organised volley OT rocks trom ne asian vout. ror EnE first time in the East End, mass antiracist marches ano Diack seit-cetence have occurred. It is a strong foundation qucstion to build up a campaign to sweep the capitalism ( The Rac tions agains leadership ( state. The c be seen by supporting This who ment them. That is why at the centr The way head off th youth shou sure that th silence, and The com tions and re ment to tak by turning organise the It is cruc the labour workers de
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