Cent Sadler, but the attacks in Brent, Chapeltown in Leeds, and Cricklewood in London the most notorious.
Government and Opposition spokesmen vie with each other to make the most bigoted speeches as yet another Race Relations Bill is ushered in to attempt to sweeten the pill of the tightening of the racist immigration laws. The police provide evidence every week that no trust can be placed in them to desist from attacks on the black community, let alone to protect it.
tinue for support for black self-defence organisations to fight the racist police attacks and the offensive of the fascists, side by side with against the racists in their ranks and in British society as a whole.
BEN EQUIANO port each other." - го menon only in the school.
That's why the fight must contrade union and Labour Party action 'Both black and white teachers are vulnerable to the extensive powers or the scnoo authorities which will be exerted in times of crisis such as the present. Other rationalisations and expected weaknesses can and will be used unless we are vigilant and supThis is the basis on which Sharad Korgaonkar is appealing for support from his colleagues at Henry Thornton School in South London. There have been con tinuous attempts to make him redundant. expioiting nis position as a suppli teacher, while other teachers with equal qualitications and ess teachine exper ience have been given permanent jobs Protests made by Korgaonkar, his fellow teachers, the NUT and his organi sation, the Black Workers League, have forced the education authorities to keep him on, but now the threat of transfer and a possible repeat of the whole experience nare over MIs nbdu As a press release from the Black workers League last week pointec out: "The growing insecurity of the black teacher is similar to that of black pupils who figure disproportionately amongst those suspended and expelled from schools, and amongst those who are forced into inferior forms of education, namelv ESN or special schools. olners were picked up in me nettici days, and eight black and one white yout eventualy went or tia-s or nem sisted of twelve white people, mainly under 35, and of the 60 potential jurors not a singlę one was black.
The main case of the prosecution wno msisted m men openme remarks that 'this trial has nothing to do with colour was based on extremely tul 'confessions' from the black youths -often phrased in semi-official language to boot. The prosecution, however, insisted that these statements were not obtained by violence or intimidation. VIOLATIONS The fact that there were violations of Judges' Rules - minors cannot be interviewed by the police unless a parent is also present - and medical evidence to show the injuries sustained by one of the kids, were treated by Judge Christopher Beaumont MBE as minor irritations' to the legal process. Consistently ignoring the blatant racialism displayed by the cops, he began his summing up by insisting that prejudice for or against coloured people' must not be allowed to interfere with the law!
No attention was paid to the contradictions in police evidence and the wider issues raised by the black defence barristers - Inat what nappened on bonnire Nigh was an attempt by all the black youth present to defend themselves against the planned provocation of the police.
Black youth in Leeds are stopped on the streets all the time, harassed as to