by setting up committees.
closed community.
The turn to community policing can be traced back ycals. bitter confrontations which took place between West Indian youth and the police Winson Green.
Birmingham, and later at the Notting Hill Carnival, shook Asian youth in Southall also protested the streets against police inaction over a racist murder.
This radicalisation continued in 1977, with the events London Lewisham in South and Ladywood Birmingham. By the summer 1978, the Asian youth in London's East End were independently against racist attacks, the police were ready. wilh wernew strateou The police are unwilling to The Bradford Asian Youth Movement is national meeting on Sunday 13 April The conference will discuss both the aims and the organisation of the Black Freedom March taking place from Bradford to London from 28 June to 19 July.
National organisations can send five delegates Local organisations can send three deleg:
Individuals For further details contact:
Bradford Asian Youth Movement, 226 Lumb Lane, Bradford 8, West Yorkshire or Tel 0274 499310.
liaison Birmingham apparent that there two • oie ror me wes Indian community and one for the Asian.
arcas with a largel Afro-Caribbean populațion such as Lozells. Aston and Handsworth the control a large proportion of the Inner City Development Project funds, Zanu are usule them to involve black youth in various projects.
For example. as well as i some of the schools, the police are planning campaign holidays with school students. They trying to •start will run; and they are active in organising football teams. On television JULI Drown, me autnor of shades £5 ries £3 £1 candidate in the Ladywood by-election. of Grey, boasted about the changing image of the bobby in Handsworth of Birmingham largely Asian population, like Small Heath sparkhill, DORDOOR. Saltley, the second approach is to build liaison committees between allu community. The first of these. was set up in April 1978 in Saltley.
Anger had spread through the black community when an white thugs inspired by National Front. following dav a meeting Asians expressed faith in the police and decided to set up their own vigilante groups.
To build support for the group, a meeting of ethnic Or ISaLOES arranged by the Kashmiri Workers Association, whose maurora screw. Nazir-ul -Huq, is a member of the Birmingham Communist rally On the platform meeting were the local Labour MP, Dennis Howell, and the chief superintendent of nolice. for the area. It turned into a public exercise for Ce O meeting liaison committee was set up.
This RAGHIB AHSAN on the campaign trail in 1977 when he stood as a Socialist Unity regularly until its presence forced the vigilante groups to collapse and the blacks' anger In summer 1978 Sudagar Khan, Pakistani, wak murdered in Small Heath.
community was convinced that racists were responsible, and hundred people took part in a protest demonstration.
No one was charged • the murder. Dennis Howell again set up a liaison committee to coo the situatioctiend thy spire died effectively spreading Venous ABOUT motives for the murder.
About three months ago in Sparkhill, allegations were made and threats of violence by a local gangster, was evidence of between him and the police ine sparka Communice for Civil Liberties was set up and has since compiled concerning fraud, cheating and harassment on the part of Every • statement mentions connection between few weeks ago the committee people. But shortly afterwards • wild tne backıng decided to hand over some of the committee ine statemenis to tne ponce.
On top of this, on March, a meeting was called in Sparkhili under the banne CP-controlled Blackford Road Residents Association. It was chaired by Roger Murray, a prominent local CP member, and main speakers were Nazir-ulHuq and two police chief inspectors.
intention oi. thi meeting was clearly to set ur another liaison committee. Its independent black actic the Sparrel committee activity in the - in this specifically concerned police malpractice The liaison committee will also feed back to the police about activity. EWO chief inspectors are no doubt grateful for the invaluable assistance of the Communis Party.
The tactics of the CP will in no way help black people in struggle to expose the corruption and racism of the police will play straight mto tac manes o the state interests of 1
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THE Communist Party in Birmingham is helping the police to contain black militancy community-based
Under the guise of community politics, the purpose of these committees is to create informers in the black community and to present the police with an opening into this
NATIONAL BLACK CONFERENCE calling on all black organisations to attend a