April.
The Nazi Brons, will be the star speaker and a call has gone out to fascists nationally Ostensibly the marching in opposition to Oldham's two 'extreme left-wing' MPs, James Lamond and Michael Meacher.
In reality the NE's fire is directed against black people. Since August 1979, when they were admitted to the Sunday Football League, they have increasingly been able to pose as a credible organisation. there has been a phenomenal increase in the growth of racist graffiti - but not just graffiti.
Violent Three weeks ago violent attacks on black people began again. Nazis had clearly decided to prepare their members tor demonstration. The community is concentrated largely in the Glodwick and Westwood areas of Oldham. On two consecutive nights a thirty-strong platoon Movement hoodlums and NF thug attacked Bengalis in Westwood with iron bars and bricks. Two Bengalis were taken to hospital and many olers senously injurce as ine Nazi gang smashed windows and doors.
One of the victims was Mobaswir Khan, President Bangladesh Association.
of last week his door smashed in. Next day he opened his door to find a gang of fifteen youths. He told Socialist Challenge:
•Within seconds they attacked me: They were hitting me with sticks and I received blows. smashed a long iron bar through my window.
The reaction of the police was Janet Gardner reports from Oldham:
THERE ARE nearly ten thousand black people in Oldham. Most of them are Asian workers, employed in the textile mills and local factories. It is against them that the Nazis will be directing their racist abuse when they march through Oldham Town Centre on Saturday 12 chief, Andrew broken, La large mobilisation.
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tne April As all laws, allacks, Asian Oldham On Wedwas Then they My windows have NF slogans have painted on my front door and my front gate was burnt two weeks ago. My 84-year-old mother has chased by racist youths.
Alongside attacks from the Nazis, the Tory government has stepped up its implementation of racist laws. Munir Ahmed is currently being held He entered legally three years ago. Immigration authorities now claim he did not tell them he was married• but they did When he made an application for his wife to join him, he was asked by immigration authorities to attend am Manchester Airport.
They promptly arrested him and are to deport him A mass rally against immigration for self-defence against racist and against the Nazis, has been called by the Oldham Campaign Against Racist Laws on the same day as the fascist march. Hundreds of workers are preparing mobilise for this meeting.
Two marches are being prepared egistered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relgocrest Lid. for Socialist Challenge, been been ANTI-NF RALLY