IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Thousands of racist attacks in 18 months

Socialist Challenge No. 184, 12 February 1981 · p. 15 of the scan · 394 words

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OVER 100 Asian workers supported pickets of Raison uter secretar when he visited Oldham and Rochdale They were protesting the racist nationality bill.

appeared the police units' The Police and weapon training.

Justifying it wing as among the latter.

'several thousand'.

Timothy Saturday. against • Stoning threats to children.

dossiers racist of all places Police Review. Its detailed account of the British Movement will probably strengthen moves announced last week by the Home Secretary for police forces to consider setting up special units to investigate racist attacks.

A report on such attacks by the all-party Joint Committee Against Racism called on Home Secretary to 'anti-racist article by Brian Hilliard, put forward evidence to show that the British Movement has sought to use the Territorial Army as a means of obtaining guns The arsenal recently uncovered by West Midlands police indicates the success of this operation.

The article reveals the level of organisation employed by the British Movement in its attacks. In one incident a hundred BM supporters marched six abreast to attack West Indians in a London cinema queue. fascist movement, Hilliard refers to the 'ritual police attacks UF I the confrontation of right and left' The present trial at the Old Bailey of the cinema queue attackers opened with Judge Buzzard asking jurors to stand down if they had sympathies with any extreme right groups. He specified the Anti Nazi League and the Socialist Workers Party The dossier prepared by the Joint Committee Against Racism outlines 250 attacks on blacks and Jews over an 18-month period, although it believes that the total may be Among the incidents are:

• Rocks being hurled at Sikh temples surrounded by 300 chanting youths.

• Firebomb attacks on countless homes.

• Pigs' heads dumped in synagogues of Asian families and knife conscious.

in the detail at High attacks, themselves.

• Beating of lone Asians until they are unThe report specifies a dozen cities and towns as among the worst areas, and looks in Wycombe, Oldham, and Lambeth. The committee is concerned that trust between blacks and police should be rebuilt, as 'we fear a clash between extreme right-wing thugs and self-defence groups'.

The investigation by the all-party committee did not cover police indifference to racist For racist attacks by the police

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