By Horace Campbell from Caribbean Times MARCH 2, 1981 marked a new turning point in the struggle for a new social order in Britain. On that rainy Monday between ten and fifteen black people gave notice that their mass political activities will be part of the class and racial struggles of this society.
Black people gathered to give notice that they would not be bombed out of this society which they have helped to build with their labour and to which the sweat and blood of their forefathers have conThe demonstration was a challenge to the ideas and actions of white supremacy which has been promoted since the days of slavery, and today finds its crudest expression in the political activities of the NaFront, the British Movement and It is the combined and organised struggles of all sections of the black working poor which will drive the labour movement to transcend the rut of economism. Consider the effect of black workers closTransport hospitals every time the racists attack Black workers should know that the attack on our youths is only the first step, Line capitalist class youths to be unorganised. But while they murder 13 youths, the Special Air Service are carrying out practice runs of how to seal off liaison work with race relations experts. So proud are the police in Birmingham that Authorities to study how to control blacks. pacifiers who act as liaison with the police are the modern house slaves. They turn a blind eye while hundreds of young men are thousand incarcerated, and to permanently damage them placed in psychiatric hospitals when they assert their black consciousness.
This consciousness, which flowers in the torm ot cultural resistance, poses a direct challenge to those who want to build neutron bombs. It is this militarist ideology which leads to the arming of the British Movement, a right wing organisaNEUCAES uP cultural FINTNO tion which aims to shoot and terrorise Black workers must understand that the struggles of the trade union movement are not sufficient in this present crisis. They must join the forces of change.
This process of change is clear in the resistance epitomised cultural artists who wail 'Get up, stand up 1984 in the black strengthen the ple, youths, and culture. lead to further acts tionalism the myths of the capitalists society.
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news stand, price 20p. for your rights! It is not insignificant that the bombing attacks are taking place at the Sikh temples or black peoples parties Today the class struggle is increasingly being fought on the cultural front as groups of young people decide that they do not want to become the mindless Zombies of Cultural resistance, which has flowed community, has served to consciousness the youths. But now that black people have been challenged this cultural resistance must be translated into direct political There is now the need for working peowomen. Rastafari and the unemployed to strengthen their political resolve to defeat this Babylonian system Now the kind of politics which is needed must transcend the spon taneous response to racial attacks.
Organisation, discipline and a scientific inquiry must guide and direct political activities, for ours is a rich tradition of strug. gle. These principles must develop so that the spontaneous acts of struggle do not of repression.
For the slogan Come what may we are here to stay' to register our people must take the lead in internationalising the struggles to show that 13 dead in Cross is due to the same ideas that cause 10,000 dead in El Salvador. It is this internawhich will liberate the white workers from their slavish acceptance of Through the process of self-organisa. tion and clear political ideological development black people will play a leading role in reversing the decadence to build a new Already the mass activity of black people has shown the impotence of the race The next step is to render impotent the racists who carry out the physical attacks at the behest of those of black people swamping From Caribbean Times, available from any