Deptford, the story is the same violence against black people.
black people They're organising self-defence, and they're organising politically.
William Whitelaw says that 'mob rule myst end' and that he will propose stronger measures to achieve the law and order he and his party so devoutly desire.
we can only ask, In whose interest does the law operate and what sort of 'order' is envisaged?
According to their laws police have the right to terrorise whole communities as they did in Brixton; to harass young black people through the "sus" laws; to raid factories and homes in search illegal immigrants', and to deny FROM Atlanta to Coventry, from Brixton to - increasing are fighting back.
they're protesting, challenging the police and the courts, people like Anwar Ditta heir own children.
legal system they can arrest people suspected of terrorism and keep them for seven days legal advice. In the north of Ireland they can try people in no-jury courts and put tnem concentration camp conditions of the H blocks and Armagh jail.
Their laws permit them to ally all of us with the repressive regimes EI Salvador, Africa, Saudi Arabia and Chile.
Their idea of order is to keep people deprived of We say that the Tories have to go!
quiry ]HTO Brixton. Boycott the Scarman inquiry. The Special Patrol Group should be disband. ed.
• that the labour movement must campaign against the bans demonstrations. Right wing groups should cleared off the streets through mass action.
, that the conspiracy and •should abolished And so should the Official Secrets Act the Criminal Damage Act and the Public Order Act.
Big favour of selective bans? Should Whitelaw?
area of Scotland.
centre of Glasgow CND national bans.
CND.' the hard won right of assembly.
be - to make demands.
be our rulers are doing?
to fight the bans THE TIME has come to call a halt to the blanket bans that William Whitelaw has been placing on the right to demonstrate.
questions are before How we should fight these bans? Should we be in we defy The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has declared its intention to oppose the three month ban on all marches in the Strathclyde CND had planned a major demonstration to go from the Faslane Polaris bases to the organiser, Sally • Davison warned 'A lot of our limited resources have been put behind the march and we fear that if this march is called off it could lead to future That would effectively be the end of These bans won't just be the end of CND unless challenged they could seriously erode It is one of the most vital of political rights we have - to take our views into public, to march, to protest, to challenge government In this period of soaring unemployment, of deep social crisis, of increasing racial at. tacks, of the race to nuclear extinction, how can we throw away our right to protest what The National Council for Civil Liberties, The Trades Union Congress and a fow other bodies have denounced the bans. This is good but more is needed. We should organise in the labour movement to build a campaign to