of Pakistani Organisations.
ment and made worse by the police.
told black youth to stay out of the city centre!
and confrontations increase daily.
racists.
ing weeks.
movement.
of those who are responsible Tory politicians, and capitalism.
against racist violence.
tion and nationality laws must be kept to and on the jobs.
and the Coventry demonstrations.
stepped up organised in Coventry back the racist onslaught. BLACK PEOPLE are under attack. Racist violence has doubled in the past year according to a report compiled by the Union The violence may come from right wing thugs but it is driven by rising unemployCoventry is a prime example. Police allowed racists to murder Satnam Singh Gill in the middle of the main shopping precinct two months ago. They then The struggle of blacks in Coventry to be free to walk the streets without fear is in its eighth week Over 200 people have been arrested, mostly antiPolice harassment was a major factor in the Brixton uprising last April - and it is continuing now, even as the Scarman inquiry gets underway.
At the end of last week several people were arrested in dawn raids by the anti-terrorist squad. Hundreds of others have been arrested in intervenFor too many white youth the voice of the fascist right is louder than the voice of the labour They believe the lie that black people are taking their jobs, insteading of laying the blame at the feet - the bosses, the The labour movement must take up the battle Hattersley's promise that the next Labour government will repeal some of the racist immigraThe TUC has belatedly issued its Charter for Black Workers which attempts to give an answer to the discrimination that blacks face in the unions The labour movement must join the campaigns around the victims of racism like Nasira Begum, those charged as a result of the Brixton uprising The struggle against unemployment must be only this struggle can give an answer to the influence of the fascists among white youth.
The labour movement must give full support to the self-defense efforts of the black population.
On 3 July a day of action against racism is being - factories, offices, shops and estates all over the town will be leafletted. The time has come for the labour movement to throw parts of Coventy being barred to black people onslaught While skinhoads shout racist abuse, police move against demonstrators protesting against of posts in the government to pre vent it from playing an opposi tional role.
new period of French politics has opened up which will have a profound effect on all the maior buropean coun ever men years of right ence workers expect a major change The election of a Socialist government represents political counter-blow whict workers nave prepared against the attacks of DOSSC It shows the same dynamic that is developing in Britain -in response to the economic attacks of the bosses, the workers look to overall pontical soil tions which can begin to over.
In France the working class will now go through an extended period of testing out the solutions offered to them by the new reformist government.
i ne question whether