IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Islington, Sunday 12 July

Socialist Challenge No. 206, 16 July 1981 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 237 words

The scan: sc-no206.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

labour leaders such as the shouid not content themserves Te beaug police lies. They should be striving to focus the anger which erupted Moss Side and elsewhere.

They should be establishing the facts about the riots. And they should place themselves in the front line of the costalle the police curfew on the black community. MORE than four hundred people attended an Anti Nazi League rally against fascist violence in Islington last Sunday.

The size of the rally was a bia success as the police ban on marches in London led many people to believe that the event was cancelled. nature of this ban as an attack on the democratic rights of ine labour movement was clearly revealed by Sunday's events.

A large crowd of fascists were allowed peddle their racist filth at the nearby Chapel Market while the peaceful Anti Nazi rally was denied permission to organise its own mass leafletting at the market or to demonstrate against the fascists.

Speakers at the rally included George Cunn. ingham, Labour MP for Islington South, and Paul Holborrow from the Anti Nazi League.

Bob Pennington from The Other Bookshop called for a

page 6 of the scan

ON TUESDAY 7 July, over-ruled her own government ministers, Humphrey Atkins and Michael Alison, and pronounced a death sentence on Joe McDonnell. At 5pm on McDonnell died, the prisoner to die in the last two months. Wednesday morning Joe fifth Irish political

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