15,000 MARCHED in Liverpool last Saturday. Led by thousands of black and white youth from Liverpool 8, the mass demonstration demanded the sacking of Merseyside Chief Constable, Kenneth Oxford and 'police out of Toxteth - prisoners out of jail.
The march united the youth of Toxteth with Liverpool dockers, Labour Parties and trades councils.
police were injured - hardly surprising after the murder of Jimmy Moore, and the main;ing and the near castration carried out by Oxford's thugs in recent weeks.
No tion was its discipline and militancy. markable ability of the young local stewards to lead thousands of young rebels in united action with the workers organisations.
Saturday marked the first step from the spontaneous youth rebellion against police repression to organised political action involving the mass of youth. Its significance was not that a couple of the significance of this demonstraTheremovement stands in alliance with the youth against the police, the Tories and the hysteria of the bosses' press, then nothing will hold back this movement.
Everything was done to sabotage this march. Coaches from all over the north were cancelled, including three from Manchester's Moss Side by operators warned off by the police.
speakers bringing solidarity from Brixton and Moss Side.
few days at the bedside of the two coppers who were injured. But for the labour movement this march was an urgent call to defend the youth now facing frame up and militarised police and for leadership to build from the anger of the youth rebellion into a powerful and disciplined movement to remove Thatcher and her new apparatus of police repression. mission hoping to discredit the PwA and dicorganice Pakistanis living in BriThe High Commission is frightened of socialists liks Targ All and myseif who are involved with the PWA. I EnCy know about the success of the meetings with Targ in Birmingham in the past and they want try and frighten the Pakistani community from supporting socialist ideas, says Kahn.
Controls The PWA is the only organisation that can unite Kahn believes, "whichever caste, whichever religion, Saturday showed that when the workers' Nonetheless at Liverpool's Pier Head the most enthusiastic response was reserved for The capitalist press will spend the next LIVEIPDOL B DEFENCE Unity of youth and labour