IT IS one year to the month since the youth uprisings in Southall, Toxteth, Birmingham, Moss Side, Brixton and many other places. For youth, particularly young blacks, the causes behind those uprisings have not gone away; if anything they have worsened. Unemployment continues to rise, inner city areas continue to decay and racism walks every street.
for black people. Last month the Bradford 12 were all acquitted. Self defence is no offence has become the rallying cry of black youth. The police are certainly not getting it all their own way. Newton Rose, charged with murder, has had his appeal to have his conviction quashed upheld in the Law Lords. And Lord Denning has finally decided to retire.
organisations that has helped win such cases. That is why it is vital for the labour move. ment to throw its weight behind such campaigns and against deportation orders, police harassment and so on. the march IF OUR police force miss you one way, they But the last year has seen a few victories It has been the strength of black people's Black youth are on evidence, sensible judge could only conclude Donnelly had been murdered by the black Newton Rose, and the jury were simply wasting white tax payers by not reaching a snappy verdict of guilty.
Even the law establishment found this one hard to swallow and the Appeal Court slung out the guilty verdict on the grounds of Clarke's direction JUUEC cuten us nothithe pronecution nothing nol tenacious, appealed to the Law Lords seeking a Even LOSS Teac tionary body could tind lustitiable grounds to order a new trial and were Black Liberation.
compelled uphold the decision of the Appeal But the 'law and order' brigade never gives up. On the same day the turned down the prosecution's appeal, Black people are refusing to let the white racist establishment cover up the murder of 13 young blacks in a fire that swept a party in New Cross in January 1981. On Sunday night of the 4 July over 100 people mounted an all night candle vigil outside the Strand Law Courts on the eve of an appeal lodged by the parents to squash the open The demand for a new inquest is based on the fact that the Coroner conducted an illegal inquest. Ignoring Section 6 of the Coroner's Act of 1887 which demanded he take notes of the evidence during the hearing, he simply read trom police statements and ignored other evidence altogether.
The parents are naturally demanding a fresh inquest which will sweep aside the racist bias of the courts and the police and bring to light the fact that these youngsters were the victims of a racist murder. Newton Rose was charged with two of me alone wiin two other men, police Landrover.
for stolen goods but did not find anything.
visual identification abuse since he was a young lad.
compensation for being shot and run over in uniform.
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rebellion to revolution astrategy for REVOLUTION Racist Britain (1)
LAST YEAR when Merseyside's racist police ran amok in Toxteth, David Moore was killed, Kenneth Anderson and Phil Robins were shot by the police and Paul Conroy had his back broken by a Both Robins and Anderson put in claims for compensation and since then both have been the victims of police persecution and frame-up. Now Phil Robins, a former Southport FC footballer, is serving 18 months in jail. In October last year, police raided his mother's house iwice searching At his trial for burglary, the evidence was one thumbprint which was not given to police forensics until iS July, nine days after Phil was shot! The evidence for the second burglary charge was a by Detective Sergeant Wolfenden. Phil is well known to Wolfenden and has been a victim of his harassment and racia Furthermore many people were available to testify that Phil had spent all that evening in a pub in Speke. Liverpool's police are managing to put away those awkward people who are claiming A campaign to free Phil Robins is a way to fight back against racism and police frame-up, and to make sure that people can walk the streets of Toxteth without getting mugged by the gentlemen If you can help contact: PO Box 52, "From rebellion to revolution: black libera condon Is buousner Socialist East c/o PO Box 36, 136 Kingsland London E8. Make cheques/posta Hackney BOOK 20p postage onik rules uvunuur on request.
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