lo meeting of the North London West Indian Association to discuss what action could be taken.
An ex-member of the Labour Education committee, Mrs Naomi Mackintosh gave the background to the crisis.
"There is no evidence at all for the saying that the West Indian children have a lower IQ she said. 'In an era of Powellist emotion they are putting out scare statements. Cathles the council chairman) is sending out leaflets saying some schools will have 70 per cent immigrants in the '70s. I am saying this statement is a lie Most eloquent speaker was West Indian author and bookseller John La Rose. In a long speech he analysed the differences between the public statement the council had put out and the confidential document on which it was based The West Indian Association had managed to get hold of a copy confidential report.
We all know to be West Indian is to be black', he said. Immigrants in this society are | blacks. We shall fisht for our richts. In 1969 no
The Black Dwarf May 2 1969 Ireland is trapped in an enclave of bitter sectarianism. Protestants and catholics alike, all are members of embattled minorities: the protestants within Ireland as d whole, and determined to prevent union with the counties, are systematically deprived of jobs and the catholics within Ulster, where they housing; the protestants within Derry, where they are outnumbered two to one yet retain a precarious control over the city as a whole; the catholics within where during the 1930s they were subject to a reign of terror.
The Civil Rights Movement has taught the and working-class catholics single movement around the non-sectarian demands for political participation and economic Police make baton charge in the Bogside area
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Belfast, Tuesday, April 22. Every section of the population of northern
catholics to express and to rebel against their political repression, and has united middle-class