Last May, Judge Gwyn Morris said in a case involving black youths from South London. winm memory inese areas were peaceful, safe and agreeable.to live in. But the immigrant settlement which nas occurred over the last 25 vears has radically transformed the environment."
This same judge last week advocated the setting up of white vigilante groups to patrol the streets and defend white women from black attackers. There should be no pointed out that the factual basis of the police case against black people is completely false. For a start, there is no such technical crime as "mugging', either here or in America where this emotive term What is more, the Metropolitan Police, for instance, draw from the disproportionate involvement of black people in the arrest figures' (our emphasis). No figures are available for convictons. In oiner words, the evidence simply shows that the police tend to arrest more black people than GIVE with the challenge of black youth, their conclusions the passive victims of police authority"
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A ly the case that sections of the black youth have, partly as a consequence of their desired emotive and anti-black sentiment amongst the white working class. Faced snown lol exampie in ine cases of the Notting Hill and Wood Green confrontations, the police are clearly preparing public sentiment for an increase in the harassment and brutalisation of black youths, many of whom have refused to be In this context we should note the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to Mark next known as the "Hammer" famous for his extra tough approach to Finally, notwithstanding the gross exaggerations of the police, it is undoubtedRonald The behaviour of black youth who have seven sought an alternative means of existence must be viewca ratner as anti-social - as a manifestation of the sub-culture which the racism and anti-youth discrimination of capitalist society has forced upon them. This is not to condone the victimi sation by black youths of weaker members of the working class, white or black. ports But we are not dealing with a moral issue - or at least moralist pronouncements arc norrome to chance me suanion What is necessary is to heighten the struggle against racism and the reactionary policies of the present Government, building on the 21 November demo called by the TUC and Labour Party. What is necessary is a struggle which challenges ataca the very core of class and race oppression towards today, and within this struggle all efforts must be made to involve the youth on the oasis oi inose issues inai most affect With this in mind the struggle against State oppression, particulari atains police harassment and brutality, must be