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up Labour Party meetings during the Martyrs March and the LPYS antias little publicity as the events themselves.
is not something which the fascists undertake only when they have seized power. It accompanies fascist movements from their carliest days. Without it, they would not grow, for the physical attacks launched by the fascists embody a political strategy for certain layers in society brought to ruin or despair by capitalism, but unable to find an answer in have nothing to offer to big business support ning to put the fascists into power just yet. But it recognises them ar useful running dogs, able to perform immigrant pogroms in France and NF attacks in Britain are useful in discouruging black workers from as a migrant reserve army. The bombs in Haly have panicked trade union burcaucrats into calling off strikes, launch massive repression of the left. Ordre Nouveau received a pat another 90 injured. One of the While the delegates to the NUS Conference are voting, the National Front will be showing it is alive, well and kicking The Front has called a national demonstration to protest against the "concessions" which the Labour Government has given to immigrant families. But as they assemble at Central Hall Westminster next Saturday (2.30 p.m.) and prepare to march to Conway Hall, they will also be displaying their defiance of the students at that moment meeting in London If the delegates supporting free speech for racists and fascists lose the vote, the NF hopes to minimise the impact of this defeat with a show of strength on the streets of London. If, on the other hand, the NUS votes to reopen the campuses to reactionary spokesmen, the NF march will represent a promise to return with fists as well as rhetoric.
Fascists should always be countered when they take to the streets. But this occasion is special. It is a question of bucking up the anti-fascist militants in the colleges, and an opportunity for all anti-fascist militants to follow the students" lead by carrying the 'no platform' policy into the workers movement. It is also a way in which all those determined to fight racism and fascism can stress once again to the NUS that it must stand "Liberation' is organising a planning meeting this week for u united front counter-demonstration. We call on all working class organisations to build an effective counter-demonstration to the NF for the 15th.
Nor were threats by the Front to bust general election thought newsworthy, and recent assaults on the Manchester racist demonstration in Bradford got These incidents show that violence the workers movement. Without these military adventures, the fascists would Tory victor.
in return for its political and financial IMMIGRANT POGROMS True, the ruling class is not planu variety of valuable services. The antifighting against their super-exploitation and given the Government a chance to aimed at breaking up the contidence, organisation and combatwity on which the lethal cycle of fascist growth depends. This is nothing more than self-defence, and it must be done now before the fascists get bigger and bolder. For this reason the reyolutionary left will continue the Last week the National Froot topped off their success in the Newham by-election (where they took 12%6 of the sote and pushed the Tories into fourth place) by capturing 25% of the vote in a Leicester council by election, coming second after the Of course, all kinds of "special" circumstances exist in local council elections. But this result is one more example of the caretul attention the NF has been paying to base building in the recent period. It is only a sher step from this position to the forging of a viable fascist movement with the beginnings of a mass base In OXFORD, Martin Webster and Richard Lawson (NF student organiser) addresend an audience of 60 enside the Town Hall on 21 May. while 150 police Kept a 400 strong picket at bay. The demonstrators were there in response to attention ly important job of driving them off the streets. Te is necessary to fight against racism, national chauvinism. sexis and pro-imperialist ideas in the working class ail the time.
The policy of the NUS could be the first step in building a real move ment against the fascists, encompasing students, workers and black people. But instead of going forward the NUS Executive is proposing to go back. Such retreats will only encourage the fuscists.
UNITED FRONT
The left made it easy for the NUS Executive to retreat by rejecting the IMG's proposal for a national united front leadership for the anti-fascist campaigo, The unfavourable nrass response to the resolution, on which the Executive bases its retreat, flows partly from the lack of preparation by the left in the colleges.
The left must launch a united counter-offensive to delend the originai resolution. The National Front will be in a good position to take big gains in the coming winter if unemployment rises to the expec ted 1-1%á million. The NUS could form the spearhead of a militant campaign to isolate the National Front, especially in the working class, before the crisis of capitalist society allows fascism to make any further progress TOM CAMERON ...and elsewhere a call by the Oxford Trades Council, sup ported hy local trade unionists, Ruskin College and other students, and local socialist groups.
At a meeting beld before the picket dispersed, Joe Richards, chainman of the Trades Council, urged that the offensive echoed by the other speaker, a militant fromComey, who laid the blame for the meeting taking place al the door of the Labour-centralled council, aho had been approached by the Trades Council to pluse the Nf the halt In the London borough of BRENT, militants in the North West London Committee Against Racism are organising against local NF activity.
The Committee will be mounting a picket of the next Brent Council meeting to back up their deinand that the Labour-controlled council shoule refuse all facilities to the NF. They ane also purcing our a counter leaflet, explain ing what the NF is and what it stands for. for distribution to those schools which the Front has singled out for special