MA HAC NO Two hundred people marched in Istington last Saturday against the presence of Enoch Powell on the platform of an anti-EEC meeting. ....while in Leeds Botdes, chains and a hammer. These were the weapons taken to an anti racist meeting in Leeds by members of the fascist National Front called by the Buricy Ward [abour Parly to discuss the tight against racism, members of the audience noticed that four members of the NF were present.
The audience of Lahour Party councillors, Labour Party members.
to leave. buildingOn Sunday 16 February al a meeting child. and members of left wing organsation sach as the IMG and the Communist Party certainly did not see any need lo have racists thugs like NF memhers at such a meeting. The fascists were told Although the NE leaders like to create the impression that they are not an organisution of fascist hooligans these four worthies did not see any nood to keep up suct a false pretence.
Out came their chains, bottles and one worthy brandished a hammer. On the way out of the meeting-which was held in the Belle Vue Community Centre- they bumped into so Indian child who is six years old. She was attending some other function in the But that did not deter the fascists. After all she has a black skin so on the way down the stairs they struck the Again the NF has given a clear demonstration of its openly fascist character and members of the Leeds labour movement will be intensifying deir light to drive them off the streets.
The black of Rolls-Royce Hawker Hunter jet engines destined for Chile was officially lifted a month ago: a fact duly noted by the London Financial Times and the Chilean El Mercurio as a sign that in Britain 'the anti-junta feeling was weakening.
Unofficially, however, the black continues thanks to the proletarian internationalism of one section of workers in the East Kilbride plant. These workers must receive the encouragement and solidarity of the rest of the British trade union movement, if they are not to bec ome isolated and victimised. More importantly, the trade union move ment nationally should publicisn the fact that the black continues. and call for its reimposition as the official policy of the AUEW Trades Councils and trade union branches should follow the example of the East Kilbride Trades Council, which has called a public meeting in solidarity with the black, and should send resolutions of support to the Shop Stewards Committee at the Rolls-Royce fact ory in East Kilbride -taking their cue from local Communist Party members in the area who have been anxious to work with other militants to mobilise support for the Rolls-Royce workers, and not from the national CP and the nat ional Chile Solidarity Campaign, which have let the official boycott fall by maintaining an attitude of studied indifference.
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