Socialist Challenge Special Lewisham Supplement, October 1977

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What really happened at Lewisham...

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE SPECIAL ISSUE

CAMPAIGN

H/AGAINST

RACISM AND

FASTISM

moto: G.M. COOKSON

mile from New Cross. black communities in this country. happening.

For this is the response, individuals, but of a whole community, a community that feels itself under attack, a community driven to exasperation by years of oppression Similarly, when the cops get out the riot shields or charge their horses into the crowd at full gallop, then this is the response of police trying to crush, not a few 'extremists, but mass resistance and opposition - exactly the same as the British Army trying to put down the Catholic communities in Northern Ireland.

What an incredible sight the police made at Lewisham! For years, every bourgeois and labour politician has been telling black people there is a law making race hate illegal. Trust in law and order, they said. Yer, here in Lewisham, were the very instruments of law and order, merrily escorting a band of racist thugs, crying "wogs out', 'niggers go home and worse, into the heart of a black area, battoningasideallopposition!

Is the response so surprising? Time and again in recent years the NF have been allowed to march or meet in the black areas. Time and again the police have defended their "democratic right' to shout their filthy insults and mouth barbaric demands for the deportation of millions of people for no reason other than the colour of their skin. There are limits to what black people can bear.

MESSAGE

Thats the message that comes out of Lewisham and Ladywood. Black peopleare saying they're tired of these fascist marches, tired of the police frame-ups as with the Lewisham 21, tired of discrimination in jobs. schools and homes. Theyre saying. Were tired of taking the shit for the problems of this society. Get the bell off our backs!

The prew campaign against extremists" serves to cover up these,

COOKSON Sociailar Challena.

12.00am: The main demonstration heads off only to be told to disperse by the police, and the march leaders, a Many people have been led to think that the violence in Lewisham and in Birmingham was 'the work of extremists'. This is not true. What happened in both cases was more significant than that, something no left-wing group in Britain could organise: a justified explosion of anger and frustration by the

To the anti-fascists who gathered at New Cross to stop the NF marching in a black area, to those who assembled at Ladywood to stop the NF holding a meeting in a black area, the police tactics were familiar. The police have attacked us with horses and snatch squads before. Generally, the cops have been met with linked arms, maybe a few fists, even the odd missile. But when thousands of people meet the cops with bricks, bottles, paving stones - in short with anything and everything that comes to hand - and when thousands lay siege to police stations, then it must be obvious that something quite different is

not of the realissues. All the screams about left wing extremism, all the drooling about democracy, serves one purpose: to cover up the real culprits.

Like the culprits in the police. In taking the Front into the black areas, and in being willing and prepared in advanceto Lislerie the district, EnC Commander of the Metropolitan Police must be cuner a complete incompetentor else sympathetic to the National PrOt blockhead, a risk to the public and to his own men, or he shares the racial prejudices to which the virulent expression, What other conclusion will people draw?

It must also be added here that if MeNce doesnt keep his men off the Streets of Notting Hill this weekend, if he doesol withdraw and let the blacks look after their own organisation and discipline, then either he is completely blind or deliberately out то provoke a пог.

Or take the culprits in the Labour Goverament. For years now, these

pect people neare oTher

cconomic policies have created the conditions for the current wave of racialism. While denouncing the lett as 'enemies of democracy, it is they who have made, in fact, vicious attacks on the democratic rights of black people — splitting up families al the immigration points countenancing knock of the deportion Merlyn Rees is the democracic rights.

The themes of the capitalist press have been echoed by Morning Star, Tribune, and Labour Weekly. These papers have attacked the clement', and tell black people to trust in peace, persuasion and the law to sort out their problems.

What a disgusting spectacle! These people imagine that the rest of the 'left world is just like them. When you are threatened with disaster, with phy-

fascist march. the reformists,

demons! truly. BETE

peace

law and order

police.

Either ne 1s Yet these reformists are

pathetic. give tragedy. A step

pieces

SELF-CONFIDENCE found

the most

the midnight hope for the future.

officer. real threat to

"violent

ban Manchester.

deny that

1.30pm: Over 3,000 activists defied the police ban, and occupied New Cross, determined to stop the sical violence, with deportation, with police frame-up, you should steadfastly refuse to be provoked, turn the nents' ideas other cheek, and write wordy petitions to prove you're a good democrat.

And when people are forced by harsh reality to reject in practice the line of cops is the

these bureaucrats resort to the explanation that every thing's the fault of a few ultra-left

Bur passive bleating never won victories. It never stopped racism or fascism. We say to the reformists: if BANS you are genuinely concerned abour attacks on black peoples, then do us a favour: join us on the anti-fascist picket line. If you had mobilised your forces, in their many thousands, to stop the Front, then there would

violence in Lewisham. There would have been

in South London and in Birmingham. It is only your chicken heartedness, your blind faith in the

of the bourgeoisie, that ensured the anti-fascists and blacks would be attacked by the

doubly chester!

Tribune and the Morning Star mourn what happened in Lewi sham. To them it was all a great

back. For these peopie, the task is now to 'pick up the

in Britain.

Judging by the buckets of tears, some enormous defeat must have taken place. But where is this defeat?

The demoralised anti-fascists? The thousands of black people cowering in a new wave of fear? They can't be

— because they don't exist.

Far from discouraging the black community, the events of last week did the exact opposite. The victims of racialism discovered a new self-confidence, a new unity in struggle, one that no amount of petitions can give New links in struggle herween black and white were forged which are a

The events of last week also made it clear to the police and the NF that they had better stay out of the black areas. It will not be so easy to Birmingham. intimidate black people in future.

The mobilisation in Lewisham was a defeat for the NF — 10 the fury of the cops. Even now, there is talk of a

on the next NF march in

There has even heen a change in the assumptions of the capitalist press.

Increasingly fewer people now try lo

the NF are TAISLISES Defected!

Thousands of people don't throw bricks just because of their oppo-

The press campaign may serve to cover up for the police, However, the political and physical defeat of the

subject of profound in the councils of the bourgeoisie. That's why there is now a lotoftalk about bans. Theydon't want arepeat of Lewishamor Ladywood.

Let'sheclearabourbans. Ifahanis made against the next NF march, and it is a big it, it will be the product of the struggle of the anti-fascists and blacks at Lewisham and Ladywood. But the main point is this. Who is going to enforcethe ban? The police? What a joke! So what happens when the NF march illegally, or lind some way of invalidating the ban? Are the police going to do battle with the NE? And if a ban stops one march how long will it be kept up? No — we must keep up the mass mobilisation All out on October 8th in Man

Nor will a ban on fascist marches stop their physical assaults on black people, their homes. social centres. The only real guaranlee is black self-defence. Recent experience shows that cannot rely on the law and the police

Naturally, the bourgeoisie will manocuver to defeat these big steps forward in the anti-racist, anti-fascist struggle. Some sections of bourgeois

Such 3s Whitelaw and Griffiths want to go on a big campaign of repression against the left — creating new penalties such as

term of two years imprisonment for assaulting a police officer on duty. Others want to use the viccasion to hit the left as well as the right by giving new powers to the police to ban rallies, a move which will undoubtedly be used by police against the left. Coupled with these potential threats to the whole labour movement there is of course the disturbing militarisation of the police already seen last week in London and

But nesther the labour movement not the black communities must be deterred by these new developments. Lewisham and Ladywood, the self defence at the Grunwick picket line

-all these experiences vindicate the message we heard chanted on the streets of Lewisham and Ladywood: The Workers UNITED will never be

LEWISH

2.30pm: The police attack the occupation to clear a wi the fascists, only to be repelled

Behind the

The use of riot shields on th for many. But as ANN BO parcel of police and Gover control of the working ch

a tact, their surpaden t tagone people to he sight o rat shihis eu he screets, beco Lewishani, Kal well-orchestrate -is ibe bear cradiason af ab pelical, force of the workin

li started when they refused t bun the fascist march an ateunds that, firstly, the polic sere riot a pollial forte and court not tibe such decisions. an -hat i would be treach o 'democracy, for the Labout Cov benpens to cake such sation.

However, Their Stentions ho been clearly worked out in a vanot,and tacir lacies antole and classic. They inpend le demonstrate that be pes and only the police hase ile le to contral tou shit? Any nee Hon to ine con tary by tab den straters had to be stashed. A so: the pols ecavalry charge whic craued wasinor primarily sited be sacres being allawed lourc - 1 was as much so muel! al alisons that the left controll The streets.

Once hwing provoked th head it was on easy must sup 1 brock par the Pete-sole strela and itse them with bagn

an adrien to bee withod

bosever, the police ale alone «bemselves adept an the ruck methad al political conrin: Tew hours previous to the demon Station. the Rightto Wark cent Sos raided - aboaring the poli nice to informarion sabalta indelations of Die had so appose The belasieur the chowd was otisersed by hel copters which, as demonsteal

+ Creami and the US nose Fos fosheircost, antughly estimme cenuralisings infession p •ased trihe police cousrer quac

The police used rict which again to Burmingham two da allerwares, und will no doubt so again emative linking of Castep of the shieldain Bellain to che use of thi la: Nonhern helabd

burgeons press is to be copec fris simple for hero orate ch tetrorist? i Treland with she si called "buzgey af the leti? Britan But sorintshe sha make a difieren oquorinn

For mape years nose the Bit onel Goverment hae oc-operated, bran

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3.00pm; The fascists assemble in Clifton Rise, under massive police protection, The police attempt to

•..and those who choose to ignore it

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riot shields

reets is a new phenomenon D explains, this is part and ent strategy of the political

United States. There has been i mechods of riot control, and Moit of these method - the une of CS gas, rubber bullets, wate cannon and the like - have been ased extensively inNowhern Ireland. In their turn, the police have liaised with the army, htmadives experimenting with

terrogation methods eic. Some of the hardware wed in mot control has also been passed on to the police force. For example, the police have been equipped foe quite a long time with C5 gas — bose long-term effects are still unknown. The events leading up to Lewisham, where the police

ed cameras and audio equr

ent for the surveillance o black community, one vet anothc example of ihe way in which the police are being encouraged to se more sophisticated methods in he artempe to control an evel more restless working class.

Without wishing to be alarmist, is bkely that the police, siven the mccess at Lewisham, will be encouraged by the Governmentto expand their overt methods of control wall the akelod of stroger and stronger expressions not just in the fight against fascism attempesto restore lawand order' PUT TOIL efficient methods and pore and more violence.

They will be backed up in this campaign by she other wings of the The cat it no dare te The courts will no doubi secking to Impose heavy penalties on those facing Alter Lewisham, Birmingham and Notting Hill

Socialis should be well awore of the donams which rhese mesheds of polirical contral pose And, within that we should be awate: of the need to defend ourselvests completely as possible seir-defence And security and by modene & strom defence campaign fer those comrades facing the relaliation of the counts.

We air eremin hat our strengi liesin our unity with chore from the workers movement, the women's movement and big orgapisasions who are prepared e assert our right to pultial" dissentica through miass actiod.

'Ignore them in the streets and vote against them at the ballot box."

respond to the National Front

The

hooligans" directed against the anti-fascists, a revealing story cametolight.

someone fire-bombed almost destroyed the bookshop of Centreprise in Hackпсу. community centre heavily used by black vouth in the area. It turned our that this was the fourth attack of this sort on Centerprise this yeur. Moreover, three other bookshops in North and West London were subject to racist attacks in the course of the preceding month, including one fire-bombed. All specialised in books for the black community, In February an bookshop in Southall had been similarly attacked

concerted dation of the London black community only seeps into the light of day after Lewisham? Could it be thar the capitalist press is trying to teach London's blacks the lesson that has been so often drummed intothehead of che oppressed elsewhere: that it's only when you get up in your thousands and create bloody murder, that anyone is prepared to listen to the injustices that you have laboured under since birth?

take the fascists by a different route — and the occupation moves as one to confront the fascists.

streets.

example

This is the advice of Merlin Rees, Labour Home Secretary, on how to

fascists of the Unfortunately, if you are black, or a labour movement activist, it is getting more than a little in his head. difficult to ignore the fascists on the

violence

they

'forgot'

New.

In the midst of all the outcries

of 'extremists', "thugs", and

On Monday, 15 August, 'One down. and

Centerprise is a local or the Why is it that this obviously effort at intimiits Lewisham

Just take the Lewisham area as an

Deptford: Bola Femi, a young Nigerian, was attacked outside a pub by racists. His head was smashed, both his arms broken. A busman who went to his aid had to have 12 stiches

Lambeth: A disco run by Lambeth Council for black and white youth was smashed by a gang of white youth armed with knives and a sawn off shotgun Five youth were badly injured and taken to hospital. Lewishom: A public meeting held by the Lewisham 24 Defence Committee formed to help a group of mainly black defendents who face charges of "conspiracy torob" was broken up by the National Front. One woman was beaten unconscious

Cross: A few weeks later members of the NF launched savage attack on a demonstration in support of the Lewisham 24.

This is the real face of the National Front and other fascists. Like Kingsley Kead, who declared after the murder of an Asian youth inSouthall.

one million la go. black people will not leave Britain of their own accord, then they must be beaten, attacked and intimidated until they change their mind - that is LICE COILS

Nor will the fascist attacks stop at black people. White labour movement activists are already coming under attack, Like the Communist Party day school attacked in Leeds,

Trades Council member in Tower Hamlets marked down by the NF to have his kneecaps smashed.

Yet Rees tells us to ignore the fascists on the streets and confine ourseives to a vote against them at the ballot box. The labour movement will heed such advice at its peril.

NO PLATFORM

The National Front are no ordinary political party - they are fascists, intent on making black people the scapegoats. for the economic crisis and destroying the organisations ol the working class - its trade unions,

politica parties. The labour

be prepared to organise, along with the black community, to defend itselt againse the lascist attacks

Part and parcel of that in denying the fascists a platform to spread their racist filth and provoke arteks on the left and blacks. The demonstration in

called by the NF. cxample, was openly aimed a: intimi-

dating the black community and encouraging area.

Those people who are attracted te the apparently tough solutions to the

crisis offered by the fascists must be shown that the labour

means business too - that it can and will defend itself and defeat the Front not just in the ballot box, but on the streets and wherever Tascisnu tries lo strike out.

Those like Labour Party General Secretary Ron Hayward, or Labour's Ladywood candidate, who join with Tory Michael Heseltine MP to denounce the lunatic elements of left and right, offer no defence for the labour movement

against the fascists

Michael Foot spends all his time attacking so-called socialists - those no resort to violence - who are not socialists at all', thus claiming that the anti-fascists who meet fascist violence with organised self-defence are as bad as the fascists. This is the old trick of trying to lump logether the attacker and the victim, if the latter dares to light back. It glosses over the real difference between the vilence or the lasests and the

out, through their meetings and demonstrations, attacks by bands of thugs upon black and labour movement activists; the anti-fascists arc fighting for organ ised mass action by movement as a whole. to defend the labour movement and the black contunity.

Far from offering any defence for the labour movement, Rees and Foot supported McNce in using 4000 police in an attemptto allow the fascists togo phead with their march.

The paper of the left MPs in the Labour Party, Tribune offers eqwally dismal rems of wisdom, First, a propaganda campaign fascists br the Tabout Party, Excellenr. Bur why does Tribune not call for the Labour Governsent repeal immigration laws, as is the polics of the last Labour Party conference? This would show a real willingness to campaign against the ideas of che National Front.

Front whilst pursuing racist policies is pure hypocrisy:

Tribune's real position can be seen from their refusal to support the counter-mobilisation against the lasists: "Ir there had confrontation would the NF have got for the amount of Tribune asks. Well, perhaps it wond

4.00pm: The anti-fascists are re-assembling at Lewisham

clock tower when the police decide on a show of force to demonstrate that they control the streets. racist attacks in the

movement John Sever,

defend itself? that the fascists are Lewisham

to incite

for

sham, saying the labour the fascists.

against the

Government and

the racist

Condemning the lence - by

time,

not ben a

publicity t did?

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE SPECIAL ISSUE not. But we would ask - is it not only because of consistent mobilisations to deny a platform to the National Front that the press finally now almost unanimously admits that they are fasels? Was not the effect of Lewisham - the outrage displayed, not just by members of the far left but by the whole labour movement and local black people - to finally pia the fascist label on the Front and tear away their veil of respectability And did it now show to fascist sympath isers nationally that the Front offers no easy way out, because it will be mer with the most determined te sponse from the labour movement to

COMMUNIST PARTY

The Communist Party on the other hand do claim to offer a means of defence - Never again must the NF be allowed to parade its racist poison through the streets. Its marches must be stopped hy the police. However. until the police do that the Communist Party are content to retreat indoors and leave the fascists to rouse their hate marches through black communities as they sought to do at

Instead of denying the fascists a platform, the Communist Party call

La broad democratic alliance' like that with church figures in Lewi

that it is by the development of this 'political, mass action" that the NF will be defeated We have seen only too well what this meant in Lewisham - limiting action against the Front to that which is acceptable to the church figures, and dispersing the anti-cacist forces as soon as the police step in to defend

We too are in favour of political mass action to stup the front Weroo are in favour of imposing a han on the fascist marches. But we start from mobilising the labour move ment to impose that ban. The CPS tailing behind local church figures leads them to ignore

leaders of the labour movement to implement their calls to defeat the Tascists with the minnam of vio

mobilising the labour movement to make sure that tens of thousand of workers turn up next

in Tameside in October. to atop the annoenced National Front march. We can be sure ben that the fascists wont dare show their faces, and the police wonl waste time trying to clear a way for them Will we see you there, gentlemen?

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Labourmajority

The results of the Lady- kers Party wood by-election -above - are further encouragement to the far-left and anti-fascist forces

The figure of under 900 votes for the NF was far less than they were expecting. the massive desertion of voters from the Liberals (who received more than 3000 votes and 13.49 of the poll in the general election), from which the NF has gained most of its recent electoral support, this was a really poor showing

Moreover, almost 100 votes

utionarycandidates - 3.4%) ili sectarian for Raghib Ahsan of Socialist Unity and 100 for

No sooner was the Lewisham demonstration over than Fuhrer Webster was announcing the intention of the National Front to hold a further march. This is to be on 8 October in Tameside near Manchester, and will be preceded by a meeting at Hyde Town Hall. Already the Tameside anti-fascist committee, set up by Tameside Trades Council, has called for a counter-mobilisation to deny the Front a platform

Webster has announced that the theme of the march will be "law and order". What he means by law and order can be seen from his reason for marching in

The aim [of the Lewisham march] was simply to give heart to white people in Deptford who had voted for us and show they had not been forgotten as they had by all the trendies who run the country and do nothing but pander to black muggers! For black and Asian people in Tameside the law and order of the Front means more vicious police harassment of black people, the fascist thugs being left alone to attack black people, and tear gas and rubber bullets for the police to attack any opposition to the fascists. The law and order of the Front means terror for the black communities.

The Front must be refused a further platform to spread their policies of violence against black people - the labour movement must ensure that they do not march. Only a mass counter-demonstration, involving thousands of socialists, trade unionists and black people, which denies the fascists access to the streets can effectively do this. In every locality, the priority must be united action by the whole labour movement in support of the call by Tameside

Ladywood result

anti-fascists

working class have been iden

our.

If one adds to these figures

Given stood on a reformist, nonetheless anti-racist platthe tremendous tential of the Ladywood campaign becomes clear.

SWP

were cast for explicitly revol Party had not insisted upon to the crying need for max-

course separate candidate, and revo- upsurge

Gordon of the Socialist Wor- had entered the Ladywood urgently from dus to day. Kim

campaign as a solid bloc there is no doubt that the far left could have gathered an even greater proportion of : 5,227 (53pc) this anti-racist 4,402 (23pc] and, more importantly, gath-

.. 765 (Spc) ered support from a consid534[3.Aue) 336(2.3pe) disillusioned by the divisions crable number

: 153(1pc) in the left, and either ab stained or valed Labour. ,6380.4pc) .40:.3pc) Unity 3,425 Imagine the effect thousand votes cast revolutionary, leaving the NF vote well behind and coming third after the two - an excellent parties, right in the face of given showing in a country where the press hysteria over Lewi for so long socialism and the sham and Ladywood! This

would have knocked a really tified exclusively with Lab- big dent in the ruling class's

propaganda manoeuvres, We would be having, even in the the 336 votes cast for James columns of the Hunt, a black candidate who press. a very ditferent debate

bus about the lessons of Ladywood that could make tens of pO- thousands of class militants think the need for a socialist alternative Let us hope that the SWP finally learns the lessons of

If the Socialist Workers this expersence, and responds

of a imum unity that the current

lutionaries and anti-fascists struggle demands ever more

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The battle of Cable Street, 4 October 1936

the first day

sentiment. Adolf

who were forced the

march.

of for

'great Home capitalist

minate arrests

working about dropping

The

anti-fascist It needs:

Money'

cOoly one thing could have stopped our movement if our adversaries had understood its principles and from ty branch.

Ehud smashed Witnesses* with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our movement»

Hitler, 1933

In Lewisham on 13 Aug ust, 5000 trade unionists, socialists, and black youth,

Nazi National Front to abandon their

The police were determin- address; ed to let the Nazis march. They artested over 200 antilascists on charges ranging from breach of the peace to grievous bodily harm. Bit it is not the anti-fascists who should be in the dock • it is

Merlin -SELLAT Rees and Police Commiss ioner MeNce. They sought to allow the front to march shrough a strong black community spouting racist filth, unleashing 4000 police in baton and horse charges. and making mass indiscri-

That is why a Defence Commitize was set up last week to campaign for the

all charges against the anti-fascists.

defence committee needs the help of all those who want to stop the fase-

Collection sheets have now been produced

Lewisham defence

committee formed

Resolutions of support for those arrested from your trade union or Labour Par-

to arrests 10 come forward.

Meetings in each town 1o be addressed by the defence committee speakers, organised through anti-fascist co

The Defence Committee can be contacted al this

Treasurer, Lewisham De-

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Lewisham 24

The Front'smarch through Lewisham was called on the prelext of protesting against 'black muggers'. One group of supposed "black muggers' are the Lewisham 24 charged by police with con spiring with each other and persons unknown to roc persons unknown' after carly morning raids on 60 homies in Lewisham on 30 May. No specific charges were brought. It seems that all the police are certain about is that they did it, or rather. intended to do it, - but just what, when, and how, thes 21593757 88

Since then the NF have heen determined to give the police support in any way they can. On 17 June they broke up an open meeting called by the Lewisham 24 Defence Committee, beat-

woman unconselous. Then on July 2nd. they attacked a demonstration in support of the 24. On the first occasion no fascists were arrested, despite dramatic photographs of the incident. The second incident resulted in the police arresting 50 people - 23 of whom were anti-fascists

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