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and on weekends frog for their card. ON February 25 about 3,000 people came out on the YOPs lobby of Parliament, called by the YS: About 1,000 came from the Right to Work Campaign, who held.a march around London in the days running up to the lobby to highlight the fight of YOPs workers to From the platform of the rally Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner kept their comments strictly on the Tories and never mentioned what the last Labour government did for YOPs or what the next one should do. Maybe that had something to do with the All in all it was quite a successful day. Many YOPs workers had taken strike action and begun to NXIOUS not to be raght out unprepared • the summer riots this ras, the Tories have ent the winter busily reaming up new penales to deal with the dublesome unemployed ho are sure to take to re streets again this immer.

The Lew Commission •5 com: up with a teamlin ng of the old mars of riot, unlawful isembly and affray. hese laws aren't used ery much as it is diffiit to get a conviction the wording is so ague and you can usual¡ win on a technicality. b obviously judges and ne cops want to make pem more precise to teal with rioters.

The Commission proioses to get rid of the technicalities'. Under its roposals a riot would onsist of 'three or more ersons present together • public or private, engaged in an unlawful purse of violent conduct. The maximum tenalty would be 14 tears and an unlimited ine.

•lex Owalade ity to transform the YS That means it would That means it would be much easier to lift be much easier to lift anyone on the streets (or anyone on the streets (or even in a house), at the even in a house), at the time of a riot. and charde time of a riot, and charge them and get a convic tion for riot.

The prosecution would not even have to they had a "comprove purpose" - if mon you're there, then you're guilty.

The recommendations of this Commission are likely to become law later this year, when the Tories have worked out what strengthening of the 1936 Public Order Act they want and whether they should have a new Riot Act or not. The Tories are taking chances. no They'll all behind have bars!

Beat yourself up fight for women's rights, worked out. politan Police. to be attacked.

laws riots 1 erupt i new curfew ord Offenders under ise against could be confined e need to their parents' hompeople an every night from 6chat is seen midday to 6 am the neley can be day. That's more th genuinely the curfew was what goes Poland after the militadiscuss the coup. ne up.

Yet they have 1 cheek to go on abr "freedom" in Britain! nend"

The Tories are sne ing these new lat recent YS through boosted by it is easy to hysteria whipped up at present their press over r this. For figures on street cri for Labour produced by the Mercracy also The YS. We These figures are system where posed to show a ¡ Committee between being black ye as much being a "mugger". Trhole discusdeliberately forgot' m up. We show that Asians are! having the times more likely to ecommend" attacked by a white tes ‚e are differ- should round; and West Ind should be than the other are 30 times more lijot stamped Die National And the street cri for which figures way we will made available repres of youth to only 3% of all sery organising crime. for struggles The Tories are d agree that erately whipping upset women's law and order brigad, under this push through repre that doesn't as withiting for the iu Utal WIL that are boun bortion on again this sumr equality at luality in the vement. We ‹ a bosses' spective from that of the Youth Movement Or Militant group. That better still, get your YS means we have to be to sponsor our paper. It totally committed to you can't do that, take building the YS with out a subscription and a Class Fighter's politics. Class Fighter supporter's Why not get your YS 1As00s.

get decent wages and conditions.

TV cameras present. ONE year ago, at YS national conference, a delegate from Coventry North East YS spoke of increased racist attacks locally and nationally. The motion calling for self defence now was lost. Ironically, and tragically, the day before, Satnam Singh Gill had been brutally murdered by racists the busy shopping centre.

Satnam was one of 24 racist murder victims killed between January 1 and July 18 1981.

In January, 13 young black people were killed the New Cross Massacre. In Coventry, in July Amal Dharry was stabbed to death by a young racist who "killed a Paki for a f5 bet' and in London Fenton Ogbogbo was stabbed to death in a chip shop.

Also in July of that year, Mrs Khan and her three young children were burned to death by racist petrol bombs. Two weeks later, Charaun Kaur, a disabled woman, was also burned to death by an arsonist.

These are only the tip of the iceberg, of course. Hundreds of racist attacks take place monthly.

Racist attacks, like sexist attacks, are all too often treated with indifference, ignored in a society which condones racism. This indifference too often is found in the labour movement.

JOHN HARRIS real challenge to cheap labour.

Youth Movement.

As Class Fighter supporters we don't think the black and antiracist community can rely on the police to protect them against racist or fascist attacks. Why not?

Firstly, the police force, regardless of their' origins, are not _our police force. Even though we or our parents pay for them through the rates, we have no say, control or restraint in what they do.

We may think they operate in our interest, but they don't. Just look at their role in differentl areas.

In Toxteth, Ken Ox-l ford, chief constable of Merseyside who ordered the use of CS gas, said off the riots:

the march, we also goi Left Wing

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(Coventry Asian Youth, 1981) ANTI DEF