Defend the Newham 8
Class Fighter1983 1983-05-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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STOP THE POLICE BILL!
NATIONAL CONFERENCE - SUNDAY MAY 15 Organised by the National Campaign Against the Police Bill, c/o Hackney Town Hall, Mare St., London E8 (tel. 01-986 3123 e. tiality of personal UNITE BILL FIGHT INDIAN SMASH MACIST LADI PAR individualise, intimidate and brutalise anyone unlucky enough to be picked up for a lengthy period without anyone else being informed.
But besides this (bad as it is) the police also get powers to enable them to control wide geographical areas and WHITE as the people living there. AR MIGRANTS life in that other 'part' of the UK - the North East of Ireland. There, the British state and its armed police and army have been trying to subdue for decades, the nationalist communities who want the British to get out.
We should see the Police Bill 'as part of a growing authoritarian, reactionary, anti-working class trend in the Thatcherite Britain of the 1980s.
A forerunner of this STI trend was the Prevention of Terrorism Act, originally a temporary measure which has, in fact, been maintained year after year.
Well, what can we do about it? this Bill. Write letters to, and lobby, local coun cillors and Members of Parliament, expressing your concern.
If you are in the Labour Party Young Socialists try to get your local Labour Party to join you in mounting a campaign of leafletting and public meetings. Contact local trade unions and community groups, especially black groups.
If you are in YCND smash any dissent against Tuture wars = nubied of not.
And point out that it is linked to the recent proposals by various Tory MPs that demonstrators should be liable to pay for the police presence on their march - an attack on the right of people to organise and assemble together. You'll need to raise vast amounts of money first, whether you want the police around or not!
if you don't belong to Room 5C kt. 280).
The Newham 8 - Asian youths aged between 15 and 21 - face charges of conspiracy as well as threatening behaviour and actual bodily harm.
They were arrested on September 24 1982 after an incident with plain-clothes police officers. In the previous week there had been three major racist attacks on Asian schoolchildren at Little Iltord School, in Newham, and an incident where 60 or 70 white youth with iron bars and sticks went on the rampage in East Ham and Manor Park.
Sand invitations for speak.
ors. or resolutions of support, to Nowham 8 Defence Campaign, c/a PO Box 273. London E7 9JN.
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fretamd HEY CALL THE KILLING OF STEPHEN M COMONE CIVIL ORDER NOS •• THERE 15 HOWEVER A CERTAIN DISADVANTAGE IN BEING UNABLE TO SEE WHERE YOU'RE GOING... WALKING BACIOWARDS DOWN CITY STREETS IS A VERY USEFUL SKILL!
JUST LIKE THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT I CAN SEE EXACTLY WHERE I HAVE BEEN....
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