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The national mobilisation against the National Front called for August 20 in Brick Lane, East London, must be fully supported by the whole labour movement.

In going on to the offensive against a chosen fascist stronghold the local immigrant communities and antifascist forces are adopting a correct tactic in the struggle to put an end to racist attacks, bombings and propaganda..

If the National Front are allowed 'to regain their former positions in Brick Lane it will signify a substantial setback for the working class movement which has repeatedly in the past shown its ability to drive out fascist thugs and paper sellers-from the time of Moseley onwards.

But . for asustained struggle to be maintained against the NF, the whole of the local labour movement must be mobilised, not simply on the basis of weekend demonstrations but into established workers defence squads capable of protecting the local Asian community against fascist The trade union movement in East London has By the calendar of the Shah's 'white revolution', it is only ten years before Iran enters 'the era of the great civilisation' But last week the Shah was driven to impose martial law on Isfahan and 3 neighbouring towns for the not led, but lagged behind PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report the growing militancy of Asian workers and youth determined to defend themselves.

The lead in each of the major anti-fascist mobilisátions has come not from the unions but a multitude of lad hoc committees and groupings emerging amongst the Asian community and from the confused pacifists of the Anti Nazi League.

The ANL peddles the illusion that fascism can be defeated through an open door alliance of workers' organisations with "progressive" capitalist groupings, and through purely propaganda activity and protests.

But the fact is that i the streets of East London can only be cleansed of fascist filth through the establishment of workers defence squads, in which the trade unions must play the decisive role.

The laggardly response of the unions in East London to the attacks suffered by Asian workers has held back crushing of violent opposition to his regime.

A strict curfew is in force, along with a total ban on assemblies of more than three people, including the religious services for Ramadan.

‹Seventeen people were killed and scores injured as the security forces of the dictatorship moved in to smash demonstrations and rioting.

In southern Shiraz, three people were killed, over 200 ioin the unions and fight ment. within them for the policy of huildino workers defence VI UHULLIE YUINVIO UNIVINE squads, drawing on forces from every workplace, every factory, from working class estates, trade unions and every labour movement political organisation, and mobilising united action of black and white workers side by side to defeat the fascists. latest wave from the flood tide of mass opposition which is sweeping round the feet of the Shah's Peacock Throne.

Rising three weeks ago at Mashad in the northeast, this great movement has raced across the whole country, surfacing at the capital, Tehran, and every