Coventry: fighting for workers defence squads

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A national demonstration in Coventry has been called in response to the racist murder of Satnam Gill and thirt! other artacks on blats i April alone.

3e=*x 2EDIE: I bbo1 S0Dez: ad i a pari si ite zost triggie io bulld the Banad strength of black rout. #orkers and the «bot labour movement to drive the fascists off the MAURICE LUDMER Wie heard with great regret of the death of Maurice Ludmer, editor of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight' We shall be publishing an obituary next week.

By harnessing the militancy of black youth and by attracting sections of the black workers' organisations.

he Commite io: Antia Deeze Scrats arc S: 25:2502003 2:20:3:3S2D Erie Labour PIT Trades Council and trade unions the left has been forced away from words and has been spurred into action.

Workers self defence is being put firmly on the agenda in the Coventry labour movement, and the reformists and right wing are scrambling to regain the situation, and are being politically exposed in the process.

Among the gains of the last week was the motion passed by the Coventry South-East Labour Party calling for affiliation and financial aid to the Committee and for the organising of anti-racist defence.

Besides organising physical resistance to the fascists' arat: on blacks. the Com0. Ani Racist Datese This is because black set defence can only ultimately be secured through the united strength of the working class.

Racism and fascism are the result of crisis-ridden capitalism, and are only part of the attacks that are made on the labour movement by the bosses.

Though the bosses in the case of Coventry may not be directly responsible for the fascist gangs, they have cleared the way for themby daily insisting through the media (which they own) that blacks and immigration are a problem.

It is not Marxist theory alone that tells us that the organisations of the working ¿lass are tomorrow's target =* the fascists. Already there sai been the attack on the Le: Party meeting in S== and i Coventry desertial attacks 2= 3000: the Issues 0: 3T 12 defence as last Friday's Upper Stoke ward public meeting showed.

It is our task to build workers' self defence now and as an integral part of the fight for a workers government and armed reaction that will provoke from the bosses.

Black self-defence must not be left to develop in isolation from the strength of the whole working class, because it is not the bravery of black youth that will be noticed by the bosses, their police, their press and their They will seize on that isolation to victimise them even further and make them a terrible example to the whole working class.

We must not allow the bosses to turn the failure of their capitalist system to aande jobs and decen: ivine standards, into an attack on the black community.

*Build anti-racist defence squads and workers defence squads!

fascists with previous periods. What in fact the AHA have produced is a mixed-up jumble of statistical jargon which

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inside the labour movement, to defend our organisations,