Mobilise against Coventry race attacks

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Within the last fort. night the fascists have gone on the offensive both physically and ideologically in Coventry.

On Thursday June 4 they attacked three Asians and stabbed one of them seriously as they were leaving a pub in a predominantly black area.

This recent assault, conducted by racist skinheads shows that organised fascists are at work in Coventry and have chosen it as the target area in the Midlands.

Following the gigantic and highly successful demonstration held in Coventry on Saturday May 23 the New National Front has applied to the counci to hold a demonstration on the same day as The Specials and other bands are due to play for the anti-fascist struggle in Coventry:

The NNF organiser Alan Stewart has declared the march in the name of *law and order" and has stated:

"NNF marches have always been conducted with the highest standard of dress and behaviour in mind. In view of the police decision to allow recent highly provocative and offensive demonstrations to proceed we envisage no problems with our application"

The Labour leader of Coventry City Council has called for the march to be banned while the Tories are demanding a blanket ban.

No answer.

The history of the antifascist struggle tells us that state bans are no answer to the fascist onslaught. The fascists are always protected by the police whenever they march, unmolested, while it is the labour movement and the anti-fascists who are crippled and paralysed by state legislation.

It is no accident that renewed calls for the amendment of the Public Order Act occur at a time when youth and workers in Britain and internationally are at the forefront of the struggle.

. the NNF were to march in Coventry without police protection they would be physically taken on and smashed by the united efforts of the militant black community and the labour movement.

The Coventry Committee Against Racism intends to organise a counter-demonstration wherever the fascists march on 20 June, at the same time as ensuring that the Specials concert is defended.

It must be seen as an attempt to unite black and white youth behind the antifascist struggle.

It is a real public opportunity for actively exposing the lies of the fascists and to show that they have nothing to offer white youth.

The last attack by the fascists now urgently points to the need for the labour movement to act.

The black community and all labour movement bodies are at risk. They are not dealing with just undisciplined gangs of skinheads. Defence squads must be built to crush these attacks wherever they occur.

Already sections of the labour movement have come forward with the call to launch a labour movement inquiry into the arrests that took place on the massive demonstration on May 23.

This should be seen as the first step towards setting tions of the labour movement. But it is in the workplace, the Labour Party wards and trade union branches that the fight must be sharply waged against racist terror.

*No to police/state bans!

*Organise to drive the fascists out of Coventry!

*Build black and white labour movement defence squads!

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