Defend Against Racist Attacks!

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recent weeks with many more beatings-up. With the vote of the TUC in favour of wage cutting the press is continuing on its campaign to turn the trustration caused by the trade Every action of the fascists is receiving massive publicity - whether it be a National Party member punching a Labour councillor on the chin in Blackburn (3rd item on TV news) or the continuous coverage for Robert Relf's hearings at which a handful of National Front supporters There has been • coverage of Relf's wife asking him to give it up.

Every one of those minor fascist demonstrations was given as much if not more coverage than a demonstration of 4,000 through Southall, More racialist attacks are going to take place. The necessity for developing defence squads in those areas where attacks are already The task of revolutionaries is both to defend those being attacked More than 3,000 workers and youth, the majority of them Asians, marched through Southall last Saturday to and show that these attacks are a class issue, and that fascism is about formation of vigilante groups have taken a step forward in breaking breaking up the organisation of the working class as a whole. Those immigrant organisations or individuals who have started the their houses to join the demonstration as it passed by.- As the marchers reached the spot where Gurdip Chaggar was murdered the chanting stopped and the demon- The march, which started with less than a thousand demonstrators, quickly swelled as Asian youth cam from stration passed by in complete silence. Asian owned shops in the centre of Southall closed briefly as a mark of state, to defend themselves against fascism - which itself is a form of respect. A number of contingents could be heard calling for workers defence squads to be set up. The enormous response Unlike the International Marxist Group and other groups we do not say it is a question of "Build labour movement support for Black The local labour movement must now take responsibility for organising these squads jointly with local immigrant self-defence" (Red Weekly front page statement 10.6.76) or "Only the guarantee for protection against racist attacks" (IMG national leaflet). defence of the black communities by blacks themselves are any We fight for the organisation of defence on a class basis; fascists have already attacked public meetings on Ireland and will be soon attacking WSL members and supporters in affected areas must raise at their union branches, tradse councils and Labour parties the fight for joint formation with immigrant organisations of workers defence squads.

Where possible, we must fight for this within the immigrant organisations urging immigrant workers to seek the support of the labour movement as a whole in their struggle against fascist attack.

WSL members and supporters in areas affected must propose at their union branches, trades councils and Labour Parties that a fight is waged for workers defence squads organised jointly between immigrant and Where possible, we must fight for this within immigrant-organised defence squads by attending as delegates from the trade unions and urging that they unify with trade union bodies, particularly trades union leadership into racialist channels.

have demonstrated.

against racialism.

taking place is therefore becoming more urgent.

capitalism.

pickets and the labour movement as a whole. trade union organisations.

councils, in their fight against fascist attack. organisations.