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the 18 Islington youth facing frame-up charges of conspiracy to rob, a march of 400 through Islington demanded their immediate release.
The lively march was supported by a number of local Labour Parties, union branches and political groups including the WSL.
It demanded the lifting of all the charges and expressed its protest at every police station in the area where the youths had been attacked.
This backing from the local labour movement must now be made solid by each organisation taking part in the workers' enquiry into the behaviour of the police. -CKS The local Labour Party must in particular fight for the removal of Merlyn Rees, the minister of the Liberal-Labour government responsible for the racist activities of the PHOTO: John Sturrock (Report)
police force.
One speaker in the concluding rally declared: "Black people are being made scapegoats of the economic crisis, and we will not have it! We are going to fight back."
She named a number of trials staged against blacks in which the police had lost out of hand, and PHOTO:
said they must lose again in Islington.
The trial is expected to last about four months and cos considerable amount of taxpa vers money. Recent meeting to support Istington 18