seling it for 200 francs (four pounds) a bottle. We re Iquidating the stock Brassed off Meanwhile workers in the toolroom at Dagenham have been forced to spend more than 200 hours, some it of it at overtime rates, making a brass port decaner for retring chairman Lindsey Hallord. Halford is respon sible for making compulsory redundancies.
Let them eat mince pies "Mr Kipling' company Manor Bakeries have scrapped their annual gift to company pensioners - a Christmas card and a sub-standard cake. The recession is cited as the reason. The cakes were badly-made ones rejected by stores. Union leaders are asking workers to make donations to ensure the pensioners get their cakes.
New Healyites?
What kind of organisation is the SWP becoming?
Pete McDonald and Jeff Lowe. Over 300 people - nearly half of them Black - attended the Anti-Racist Alliance "Community Action, Remedies* conference on 14th November. The conference took place in Greenwich, an area in which racist attacks -including murders - have been increasing. Amongst a large number of speakers in the morning session Legal came from Clara Buckley. Clara is the most moving contribution the mother of Orville Blackwood, who was killed in Broadmoor Behind the Asylum Bill hospital after being given 2 injecdons simultaneously.
Normally these injections
should be administered 2 weeks apart! Orville was forcibly taken to a seciusion room and infected for exercising his legal right not to attend occupational thorapy Clara is also the grand-mother of Rolan Adams, a 15 year old murdered by while racists in nearby Thamesmead. Her personal ragodies graphically illustrate the links between institutionalised state racism and the activites of There was litte opportunty for discussion in the morning session so most debate took place in the attemoon work-shops. attacked in the Police and Racist Attacks" workshop. The panel in. troduced with the comment that the title may seem strange to dologates when the single biggest perpetrator of racist attacks is the police. The meating agrood that selljust get my (wallet. I EC Europe (including Britain): 11 year's subscription (24 issues): €15 C i Six months' subscription (12 issues): 68 O Non-EC Europe: 1 year £20 C Six months E11 O , Rest of the World: 1 year £24 Six months E13 O " I include a donation of E Name I Address No. 32 Anti-Racist Alliance defence is the key question and most people thought there was no possibilty of reforming the police.
The role of the police was again many in the "Racism and Europe' session. He pointed to the collusion between the police, government, employers and neo-nazis in carrying out attacks Conterence organiser Benny Bunsee argued that if the ARA is going to grow it must base ibell upon community actions; otherwise it wil become a bureaucratio institution.
We totally agree with this. It can only be achieved, however. through involving organisations that already have a track-record of bulding local campaigns with the capabity of taking on a national profile.
Any intiative around racist attacks must include organisations such as Southall Monitoring Group, Newham Monitoring Project and the Manchester Subscription Rates Send to Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 200 21 Nov, 1992
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