ASIAN youth Quaddus Ali lies in a critical condition in the Royal London Hospital, with possible permanent brain damage after being left beating by a racist gang of eight on Wednesday 8 September.
Quadous and two trends were attacked as they werd walking in the street.
A vigil attended by 300 peopic outside the hospital on Inday 10 September ended in violence after the police snatched youths from the crowd.
The police typically claim they were attacked by angry youths and that politically mo tivated troublemakers' unknown to community leaders 'hijacked' the vigil.
They are trying to play down their role in causing the violence and at the same time play up the 'good relations between the police and the community. Bengali youth do not share that view and perceive the police as their CHECHEY The situation in the East End is volatile with sporadic violence continuing over the weekangry about the lack of action in dealing with racist attacks and police collusion with racists. Nine people appeared in court on Monday 13 charged with ri oting after Friday's protest. A acience campaige thes occase Real violence This attempt by the police to smooth over the real violence and threat to the black community coricsa the same time Close down BNP as the trial of HQ! Stop racist cused of murdering Asian violence! taxi driver Fiaz Mirza Join the UNITY WilS WON robbed, and demonstration car which was Sat OCT 16 1pm then pushed into the Plumstead Common Thames docklands.
The BNP is also standing a candidate in a council by-elec tionin Milwall ward, on the Isle of Dogs on September 16, and canvass returns indicate that support for the fascists stands at 34 percent!
Last October, in a by-election in the same ward the BNP gained 20 percent of the vote. Labour managed to hold on to the ward by a strong campaign co-ordinated by the left.
This time their campaign 1s hopeless, with only 4 - 5 campaigners out each night compared to the BNP who are campaigning in groups of 30. in these larse steues and as some or them canvass, olners march up and down chanting racist filth. Residents say they have seen their neighbours coming out and shaking hands with the fascists. The weakness of the left in the local Party, the percep. tion that Labour councillors are complicit in many of the unpopular housing policies. the racist postic of Tower Hamlets Liberal Council and the failure of the Labour Party to mount an antiracist campaign has meant the BP have been able to grow and increase in influence.
Labour councillors in Milwall are up to their necks in carrying out the Liberals dirty work for them. The Liberals Fascists in London's East End have played on racist sentiment, their policies fuelling racism.
The BP have been able to capitalise frustration amongst the white islanders about housing and inadequate repairs and maintenance poliCics The response of the anti-fascist organisations has been poor and often destructive. 'Islanders Against the Nazi's was formed last year and has met on an in. frequent basis since then.
When the by-election was called they put out a leaflet on the estates without holding a meeting - it was obvious the leaflet had come straight from the SWP and even their local members had not been inThey wanted to hold a rally in Milwall park which is bordered by two estates with mainly Bengali residents.
This action would merely give a platform for the SWP and then leave the local community vulncrable to the violence from the BNP after the SWP had gone home.
These sort of tactics will not unite anti-racists but instead create divisions and merely promote one particular organisaIt remains to be seen who will win the by-election but even if the BNP lose, the size of their vote and vicious racist attacks will mean it is more urgent than ever to create a united anti-racist movement truly rooted in the community.
challenge the chair. HOME NEWS Caving in to the electricians could prove a costly mistake. Now, with the Tories' abolition of Bridlington, the ABBU will do pretty much as it likes.
It was left to the NUM to address head on the need to unshackle the unions. A motion calling for defiance of the antiunions laws won surprisingly wide support, garnering 2.418.000 votes 4,757,000 with backers including Unison, UCATT and GMPU.
Socialist Outlook supporter Paul Davidson, a UCATT delegate, was a key speaker in support of the NUM resolation. A mainstream composite pledging continued nominal opposition was passed instead.