made to make the October 16 'Unity' demonstration against the BNP a massive success. But the organisation for that day has been marred by another display of disunity and narrow-minded factionalism inside the anti-racist movement.
While the ANL and Youth gainst Racism in Europe mo ilise in south London agains ance is holding a separate demonstration in central London.
The initiative for a united demonstration came out of the fiasco in the early summer of three different demonstrations in south London organised on successive weekends by the three abovenamed organisations. This was clearly crazy.
Bringing together the ANL and YRE was an important success, especially as they were clearly competitors for the same political turf' and audience.
But the ARA, which has scored important successes in the black community and in the trade unions, went ahead with its own demonstration.
Arguments about who did what and who is to blame for there being two demonstrations are now beside the point.
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