TUC Black leadership and the weight of organised labour are needed for successful counter-mobilisation of anti-racists Gainst RACISM There has been an abrupt increase in racist activity in east Oxford in recent weeks.
In Regent Street the home of a Somali family was badly damaged by fire. Police are treating it as arson: the family escaped but five members were hospitalised overnight to monifor the effects of poisoning by smoke.
On Cowley Road the house of a rabbi and prominent local leader of El Chaim was attacked with firebumbs which failed to cause serious damage.
This attack has been ascribed variously to people outraged by the massacre of Palestinians in a Hebron mosque by a Jewish settler, or to fascists.
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BP and racist gratfiti has appeared outside DSS offices and a community centre; a window was broken at the next-door Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union Office.
Former National Front organiser John Wilshaw, who served nine months for attacking a mosque in Aylesbury, Bucks works in Oxford. He claims to be a reforined character.
Two Kidlington men last year got off charges of participating in a BNP attack on an Anti Racist Alliance event in Isleworth, West London.