OLIVER CAMPBELL is a Black man with severe learning difficulties. He was convicted in December 1991 of murder and conspiracy to rob. He has been locked up since November 1990.
On 22nd July 1990 two Afro-Caribbean men attempted to rob a Hackney Eagle Bye" has given the green light for police to step up their repression and intimiAlongside this offensive the Tories are planning to ence. open up a second front against black people, with even ers. "internal" Campbell's campaign, like many other anti-racist campalgns, Is a sponsor of 7 October 'Demand Justice' march off-licence, the shopkeeper the escape placed the height was killed in the struggle. of the man the Police claim was Oliver at between 5'8° rest he stood in an ID pa- and 5'11°, whereas Oliver is rade. One witness who was 6'4° only a few feet away trom After an initial interview the gunman failed to pick with a social worker and a anyone out from the parade.
Another witness, who had said that they would inform only a distant view of the the solicitor of any subrobbery, failed to pick any- sequent interviews. They did one out in December 1990 not, rather they obtained a but changed his mind some written statement from 3 months later. The four wit- Oliver's foster mother saying nesses to the murder and that a solicitor would not be tighter immigration controls. "party of law and order". It is almost certain that a fur- Jack Straw's new proposals ther tightening of immigra- will inevitably mean an intion law will be proposed at crease of police repression on this year's Tory Party confer- the poorest and most oppressed sections of society. floated to increase restrictions working class. on the right to appeal and While the Labour leaderspeed up deportations, to re- ship may occasionally point duce benefits to asylum seck- out that he Tories are playing immigration gration policies, it hasn't checks which will mean all stated precisely what in the black people will be susrosy proposals i opposes, of pected of being "illegal immi- how Labour policy will be grants" and will have to prove any different. their immigration status be- It would be wrong to see fore they can gain access to these developments in isolahealth care education. em. ШИШ necessary. It was after several of these following interviews that Oliver "confessed". negligible, but it's importance for the state is the idcological much wider cuts the goverment will be able to make in the future.
It is precisely for this reamovement must provide a militant, united opposition to Divisions within the antiracist movement have alaway with is tacast policics so far, and allowed the Labour leadership to get away with showing little opposition to