sell their houses to black people. A counter-demonstration has been called by the Manchester Anti-Fascist Committee, which is being supported by the Manchester police to demand that they ban the fascist march they could not decide which one had actually delivered the fatal blow Way, Oxford Road, Manchester. AUSTRALIAN BLACK MILITANTS er who have been involved in a campaign to smash the Queensland Aboriginal and by the British. Although they fought bitterly to defend their land, they were overcentration camps.
rate; control all property, including savings, of all aborigines is vested in the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs under the Acts take place between 12 mid-day and 2 p.m. outside Queensland House, The Strand, London W.C.2. alIsts nrow une solvs aecision lot, have consistently argued that this attack cannot be fought simply on the basis Party.
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to implement them in practice Ing class. In a deliberate provocation, the National Front has called a national demonstration in Manchester on Monday 28 July in support of their leader Kingsley Read, who is being taken to court by the Race Relations Board for urging whites in Blackburn not to Trades Council. A delegation is also being sent to the local Labour Council and the At a time of deepening economic crisis the National Front are trying to exploit unemployment and bad housing conditions to win support for their racialist filth. At the same time police attacks on blacks are increasing. In London twelve blacks arrested following a police riot at the Carib club are now involved in one of the longest trials in British legal history. By comparison two white youths were acquitted of murder ing black bus conductor, Ronald Jones, becuase the judge advised the jury to acquit if These events are alarming evidence of the uselessness of trying to curb racism through the strengthening of the Race Relations Board - which mean relying on the police and the courts. To develop both self-defence of the black community against police and racist attacks, and prevent the growth of fascist organisations, groups like the National Front must be crushed whérever they raise their ugly heads. The Manchester anti-fascist demonstration assembles at 12 noon on 28 July, in the Mancunian FACE TRIAL On Thursday 14 August there will be a picket outside Queensland House in London to demand the dropping of all charges against two black activists and a white support Torres Strait Islanders Acts - legislation on a par with South Africa's apartheid laws The aborigines were the original inhabitants of Australia before it was 'discovered"
whelmed by British military superiority. Slaughter occurred on a mass scale. Those who survived were mostly herded onto reserves and missions which were virtual conThe Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Acts gives the director of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs powers among other things to: refuse any person entry onto a reserve, even if they were born there; pay an aborigine working on a reserve any wage deemed fit by the manager; classify any aborigine working outside a reserve as an aged, infirm or slow worker, and therefore pay them less than the basic Behind this racist legislation lies the aborigines' fight for land rights. Some of the world's richest bauxite fields have been discovered on Queensland's northern reserves These areas are being ravaged by giant multi-national companits such as Comalco, who with the assistance of the Queensland police have removed the aborigines at gunpoint without paying a cent in compensation. Complete control of mining on the reserves Black activists Denis Walker and Lionel Lacey, together with white supporter John Garcia, have been framed because they have played a prominent part in the movement for aboriginal self-determination. International solidarity is vital to the future of the movement. The picket on 14 August coincides with the start of their trial and will This Saturday sees another stage in the campaign by the newspaper proprietors and editors to halt the growing combativity and militancy of the National Union of JournThe Annual Delegate Meeting of the NUJ in April voted in favour of a total 'closed shop' for journalists, in defiance of the National Executive's recommendation to compromise on the question. The 'closed shop' is allowed for under Michael Foot's Trade print unions, will be necessary to deteat tnis state intervention. Enis will not be wo the Manifesto group of Labour MPs - fear that this could be the thin end of the wedge in beginning to challenge the function of their papers, as organs of capitalist propa With this in mind, under the banner of defending the mythical 'freedom of the press', the right wing in the NUJ, backed up by the barons of Fleet Street, have succes: fully petitioned for a Special Delegate Meeting on 26 July. Here they will attempt to push through a motion calling for a postal ballot of the whole membership to overJournalist members of the IMG, although completely opposed to the idea of a balthat it is a trade union issue. The closed shop must be seen and argued for as being the first steps towards workers' control over editorial content and a genuinely free, pro NUJ's ability to organise, the support of the broad labour movement, particularly the working class press. In the further event of legislation being brougnt in to shackl on the basis of defending narrow NUJ interests alone while countenancing vicious slander campaigns against working class bodies like the Newham North-East Labour SCHOOL STUDENTS DEBATE CRISIS The 15,000 strong National Union of School Students conference held last weekend Youth unemployment is expected to affect 60,000 school leavers this summer, while in the schools the massive cuts in social spending will further reduce educational facilThe NUSS Conference took some important decisions in spite of the attempts by the Communist Party to divert attention from the political issues. Motions were pas sed to set up youth unemployment committees in all areas with the backing of the trade union movement, and to campaign for a basic social security payment of £25 per week for all school leavers without a job. This latter resolution included the dem automatic-cost-of-living increases to protect such a payment from inflation. The NUSS is also pledged to get involved with committees against the public expen But all these decisions will just remain paper resolutions so far as the 'Broad Left' leadership is concerned, unless a big fight is taken up by the rank and file of the NUSS Jean Michel, a French school student who spoke at an IMG public meeting during the Conference, pointed out that the role of the Com munist Party in the French schools movement has been to cut off mass mobilisations bv putting forward no real programme to unite school students with the rest of the work The fight for such a programme was begun at this conference by IMG dele
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