Well they've never done anything for tenants round here. I've never seen this Mrs. Page up my street when someone s wanted to complain to the landlord. I think she just uses this tenants" association name so she can go round saying things against the coloureds.
That's what an elderly resident of Hambury Road, Southail, where racise Joy Page's London and Coun ties Tenants Federation claims to have support, told me about the so called federation. He has asked me not to reveal his name.
Who knows, some supporter of Mrs, Page or her National Front friends whose Conway Hull rally she addressed carlier this year, might start shoving human excrement through his letter box.
These phoney tenants associalions are sometimes invented by the Tascists to give their tacist propaganda the semblance of organised support They, and their lies, which aim to scapegout black neople for the housing problem and to shield the landlords and speculators from the anger of a soned workers and tenants' strugele, need to be exposed whenever they crawl out of the putter and on to the estates In his memoin Our Hag Stars Red. Phil Piratin recalls the tune in the 1930s when, as Communist M.P. for Stepacy, lie was involved Fast End of London. Musley's British Union of Fascists, predernsors of the Natihaal Front were The charge was clearly unprovoked. And even Lord Justice Scarman must have had a difficult time swallowing the explanation of the Morning Ster photo showing a mounted policeman winging his truncheon at the heads of the demonstrators. The policeman claimed he was motioning hack the crowd!
The pathetic story of mounted Policeman Adams, who struck a demonstrator 'a glancing blow' on the head, to avoid hitting his horse, wrung everybody's heart.
ICING
But ail this is really only the icing on the cake. The police want to create the right almosphere to isolate the IMG, and finish them off in the courts.
The Home Office wants to say that the 'violent' actions of the 15 June demonstrators represent a growing trend within society as a wbole. They want improved" State powers to bash the workers offensive. Both the police and the Home Office are trying o find u scapegoat to take the rap for acaring up the state's attack on lections of the workers" movement. And we know who the scapegoat is The broad campaign which must e built in the labour movement in letence of the victims of our classess justice, is not aided by the tatements from our "comrades" of he Morning Star.
Chris Myant told of staves behind tonal Front today. they were far more interested in turning one sel of wotkets agust other workers than in defending tenants from landlords:
Piratin's local Communist Party branch did however rally to the support of the tenants and physically scsisted the eviction. This action, which showed the real anti-working class nature of the fascists, helped to weaken their influence in the area.
cils plans for compulsory purchase Policeman in Red Lion Square 'motioning back the crowd' F the Communist Party of England (Marxist Leninist) banner, and a "wedgelike group" breaking off from the main body of the march and running at the police cordon.
Indeed one of the films shown at the Tribunal does show a wedge-type group cut through the demonstration. They are wearing blue uniforms They belong to the SPG. And so far the Tribunal has heard little of their Tole.
One embarrassment for Scarman is the National Front. They Webster's outburst at the Tribunalhave decided to get leg. I representation The proposals that Scarman will make about tightening up public order may bear remarkable resembLance to those of the National Front.
STRENGTHENED -There is no intention by any section of the ruling class to move to fascism now. But to deal with the growing strength of the working class the State must be strengthened The National Front support and encourage such moves all the way. The political job of isolating the revolutionaries, and fingering them as the "culprits' in a move to take away rights from the workers move ment as a whole, will took a bit sick if it is tarred with the fascist brush of approval. racist insults.
to say about this.
ice have told me there is nothing they can do'.
In Waltham Forest, the local coun- told by police, Police don't take any thing you can do is take private action.
are needed in every area where atple While running a hostel for Uganda by Waltham Forest Council was assaulted, puint was thrown over the house, and the garage set fire London, squatters have taken the stand empty for speculative gain.
eting its concern about 'the probing man, helps the speculators by vicious agitation against homeless people who have taken over empty BOLS agitation fuelled a horrific mass assome with parents in or sympathbricks and bottles were thrown through the windows of a house containing 15 people, some of them children. saved from serious injury only by this vicious gang's failure to smash down the door of the house is not opposed to this kind of stormtrooper thuggery. Its magasine, Spearhead, recently awarded the fabulous Ll Letter of the Month' award to a correspondent whose attitude to these homeless people was "It is high time we damped down on these spongers.
Has any of this sophisticated Paul Smith political strategy helped the cause of tenants in Walthum Forest? her of Pakistami residents have heen assauited. One. Mr. M. Usmani, was savagely beaten and robbed by a gang of sir youths, who taunted him with The National Front, which claims it would punish muggers', has nothing Can anyone guess why" Mr Usmani, who had two black eyes and a broken looth, sakd, "PalA local newspaper reporter was action in a case of common assault we are not allowed to. The only say.
VIGILANTE GROUP Yes, anti-fascist vigilante groups ocratic way. tacks have been made on black peoLike the cop said, the only thing you can do is take private acAnd black workers are not alone in the need for organised self-defence.
refugees, a social worker employed could be nasty.
A lew months ago, the co-ordinator of Waltham Forest Family Squatters was attacked. Jo many parts of lead in exposing the scandal of property speculation and the misery suffered by the homeless while houses The National Front, while trumpless and needs of the British work HORRIFIC ASSAULT In Waltham Forest this type of sault on a house by 30 or 40 youths etic to the National Front. Stones, The occupants were Presumably the National Front Black worker, M, Usmani, beaten up and robbed by young thugs, encouraged by the National Front's racist propaganda. The party of law and order' had nothing to say about this, surprise, surprise.....
Eleven of the 15 candidates who stood for the Waltham Forest Residents Association in the local clections have now resigned. They people 'These candidates cannot agree with the way the association is being run or with the polley of the chairman or secretary of continuing to run the association in an undemAnd who are the self-appointed chairman and secretary? Inevitably -National Frost member Mick Burrows and his buddy Cyril Brewer.
Resigning member Ron Bateman said, "One of Mr. Burrows favourite sayings was that the association would collapse if it was run democratically. I would hate this thing to get that big where you would have these two calling the tune. It 'GENUINE DEMOCRACY"
The is the same National Front which claims in its manifesto to be a party of genuine democracy which belongs to its members and First'. "seeks to promote in Britain a genuinely democratic political system icy.
Do you think that the National Front in this area is one of the more extreme manifestations of fascist gang to all workers. sterism? You may be wrong. Waltham Forest National Front branch chairman Roger Adde has recently had his kauckles rapped by the National Front leader Martin Webster.
Writing in his "trouble shooting' black ANTI-FASCISTS (from p. 1)
Labour's record and that of Jenkins in particular, is sordid.
Cooper's release and the defence of all the ocher anti-fascist militunts still to face charges lies in the hands of the working class movement.
Action to defend them is vital. As the ruling class reels under the impact of its own social and economic crisis it is more and more forced to use its police and its courts to attack all those fighting its policies.
The left must rally its maximum forces in defence of all victims of capitalist repression. Such a campaign wil belp to beat back the new repressive laws being planned hy the Scarman Tribunal A failure to do that will weaken the entire move ment and leave the left isolatedready to be picked off at any time column in Speariend magazine recently, gang leader Webster attacks Adde for being too soft on black *We do not expect in the current circumstances to see National Front officials wining publicity by means of helping the invaders to take over our birthright he says of Adde's attempt to show that he had no personal hatred of black people.
HOMELESS FAMILY
Adde Jad been in favour of a homeless black family having a roof over their heads.
Webster will now be expecting National Front Area Council chairman Ron Tier to be keeping a watchful eye on Adde Tiet's qualifications for this seem watertight He is an old friend of Herr Kerstein, leader of the now-banned German Nazi Viking Youth One of the National Front's main racist slogans is the claim that the "National Front Puts Britons Already black workers know the real meaning of this vicious pol But Waltham Forest and simwar events in other parts of the country indicate something further That in all circumstances, including inside their own party machine, it is Jaseism that the National Front puts first, against the interests of all the working class both white and Firms who employ many of the defendants will see this as an excel lent chance to get rid of their "troublemakers" -these anti-fascist comrades are naturally active trade unionists. Their unions must be forced to take up the defence of any sentenced worker's job and this must get the active support of all the other unions.
ACTION As Ernie Roberts, assistant general secretary of the AUEW, told Red Weekly: All trade unionists should be concerned ahout the penalties being inflicted on their fellow worker for making a stand against the Tise of fascism in Britain." Roberts is absolutely right. Trade unionists and sociulists bave got to turn Brother Roberts's words into action Ren Weekiy 19 Septemper 1974 Page 5
first airersary of the anur cong.
Alarch it inchd its first conference anderground inside Chife.
On 11 September a year will have passed since the bourgeois army. responding to the appeas of the employing class, overthrew the Popular Unity Government and installed in the country a ferocious and bloody dictatorship.
During these twelve months the working class and the mass of the people have been forced to undergo the most arduous and tragic experences The dictatorship. aiming to consolidate its hold, to restote to normal the functioning of the capitalist system and to smash all forms of resistance to the regime, has murdered, tortured and imprisoned thousands of the best militants of the socialist revolution, and has its criminal plans It has unceasingly sought to choke even the most elementary torm of opposition, dismantling the trade unions and banning all strikes.
At the same time, the apprentice dictators having restored to hig Capital (both national and imperia.ist) the Tactories which remained in the hands of the workers. and in order to assure the bosses of rapid profits-have tolerated and encouraged an unprecedented rate of inflation in the country while decreeing wage adjustments which fall well below those needed to cover the increase in the cost of le prior felon a starenew by the Liga Comunist de Chile. issued on the The Ligr Commista is a small sewparhising organisation of the Fourth Inrerationel, welose militants are actire in Santiago and Valpanisa, In stability which the dictatorship seemingly possesses today is moro than ever the result of the ferocious and criminal repression against the working masses carried out by the generals in collaboration with the US Goverment's aid" organsations.
It is clear that the dictatorship and the bosses, in a situation where they are unable to satisty in the least degree the aspirations of the hroad masses, will see their position daily weakening: Today sips of opposition and discontent are appearing not only in the working class a long tradition of militancy -but also in the petty bourgeoisie (civil servants, shopkeepers, small businessmin) whose positions are threatened by big Capital, and even among certain sections of the big industrial banned all organisations which oppose bourgeoise affected by the collapse of the internal market.
The traditional political representatives of the ruling class have come Do regard with Tear and distrust the hrutal plans of the military fascists. because of the response they will engender in the most oppressed sectors once the decay of the regime becomes pronounced. This is true of the Kennedy types in the imperialist countries, and of the Christian Democrats and sectors of the National Party inside the country The hate directed against the dictatorship is growing. The objective conditions are hitle by little being created for a front of workers" which has content is ever more demanding.
sections of the population for the tasks of the resistance against the that it will be the triumph of socialBih and not the return of the profinally rescive the huge problems of the exploited masses.
the dictatorship within a global strategy of the destruction of the system and the seizure of power by the proletariar. To forget -or not to would he fatal tragic defeats.
The wish to unite the largest possible dictatorship must not make us forget the taking of power.
gressive bourgeois sectors which will Revolutionary milltants must not fail to incorporate the struggle against regard us central-the lessons which the past defeat has given us on this We must be particularly clear on this, above all when the reformist leaderships of the Communis: Party and Socialist Party insist once more today on denying these elementary truths, while raising sectors of the bourgeoisic to the level of strategic alhes of the working cles, They thus make positie new and yet mere The overthrow of the dictatorship is only a first, big step. The socialist revolution is our central objective and most be present in all our struggles And the irreplaceable leadership of this revolution is the working class together with the mass of the people, armed politically and militarily lor It is for this reason that it is of fundamental importance, at the end of this first year of the military-fascist government, to strain every miscle to ensure from now onwards a privileged place for the proletariat and exploited layers at che head of the struggle against the delatorship le assure the development of thes process in a decisive way, we appeal to all the organsations of the revolu tionary left resolutely to strengthen • united pole of attraction, capable of drawing together from the begin ning of the resistance large sections of the masses under the banner of the socialist revolution One year after the tragie days of September 1973, there is no doubt that this woold constitute a great step lorward.
Organse the workers" and people' Teststance!
Ser up People's Resistance Commattees (CRP) in the factories, the estates, the ghettoes, the schools and universities!
Bring into the CRPs the most militant workers, peasants, agricul tural workers and students!
Struggle for higher wages for the workers!
Demand the restoration of tull political and trade union rights!
Demand immediate freedom for all political prisoners, and the punish ment of all the culprits and torturers!
DOWN WITH THE CRIMINAL Central Committee, L ga Co-mista