THE BLACK POWER LEADER' RIGHT-WING

Around some streets in Manchester, as in some other cities, you can still find their slogans scrawled on walls — slogans like 'Support South Africa' ...or Stop Immigration' Or sometimes just 'Niggers Out' —invariably accompanied by the identifying trademark the lightning flash in the circle.

Sometimes as a Slogan they just use the one name 'Mosley'. The slogans are those used by supporters of Oswald Mosley's 'Union Movement'before the war it was the 'British Union of Fascists'which since the 1950s has made a tactical shift away from its previous anti-Jewish emphasis to concentrate instead on the coloured immigrants.

With the ageing of Mosley, the movement has lost some of its limelight and supporters to the more active and apparently better-financed rightwing extremists of the National Front. But Mosley 'Boys' are still around. It was one of them, Danny Harmston, who led the Smithfield porters' antiimmigrant march last year. He also stood as a Mosleyite candidate in the Uxbridge by-election.

From the slogans they use, it would seem preposterous to find a connection between supporters of the Mosleyite movement and 'Black Power' advocates.

But clear evidence exists that a man who boasted about being a 'Black Power leader' was connected behind the scenes with people who associated with known Mosley supporters. made the front page 'Daily Mirror' and Wi as „reported in other papers. I in each report in the capitalist Press, Beach was boosted as a 'Black Power leader'.

I met Enos Trevor Beach towards the end of 1969, when he was living at a house in the Moss Side area of Manchester. In a bed-sitting room decorated with 'Black Panther' and other posters, he offered me a glass of rum and I asked him some questions about the sort of 'Black Power' and 'community action'-type politics he was supposed to be involved in.

My initial curiosity had been aroused by a previous encounter with a man associated with Beach, a young white man called Anthony King.

It was around Christmas time, and I had been sitting in Manchester pub with a friend when King came around with a collecting-tin asking for money. My friend recognized him as someone he had known at school, so we got into conversation.

1 asked what the collection was in aid of, and King said something, about 'helping old people'. told him that I thought this could only be done through political action and not through charity. Whereupon King announced that actually, the organization he was working for, was political.

He revealed he was collecting for something called 'Campaign for Action for the Relief of Need', which in turn was connected with an organization called the 'National Freedom Movement'.

There were a number of points about this encounter which made me curious. One was that King had seemed a little too vague about just how his fund-raising would 'help old people' and had not mentioned politics until after TO FIGHT as in September that year. There was to be a municipal by-election in the St Peter's ward of the city. CARN announced But in May 1970, Campaign that it would contest it. Not one, but 98 nomination papers were handed in! Beach was just one of the candidates.

Altogether, some 984 nominees were named for the CARN candidates—more people than had actually voted in the ward in the previous election! The electors, it seemed, would have found themselves facing ballot AL 430OS papers several feet square! And with so many nominees for CARN candidates, the other candidates would have to withdraw.

It looked as though the election was to be turned into organized chaos. And the CARN spokesmen declared that that was their intention. The capitalist Press lapped it up. 'BLACK POWER PLOT' were the headlines over stories that militant blacks led by Beach planned to take over Manchester, and after that other cities.

Besides quotes from Beach to this effect, King was quoted as saying that the peculiar electoral tactics being adopted were designed to show up and disrupt the system of local In the event, the CARN campaign fell to pieces. Of the candidates supposedly standing, 95 were found to have their addresses given as 12 Danson Street, Miles Platting, Manchester-which was now Beach's address. Since not even in the worst districts of Manchester is overcrowding that bad, these were not regarded as genuine!

Eventually, after all but Beach's own nomination had been declared invalid, Mr Tony King announced that Beach would withdraw his own nomination.

On September 10, 1970, it was reported that Beach had withdrawn.

The 'Ninety - five - in - one -house' bit was not the only strange thing about the CARN electoral intervention. It appeared that among the large number of electors who were supposed to have signed noI car wh sor sel Kir hac sig not unt nar son can wh ado den pol cou che sibl fusi tilit acti An Pre