SWEEP THE RACIALISTS OFF THE STREETS!

for the day when their foul propaganda would at last of Britain. inflame young British workers against their coloured - The bosses are glad when worker’s hand is raised brothers, when cries of ‘Lynch the niggers’ would be against worker. They rejoice when the common peopie heard in the streets of London as in Alabama. are divided on racial lines. Unity of black worker and white worker is the last thing they want to see. ‘Divide Week after week their gutter rags have oozed and conquer’ has always been their motto. racialist filth about the ‘coloured invasion’. Slogans How are we to defeat the fascist plan to whip up such as ‘House Britons before immigrants’ and ‘No La lynching hysteria in Britain? alien shall jump the queue’ have bespattered their pages.

* By using the lie that West Indians and Africans take white workers’ jobs and undercut their wages WE cannot rely on the police to restore ‘order’. If the fascists have been able to put on the streets an coloured people are frightened to leave their army of young men with poison in their minds, with ~ homes and go about their business, the streets will be iron bars, choppers, knives, stones, razors, bicycle quiet. The fascists will have won. What kind of ‘order’ chains, knuckledusters and home-made petrol bombs * is that? in their hands.

The organized Labour movement in the areas * affected must take matters into their own hands. We do not blame coloured men who defend themselves MAKE no mistake. The London mob—its strength - by fighting back against the fascist-led mobs, but we estimated at 4,000 by the Daily Express and 5,000 tell them plainly: You will not win this fight unless by the Daily Herald—which screamed race hatred, you enlist the aid of the local. Labour movement. kicked and pelted coloured people and besieged them _ Black nationalism is no answer to white chauvinin their homes, was organized and armed by the ism.

Equally, the Labour movement must understand that = The gang of youths ‘armed with sticks, iron bars and the evil passions that have been aroused in Nottingham knives’ which, the Daily Telegraph reported, ‘gathered and Notting Hill lead, not merely to the ghetto, the under the railway arches riear Latimer Road Under- concentration camp and the gas chamber, but also to ground station’ was led by fascists well known to the attacks on trade unionists and socialists and on their police. organizations.

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Fascists led the mob in the chanting of slogans: ‘Let’s This understanding must lead to action, in which get the niggers’ and ‘Give ’em-to us and we'll string white trade unionists and socialists stand shoulder to "em up’. , , shoulder with coloured people.

All the bestial emotions that German, American and . Local trade union branches, trades councils, Labour South African fascism cashed in on ate abroad in Parties and other working-class organizations should Britain today. immediately set about the formation of defence squads But the only persons who stand to gain, besides the (Continued overleaf)

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SERRE M U R DE R N A LA BA M A? allele alae From Our New York Correspondent Unless there was a last-minute reprieve a 55-year-old for this offence.

Negro worker was due to die in -the electric chair A court-appointed ‘defence’ lawyer, Sheldon Fitts, yesterday for robbing a white housewife of one dollar has commented: ‘The nigger was lucky he . wasn’t 95 cents. . lynched.’ Wilson was not put on the stand to testify Jimmy Wilson, a handyman, of Perry County, in his own defence. -Alabama, was sentenced to death on July 27, 1957. The Alabama’s Governor has the power to commute the woman, who is 82 years old, claimed that he tried to sentence to life imprisonment. rape her. But he was not indicted on that charge. American socialists are anxious that the world-wide Robbery is a capital offence in Alabama, but only protests be redoubled. A Canadian MP who tried to Negroes have ever been condenmed to electrocution raise it in the Commons was slapped down.

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RACIALISTS (Continued from front page) and defence committees, consisting of white and coloured’ workers.

It is ridiculous for Labour MPs to tour the streets in loudspeaker vans appealing to people to go home.

Defence squads should patrol the affected areas, displaying enough strength and determination to make it impossible for the racialists to show their faces.

Sweep the streets clean ‘of the fascists and their dupes! This is the duty of the working-class organizations of west London, Nottingham and wherever else the coloured population is under attack.

United defence committees should provide material and financial aid to coloured people who have been beaten, assume responsibility for replacing. spoiled furniture and clothing and broken windows, thus demonstrating in practice the solidarity of white workers with. coloured: victims of. racialism and fascism.

The local Labour movements should begin a widespread publicity campaign, pointing out: the falsity and bad faith of anti-colour propaganda.

This campaign should explain the appalling conditions which cause West Indians and Africans to come to Britain; the fact that the coloured population here is less than one-half of one per cent. of the total population; the fact that for every immigrant who comes here four white people leave: Britain to seek. jobs in the Empire; the fact that only a united working class ‘cap resist the employers’ offensive against jobs, wages and conditions.

* A SPECIAL appeal must go to white workers who are unemployed .or living in slums.

Socialists are neither ‘pro-black’ nor ‘pro-white’. They stand for jobs for all, better housing for all, the tearing down of slums, the ending of the social system which gives rise to unemployment and overcrowding. coloured people. They can be achieved only through ' ‘These aims can never be achieved by attacks on the united action, of white workers and black workers MOorTor-carsS were used to direct the racialist mobs in London’s Notting Hill last Monday and Tuesday. They cruised around ordering riot. squads from one area to another. .

In the cars sat fascist chiefs. They chose the targets for attack. They gave the slogans. It_ was all planned and executed :. like ‘a military operation.

The’ fascists began their preparations a month ago ) with a race-hatred leaflet. It read as follows:

‘People of Kensington, act now. Your country is worth fighting for. Fight with the Union Movement.

‘Take action now. Protect your jobs. Stop coloured immigration: Houses for white people—not coloured immigrants. A square deal for the Negro in his own country, There was a drawing of a group of Africans in national costume, carrying spears. Over them was a notice saying ‘Way in’

Only a minority of the young.thugs who roamed the Notting Hill streets this week, kicking and chasing coloured people . and besieging them in their homes, were local boys.

SEPTEMBER. 6, 1958 against the common enemy—the employing class. provide neither jobs nor homes. All they bring are The fascists have no solution whatever. They can Belsen camps, mass murder and mass misery. finding it hard to get a job, or who are living in over- Today they throw dust in the eyes of folk who are crowded -tenements. ‘Blame the blacks,’ they say. But an attack on one section of the working class today will lead to an attack on other sections tomorrow.

-Socialists say: ‘Blame capitalism.’ Whatever the colour of their skin, workers have the same problems, the same interests, the same struggle to make ends meet, against the same exploiters —the landlords and the bosses.

But if Labour’ is to make such an appeal and make it effectively it must put-its own house in order.

Labour MPs such as James Harrison, who blame the coloured people: for the race riots. and who talk of restricting immigration to this country, should - be decisively and publicly repudiated by their constituency parties, by the. Parliamentary Labour Party, by every local Labour Party and by the national executive. pelled ‘trom the party without ceremony. They should be chucked out of their seats and ex* LABOUR. Should stand forth as the uncompromising enemy of any form of racial discrimination.

Tt should demand the outlawing of any kind of colour bar or incitement to racial hostility.

But it is no use waiting for the Tory Government to act. Anti-fascist workers themselves, white and black united, must give back two blows for every one, smash the fascist thugs, break up their gangs and drive them back into their holes.

@. BLACK AND. WHITE WORKERS UNITE!

@ SWEEP THE FASCISTS AND RACE RIOTERS = @ OUTLAW THE COLOUR BAR!