Oxford Out

Socialist Organiser no. 49, 20 August 1981 · scan p. 16 · about 352 words

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3,000 youth face charges - but twelve Asians in Bradford could get anything up to jail for life. Arrested on July 11, they have been charged under the notorious conspiracy laws Contact: July 11 Action Committee, c/o i Floor, Jextile Hall, Westgate, Bradford. And meanwhile the National Left Wing Youth Movement is organising support for the Labour Youth Defence Campaign launched by Wallasey LPYS. Contact: Wallasey LPYS, c/o Wallasey Labour Club, Church Rd, Seacombe, Merseyside Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8, and printed by East End Offset (TU). Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the SOA. THE POLICE took hammering for a change in Liverpool last weekend [15th), as 3,500 people, black and white youth, trade unionists and Labour Party members, marched through the streets demanding the removal of Kenneth Oxford as chief constable.

Hundreds of youth marched down the main shopping streets, driving the police to one side, and shouting 'who killed Davy Moore?, 'Kill, kill, the old Bill' , and 'Oxford out' There were a few scuffles as police received a dose of the same sort of attention as they have been handing out in Liverpool 8.

At the rally at Pier Head, there were speeches from the Liverpool 8 Defence Committee describing the 'positive policing' methods that killed Davy Moore. The Moss Side Defence Committee told how the with making petrol bombs. three coaches which had set off from the Moss Side were stopped on the motorway by police, but the speaker continued, they think they can stop unity between the people of Moss Side and Liverpool by stopping a few coaches, then they're very, very wrong' Anwar Ditta spoke, and so did a representative from the Brixton Defence Committee and Tommy Banks from the Action Committee for Jimmy Kelly, who was killed by Liverpool police last year.

After the rally, 100 youth laid siege to Wavertree police station, and police had to barricade themselves in until reinforcements arrived.

The message in Liverpool was loud and clear: "Oxford out' along with his racist, anti working class, police force.

JO THWAITES