Defend the Newham
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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The Newham 8 - Asian The Newham 8 - Asian youths aged between 15 and 21 - face charges of conspiracy as well as threatening behaviour and actual bodily harm.
They were arrested on September 24 1982 after an incident with plain-clothes police officers. In the previous week there had been three major racist attacks on Asian schoolchildren at Little Ilford School, in Newham, and an incident where 60 or 70 white youth with iron bars and sticks went on the rampage in East Ham and Manor Park.
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The questions of 'principle' are reversed in each case: the issue is not abstract principles but a struggle for political influence and control by two antagonistic wings of an utterly degenerate and declining party.
The differences that separate Chater and Jacques are not differences between a 'correct' and 'incorrect' line. Both are strident advocates of the bankrupt cross-class politics that made such a farce out of the People's March and which trace their history back to the 1930s betrayals of the Stalinist movement in Spain and elsewhere.
Terminal
In this latest conflict - in which round one was won on points by Chater's team, securing all three vacant posts - we cannot take sides, but only witness what may prove to be the terminal agonies of a crisis-ridden and bankrupt paper which may soon cease to give daily misleadership to the working class.
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