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ON DECEMBER 12 about 600 Asian, black and white youth and workers marched in opposition to the charges of conspiracy against twelve leading members and supporters of the United Black Youth League in Bradford.

The twelve charged with conspiracy face penalties up to life imprisonment if convicted in April, as they probably will be unless a large campaign is built to expose this state frame-up.

The demonstration was weakened in atlendance by the bad weather, but the messages of support from various black and labour movement organisations showed the campaign was growing.

The Bradford 12 case is being used to intimidate the black community from organising on a political basis. It will no doubt also be used by the capitalist media as a justification for the police violence and inurder in the July riots.

All Socialist Organiser supporters should invite speakers from the defence campaign to their CLP, LPYS, or union branch: They should get involved in the local Bradford 12 committees, and build solidarity groups where none exist:

For more information, contact: c/o Fourth Ilea Bookshop, 14. Southgate, Bradford 1 EVERTON WILLIAMS week-long strike in April against the Government's 4 per cent limit on grant increases.

While this decision a step forwards, it is limited importance.

Grants

Grants only really affect the universities, from which the Left Alliance receives much of its support, and the vote had little significance for the higher and further education sector, which represents 700,000 of the 1.2 million NUS membership. The carve-up of the real left, and the FE and HE sectors in the NUS, has had the effect of creating a united opposition to oust the present leadership of NUS. Socialist Organiser supporters should fight within NOLS and alongside the Socialist Worker Student Organisation and Socialist Student Alliance activists to remove those

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LONDON Socialist December Page 1981