Defend the Newham
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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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 threaten ing 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.
Send invitations for speakers, or resolutions of support, to Newham 8 Defence Campaign, c/o PO Box 273, London E7 9JN. POLICE CONSPIRACY +420F0R0 ..19 THE decision of Manchester Social Services Committee to cut the grant to Manchester Gay Centre, which it has funded for the past five years with the aid of a Department of Environment grant, has not been accepted by a full meeting of the Labour group of councillors.
Paul Fairweather, Gay Centre Liaison Officer, said after the Council meeting on Wednesday April 27:
"The decision of the Social Services Committee to cut the Gay Centre's grant will now be referred back to the Policy Committee for further discussion.
'We are very relieved that Labour Councillors have decided to think again and hope that we will now be able to convince them that the Gay Centre is worth refunding.
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