Austerity, capitalism and the racist police state
Proletarian issue 55
Meeting in Brixton reveals the continuing racism of Britain’s police force and law courts.
On Sunday 30 June, the South London African Caribbean Free Legal and Welfare Advice Surgery (SLACFLWAS) hosted a meeting jointly with the CPGB-ML to oppose oppressive and discriminatory policing and judicial persecution of working-class youth in general, and of black working-class youth in particular. The meeting was addressed by a variety of speakers, and attended by about 100 local residents and community leaders at Brixton’s Karibu education centre.
The meeting was prompted, among other events, by the unwarranted arrest on so-called ‘conspiracy’ charges, of a CPGB-ML member’s son. The young man in question, Jamal, is a fit young British man of Af...
