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Lt Refusing to Grant a Lease to the Local Community Council - a Proposal Which Would Enable the Centre to Continue The Centre fights eviction THE first application ofthe Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act may be by a Labour Council against community activists, the majority unemployed, some homeless. 5 The Centre, in Broughton St. Edinburgh is barricaded and awaiting attack by sheriff officers. On 16 Sept. the Labour Lothian Region - the Centre's landlord - obtained a “move to eject” decree. The Region has no other use planned for the building. They are coon .ji=:.lt refusing to grant a lease to the local community council - a proposal which would enable the Centre to continue. The Region are out to destroy an autonomous space which has long been a base for direct lNFO“Rll\l ‘ilk action and grass-roots struggles. ironically the Centre - formerly Edinburgh Unemployed Workers R Centre - has never been busier, with athriving cafe and busy creche, well-used meeting spaces, a darkroom, a reading room, community arts space, music workshops, claimants‘ resistance and benefits advice, frequent socials and so on. During the occupation the Centre remains open to the public and all activities continue. The attack on the Centre is part of a general attack on self- ACT OF DEFIANCE managed community resources the world over. The attack must be resisted, and we need help to keep the Centre open. Write, phone, THE LAST 2 months have pain than the SWP/Militant/RCP witnessed many more protest trying to sabotage/take over our turn up, join the occupation! Viva La Centre! actions, demos, benefits, etc., activities. Of course we dislike The Centre. 103 Broughton St., Edinburgh EH1. Tel. 031 557 0718. against the Criminal Justice violence. but recognise it as an Below: Centre supporters demonstrate in Edinburgh on 1 Oct. Bill which is shortly to be often necessary tool in the class war against our oppressors by any passed regardless - which is 5£i55§‘l5i5§5i5l5i5= 1§5§5i5i_Ii§‘§§-.- '_ "Ti-ifififiiiiiliiii ‘5ii‘i"1:1 '1. ' . means necessary . In any con- ' ":-.'1:1:i:1:-13‘ ':5'*EI ' ' '1:i:’:§:§:§:[.’I5§5:§:51;‘ ' when the real fight begins. -5;E:3;;;;;:s;'~‘>-=. __ I -. frontation watch out for these ":-:-:-:-: " -- ' Most towns of any size now have people - they are not on our side. groups with more people getting The real fight against the criminal involved all the time. “DIY week" ;‘<"‘t-5&1 justice bill will start when it be- (September 19 - 26) saw various °““'*‘°*i~t§$w<.~= comes law, don't be intimidated. demonstrations in Northampton. together in strength we can resist Manchester, Bath. Croydon. Hud- it on many fronts making it un- dersfield. Brighton, Canterbury. workable. Brixton. Leicester, Guildford. Contact : Brighton Squatting Centre Lowestoft. Norwich. Nottingham. against the Criminal Justice Bill. The Sheffield, Oxford, and Hastings. Old Courthouse, 17 - 19 Princes St., The week before saw a largish opp. Royal Pavilion. Brighton. demo in Edinburgh and the big Sou‘siders Against the CJB, c/o demo in London on 9 October.33 Larkfield Centre. 39 Ingiefield St., people were arrested in clashes with Govanhill. Glasgow. the police after the HydePark Rally. Particularly encouraging was the opening of the massive commu- nity squat against the CIB in Brighton in September. This old courthouse has dozens of rooms UP TO 700 refugees are be- the centre gates and then broke into fascists. Hundreds ofpeople from with an infoshop, bookstore. ve- ing detained in detention the grounds. In June hundreds at- the local community formed a de- gan cafe. gig and theatre spaces, centres and jails every tended a national demo and a riot fence campaign and organised a creche. art gallery and is always month, up to 200 being de- inside caused£20,000 wort.h ofdain- public meeting and pickets; de- busy with events and people. ported monthly. The 1971 age while 6 people escaped. manding an end to police harass- Fight the Fluffiness Immigration act allows peo- The Campaign to close Campsfield ment, all charges dropped and suc- More depressing and dangerous is ple seeking asylum from op- demands no detentions and no cessfully forced an independent the unfortunate point that in most pression to be held indefi- deportations - write c/0 111 enquiry into Altercliffe police. The areas the Freedom Network and nitely, without charge. Magdalen Rd., Oxford OX4. charges were eventually dropped their newly found pacifist allies. or reduced. At Campsfield House Detention FIGHT THEM BACK mostly discovered in the"hippyish“ In Iuly local Asians came to the Centre in Oxfordshirc 99% ofthe Despite the state’s attempts to elements within the enviromnen- defence of a cab driver in detainees are black. A clear at- criminalise them communities con- tal movement and the festivalf Rotherham who was beaten by a tempt to divide the working class tinue to defend themselves against techno scene. are growing in num- gang of white men. As the racists along national boundaries. the racism and police brutality. In May bers and influence. got away 6 young people were refugees have suffered racial a group of 20 white men threatening They encourage people to “keep it arrested. Locals marched on the abuse. attacks from staff. being people with baseball bat.s and bars fluffy" - join hands. sing songs. sit police station and 2 nights ofriot- down and in some cases grass on moved at short notice” and in I991 were driven out ofthe area by young ing followed. “violent agitators" to the co- Omasasi Lumumba was murdered Asians in Downall. Sheffield. The In Scotland opposition continues operatve boys in blue. Many of us by officers in Pentonville. police response was to drive the to BNP activists Gavin Robertson, thought. with relief that libertarian However detainees have fought racists around the corner and re- a Scottish Office employee. and politics had mostly rid itself of back. In March a hunger strike by lease them. GusMcLeod at Glasgow's Burrell such naive and deadend ideology detainees spread to 10 other jails A spontaneous demo against a Collection. back in the mid-1980s. we must and detention centres. On 26 planned BNP meeting in the area. now struggle once again to destroy however. found the police descend- Info: CARP magazine.BM Box S784. March demonstrators chained up London WCIN 3XX. Contraflow. this bullshit. it‘s even more of a ing in riot vans and arresting 8 anti NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE ! The I.R.A. cease-fire may offer Peace. Will it bring justice ? A propaganda battle, largely fought on American TV,has yet to alterthe way people live in the north of Ireland. The British troops are less ‘battle ready’, yet plastic bullets have been used in catholic Belfast, and, the infamous Paratroop Regiment is about to be ‘deployed’ in West Belfast. The European Union wantsto bring down the huge dividing wall between loyalist and catholic ghettos and substitute ‘environmental improvements’, yet in North Belfast a new wall is planned to keep apart battling revellers in a park.Early September saw local people in Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, taking action to open roads across the border which the British army had closed for "security reasons". The army closed the roads again but locals came back and reopenedthem again - even using a bulldozer. The British state is torn between promises to the Unionists at Westminster, the US role and the financial dividends of ‘troops out’. One of the groups in Ireland which has consistently opposed the Villagers celebrate the premature — and short-lived — reopening of a cross-border road presence of British troops, while recognising that Republicanism is nationalism rather than revolutionary socialism, is the Workers Stop the Strip-Searches refusing him medicine and treat- Solidarity Movement. We reprint part of their recent "Statement". LAST YEAR 40 women workers at ment. The prison authorities jus- “We welcome the cease-fire. Over the past 25 years over 3,000 Asda in Barrow, Cumbria, were tify this savage treatmentby saying people have been killed and 40,000 injured. Thousands have been stripped and searched for a missing that Salvatore ‘as an active Anar- through or are still in prison. The primary blame forthese deaths and £10 note. This was a frightening chist is a danger to our society’. all the associated suffering belongs to the British State. No cease- widening-out of strip-searching Obviously they intend to let him which is deliberately degrading and die as a warning to others. fire has as yet been declared by the British State. Likewise the humiliating and frequently used on SALVATORE NEEDS MONEY loyalist paramilitaries have not yet declared a cease-fire, and have prisoners. In Maghaberry prison in TO STAY ALIVE. killed Catholics and bombed a Sinn Fein office since the IRA ceased Ireland 22 women prisoners were DONATIONS; London ABC,c/0 their military campaign. In these circumstances the IRA cease-fire brutally strip-searched by male and 121 Railton Rd.,London SE24. will not bring peace, much less justice. female screws. SUPPORT: Salvatore Cirincione, A Compromise with Imperialism The Stop Strip-Searches Campaign Carcere di San Vittore, Milano. is organised to publicise and op- Italy. Some on the left will see the IRA cease-fire as a sell-out. We don't. pose the strip-searching of women I I -. ... I ........................................................~....- . .'.-.~.'.- '.-.'.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.'.-.- '.-.'...-.-.-.... .-....... .'.... .-.-.-.-.-.'.-...-.'.~Z'........-.-.-.- The politics of nationalism were always going to lead to acompromise prisoners and has leaflets, info. 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