ERONT Over 400 demonstrators from as far afield as Brighton and Preston demson strated in Leeds last Saturday against the jailing of anti-fascist militant lan Coleman.
Colenan, whose appeal is now coming up, is serving 18 months as a result of'a counter demonstration agalnst the fasciats of the National Democratic and Freedom Movement in Leeds last year. According to police 340i 01 Do ane sea ua коенан savaged several pobicemen in a whirwind of Kung Fu style violence.
As Kirk Mann, an cegineering worker and a co-defendant with lan, said when speaking at the demonstration: "Wo were prepared to stand up and say*The National Front and other outfits like if ane Fascists. Their aim is to sash the organisations of the working class. We must stop them spreading their racist filch"?
Leeds AUEW convenor and IMG militant Fony Maguire drew the lieks between the Coleman case and other state moves against the working class. He spoke of the ase of the conspiracy laws and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and said "these laws wilh be ased not just against so-called terrorists hut aguinst all working class militants.
Dave Hallsworth, a member of 15 who had to face National Front thogs in the recent Intex strike which followed his victimisation by managemsent, stressed the importance of combatring the fascists on the streets and in the factories'.
Members of the Communist Party, however, although they had spoken with representatives of the IS and IMG at a meeting the previoas day and had urged support for the demonstration, were in the event markedly absent. WEEKLY
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