Blair Peach & 1979 Southall Nf Attack

[rupinder singh]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8412741.stm

CPS are reviewing the death of Blair Peach in the April 1979 Southall Protest against the National Front. Blair Peach, a teacher from East London, was found beaten to death on Beachcroft Avenue towards Southall Town Hall. It has never been evident if the Police or the National Front Siknheads beat him to death.

For those of you niave “Sikhs” keen to smooch the backsides of the BNP, you may want to catch up with your fathers and grandfathers, many of whom were present on that day in Southall to stand up against the National Front. The racist National Front decided to hold an election meeting in Southall. The Front had almost no supporters in the area, but were hoping to gain publicity by bulldozing their way through the prodimatly Sikh town. Three years earlier a National Front/Skinhead gang had killed a Sikh youth Gurdip Singh Chaggar on the streets of Southall. After the killing of Gurdip Singh Chaggar, Kingsley Read of the National Party (which later became the BNP) was quoted as having remarked, 'One down - a million to go'. Chaggar's killers were never convicted.

During the events of April 1979, the racially prejudiced Police arrested many Sikh kids, they beat them up and then they took them out of London. They were dropped in the middle of nowhere, on the side of motorways, nowhere near telephones or anything. These then young Sikhs were left confused. The police just wanted to humiliate them.

Just a reminder of what some of our elders had to go through.

[BhForce]

Who was Blair Peach? A dissenter from the National Front?

[rupinder singh]

Who was Blair Peach? A dissenter from the National Front?

Blair Peach was an influential teacher from East London, who directly tackled the growth in organised racism in East London all through the '70s. He spoke out and condemn the rise in the influence of such fascist groups as the National Front and British Movement during those years, he organised against them whether in the classroom, trade union meeting or the street. He was a fairly well known personality at the time.

During the National Front attack in Southall in April 1979. Blair Peach was killed due to intervention of the police. There was always talk about the tactics of the Police on the Southall Asian population and Anti-NF protesters during that day.

In the London Evening News (24 April), a Southall witness, Mr. Parminder Singh Atwal, described Blair's fatal encounter with about twenty members of the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group, who were running towards him carrying shields and black truncheons:

'As the police rushed past him, one of them hit him on the head with the stick. I was in my garden and I saw this quite clearly. When they all rushed past, he was left sitting against the wall. He tried to get up: but he was shivering and looked very strange. He couldn't stand. Then the police came back and told him this: "Move! Come on, move!" They were very rough with him and I was shocked because it was clear he was seriously hurt.

His tongue seemed stuck in the top of his mouth and his eyes were rolled up to the top of his head. But they started pushing him and told him to move, and he managed to get to his feet. He staggered across the road and came to where I was in the garden. I tried to sit him down. He was in a very bad state and he couldn't speak. Then he just dropped down. I got a glass of water for him, but he couldn't hold it and it dropped out of his hand.'

[Guest militant singh]