In January, the Tahir family in Blyth, Nortumberland received local working class support to resist deportation. An attack by police on 21st January with dogs and truncheons against blacks leaving the 'Checkpoint Charlie' nightclub in Manchester led to serious injuries. On 5th February, a lively demo was held outside Hackney Town Hall to protest against Stoke Newington police's campaign of terror against Turkish and Kurdish families. 400 demonstrated their anger 3 days later. 130,000 racist attacks were recorded by the Government's own records for 1993.
Pickets continue surrounding deportations.
In Birmingham, on 21st March, a picket was held of 'Immigration Adjudicators' in support of Prakash and Prem Chavrianookoo. 5 days later, a vigil outside Campfield Detention Centre in Oxford highlighted the plight of 200 detained in squalid conditions. Throughout Europe State racism is being resisted. In France on 31st January a black tenager was shot while joyriding. 1000 police attacked a 2000 strong anti-fascist picket of an election rally in Hanover, Germany by the Republican Party fuhrer, Schonhuber.