The case for self-defence

In this polemic, originally published in the magazine CARF in March 1979, the authors show through a number of cases, how the police are failing to protect black people from racist attacks and then how the criminal justice system compounds this failure by penalising those who are forced to defend themselves, and then ruling out of court the whole issue of racial provocation. Why, ask the authors, should other liberal freedoms take precedence over the freedom to life?