IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Red Weekly No. 153, 3 June 1976 · p. 2 of the scan · 313 words

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also subject to immediate deportation, Robert Carr promised that of course there have been.

In the initial stages they concerned they had previously asked for adWhen the Law Lords ruled in 1973 that any immigrant who had entered "illegally' at any time since 1962 was there would be no witch-hunts. But At once the deportations started.

people known to the police because vice on how to regularise their posiRacist legislation is used to nound workers like tnese. on strike tor union recognition last week at the Post Office telecommunications centre site in the City of London the amnesty itself command any connaence in une umingrant community. Of the first 90 cases examined by the Home Office, 69 were not covered by the amnesty and were made liable to deportation.

The whole meaning of Powell's disclosures in Parliament last week was that they gave the racist pot another stir-not merely by seeking to check immigration from abroad, but by providing a cover for further racist and police activity in the black areas. The spectre of violence in the ghettos raised by Powell was a direct incitement to white racist The "left" Labour programme announced with a fanfare by Benn last week is very clear on the question of race relations-it is in favour of immigration controls. But any socialist programme which deals with the oppression of black people must declare itself firmly against controls:

BECAUSE by restricting the rights of black workers they weaken and divide the whole working class BECAUSE they introduce the midnight knock and huge powers for the police over the lives of millions of people.

BECAUSE they explicitly put the blame for overcrowded schools. hospitals, housing, for millions of unemployed on the shoulders of black workers and not where it belongs-on the backs of the bosses and their system.

Vote LABOUR

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