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must have rubbed their eyes in dobelief at the news that the Labour ray conterence nad called for ine repeal of the 1968 and 1971 Immigration Acts, for labour movement support for Mack self-defence, a ban on the use of council facilities by fascists, and the formation of anti-racist and anti-fascist committees up and down the county.
The basis for the present Labour Party "campaign' against racialism, in contrast, is the strengthening of the Race Relations Act, the "humane use' of existing immigration laws, and explanation of the contribution that black people make to the economy. The NEC has advised local Labour Parties not to become involved in aemonstrations against ine Jascists.
Meanwhile the Labour Government is This conference calls upon the Labpur Government to repeal the 1968 and 1971 Immigration Acts and all discriminates ainst immigrants and obstructs their integration into the trade union and labour movement. Conference reaffirms its opposition to racialism in any form and recognises that the National Front and other right wing groups are playing a key role in the propagation of racialist ideas. However it recognises that a legal ban would not have a lasting effect.
Conference condemns the racialist propaganda emanating from the press and television and condemns the imolicit racial statements made members of the Parliamentary Labour Party which in demanding an end to all immigration have given credence to the racialists, and resolves to campaign vigorously on local and national basis to working people that our immigrant community are not to blame for the unemployment problem and housing difficulties.
Conference calls on all Constituency Labour Parties to fully suppmovement anti-racist committees, and calls on Labour Councils to ban the use of council property by the fascist National Front and National Party.
Conference recognises that to end intent on passing the Nationalities Bill through the next session of Parliament, to tighten the screws on immigrants and their dependants and increase the tendency towards blaming black people for the problems of capitalist crisis.
The first steps which militants should take is to ensure that the demonstration against racism called by the Labour Party and the TUC for 21 November has as one of its main demands the dropping of this racist legislation and the repeal of the other Immigration Acts. All the existing literature for the present Labour campaign should be scrapped, and new campaignine material on the basis of the Conference decisions should replace it.
Immediate action is needed if the correct and principled policy contained in the resolution below is not to be dismissed Duried as anolner Blackpool'.
the threat of racialism once and for all requires an end to the system that creates and nurtures it and that ag- the system will use immigrant workers as scapegoats for its inadequacies. Conference believes that full unity and the mobilisation of the labour movement are essential to secure this end.
A campaign against racialism is fundamental. Conference calls on the National Executive Committee to launch a campaign for the following:
[a] a conference on racialism;
[b] full support community in defending themselves against racialist recognising the responsibility of the livelihoods and lives of all workers;
[c] public meetings locally and nationally:
[d] propaganda and show leaflets to be published in all immigrant languages;
[e] support for the stamping out of any discrimination in the Labour and trade union movement including the expulsion of members of racialist organisations;
[f] an appeal to all sections of the labour movement for finance for the campaign.
Moved by SALFORD EAST CLP Seconded by NORWOOD CLP excess GERRY LERNER of Salford East CLP moving Composite 40 against racısm at the Labour Conference