IMGpapers 1976–79

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

SCANDAL OF IMMIGRANTS

Red Weekly No. 182, 13 January 1977 · p. 5 of the scan · 241 words

The scan: rw-no182-jan-13-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

POWELL SHOCKER al's secret report on 'the problem which has no end RACE LEAK Darts expres 'Guns soon new Powel La journalist's individual race assau on the part of the NUJ or anyone else. For Evans it is all a matter of conscience, and ne asserts inal tne world between present campaign is one of 'nega live censorsio wich wou ear That is either a bad misunder- used by standing on Evans's part, or else an outrignt ne. As lar as i am age, aware, no-one in the NUJ, and certainly no-one involved in the style. Campaign Against Racism in the Media. has argued for the suppres sion of facts, however uncomfortable they might be.

There is all the difference in the reporting that 14 penniless and bewildered Malaw Asian immigrants have been put up in an expensive hotel normally cousines execuaves because of the dire housing shortDanner neadunes which accuse them of living it up in The pamphlet itself records that the same local authority shortly afterwards housed at least one white family in another local hotel without even a murmur from our wonderfully free press. Draw your own conclusions.

GEOFFREY SHERIDAN [Secret ary, Campaign Against Racism in le medla] * Publish and be damned?, by Peter Evans. Runnymede Trust, £1.30 (for 38 pages!).

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Giant bill for two families who live in a 4-star hotel

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