sections of the workplaces.
of buses, conference on 2 December.
well.
Raghib steward al Kover Solihull, detailed in a recent issue of Socialist Challenge how racism is an everyday problem for black workers:
*It was in February 1976 that I told my friends in Sparkhill have had a must e Rovers. must joking", they said. "They don't employ blacks"?
Ahsan and his friends know at first hand what it means to be nated against in employment training, and promonons.
is this systematic discrimination workers which anti-racists have to take up, fighting to achieve full equal rights for black people in reality, and not merely on paper.
UPROOTING The price of failing to tackle these problems will escalating divisions between | impossible. THE LAST six months have seen a massive growth of Anti Nazi League within From the offices of the civil service to the platforms workers have begun to organise against fascism. The ANL has now called a trade union COLIN TALBOT argues that this is the time to go on the offensive against racism in the workplaces as shop | black and white workers, and thus a growth in the influence There are two ways of going about uprooting racism in the wOrk Diaccs.
PROSECUTION One is to rely on the state and call for 'strengthening the Race Relations Act. This non-starter, because the state has no real intention enforcing even its own liberal" policies against discrimination.
black vene the Race Relations Act every time they march or sel their filthy propaganda, thet almost prosecuted.
On the other hand, it is the easiest thing in the world for employers to avoid prosecution by going through motions. Pinning them down on individual cases is virtually the UNC IS of At the end of the day there are still fewer whites who get the jobs, the high wages, the training and the and promotions.
There is an method. That is to rely on our own strength, the strength of ne race unions. totake onine all the employers and force equality for black workers When a factory has 10 per cent black workers and only a handful of blacks in the best jobs, then the obvious demand is that blacks must be promoted or transferred to give them the status their numbers warrant.
This policy originated in the USA, unions have fought for and won what is called affirmative action but also for other oppressed nationalities and for women.
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conference is to begin to down to me senous confronting WOrKOlaCCs. LICH discuss investigating the extent party blacks than of racist taking up The ANL alternative Conterence House, credentials.
London WC2.
hundreds not just for blacks, union Laskoi in the Line paDel mittees, committee, ATKINSON.
fascist had been set. ercont ges a decline in I'ne had discrimination and policies like affirmative action to end it.
trade union -is at Congress Wear Hondon We. is open to Great Russell 'bona fide trade union bodies and workplace organisations*, and all readers should aim to Registration [£1] from: ANL, PO Box 151, NAN BAILEY a black revolutionary from Detroit will be speaking at the Cheques Fourth International Rally Fri 24 Nov, 7.30pm Camden Town Hall (Kings X) TWO IN THE EYE Anti-Racist Fight Racism badge is black on white.
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