Portugal, fascism is on the up again. the fascists.
THE BLACK COMMUNITY. sations.
ONLY FIFTEEN WORKERS might be involved in the strike at the Daily Jang International in East London, but the four week-old strike has an The racists are on the move. Spurred on by the speeches of Enoch Powell, the press hysteria and the little Englander' philosophy of the Labour leaders, left and right, they are beginning to win support inside the working class itself. Blackburn is the advance post of the racist menace. Two candidates of the fascist National Party were elected in the recent local council elections. After all the horrors of Nazi Germany, Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain and Salazar's DEFEND THE BLACK COMMUNITY Jenkins and the Labour leaders tell us to ignore the fascists and they will go away. Meanwhile the black community in Blackburn - as elsewhere up and down the country - is under constant physical attack and intimidation. As all historical experience shows, appeasement will only egg on They must be confronted with a massive show of force. The number one priority is to show labour movement sup port for the self-defence actions of the black community in Blackburn. This should be the launching pad for a national campaign to chase the racist scum back into their holes. This is why we say: MARCH ON BLACKBURN TO DEFEND DEFEND BLACK PEOPLE, DEFEND THE UNIONS The ground for racist policies has been laid by the policies of the Labour leaders. Every one of them supports the controls on immigration into this country, pretending that such a policy will ease the economic crisis. It is the TUC which is demanding the withdrawal of work permits. It is the Labour lefts who are calling for import controls.
But these policies are not in the interests of the working class. These policies are the policies of the most rabid Tories. These people have got one concern: to turn the justified anger of the working class about their declining living standards and soaring unemployment away from the real culprits - the right-wing Labour leaders and their capitalist backers -onto the backs of innocent and down-trodden black women and men. And in the absence of any lead from the trade union leaders, they are beginning to succeed in mobilising some working class forces. This is a direct threat to the whole of the working class and to the trade union organiTHE FOLLOWING LEAFLET HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED NATIONALLY BY THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP TO MOBILISE FOR THE ANTI-RACIST DEMONSTRATION IN BLACKBURN ON 11 SEPTEMBER.
REPEAL THE IMMIGRATION LAWS!
Workers must not be taken in by the claims that black workers are in any way to blame for the capitalist crisis. These people are forced to leave their homelands in search for work because British imperialism has stripped their countries of wealth for centuries. The development of their countries' economies have been systematically distorted in pursuit of profit for British firms. Now the British econo my - born of this plunder and exploitation - is itself in The immigration laws enshrine the myth that immigrant workers are at the root of the crisis. What patent nonsense! The Labour Government has deliberately slashed the social services and allowed the unemployment figures to rise well over the million mark. But the support for the immigration laws by the trade union and Labour leaders fosters the racist sentiment inside sections of the working class. An indispensable step in rooting out this racist menace is the building of a powerful movement inside the labour movement to force the repeal of the immigration laws.
SOCIALIST POLICIES In this way we can begin to win support for policies which place the burden of the crisis on the capitalist system itself -where it belongs. Policies of nationalisation of firms declaring redundancies, of work-sharing with no loss of pay;
of the economy from the capitalists and impose the contro of the working class over the economy are the only answer to the racists. Mass action on these policies can throw back the attacks of the Labour Government, undermine the support for the fascists and drive out the right-wing and racist leaders of the labour movement.
PUBLIC MEETING
Speakers: TAR/Q AL/ (International Marxist Group)
Socialists)
THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm Windsor Hall, Blackburn TONY CLIFF (International Labour Government-imposed decline in living standards. Asian workers are no longer ready to be a pool of superexplotted labour The workers involved at the Jang
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policies which tie wages and benefits to the rise in the cost of living. These policies, which begin to wrest the control
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