black WATE That was MIne defend demonstration in steward recruitment this country.
iation, well 'NEITHER IMPORT NOR IMMIGRATION CONTROLS can solve the problems of this society. All those who call for such controls in one way or another, I'm sorry to say, have to be labelled as racist. In practice they blame foreign workers, not British employers, for the crisis.
message that Assan Raghib, IMG speaker, had for the 300 marchers at the latest focus of anti-racist activity in the Midlands - last Saturday's Wolverhampton. Assan is a shop at the Rover car factory in Solihull. Pointing out that none of the trade union leaders came to speak against racism when factory petitions were circulating in support of Robert Relf, he called for the formation of our own groups, in the unions, as black people, to tell these leaders that these are our problems and if they are not going to fight, we will fight. It's very important we organise in the unions, because they are the might of The demonstration was called by the local Anti-Racist Committee and supported by the International Socialists, IMG and Indian Workers Assocas omel anti-racist. organisations.
Wolverhampton Harambee Association provided part of the West Indian representation on the march.
ment and housing. every way we can.' elections to Red Weekly:
the right lines.
Party, Stan Faulkner, a member, told Red Weekly: 'Black people should call a strike, a black people's strike to drive it home to the people that we have to get equal employ Fears of attacks on the black community in the area have been heightened by the barbarous burning of a 76-year-old Indian woman in Leamington. Jit Singh, a T&GWU steward at Birmid Qualcast, emphasised to Red Weekly: I don't think that black people can rely on the police to deeno inem. we nave to cereno ourserves The Socialist Worker candidature in Walsall North and that of Tariq All in Stechford met with approval from N.S. Noor, national vice-president of the Indian Workers Association (Marxist) and president of the Wolverhampton IWA. He explained his own experience with 'The IWA in Wolverhampton has been able on two occasions to put up our own candidates in local elections, to give a jerk to the Labour Party and put them on If we find that the Labour Party is as racist as the Tories then we don't vote for either of them we must put up our own candloates. in inis so-caned democracy, this is the only alternative left for us. / would like to see this pattern up and down the country, so that we can build a campaign to rectify the ills of society.