sive Labour campaign which the NEC was instructed to launch.
laws and the defeat of the Nationality Bill:
oeTWeen Counties higher pay and better conditions.
black workers. immigration laws.
social services onto the shoulders of black people.
colonialist system. Now that system is in crisis.
for a workers solution to that crisis. End them now!
This conference calls upon the Labour Government to repeal the 1968 and 19/1 Immigration Acis and al legislation that discriminates against immigrants and obstructs their integration into the trade union and labour movement. Conference reaftirms 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 erfect.
Conference condemns the racialist propaganda emanating from the press and television and condemns the implicit racial statements made members of the Parliamentary Labour Party which in demanding an end to all immigration have credence to the racialists, and resolves to campaign vigorously local ana папопа Dasis working people that our immigrant community are not to blame for the unemployment problem and housing difficulties.
Conference calls on ency Labour Parties to fully support the formation of local movemen anti-racist and calls on Labour Councils to ban the use of council property fascist National Front and National Party. The resolution passed at the last Labour Party Conference calling for the repeal of all immigration laws cuts right across the racist accommodations of succesgovernments and the official policy of the Labour lefts for a 'socialist' immigration policy. Perhaps this is why we have heard nothing of the It is all the more essential for militants to be armed with the against this racist legislation. Red Weekly calls for the repeal of the present BECAUSE it is in the interests of all workers to be able to move freely Once restrictions, checks and surveillance are imposed, then inevitably immigrants will feel uneasy about joining trade unions or taking part in collective action. Immigration controls weaken the trade unions.
BECAUSE the 'contract labour' system, which the new Nationality Bill seeks to perfect legally, makes migrant workers depend on their employers for the continuance of their emplovment. This leads to low wages and bad working conditions. The TUC call for the ending of work permits in the catering industry for this reason. But they should be unionising these workers and fighting for BECAUSE they sanction the power of the midnight knock over thousands of These police powers must be ended with the repeal of the BECAUSE they put the blame for the shortage of housing, jobs and adequate There were the same problems in the Thirties, but there was no immigration then. The root cause is the crisis of capitalist production and the way that the Labour Government seeks to put the cost of that crisis on the shoulders of the working class - black people in particular. Immigration is caused by the impoverishment of countries by the Immigration controls divide the fight against the ruling class offensive and LABOUR'S CONFERENCE POLICY the threat of racialism once and for all requires an end to the system that creates and the system will use immigrant workers as scapegoats for its inadea uacies. Conference believes that full unity and the mobilisation of the labour movement are secure THis ene A campaign against racialism is fundamental. the National Executive Committee to launch a campaign for the following: [a] a conference on racialism; [b ful! SUNDOTE community in defending themselves against racialist ATTACK recognising the responsibility of the labour movement to weinoos ane lives or au workers:
given [c] public meetings nationally; propaganda and recruitment on a leaflets to be published in all immSnOW igrant languages; [e] support for the stamping out of any discrimination in the Labour and trade union movement including the all Constit- expulsion of members of racialist organisations; labour [f] an appeal to all sections of the labour movement for finance for the campaign.
Moved by sune SALFORD EAST CLP Seconded by tion rules which arguments enON nurtures it and that essential to Conference calls on black while defend locally and JOHN STURROCK