Thousands of working class people in, the EEC and still vote National Front. That is which thin the main lesson of the Front's While election campaign. survival will The Front increased its vote in the country as a whole to 112,000.
But this is only because they stood 90 candidates this time as against 54 cight months ago. In constituencles where they stood before, there was no significant swing to the Front.
As far as the middle class voter was concerned, the Front had mixed their vote. But in South Shields, their vote fell disastrously mainly to the Liberals. The Liberals and the National Front have a certain common appeal-traditional Tory voters disillusioned with the policies of big capital. In other arcas, the Front lost heavily to the Tor ies. Hayes and Harlington-a traditional NF base deserted the Front for Heath.
haimpton. Leicester, of unemployment.
big boost for racist demagogues ing class.
will only cut out this danger But in working class constituencies, the Froat did well. It hekd its traditional base: Rochdale, Newhat South, Leyton, WolverBut worse than this, many of those working class areas where the Front stood for the first time returned a very large vote for the fiscists. In Bethnal Green and Bow, Wood Green, Hackney and Shoreditch, Walthamstow. and Newham North Fast, the Front averaged over 2000 votes This is not because the working class in these areas supports fascism It is because sectors of the working class are dominated by racism. The fascists can win a consistently high With hundreds of thousands thrown out of work in the coming months, the Front in these areas to deepen the divisions in the work- class movement.
The present anti-fascist campaign on 27 October.
orice and for all once a morement i burlt to root out racial discrimnation in the lactories and to take actions which deal with unemployment and bad housing at the expense of the capitalists. What is needed is a movement which builds the need for a permanent struggle against racism into the consciousness of every worker.
The return of Powell to Parliament - with his emphasis on racist, his espousal of the loyalist cause, and his demagogy on the Common Markel helps to give credibility to many of the demands of the NF The NF will be attempting inside the trade unions to cash in on the anti-EEC feelings of many woe kers. The anti-EEC movement in the trade unions must have no truck with Powell and such elements for to do so only strengthens the This also makes it doubly imp ortant that the fight for the with drawal of British Troops from Ireland is taken into the working A positive step in that direction is all-out support for the Troops Out' demonstration
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fortunes. In Brentford they won votes from the Liberals, doubling
racist vote amongst many workens, no doubt made insecure by fears
will be looking for any spark which could set off a major outburst of racism -and once again provide a