in the sall-organsation of black workan pected illegal immigrant at the time of his arrest.
This is called 'removal' Immigration Act. Since the more recent House of Lords' ruling that the 1971 Act applies retroactively, a total of 10,000 black people face a similar sudden end to their stay in Britain. The effect of the Lords' ruling has the right wing of the Tory Party, been to threaten all black people with arbitrary passport checks and racats, police detention. The Government has now given every racist and fascist the chance to present his activities as defending the law." Jim Merrick, chairman of the British Campaign to Stop Immigration, has openly offered to pay E100 for the longest list of illegal immigrunts.
Those in the best position to claim the reward are undoubtedly racist officials in the civil scevice, now that the Government has relaxed the ruies on the flow of confidental information between government departments, Immigration authorities already rely heavily The Lords ruling is a concession te Assembly point for Sunday's demo is Speakers Corner at 2,30 р.m.
Call to lobby talks By an overwhelming vote, delegates at the last meeting of Westminster Trades Council decided to call a lobby at Congress House, the TUC headquarters, on the morning of any future talks with the Government.
These are now expected to resume -With only a little more than 10 days left until the end of the month the Fighting Fund has received less than C50 so fari Last month we were more than E00 short of Do E300 target. At the prosant rate we will be owen forthw behind this month, This in a secious situation. Wo neod to moet our Fighting Fuod torget both to cover the operating costs of the paper are to allow in to improud the suality of the piper Every wook there are important developments in the clase struggie which we cinnot cover adequataly, withar bostom in have too litha space in the pope, or brices wo ane shart of the hurran and technimi resources necessary for the jab, And Weekly aims to provida voo with information and analyse on value in vour urug gles. You mist provide us with she bier we nand tor do this job progerly. Racialism heid in Birmingham last month, Tha Mansfield strike was an important milestone A couple of months ago, an Asian baker was arrested at work, taken to the airport, put on a plane, and flown to India as a susstill wearing the workclothes he wore a procedure brought in under the 1971 behind which shelter the fascists and symptoms of the growing crisis of British capitalism. At the same time, by dramatically throwing the spotlight on illegal immigrants, racism among white workers in genecal will be inflamed, deepening the divisions within the working cliss. Police and employers now have additional weapons for silencing mitant black workers.
ACTION COMMITTEES
Action commitlees, including representatives of local shop stewards committees, trade union branches. trades councils, and Labour Party organisations, should be created in every area to organise against the racist offensive Such committees should explain througbout the white community the need to solidarise with black people and pledge to the inmigrant communitics their full supdespite the opposition which has already forced Scanion to withdraw -next Friday, 27 July.
The IMG fully supports this valuable initiative by the Trades Council against the talks. We call on all trade unionists and socialists in the London area to make every effort to support the lobby. For final details, phone Red Weekly (837 6954). port for all immigrants, legal or "illegal, who fall victim to harassment, The committees should also action against employers threatening black workers with the Immigration Laws or suspected of But the black communities cannot collecting information for intimidation purposes.
They should also take up and generalise the initiative of the CPSA, who have refused to carry out Sir Keith Joseph's order that workers in labour exchanges should demand passports from black people seeking benefits. The action committees should campaign for other public service out such orders and refuse to deteered by black people themseives as possible throughout the ammuthat shop stewards committees and trade union branches do not allow police of immigration officers to The demonstrution in London this make enquiries or arrests of black people at work.
BOYCOTT COMMITTEES Salford to wait until the white workers come to their aid. They need to organise themsehes to shield "illegals from the police, campuign against blackmailers within the community. and orginise mass self-defence against police snatch squads and fascist attacks A boycott of race relations bodies was proposed at a meeting of black organisations in workers - in hospitals, schools, local Southall a few weeks ago. The comgovernment - to refuse to carry mittees to supervise the boycort which were also proposed at this mand any information not volun- conference should be set up as soon on the organisation of collective self-defence.
weekend will heip to show the Government that black people refuse to be used as scapegoats by che ruling class. But the compaign must not be limited to gaining an amnesty for illegals," The racist Tomigration Act allows for permanent ponce •harassment, threats of deportation, "voluntary" reparriation (encouraged hy demal of socal security benefits) and exclusion of dependants from the country This law will continue to provide new opportunitits for racist attacks. Now is the time for workers to clean the racism out of the trade unions. The Southal meeting proposed strike ac tion against the Immigration Act This is whit our target must be.
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WHITE LABGUR CANT BE FREE WHILE BLACK LABOUR IS IN CHAINS"