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But the Pakistan Act is an outright and vicious attack on the black community in this country. If the immigration laws have made racism in this country respectable and built up the confi dence of fascist rabble like the National Front, then the Pakistan Act will serve this purpose even more effectively.
Yet it is precisely this measure that the Labour Party has gone along with most completely. The main body of Labour MP's have accepted the basic arguments behind previous racist laws, and this new move is presented by the Government as just a logical development of these laws: a tidying up operation' made necessary by Pakistan's withdrawal from the Common wealth. BANNED IN IRELAND, available from RED BOOKS Even those sections of the party who have opposed racist measures in the past made no attempt to lead a real fight against them outside of Parliament. They now accept them as 'facts of life and make their criticisms within the framework laid down by those racist laws. Moreover the Labour Party has long posed as the champion of 'Common wealth' ties, as opposed to the European connections sought by the leaders of the Tory Party. Their opposition to the Immigration Act in 1962 was based on the fact that it might upset' relations with the Commonwealth. Even the Labour left' has relied heavily on this chauvinistic attachment to the Common wealth in its anti-Common Market campaign. What could they say, then, in opposition to Alec Douglas Home's argument that: the value of the Commonwealth should not be diluted by allowing a country which had left the Commonwealth, or its citizens, indefinitely to enjoy those privileges which derive solely from Commonwealth membership.' Labour MP's thus found themselves unable to
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