With the hit of our readers and supportin, Add Italy is now theisty esthlished. But have revealed an awareness that even works ago we have raised just over [B6, but we asic every rineer 10 cordiehr sailing us The Chrysler strikers have developed donation. Or why not make lep regular banker order? Cheques/POs/bankers arders a i system of fiying pickets and used Inside - Labour Party Programme p3 SHREWSBURY 24 p8 Lessons from US pickets pp4-5 On Monday the Law Lords, highest Judicial appeal authority in the country, handed down a verdict which reactionary stance, The Law Lards' opens up the threat of immediate deportation for as many as 10,000 immigrants. The verdict upheld the right of Parliament to make its laws retroactive - to apply to actions that took place before the passing of the Act - if it so wishes. This treans that all immigrants who entered the country other than through the legal channels between 1968 and 1971 are now liable to be deported, despite the fact that the law at the time of their entry stated that they would be immune from deportation once they had been resident for six months, This verdict is not at all surprising it is just one more sign of the deeply racialist character of British society and politics, Increasingly the British ruling class is turning away from the liberal" forms of back door racial oppression, and adopting an openly verdict is the latest stage in this rightward course.
What is involved here from the standpoint of the working class movernent? The Law Lords have given an open hunting licence to every reactionary racialist organisation in the country.
government may have better things to do than start a 'witch hunt," but they have no need to: there are enough enthusiasts of repatriation' country to do this job for them.
The effect will be to create a climate of insecurity throughout the whole immigrant community which can only make all the more difficult unity between black and white workers, Today it is illegal' immigrants who are being deported. But when will scope and coveruge af the paper Red Week, 182 Pantanille Road, London N.1.
the next victory for the 'repatriation" brigade come?
The working class movement must adopt a principled stand on question. British capitalist society. for the past three hundred years, has rested upon the blood of Africans and Indians, If the working class is to fight for an end to this exploitative system and claim the wealth of this system as its own, we cannot deny he claims of our black brothers and sisters. The wealth of British capitalism is as much a product of their labour as it is of ours.
We must oppose all forms of antiimmigrant legislation, and pledge ourselves to defend all those who come under attack either by the reactionary manoeuvres of the capitalist state or the witch-hunts of semi-fascist rabble.
If we cannot carry out this task then we will not be fit to smash the power of the capitalist class.
win do not intand to stop here. Ovar the next few months we hope further to aspend the But this can only be done with your continued support and wontance, That le why wil If they are to be won. have Tauriched a regular Fighing Foul to roise C300 a month. Sine the frist appeal tog over Phase 2, the bosses have felt confident that-such moves could be pulled off.
But it is precisely thee defeats which have driven the workers to resist any further attempts to step up their exploitation. Unable to break through on the wages froat, they are all the more determined to fight back on those questions that can, time being, still be tackled it the traditional arena of struggle - the shop floor.
NOT SPECIAL This is not a special situation. The same problems exist in many British industries, and the boases will respond in exactly the same way. A report of the Confederation of British Industries prepared last week stressed the 'need for employers to attack restrictive practices* and 'squeeze more output out of the existing work force." We can expect to see a whole series of struggles like those now taking place in the car industry. The tactics used by the car workers "traditional' struggles now require a much hipher degree of orginisation them to stop all movement of maWhen the Chrysler management, at one point last week, decided to smuggle a convey of five car trans porters out through a gate that had been closed for thirty years, moto rised pickets tracked them down and diverted them to a storuge depot where they remain under permanent picket.
NO WAY ROUND Many workers are beginning to look for ways around Phase 2 -ways to launch wages struggles without taking on the full force of government. Two plunts in Birmingham have struck over parity claims, and a dispute las been going on at the Perkins Diesel Engines" plant in Peterborough for almost three months over • purity claim. The Perkins management seem determined for a showdown, and are pressing ahead with plans to lock out the 5700- strong work force. The wave of equal pay strikes now under way has a similar character.
In the long run, however, there is no way round' Phase 2 and the Tory government. The present strikes may be able to win important gains, but their long-term signiticance will be as a means by which militants can rally the forces of the working class and prepare for an all-out offensive against Phase 3 in the auturn. There is no other way forward.
Neither Phase 2, Phase 3, Nor Speed Up Allow the Ruling Class No Quarter.
Seven of the 24 Shrewcbury building workers will now stand trial at Hold Crown Court in North Hales on the comet sup certain i the committal proceedinga at Shrewabury on 18 May.
whole claim. Even more seriously, this comnow about a reviv al of the campaign in the CURRENT ACCOUNT
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