NOW OPEN BOOKS TO WORKERS RACISM: FIGHT LABOUR'S HYPOCRISY

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THIS WEEKEND the Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, is. due to speak at an anti-racist demonstration called by the Labour Party and TUC This seems a rather peculiar choice of platform speaker.

The official Labour Party policy on racism, as decided at this year's annual conference, is opposition to all immigration controls and support for black self-defence. Merlyn Rees, however, spoke at the same conterence in favour of immigration controls.

As Minister responsible for law and order' he has refused to even censure racist judge Gywn Morris who advocated the setting-up of Ku Klux Klan type white groups; refused to act against officers and security guards who last month so terrorised a young Indian woman at Heathrow that her new born baby died.

Now the chances are that he will turn the same blind eye to revelations of the heavy National Front recruitment in the prison service.

The posturing of Merlyn Rees as an anti-racist is a degrading, cynical insult to al black people in this COLLEY, But it is not surprising.

MERLYN REES vigilante speaks at the behest of the TUC, which recently called upon the Government to cut down work permits for immigrant workers. He speaks in the name of a Government whose policies of unemployment, cuts, and attacks on living standards breeds racism.

Rees has the power to act against racist judges, prison screws immigration officials. He refuses to do so. He avoids the policies decided at nIs party's much fear as white racists avoid Rees black workers. No wonder Enoch Powell sings the praises of Labour.

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SELF-DEFENCE! and conference with as Photo: News Line No reliance can be placed on this Labour Government in acting against the racists. No reliance can be placed on the bureaucrats of the TUC in driving out racists from the trade It is up to the labour movement itself - a movement which has the power to stand up and fight for the demands of the Labour Party ConREPEAL ALL IMMIGRATION LABOUR SUPPORT FOR BLACK NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS! 21 November details: Assemble Marble Arch 1am for 12.30pm departure. Trafalgar Square rally starts 2.30pm.

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2 RED WEEKLY 18 November 1976

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