IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Register threat to Blacks

Red Weekly No. 186, 10 February 1977 · p. 4 of the scan · 405 words

The scan: rw-no186-feb10-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 4 of the scan

like employmous. unempiovea sucencachers ov civing vouno workers ine alterna tive' of low paid voluntary work It helps to plug up the holes in Welfare State by using cheap Lasty, It's neiping to cover up the fantastic orgies of spending on celebrations of Queen's Jubilee -or me ren ano tamous wind te SunTer massive CUIs In living standards. The fight for union recognition at two rust mouse rore notes. ine Jack Sution a member orini National Union of Public Employ need in the NHS is not Queens wn bo-googness. out money to run a decent health service for working people. My union is currently running a anion labour. This sort of voluntary" thing is even worse.' COLIN TALBOT It inese examples are to be followed, and the disputes workers everywhere must force local T & GWU officials to listen to their members and not the bureaucracy.

Meanwhile, at the Linton Lodge hotel in Oxford, sunke Is now in its twellin week the pickets and begun to bite But owner has been forced to discuss ICHIIS with the union. last implied that he is ready to concede.

campaign nonChairperson won, where a similiar blacking have sack the rest of his GREEKS & TUR SAY The Cypriot Defence Campaign on the march in North London Saturday against the deportation of Cypriot refugees under the 1971 DOLL up THE PRANKS REPUKI to De published this week says that the only way a register of black immi grants could work is by making it compulsory by law The plan to register all those en ntled to come to brutain as immi grants was promised by the then ome secrear Kow enrus. as concession to the anti-immigrant the Tory Party. Part of that campaign was the carefully contrived "leak' by Enoch Powell of the "Hawley Report last The Franks Committee was set as part of a Government package which also promised to crackdown on illegal immigration." Its report points out the difficulty of a voluntary register, but gives respectability to the idea of registration by law.

Combined with the other elements of the "package', the long threatened Nationality Bill, overall effect would be to per manently separate immigrant workers from their dependents.

The Labour Government has obviously taken notice or me por icy passed at the last Labour Party Conference to repeal all the exist ing immigration legislation. As usual they are doing the direc opposite.

february/March 1977

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