REPATRIATION way of "solving" it. and Cecil Gutzmore Information Centre In West London.
One evening last month, as Sarah Kusah down supper with her children, police arrived at the front door of her flat in Paddington.
The Home Office's deportation order had been issued a few days before. She did not open the door.
For 20 minutes, the police nocked, banged, and kicked When they inally lent, th family pulled on their coats and made Off into the nicht. A friend came by the next day to clear up the half-caten supper Any resemblance to life in Nazi Germany should not be discounted.
ESTRANGED It is no longer surprising to hear of black people oeing deported from Britain as illegal immigrants. In the case Sarah Kasah, it in clear that she has been tricked into present situation.
When she entered country in 1973 te rejoin her estranged husband, the Home Office issued her visitor's entry visa clearance for a limited period only. Presumably the immigraSARAH KUSAH (centre) and her children Ben!
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE Du Maron Tard Doge D Home Office was showing that it has already found a Since 1955, Sarah Kusah from Sierra Leone has lived in Britain for a total of 14 years. But this has not stopped Merlyn Rees signing a deportation order and setting the Metropolitan Police to hunt her down. JUDE WOODWARD interviewed Sarah Kosah of the Black tion officials their customary suspicion of the any marriage that might allow a black person to live in this country.
This is the crux of the matter.
Britain in 1974 after separating from his wile. been resident here for 23 years when he left to go to Ghana.
Sarah, as a dependent relative, residence in Britain, even under TOC ACCE CONCE WI Her two children were born TRUITE Home Office admits that they ate not leza materants. Tac children want to stay. Letitia, who is 16 and preparing for her O-Levels, says: I live This is my home and l've got my friends bere.
Her brother Benjamin is now 14. When he last lived in Sierra of Leone he was only 8. He has grown up here and has no desire ber 10. Jeave. If their the will have to join her or else go Sarah Kusah's husband lefl the country in 1974 to Ghana, and now Office claims there evidence that she ever this husband, let alone one that had Sarah points out separation order in the British courts. She even showed the Home Office the papers.
After the departure from they eventually returned when a letter, collected from the house by a friend, she could stay country until the end of this 100OEA were showing She is not going to leave ber of a coward," she explains, now 1 am going to fight. I'm tired of running away as though She has begun her fight by approaching the Black People's Information Centre for help, and they are organising press releases and attempting gather support for a picket of the Home Office. The BBC'S Nationwide team has made a film report, but so far this has not been screened. and even the NOT UNUSUAL When the producer of the bere. denied al knowledre film having Perhaps rather "accidental loss" in view of the "sensitivity" of the immigration issue at the moment.
Cecil Gutzmore. mother communis morcer, points out that Sarah Kasah's case is not tion centre was satisfied that Britain and the Home Home Office of this.
had a But frequently there are cases and Latitia: "Now I'm going fo light"
that her ended by Cecil family's basty Paddingion informed Sarah education in Britain.
"Hatore war a hit here on a short time that pencilled of permanent abode*.
to finish her education years in asked her, theat back herer heen made.
convenient residence, black Yet they Office's eyes. are bopeful of convince the beller off elsewhere? where the law is quite clear, and very harsh, and people had no choice but to leave the country, their famibies, and their homes. drawa Cample of a worn in Ipswich Gutzmore procedure who had left her daughter at ions. school in the Caribbean when she came to this country, as she feared that racism here would prevent her obtaining a good The daughter stayed in the Caribbean until she was over 16, and thus lost her right of residence in Britain. Now she is doing further education. But the last received extension of her visa it carried a enubles note which read: 'This does not give you the right it seems unlikely that she will receive a further visa to allow her to stay with her mother or Work' When Sarah Kusah brought her children to Britain for the second time, after spending six Sierra Leone, an immigration official pleasanti *After taking the BOM what right have you got to bring Sarah Kusah was a bit toc courts *Ever) LALL. right in the world'. But the was 'things are going, is the right of , even for those born month here, safe for long? The Home Office has "humanely" offered o pay for her children to g ack to Sieira Leone with be are illegal immigrants, even in the Home Powell s25, conducementsto are "persuade" immigrants they are *liable of Jurists.
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reggae wup The MENCEA IN SER nising GMWU BANS FASCISTS THE THIRD largest union "
Workers has Natiomal Froat activists in the removal from office and a ban particiuption im union Following a long debate on the NF at an executive council meeling. a statement has been which specifies • dealing WEE members of fascist organisutthe The executive states that it 'does not propose introdacing a crude political ban on amy party by 2T8800n ol ou But it singles out the fascist outfits because the opinions of sach organisations are diametopposed fendamental principle of trade Memhers ure advised to use the GMWU's rule 43.11 which regional and higher bodies to impose sanctions on those 'acting contrary to the policy of the union or against the best interests of the union".
The union has abo issued a leaflet on "Hace Relations ai RACIST COURTS THE CASE OF Soraya All.
fucing months provides new evidence of racist discrimina. Ion by Manchester police and reports KRANTI Two incidents are involved Soraya Ali first received a 12sentence for "causing actual bodily hann by "biting a policeman's armi al an antimonarchy rally. Her second court appearance led to three concurrent 6-month sentences of possessing "offensive weapons" 00 a0 anti-as si demonstra tion last October The wenDons 1n questio were an eighteen ioch stick and Her -SCUILCEIL contrasts with a fine for a loca NF member recently convicted of possessing a rifle, two pistols and stolen ammunition.
Soraya Ali spent 6 weeks in a remand centre before she was allowed bail Duriog this time she was threatened that she was -for deportation.
Labour councillor Andrew Fender bas referred her case to tbe International Commission MAY DAY EVE ON MAY Day Eve the Anti Nazi League will be holding a Nazis BOW It will bezin with u Rally in Trufulgur Square, and will then UIT Robinson Band, Steel Pulse, la Punk N-Ray Spex to Victoria London Tor an opent air concert.
This will be four days before the local elections, when the National Front are petting up 1,500 candidates.
Carnival Is jointly organised by the Anti Nazi Leagne, Rock Against Racim and the Hackney Community Relations Council, Il promises to he a really exciting event and a good climus lo the energies that will be put into counterieg the Nutional Front's propaHopelully many people from all over the country, who are CHETIEU D TEENE SERTES racisan of the Front will come - young peopie trade unionists and others.
mote about the event should phone Paul Holberrow (OrguAnti Nazi League on 01-734 5456 or Peter Hain (Press Officer] on 01-623 BANS RALLY Yal importance recomme full importance sioner MeNee's Public Order Act ban on marches in London, judging by the small number who turned out for the meeting to oppose the ban, in Camdes Town Hail on 22 March.
There were only 150 peopl in a hall which would have held over 1,000 and most of these were from the SWP, the IMG and other left groups, although tbere were some independents represented, most noticeably Women Against Racism and Fascism.
The meeting was addressed speakers wide spectrum of forces that oppose the ban on marches.
The point was made that would have been attracted to the meeting if the Organising Committee had put forward a clearer plan for mass action against the ban.
Unfortunately the people who attended knew the threat presented by the ban. The mocting did not people any positive ideas as to how they could really build a fight against the bans and ensure that one could not be so casily imposed again.
but one which Thust be drastically improved upon.
AN AUDIENCE of Anti-Nazi League in Glasgow, LESPE CERIS BANDERI Despste front page trearment National Front activity Mail for Linseca and Edinburgh schools, and a growing numbe Nazi Asian temples and sbops in Edinburgh, Glasgow has only a limited bistory of fascist activity.
informed by its secretary, John that racism is not a problem ir ADy Polues, be added. was caused by "gangsters Not surprisingly. the trades council's anti-racist inactivity Stewart MacLennan, from the Civil and Public Servants Association, SENOUDEEE animous support his eluding supporters of the SNP setting up of the ANL Such unity, he argued, could be best maintained through the setting A oi en sce and democra delegate-based ANL in Glas BOLTON DEFENCE Bolton SESERCE Campuign needs wilnesses und grapas of uny incident on the 10 Fehruary Anti-Nazi picket ol Rolion Town Hall Any donations towards the Bolion Trades Council (De Siddle. BDC, c/o 70 Stewart Street, Bolton.
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Several weeks ago (socialCommunist Party.
Campbell, Jane Roberts and Caroline Коня, criticised the positions of the International Marxist Group women's liberation feminism. They made three basic These were: (1) Our model of the family was crude We never znn vsed the "conditions of existence" of the the family. We had no 'polities now' Our reply to this allegation is simple. The women's movement has contributed more to an analysis of the SpeciTC Oppression or women undei capitalism in one decade Marxism has done in a century. This is particularly the case with politics. Of course much of that analysis has drawn on the work done by Marxists oppression of women and the sexual division of labour; political oppression, discrimination, etc.
To repeat the formulae of the women's movement on the pervasive character of women's oppression and to announce that it mus be integrated into a revolutionary practice is one thing. Changing the practice of the Communist Party is another. We are not arguing that the far left groups are perfect or pure. Far from il. In fact the whole of the leit has to re-assess its attitude to women. The CPGB is party because its reformist strates g incapable of making that change as a cannot creale the preconditions for women'sliberation.
'GINGER GROUP' (2) The second accusation against us what that we reluse to accent that the WLM has an autonomous political future. We collapse it into 'a ginger group of the labour movement under he guidance of a revolutionary chite.
Wie refuse to accept this sieight-ofmeans that a movement determines its own tactics and forms of struggle against oppression. It decides its own future, Weaccept that fully.
that and sit back? Is it not the case that in the process of lighting for their demands many women come to an understanding that their oppression is ultimately structured specitic mode of production, known as capitalism? That therefore their against this system. Should not these who believe that liberation is possible under capitalism?
We presume that Bea, Jane and Caroline thai they should. In which case why the snide relerences to einger groups and revolutionary clites"?
SOCIALIST STRATEGY What we are doing is su socialist strategy for women. This "guiger groups. But women will need allies in their struggle and the fact that the leading agency for achieving social change remains the working class means that an alliance with it will be somewhat crucial. Surely this is not too scandalous an idea for comrades in the Connonist Parly.
questionco view revolutionary process is considered cataclysmic. Bea, Jane and Caroline spearheat of the coolstion and the SCC DuTSCIVES 85 TRe ignorant masses as mere fodder. This is a patriarchal strategy and must be rejected by feminists.
This is an ahsurd caricature of our positions which borders on deliberate political dishonesty.
It is true that one group on the far left (the Workers Revolutionary Party) has an economistic attitude to women and a manipulative view of revolution, Batto tar everyone with That brush sabsurd Dur wiew sin tbe tradition of classical Marxism. We| will rapidly recede.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 7 socialist than sexual believe that revolutions are made by the movemens of social classes. Their access is assured by the existence of a revolutionary party based and rooted in the class decisive - the working class. But without the movement of a class as a whole, there can be no revolutions. by a the CP's strategy is premised oft the Jane and Caroline argue that mass formation. We are accused of being mechanistis, incapable ol perceiving the revolution wa proces.
between differing levels of consciousthere can be "an equal and democratic particular the WEM party.
denounced as "hierarchical".
We reject these arpuniens for building precisely to combat the raling class on VERTIETE.
Ideology (racism, national chauvinThe Leninist party secks to develop and the oppressed lavers in saciety CULECHEELE strusale against the bourgeoisie and IES SCATC NEW IDEAS Bilan today? Becarse the mass Why is organisations (the Labour Party and consciousness within the working horiaces of these organisations arc nanow, lumsted in scope to reformis within capitalism, Mass COESCOUSES mases y learn and asiate ne ideas through their own experience bul unless and unli there are active revolutionaries already fighting for these ideas and olfering a straleric altermative, this mass consciousness which is strategically hourgeois state and tionally independent politica. consistent defenders of dogmatists, against the bourgeois arale, but on every level SAME ROLE ECHOISIS charies Lenin's mass Hance posed are, again, ofa different order.
the same.
NO FACTIONS DOSTED LEISE IE DAS DECA BSCE True much bas altered in recen scars. Tbe 211385. socialism. But inside bourgocis is a bit checky for women belonging structurally undemocratic to accusc us of being hierarchical.
members will things. So does the Labour Party. The good, but their effect can, at best, be to the root, comrades. fight the undemocratic and hierarchical structures of the CP reduce your credibility autonomy.
Ib name learns assimilates new ideas accordingly the That is why Lenatist argue for the existence of a revolutionary party, powerless structured to conduct a permanent struggle against the bourgeoisie on every level and altissately challenge ils hegemony by showing the possibility of creating autonomous structures of working-class power, independent of AMBITIOUS organisa the nost Impact of the The forns taken by a revolutionary cary vary trom county to counts The comrades will surely agree that it Chile, Argentina, Brazil or Thailand Prince or Hat For ci examples. socialists opposed to the regimes in the USSR and Eastern Europe the problems The function of Leninist parties in all these countries, however, remains organisation, The model of the Chmminis Parties has been historically counteron the pattern developed by Stalin. political prisobers desires to 'Eurocommunists are tbelt divorce referendum, parties: Do tendencies: Do tactions. EE True, the CP today permits its different point is that all power lies in the bands of the leadership. Public debates are mich cosmetic for they cancor challenge the overall stratery of the party. The axe Your failure to theration WENICH mode as the champions of We do not claim that the structures of'a Leninist party are perfoct. All we hetween Leninism and the functioning of either the CP or groups like the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP)
and modilies this or that aspect of its functioning The development and growth of the WLM has meant that the left has had many and transform its practice. True this has been done in an uneven fashion, We still have a long wuy to go. At this very within the IMG on many bl these has published for debate a lengthy Comrades in the IMO who argue for establishment of isolated. 'cultural vanguard", The issues on which they win support for their ideas will determine the attirede of the organisation as a whole, Dor just a few of its components.
Bea, Jane and Caroline suggest that the CP has assimilated the • political WLM. women ambitious claim. One has only to look Does the CP student fraction strugale alongside those women who demand the right lo self-organisation within the studenis unions? No! Does the industrial base of the CP combat the numerous manifestations of' sexism in the unions and Trades Councils? We would be interested in reading about auch The practice of the Communist Parties in those countries where they are mass parties is very revealing. Spain, the PCE calling itself "The paity of Women's Liberation' has attempred to control the autonomsous movement through its own women's the MDM, and any criticisms on the question from its women membership. Ir has also refused to take up demands of ansoesty for women because of ourbid the in respectability and its strategs which involves alliances with monarchists ganda, The Italian CP even vacillated on the abortion, and forms an alliance with the Catholic Church. What price then the equal and democratic relation het ween political forces?
MUCH WEAKER In Britain because the CPGB is than is FaIToneSt counterparts and social democracy is pacer stroms bus compisit takes a specific form. In the women's CP that wonnen s oppression is the product of a distinct reproduction" that reproduces patriarchal ideology separate front the mode of production from which class exploitation flows.
TUC CHARTER Thus the leminist struggle is not only autonomous from the class strugele 1t 15 separate Tom 1. 1oa large extent. How separate it is and where it is linked is rarely specified Such a lieoretical analysis has much in commion with a radical feminist approach to women's oppression. Its conclusion is to cobcentrate leminis: activity in building the challenging parriarchal ideology labour movement the CP uses the backward consciousness of the working class to justify not only accommodarions to controis but also accommodations to original TUC Charter, which extolled nurses, and the CP's counterposition Abortion Law Reform Association.
trales in Brianspat opporm stralegy in Britain medales to radical feminism in the WLM and radical coononcism in the abour movement The ideological struggle that Bea, Jane and Caroline have waged in the CP may have changed a few ideas io some CP merhers" heads, but it bas definitely not changed its overall practice.
NOT SEPARATE For us, the strugple for women's liberation cannot be separated from the struggle for socialism. In no way, however, can CELC struggle for women's liheration he reduced to the This affects our attitude to struggles durine th revolutionary process itself. The right ta control bur own bodich s something are willing precimlate compromises on. Nor do we advocate that women should rur doneside usina revolutionars barsch Every revolutionary crisis in history society that poses che question of which class rules - whether ir be Spain in 1936 or Portugal in 1974.
An autonomous women's Liberation movement in a stuation where two classes are organising other would be faced with a very cleat politicn! choice The of would be involved bourgeois representative demonic because bourgeois demncracy gives equal rights to people who have unequai social positions. And women are very much at the battom of the pile. We are clear which side we wil! fake when that process hegins. Where will Caroline, Bea and Jane stand?
OPPRESSION Finally, we would add that the charge of clitism and nicrarchy that is made in the article by Bea, Caroline and Jane rebounds on them, The strategy of Leninism attempts to gise the masses a political voice. They are denied that voice in bourgeois society chrough bourgeois insticutions which not only exploit them cconomically bur oppress them politically. Hence for example, bourgeois elections are advocated as the main chance for the masses to exercise their political power, Through lack of choice, lach of information control of propaknow that the masses have very little representatives.
Soviet power breaks through this manipulation by giving the mass of in their Lives. By making concessions to bourgeois iostitutions the CP tie the masses of the oppressed to the structures that exist in our society in Spain, the monarchy: in italy. the Church; in Britain, Parliament. In doing so they deny the masses of workers, women, Wha could be more elitist than that!
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VAL COULTAS explains the position of the • on the relationship between the Women's Liberation Movement and