IMGpapers 1976–79

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

What they said about the report

· Socialist Challenge No. 39, 30 March 1978 · p. 2 of the scan · 368 words

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their economic livelihood, and Lulner P: seems to me thal llo MPs have beat over backwards racist hysteria. Their report supplies fuel for racists it baffles me thar the report is unanimous that there bot a Er's all about black immigration. It doesn't point out that for the first time, last •ITOM whites in South Africa. doesn't mention that 30,000 white Rhodesians are eligible for entry, it says nothing about Tice relations This damned report is abou BUL abou Immigration as a wbole."

ALEX LYON, Labour MP sacked by Callaghan: 'A gift te racists. It will mean Identity cards, arbitrary police checks, and other controls wholly allen to Britain.

LORD AVEBERY. Liberal spokesperson on race relations:

This is a thoroughiy unhelpfu document, pandenine to the worst elements in society who bave been trying to whip u hysteria about the trickle o Immigrants now arriving in Britain.

THE ECONOMIST: INO mention is made of the contribution immigrants make to the welfare of Britain. No effort la made to correct the myths that they are scroungers and enemies of British culture Race relations improve until Britain can bring self lo welcome those whom i has, in effect, revited to come.

FINANCIAL TIMES: I is surprising to find that the work of the Commission for Racial Equalicy, and indeed the insticution itself are scarcely mentioned, and that race relations are scarcely discussed That is the first shack of the герогі.

*The second shock is report's utter illiberality... The report carries the doctrine of closing the remaining loopholes to new and dangerous lengths *There is a third shock in the language of double-think which the report is written...l would have been straightforward simply to have endorsed bE MI Enoch Powell.

DAILY MAIL., which supported the fascist Camald Mosley in the 1930s: "Ten MP, huve kept their hears and done their duty...

'What will infuriate all thosc Establishment figures from the sanctimonious Merlyn Rees to the pompous Pruful Patel b that this all-Party Committee provides dramatic vindication for... 1. Mrs Margaret Thatcher 2. Mr Enoch Powell communal or wings love any meanings naulianary secaiis partin ate mine neces cary has it before Curlinene andar demarrary soda lesury hul as a rile

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