Workers Esperanto. the Study and dismissive of ideas. since he was there (and voted against the call!) et. The standing confereNAGis counterposes official leadership, is not a rank and file organisation. but a committee of delegates strike Whilst it is useful for liaising between sharing information attempting to give a lead, it is not accountable to, and has not produced a single leaflet for, the rank and file NAG, on the other hand, is an organisation of and for the rank and file, which has produced 15 national leaflets in the course of this dispute, as well as many local bulletins. througt which the necessary contacts have been made with other departments Surely the whole point about rank and file activity is that links and support for disputes in one section or department can be built in others. Whilst agreeing with Pete about wanting the strike spread to other districts, it is now absolutely vital to support other unionists, both within and outside the defeat racism. It does not, however, follow from this that the state cannot which be, or should not be, pressured into take anu-racist mcasures What differentiates British racism from racism in, say, South Africa or Rhodesia is precisely the minimal role of the state. and racism in Britain we are talking essentially about immigration laws, and secondly, the racism of the state apparatus -importantly the courts and police There can be no doubt that the presence of racist immigration law legitimises and massively reinforces racist lacology unrougnour tne wnole of British society. The role of the state struggle to abolish racist immigration law a key element in the anti-racist movement.
Similarly, no-one can underestimate the importance intimidation of the black communities Dy ine police trade However, I would suggest that this continuing intimidation does not so much follow from direct action by the runng cement within tae state, bu from the all-pervasive ideology Tacis services institutions, including the police and the courts.
Racial domination in Britain is, in the main, enforced agency of non-state institutions - the employers, landioras, etc.
As black resistance grows the balance must sure towares more direct forms of repression, rorole consequences ror me nature of the British However, it would be a mistake to argue that at the present reformist demands are impracticable When we talk about state first, racist most right.
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fron national the working Little bookstall Thursdays University of East Anglia COLCHESTER Socialist copporters meet regulai. For deale phone Steve on Wivenhoe 2949 LONDON TOWER HAMLETS Socialist Chalsell every weekenc tube: Sun meet 10.30am, Whitechap (corner of Buxton St).
WAL HAM roMeo paper sales ever turday, 11am-noon outside the po STEVE BELL's article on Plaid Cymru (23 november) seems lo Di saying to left Plaid that it is useless to work with Plaid Cymru and thus thei should leave immediately to devote their activity to building a united revolutionary organisation. Certainly particular left Plaid supporters do realise their incompatibility with the What they're not sure of is whether Plaid can be reformed and In no way should we pit the strategy of a united revolutionary organisalion against the many and variec tactics of building it. The majority of left Plaid probably don't yet see this strategy as an alternative. But the revolutionaries and Marxists among them are confronting the problem.
Revolutionaries outside Plaid particularly as many of them are English, should realise that just as an emergent class struggle opposition in Labour Party eventually part united revolutionary organisation, so the same holds true in Plaid Cymru. Let's discourage comrades fighting for such an opposition inside Plaid as long as, at the same time, they come to see it not as the be-all and end-all but as just one particular stream, that will come WILD others in a united outlook depends a great deal on he achievement of such revolutionary left outside Plaid. The usual array of small groups can hardly encourage many of them even to view realistic strategy. The revolutionary groups in Wales have reinforced this by their failure to and ormulate posinons the Welsh language, bilingualism, the Welsh Development Agency, farm Often failure has been turned into outright rejection of Wales's specific problems at the very firs nure winess me aostendonism ( the Socialist Workers Party and the International Communist League or referendum, hidden phrases like international unity of the class -and building the revolutionary party (and not even an international one at that!).
wonder that left Plaid supporters are unclear on the next step and see the party as something worth preserving amidst a sea chauvinism that washes the shores of the labour movement and even its socialist ane Marxist a les Challenge has to turn the tide through discussion and work with left Plaid and the paper Y Faner Goch. DEREK DAVIES [Cardiff] HAMLETS SW LONDON sales every Saturda HACKNEY outside Sainsbury's WALTHAMSTOW readers can bu nuciea LEYTON readers ters Newsagents. Challeng from Patel 120 tea bricce hoad cт
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