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· Red Weekly No. 175, 1976 · p. 6 of the scan · 415 words

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ENOCH POWELL AND JUDITH HART. Why was the Labour left MP there? called the Nationality Bill.

the Home March: RACIST CANDIDATES in the Walsall by-election received over 7,000 votes. And despite the decision of the Labour Party to launch a campaign against racism, the Labour Government is contemplating the introduction of a measure that will feed the growth of racist sentiments, give added impetus to the electoral success of the far right, and further split the working class. This legislation is Alex Lyon, then Minister of State at Office, explained last •Within the next year or so, we shall define a British citizen for the first ended. time. A British citizen will have free right of entry. Anyone else, whether a Commonwealth citizen or an alien, will have to subscribe to the immigrawill have to be redefined so that they accord with our measure needs for labour and recognise family relationships. At that time the debate on immigration controls that has lasted for twenty years will I hope be Lyon was sacked shortly afterwards by Callaghan, bitterly declaring that it was because he was trying to get justice for blacks'. But Lyon himself had never spoken out against this new which would confine freedom of movement of black w ers to British capital's need for lab and he encouraged the illusion that legacy of racism left by SUCC governments' immigration pol could be eliminated by the stroke pen.

right of black British Commonwealth citizens to live work in Britain has been stea whittled away since 1962. This rev ed the process which had accompa the post-war boom, when British ustry was expanding rapidly. Brit colonial heritage had impoveri countries like India, Pakistan and West Indies, thus creating a po Labour Party and the TUC to c national demonstration against racis 21 November is a belated reply on the have been wuncoed on me unreral munities in Britain. We can say for c that this has only come about as a res the resistance by immigrant worke these anacks, especiany from tHe yo these areas.

In Southall this fighting oppositi racism was sparked off by the murd Gurdip Chaggar earlier this year outsi bonou mema, ine spontancou taney which was generated by the killi Gurop leo to the formanon Dy the themselves of the Southall Youth N ment - an attempt to form an organis to defend and look after the interests ІТаЛЕ COmETY

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