Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

Tories plan new racist

Socialist Organiser no. 114, 6 January 1983 · scan p. 16 · about 343 words

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can only mean more drac- ience and suffering for STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!

Suspected 'illegal immigrants' are facing not only threats by the Home Office to deport them, but refusal by the DHSS to pay them supplementary benefit and child benefit. The Khan and Kaur Defence Campaign has called.

for a protest on Monday January 31.

Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Printed by East End Offset (TU). Registered as a newspaper at the GPO. . Signed articles and headlines do not necessarily reflect the views of the SOA restrictive set of proposals.

The Tory Chief Whip has asked the backbench 1922 Committee to draw up a plan that will 'unite' the Party's MPs - and given the stubborn nature of the richt wind stance this onian restrictions.

National Day of Action PICKET YOUR LOCAL DHSS One scheme being floated is for the introduction of a register of potential immigrants linked to a quota system for their admission to Britain - producing still further delays. inconventhose seeking to settle here.

Such a plan would placate the strong racist lobby which has been pressuring so-called "left" Tories who had supported government moves to ease restrictions on the entry of foreign husbands of British registered or British naturalised wives.

But coming at a tile when the deportation of men and women caught up in existing racist immigration laws is already a major and growing problem -primarily affecting black people - the Tory plans must be opposed by the full strength of the Labour Party and the trade union movement.

page In the US, many state officials are newly appointed after each election, and others are directly elected. Tony Benn rejects election of officials but proposes measures to increase the weight of government ministers as against their civil servants. proposal will be slapped down by the Foot-Healey leadership.

Also, matters could not stop there. It would come to a class showdown. The Governor of the Bank is supposed to be appointed by the Queen, and the monarchv could well TY MAL

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