-HANDS OFF POLANDThe Tories came to power on a clear racist ticket. Talking about the country being "swamped" by an "alien culture", they pledged to tighten up still further the already racist 1971 Immigration Act.
The new curbs - added last year - have meant that the rate of deportations has doubled. Right now, hundreds of Filipino workers are threatened with expulsion on the flimsiest of grounds.
Raids on factories and workplaces, in search of so-called "illegal immigrants", are being stepped up. Two hundred Blacks are being held, on any given day, in detention centres around the country. Police harassment of the Black community is on the increase.
Union leader Lech Walesa Now the Tories are planning a new stage in their racist campaign.
Their nationality proposals - due before the Commons early in the year - seek to deprive millions of Blacks of their right to enter, work and stay in the country.
The proposals divide people into those whose ancestors were born here (mainly white) and those Whose ancestors weren't (mainly Black. The introduction of such a colour bar will not only mean the vast majority of Blacks being excluded from Britain. It will also mean that many of these - registered as UK citizens - will be made virtually stateless.
Moreover, those Blacks already in Britain could witness a real curb on their civil rights. Under the proposals, many could be denied the CLP)
Faced with the growing power of Solidarity - Poland's independent union movement - the Soviet bureaucrats are taking steps towards a massive military intervention against FEAR the Polish workers.
Recent days have seen a number of news leaks about Soviet and East German troop movements near the Polish border. Reservists have been catled up for military service in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the USSR.
The latest moves followed a December 5 meeting of Warsaw Pact governments which declared that Growing anti-racist fightback: right to vote, for example, or to hold office in the Civil Service.
SECOND-CLASS osals - if passed - do not need to - Black people will effectively be"..the Polish people can firmly count on the fraternal solidarity and support" of the Warsaw Treaty countries. In the twisted vocabulary of Stalinism, such "solidarity" comes on bayonets.
What lies behind the Kremlin leaders' latest moves is clearly alarm at Solidarity's mushroom growth. More and more working people see it as a real tool to combat the corrupt and repressive regime of the Stalinist leaders.
Only recently, for example, over 500,000 small farmers met to discuss means of forcing the government to register them as an The implications of these propbe spelt out. Denied entry on grounds of colour - and denied democratic rights in Britain on the same grounds action to take. racy.
PARTY NASTRA P SANITATOR 500 march in Rochdale in support of Anwar Ditta, November 15.
come second-class citizens.
The climate of legalised racism created by such proposals will give the police the green light to escalate their harassment and intimidation of the Black community.
Worse still, it will give the racist thugs of the National Front - and other ultra-right groups - an added impetus to step up their assault and independent union on the lines of Solidarity. Farmers' leaders announced they would be consulting with other union leaders over what Moreover, this growing upsurge among Poland's working people has not been limited to demanding basic union rights (such as the right to organise and strike). It has begun to pose demands which point, increasingly, in the direction of taking over the government. and establishing socialist democSolidarity has begun to challenge the privileges of the Stalinist burРОЗШ-Н (LABO PAR even murder of Black people.
The cause of this racist campaign launched by the Thatcher government is only too clear. As unemployment escalates and living standards fall, the Tories hope to single Black people out as a con venient "scapegoat".
They clearly want to shift the Continued on Page 3.
eaucrats, their arbitrary use of power and repressive techniques. It has used the threat of strike action to remove corrupt Stalinist officials and get union members such as Jan Narozniak - released from trumped-up charges.
The repressive Stalinist apparatus is coming ever more under fire. Michael Dobbs, reporting in the Washington Post, describes the momentum building up in a typical rally organised by Solidarity in Szcecin a month or so ago.
"Practically all the questions were political in tone. Some call. ed for retribution against politiContinued on Page 8
by BOB SWART (Streatham CLP) rearguard action to sabotage conferwing union leaders like Duffy of the AUEW who has called for 75% of the Socialist Action If such a position is not posed, however, we believe that the most effec-
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