Danger and resentment building up away from themselves and the system they defend onto an easily This is the reason behind the deliberately provocative statements by leading Tory front-benchers such as Keith Joseph who, only a few months ago, stated that the high jobless figure in certain areas of the country was due to "cheap immigThe Tory racist campaign has not, however, gone unchallenged. Growing opposition is mounting in the Black community against these racist attacks. More recently, in November last year, over 500 demonstrated in London against Tory attempts to deport the FiliThe same month, in Rochdale, another 500 took to the streets to protest the Home Office's attempt to prevent the children of Anwar Ditta being allowed into the Meetings have taken place up and down the country to protest the new Nationality Proposals. In Brixton (London), for example over 100 turned out to hear Labour MP John Tilley and Black leader For the need to While Black people have shown their determination to fight the racist threat. however. there has been a serious lack of involvement by the labour movement.
If passed, the Tories' Nationality Act could mean that: * People in countries presently ruled ov brat woule not be able to enter the UK as of right; * Many Black people who opted for British passports could become stateless; * Previously stateless people, to whom British citizenship was given by the 1948 and 1964 Acts, could have that citizenship taken away;
Residence of 5 years would no longer entitle people to citizenship It would become a matter of Home Office discretion. Black people who speak out and organise against racism or who are active in union and wider social struggles could be vic.
timised; * Black people born in Britain would not be able to adopt children from abroad. Parents would also have to prove they are legally entitled to settle here before their children are accepted as British; * Black women will not gain citizen.
ship by being married to citizens; * It is likely that the civic rights o Black people - - such as the right to vote - could be restrictec