IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

The American experience

Socialist Challenge No. 135, 21 February 1980 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 285 words

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them more subject to the forcible separation immigration controls. But common to all is that they are easily distinguishable are black.

This common oppression as blacks is even more apparent as each generation of Britishborn youth tries to grapple with life in Britain — they are British yet they are not accepted by society. They 'return to', yet the debate over repatriation continually hangs over them.

While the traditions minorities continue to divide the black communities in Britain, oppression forces them towards a political unity in response to their common oppression.

As the pressure on the national minorities to modify and blunt their cultural and social identity increases, and as the necessity political action oppression increases, we can expect a 'black objective tendency country that in any oppression. different their commor fOr on against their them every assistance. identity' to increase within and between the black peoples in Britain.

At this stage it is not necessary to say with any firmness whether a single nationality will forged from the national minorities Britain. What is important is to understand the towards a unity of the national minorities at the political level, but case there can exist national minorities in Britain who face a particular What should be our political response to the oppression of these national minorities? The Fourth International defends the right of self-determination for the Afro-Americans that is, the right of the black people of the USA to choose for themselves their future, and if they decide to carve themselves out a black American soil, unconditionally their right to do that and give

page 11 of the scan

A NUMBER of protests are which in the be part of thoroughly searched. Picture in your mind.

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