Continued from Page 7 The capitalist class turned to the New Commonwealth' for its reserve army of labour. Racism again supplied the justification for the super-exploitation of immigrant Britain.
Discrimination in jobs, housing, education and the social services has ensured that black people remain ghettoised in the worst jobs. Living in the inner-city areas and industrial conurbations, escape the role of second class citizen allotted to them.
While the state itself discriminates against black people, it also resistance to racism.
State and police harassment under the guise of searching for illegal immigrants is used to intimidate and demoralise black people. denial of basic rights of appeal and legal aid to those picked up for deportation adds to the insecurity of black people.
The militancy of the youth is met by blanket police operations in black areas; in Southall, for example, when the Asian and West Indian community opposed a National Front meeting during the general election, and in Notting Hill during the annual carnival. And it is countered by the use of arbitrary laws such as Sus. Insults The racist insults and violence which are an everyday occurrence in black people's lives are directly stimulated and encouraged by racist politicians and state officials.
For these reasons, therefore, we must reject any strategy for ending the oppression of black people which is based on an alliance with capitalist politicians and state would be to make an alliance of the oppressed and the oppressor.
Rather than looking to the capitalist parties for allies, black people in increasingly turned to organisations.
Despite the support for racist immigration controls by the Wilson ard Callaghan Labour governments; despite trade union support for tighter quotas for work permits in the catering industry and their acceptance of discrimination in jobs, black people have thrown their vote behind Labour, and the evidence suggests that membership is higher workers than it is among whites.
A survey conducted by the Commission for Racial Equality constituencies population showed the following support for the Labour Party in the last general election: West Indians and Asians, 90 per cent; Asians, 86 per cent; and whites, 50 percent.
There can be unity between and black people struggling to defeat a common enemy capitalist which of white oppression of black people.
It is this alliance which socialists must seek to create, and it can be done. But it will not come about while the white working class gives its support to the bourgeois state and opposes black people. Unity To create unity in struggle it is necessary first to recognise the divisions which exist. Black people cannot hold back their struggles until the white workers understand the need for an alliance against a common enemy.
They have to begin to fight now on their account. Only by confronting the labour demands for its active support in struggles, will a genuine unity be created.
Far from dividing white and black workers, as some socialists claim, movement independent of the white workers' organisations would create the best conditions for uniting black and revolutionary struggle. It will be black people themselves who lead the liberation, or there will be no liberation.
We can go further. As socialists we believe that only the overthrow of capitalism can begin to establish the conditions for defeating racism. Only when the material basis for destroyed the non-white peoples is ended finally possible to defeat racist ideology.
Only the capitalist defends that system of destroyed will black liberation be possible. The strides towards eradicating racism that have been made in Cuba are testimony to this.
But the black people of Britain will only be convinced that this is the case when they see that WOrKerS conditions on their liberation; that the labour movement respects the right of black people to determine their own tuture themselves whether they wish to build a new multi-national morNing class.
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"We wish to create a workers' state with you so as to build a socialist society you wish to join with us in this must be your decision. We only ask that you judge us by how we act in the course of our alliance to defeat the common enemy.
Without black people having their own independent choosing their own route to liberation selecting their own leaders, it is not possible for them to determine their own future.
If a black liberation movement has to be independent of the imperialist state and its parties, and able to act independently without waiting for the labour movement, it must also be a united black liberation movement.
When black people came to Britain in large numbers after the war they brought with them traditions, cultures, languages and even political formations.
The continued links of black people with their country of origin through their family, political organisations, and agencies, their tendency to be concentrated