Asians: LP carte blanche to Tory racialism

Workers Press no. 860, 5 September 1972 · scan page 4

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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT LABOUR leader Harold Wilson Cabinet in London today to disci tion on the issue of the Uganda General Idi Amin.

Wilson, who has declared his complete and for the Tory government's policy of appeasing returned overnight for the meeting from a three in the Scilly Isles.

He has issued no statement condemning the several big Labour councils that they have no room —statements which have been shamelessly used press to whip up racialist propaganda.

And in a statement yesterday to the 'Daily Express', which las been at the centre of this campaign, he had this to say of the expelled families: "They must be spread as widely as possible and their entry period phased over the maximum perind.' In other words, the Labour leader will put up no fight against the racialists within his own ranks and is prepared to give carte blanche to whatever calculated humiliations the Tory government may have in store for the Asians.

If Labour 'lefts' like Michael Foot, MP, do not roundly condemn this unprincipled, opportunist and dangerous stance at today's meeting with Wilson they will stand exposed as its allies.

In Leicester Labour today Alderman councillors led by Edward Marston will try to tell members of the Tories' Uganda Resettlement Rey has ended saturation pone for immigration.

Board chairman Sir Charles Cunningham will be led on a carefully-staged tour of the Highhelds area of the city which is obviously designed to attract maximum publicity for the Labourites' claims.

Meanwhile the extreme rightwing British Movement, led by Colin Jordan, who last week notably escaped arrest after disrupting a Leicester council meeting, took advantage of this atmosphere to call on air and transport workers who might be involved in the resettlement programme to withhold their labour in protest.

Every trade unionist will reject these ravings, but they must also take up the fight against those in their ranks who create the conditions under which they can be made.

Shac party's p expelled total support the racialists, •week holiday statements of for the Asians by the Tory TREMENDOUS INTEREST IN LIVERPOOL LECTURES TONIGHT Tremendous Interest has been shown in Liverpool for the series of lectures starting tonight. Already large numbers of tickets have been sold. if you are interested in obtainIng your ticket please contact: Bill Hunter, 58 Leighton View, Liverpool 8. Tel. : 051-709 7734.

FOUR LECTURES THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXIS given by (SLL national secretary) 1. Marxism as the theory knowledge Tuesday September 5 2. Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Tuesday September 12 3. Nature of the capitalist crisis Tuesday September 19 4. Historical materialism Tuesday September 26 AEU HOUSE Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30