Support Sin Fein march October 20
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H3018-H Concentration
Tories
Since the General Election with the advent of the Thatcher Tory government there has been an increased spate of action to deport Asian people under the 1971 Immigration Act.
This gives police the power to enter the homes of any suspect person and arrest and detain them at detention centres for indefinite periods with accusations of illegal entry into Britain.
"Suspects" have no rights even for their cases to be heard by tribunal.
These laws have already brought untold misery • and anxiety to the black population.
In the Oxford area a MultiRacial Action Group has been formed in an attempt to fight these racist attacks, with representatives and delegates from ethnic minority groups and the local Labour Movement, including the Trades Council and Labour Party bodies.
This group took the initiative to convene a public protest rally which attracted around 200 people in Oxford City The focal point was the threat to deport a 9 year old boy separating him from his family in Britain and dispatching him to his father in Pakistan who does not want him.
It is essential that this issue is taken into the unions to mobilise the working class to oppose all such deportations and to ensure that all people can live and work wherever in the world they wish.
This must be linked with a fight against the latest Tory plans to control immigration still further through using blatant sexual discrimination. A new Nationality Law is planned to prohibit the entry of men from anywhere outside the EEC to join women resident in Britain to whom they are engaged : or married.
Sinn Fein has called a national demonstration in support of the heroic struggle of the republican prisoners imprisoned in the 'H' Blocks at Long Kesh and Armagh jails.
For over three years these prisoners have been kept in freezing cells, clad only in a single blanket, and subjected to extremes of brutality and illtreatment, as a result of their determination to regain Prisoner OMG of War status and this refusal to be branded • as common "criminals' by the British government.
The Sinn Fein march will take place in Oxford, assembling at Chapel Street, off the Cowley Road, at 2 p.m. on Saturday 20 October.
Trade union and Labour Party branches should support this march and bring their banners.
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