Tories step up racist laws

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Home Secretary While work proceeds on additional legislation to further curb immigration, the Tories have wasted no time in showing their determination to enforce the existing racist laws with . even more ruthless efficiency than their Labour predecessors.

All over the country, Asians have been harassed by police, thrown into detention centres, intimidated by immigration officials and deported.

In Oxford over recent weeks three men have been dubbed illegal' immigrants and thrown out of Britain by the state.

But after an extensive local campaign a fourtheight-year old Akram Dogar -has now been allowed to stay.

The strength of the local campaign not only forced Tory MP Patten to support Dogar's case, but also drove the Home Office to hold back from breaking the 'genuine bond' between the boy and his 'adoptive parents' in Oxford.

But this victory stands in obvious contrast to the nationally-publicised case of Manju Patel and her three sons.

Driven back to India, Manju Patel now faces a new bout of attacks from the Home Office bureaucracy The Bombay High Commission has now reported its findings on the Patel case, and recommended that the children be refused entry into Britain to live with their mother.

The i reason given is apparently that .Manju Patel's divorce from her husband was one of 'convenience' Met ex-husband Despite her statements that they have been separated for eight years, the High Commission now claims to have evidence that Manju Patel may actually have met her ex-husband, an that her children stayer with him.

Flimsy

Armed with this flimsy argument, the Home Office will no doubt feel secure in pressing ahead with the Tories campaign of intimidation against the Asian community in Britain.

It is essential that such attacks are fought by the labour movement, and coupled to struggles for an end to all immigration laws, and for the right of any worker to travel, live and work in the country of his or her choice.

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ONGELAMEMD PART TWO The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) is undoubtedly the largest and most widely known of the currents that have emerged from the postwar crisis of the Trotskyist movement.

With thousands of members and sections or sympathising sections in dozens of countries, it is viewed by many militants as "the". Trotskyist Fourth The • Workers Socialist League does not share this view. We see the USFI as a movement that has departed on numerous key questions from the positions and method put forward in the Transitional Programme on which the Fourth International was founded in 1938.

We know, of course, that tha two other main groupings ther lay claim to the title of "Fourth International' are both now substantially smaller than the USFI.

Both of them-the Healyite "International Committee' (run by the British WRP) and the "Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International" (run by the French OCI)-certainly hold political positions as bad or far worse than the USFI on many questions and are themselves (like the USFI) wracked by internal crisis.

Disorientation

But the bankruptcy of their rivals is in our view no argument for recognising in the USft the exclusive continuity of the Trotskyist movement,