Fight Whitelaw's racist plans

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UH As leading Tory racialists moaned that: the new government White Paper on immigration would "reduce the huge. I!! numbers coming in by only 3,000", Home secretary Whitelaw last week spelt out a series of vicious new restrictions aimed at excluding Asian men and women from Britain:

He assured leading reactionaries from his own Party that the Tory manifesto pledges to Timothy Raison cleaners and cooks" introduce an immigration register and a quota had not been scrapped, but simply delayed pending new legislation.

And, as widely predicted, he made clear that the main thrust of the Tories' attacks to prevent the fiances of Asian girls joining them in Britain.

in addition, the regulations restricting foreign students in Britain are to be tightened upthis coming on top of the discriminatory fees increase which will in any event drastically cut back the number of overseas students coming to Britain.

Elderly relatives of Asian families already settled here are also to be subjected to more stringent entry conditions.

Au pairs will be allowed in oniy from Western Europe-one of the most openly racist provisions.

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, But, as always, the stinking rich will have little trouble in passing through the Tory net. Those with £100,000 in the bank or an income of not less than €10,000 a year will be subjected to a minimum of restrictions.

Even while Whitelaw. was speiling out these new proposals-amid largely hypocritical squeals of protest from Labour MPs who in general lifted not a finger to fight the Labour government's own racist immigration restrictions-the vicious nature of existing legislation was revealed in moves to deport a 7-year old Bangla Deshi girl from Oxford, an 80 year old blind Pakistani woman from Rochdale, and an Asian woman in Manchester, deserted by her husband.

Under these conditions all the signs are that the national demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Racist Laws on Sunday November 25 will again show the hostility of thousands of workers to the reactionary Tory government.

But in mobilising the r mum working class solid against these proposals necessary also to expose t Labour leaders who have ti selves supported or introd racist laws, and who stand pletely opposed to mass v class action to bring down Tory government.

The fight to repeal existing racist legislation and defeat attempts to impose Whitelaw's new measures requires the construction of a principled socialist leadership in the workers' movement committed to the struggle against all forms of nationalism, chauvinism and collaboration with crisis-ridden British capitalism.

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