Tory Raison cracks the racist whip

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government on Friday cracked the racist whip and barred the entry of three Indian children deported in August.

Jayesh, Sanjesh and Diptesh Patel were deported, and their mother Manju Patel went with them in August, after Home Office minister Timothy Raison argued that they needed a proper application for entry clearance.

But now that proper application has been refused despite the fact that Manju Patel has been given custody of the children by an English court, and their father has offered a sworn statement declaring that he has no desire to keep the children or to come to England.

There is no doubt at all that these three boys-at a convenient distance of several thousand miles-have been victimised by Raison as part of the Tories' racialist crackdown immigrants.

As the Tories drive home their attacks on the whole working class, they are exploiting every possible aspect of backwardness, chauvinism and prejudice to drive wedges between different sections of workers.

Anti-communist witch-hunts, nationalism (over the Common Market issue), brazen sex discrimination (in employment protection and immigration laws) and anti-Irish sentiment are being consciously stoked up by Tory spokesmen and their obedient press lackeys.

Now racialism, as openly expressed in the Tory Party, conterence, is to be given full rein, through the introduction of new restrictions on immigration which will have only a marginal impact on the trickle of immigrants now allowed in, but which will unleash new waves of racial prejudice at a time when social services, housing and employment prospects are being decialready existing Immigration Acts.

It is clear from Raison's actions in the wake of that demonstration that protests will not be enough to stop this planned Tory offensive.

Mass action is vital-to bring down the Tory government, and create conditions for a government responsive to the needs of the working class.