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The signatures of five The signatures of five Labour MPs alongside Labour MPs alongside five Tories endorsing an five Tories endorsing an openly racialist report of openly racialist report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration is not simply an affront to the workers movement.

It is, of course, a scandalous attack on a section of the working class which breaches every principle of socialism. But it is also clear evidence of the utter inability of reformists who accept the assumptions of capitalism to fight racialism.

The Labourites-who range in complexion from 'left' winger and one-time Trotskyist Sydney Bidwell to open right wingers Eric Moonman and former minister Fred Willey-and accepted without question the basic proposition of the *We believe that present economic and employment prospects give no ground for any expectation that there will be scope for primary immigration in the foreseeable future"

"Inevitability"

They therefore started out complete agreement with the Tories in accepting the "inevitability" of continual capitalist crisis, sky-high unemployment and vicious attacks on social services, in arder to maximise profits.

The purpose of the Report Secame immediately restricted to finding ways and means of further restricting the present trickle of black immigration and driving out many as possible of those already here.

Starting from the requirements of capitalism in crisis, the Committee could only have produced a racialist Plenty on dole he fact is that capitalism nas less uses now than it had during the "boom' for new immigrants to fill low-paid PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report