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"ENOCH is right", declares the News of the World. Under its banner headline on November 29 of Please send us home" this stinking rag tells us the verdict of an "exclusive survey"

The verdict is, "A majority of Britain's black population of over one million would welcome the chance to leave for good." Beside the article is a picture and a quote from the witch-doctor of British racism, Enoch Powell. Below we are invited to turn to page two by the heading "Pay my fare plus the price of a few hens".

While that Sunday smut-rag was geeing up the repatriation lobby and blowing a breeze into the *Drive 'em out! Send em home! banner of the fascists, the sedate Sunday Telegraph orew the same conclusions. Racial strife was "inevitable", , "Powell was right" and they should never have been brought here in the first place.

The Scarman report may be the occasion for some useless soul-searching by a few liberals, but the debate around it shows the increasingly bold racism in British society and how urgent it is that anti-racists and anti-fascists should begin to organise now.

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feature on the new wave of racist attacks and how the labour movemer can work with th black communities in fighting back THE BL bosses' attempt to break the Longbridge rest allowance strike has completely backfired. Their aim was to whip up a stampede back to work by "throwing open the gates" to all strikers and laid-off workers on Monday morning.

Letters to this effect were sent to workers' homes and full page advertisements placed in the local papers.

Cars Division boss Harold Musgrove offered a public assurance that any worker disciplined by the unions for scabbing would be guaranteed employment.

It was a well-financed, massively publicised strikebreaking operation.

And it failed miserably:

Shift On the Monday day shift only 29 of the 2,200 strikers reported for work and no cars were produced. Meanwhile, about 1,000 more workers voted to join the dispute. No.2 and No.3 paintshops,_ the Mini body shop in the West Worke and the corin ge no four Ятмас room (mainly women workers). The company's big gamble also paid off for the strikers in another way: it finally forced the Longbridge Works Committee to organise picketing.

no one suiker rom CAB1 Metro Trim told SO, "The company has done us a favour really. I doubt if we could have lasted much longer without picketing and spreading the action. The company's ploy has got us out of the rut and strengthened the dispute."

It was the same story on the Monday nightshift with virtually no strikers turning up for work and a strong Affinial ninlent am tha mantra vicial picker on une gates.

That night the Foundry Section also walked out to