Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

Sunday 27 March

Socialist Organiser no. 125, 24 March 1983 · scan p. 1 · about 177 words

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-SAVE THE SOUTH 12 noon Assemble HOOu Jubilee Gardens near Station Repeatline minite hed ALL BLACK PEOPLE have suf fered the heaviest of the Tory attacks that have been meted out to the working class.

Under Labour's right. wing governments previously they had faced discrimination, racist immigration laws, and shared in the general fall of working class living standards.

Since Thatcher came to office, amid a new barrage of racist propaganda and pressures from the Tory rank and file to strike new blows against black people, these problems have been redoubled.

In the generalised slump, the highest levels of unemployment are amongst black people, especially women and youth. In the housing crisis, it is black families and black areas that face the most dire shortages and appalling conditions.

New racist provisions and 'checks' in the NHS and Department of Employ ment have added to harass ment of black people, while the Nationality Act has piled on the misery for? thousands of divided fami-

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NO MOR HEAL TIR • Unite the divided families now

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