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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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INSIDE: Why Tories stand a chance p4 Women and the election p7 For BLACK RIGHTS. Immigration controls exist only because of racism. Vast categories of white people can enter Britain freely. Black people don't cause unemployment, they suffer from it. Racist divisions poison the working class and weaken CL it in. struggle. Immigration controls should be scrapped, together with the whole system of deportations, passport checks and racist harassment that flows from them.
SCRi For IRELAND. The Northern Ireland state, created by the artificial British-imposed partition of Ireland, is sectarian and Read it in undemocratic by its very nature.- The policy of successive British governments has been simply to try to stabilise the state by repression of the oppressed Catholic minority. This policy can never bring peace. It brings only more repression -including to Britain, through the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Official Labour Party policy calls for a united Ireland, but in immediate practical terms proposes no break from the policy of beating down the Catholics. The Irish people as a whole should have the right to self-determination: British troops should be withdrawn, and Ireland re-united with all legitimate minority rights for the Protestants.
For SOCIALISM. No serious fightback will get very far without a decisive challenge to the power and privilege of the top ten per cent who own 60% of all private wealth and nearly 100% of shares and landed property. That top 10% have a resolute and convinced political leadership - the Tories - JOHN HARRIS while the working class has a leadership that dithers, fudges, and sells out. That's why it's sometimes difficult to convince workers that Labour is a real alternative. But the labour movement isn't just the top leaders. Direct trade union struggle, plus the fight within the labour movement for accountability, for new leaders, and for socialist policies, will have to move into higher gear after June 10 whoever wins.
The first round is June 9. The better we mobilise the Labour vote then, the better we'll be able to organise after June 10.
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Socialist Organiser no.135 Special Issue 1983 Page
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