Voices for Salman Rushdie is inviting any and all labour movement, women's, black or civil liberties bodies to sign the following statement.
"We are a number of diverse individuals and groups whe have come together to voice our concern about the issues of censorship, racism, and fundamentalism which have arisen around Salman
Rushdie's book The Satanic:
Verses.
We support Rushdie's right to publish his book and we reject the attempts of both fundamentalists and racists to use this affair to promole their own ends.
There has been much talk of
Rushdie's book giving offence.
We are offended by:
• the use of this affair to mount racial attacks on the Muslim community in Britain;
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Voices for Salman Rushdie (whose statement we reprint below) take up the question of opposition to state funding for religious schools.
abour this critical issue. Not only does the
Labour Party Policy Review totally capitulate on thix important matter, hut even on the hard left there has often been confusion - and the
For the right to dissent