While the rise of racium has beers ugly everywhere, it is in France and Germany that it has taken the most threatering forma in Germany theup: surger of xenophobia resulted lest your ina waveof physical atticin, inchiding the murder of a Turkish worker ix Dresden. sent of der population of former Wate But obinion polls showed 38 Germany sympathising with lar right deais.
The most serious political threat comes from La Pen's Front National in France. A huge percentage of French votem agree with Le Peer or immigro tion. In next Spring's loeal elections De Pen could well get over 20 percent of the vetie. weak: But the same benic political: processes as in other Huropean countrim are developme Is on the-latrese thogh the Aaythin BEL Racistaniacke arein the fascist BNI will put up a yet us known. misher of canslidatencat the runt duction.
In this sintation a new fightiack againal racens and fascism is needed in Britaim and the whote of lisappe There ace important siers that the mobilisation is under way. A hundred thoran people demonstented against racssna it Germany on 9 Noveneber. Ca 25 jamary thete will be a big anti-fascist dernonstration in Fans, an well as the demonatration against the Asylum Bill on 18 Jarwasy in Britain.
The left must seize the initiative to wild a huge movemens to combat th acists and fascists: tuming the hide or tant step in fighting back against all the attacky of the capitalist clase and remobilising the left. 4.
Jan. 18, 1992 No. 14
Langford
THE REAL significance of the Asylum Bill is often missed. Unmesh Desai of the Newham Monitoring roject explains he Asylum Bill fits into a strategy fo Common Market Europe post-1992. It represents not an isolated criminalisation of the black community in Britain, but a harmonisation of immigration controls throughout Europe which will leave black people at the bottom of the pile ...
It is therefore a very specific product of 1992 showing that immigrants' status will be reduced to the lowest common denominator and it will mean the same * And for working class living standards as a whole in the long run.
State racism
Home Secretary Kenneth Baker implies that the purpose of the Bill is to prevent racial conflict, but its effect will e the opposite, given the interplay of state racism at street level. (whatever swamped by immigrants; second that seckers are 1960s more people have left than have overcrowded as a result of the 24000 arrivals between 1985-9 - and this figure includes a large number who have come from europe white South Africans.
The latest figures about so-called bogus applications reveal that the legis. lation cannot be aimed at over such fictions? whose live ing and unemployment. The implications draconian. are notoriously complicated. that may be) is being bogus. Since the peal. Britain could not become Finally there will the USA and of course 'abuse of cause of crime. which figures were available barely a dozen people were convicted. There is therefore clearly no 'flood'. How many times is Kenneth Baker prepared to be found in contempt of court for sending isolation.
back to possible death Scapegoats fascists The facts are clear. The main countries from which people are coming - like Sri Lanka and Somalia - either have appalling human rights records or civil war. The Asylum Bill will scapegoat those are threatened and by implication all black people in Britain tor the failure of the economy, lack of housof the Bill are Refugees will only have 48 hours to lodge an application and they will lose their right to legal aid. Both immigration forms and immigration law Airlines can be fined up to E2000 for carrying anyone without the correct travel documents. This will encourage air companies to remove anyone from a plane, back even to states with records of rather than pay a fine.
The Bill introduces a "fast-track' procedure with no automatic right to apThe legal requirement to rehouse siavishly. ( homeless families will be scrapped, with right to council housing while families are waiting for decisions be the fingerprinting of refugees. This part of the Bill clearly works to criminalise the entire black community by implying that the mere presence of black people in Britain is a unwanted state attention from which they are fleeing.
The Asylum Bill cannot be seen in The way to defeat rising racism and fascism is through mass action of the working class and its allies. Anti-fascists and the left have to make their appeal at least as attractive as the Probably the best example of how to go about this were the Anti-Nazi League Carnivals of the late 1970 s.
The first Carnival in particular at tracted 80-90,000 peo e-the organisers (essentially the SWP) anticipated 1015,000 - and most of these were young workers and students.
While the main attraction for many would have been free music, the assemb demonstration to Victoria Park via Brick at prataisa. square lane, and the statements of the bands taking part, will have moved many people's views.
Youth
The link with youth and black culture and the very upfront gayness of Tom Robinson also highlighted the role of the oppressed in the fight against fascism.
This is not to say, of course, that the "Carnival' method should be followed The music of that time was highiy politicised and thus more directly useful to anti-fascists.
While we were then coming to the end of the most right wing Labour government known up to that time, the subsequent ten years of Thatcherism has moved people, particularly youth, a long way further right.
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