TORY MP Winston Churchill's racist outburst on May 28 came at the same time as a vicious racist attack on Asian youth Mohammed iqbal in Luton. pounding his disgusting ideas 17 year old lqbal lay in hospital with a punctured lung.
Racist speeches by Tory MPs encourage the thugs that commit these vicous attacks. Churchil said 'the relentless flow of immigrants must be halted if we are to preserve the British way of life.
Attacking John Major's
claim that There would always be an England' Churchill said, "he promises us that 50 years on from now, spinsters will still be cycling to Communion on Sunday mornings - more like the Muezzin will be calling Allah's faithful to the High Street mosque:"
Churchill trotted out the time honoured racist rubbish that Tories always come out with when they are in political vide a scapegoat for the anger and bitterness people feel about the state of Britain he said, the population of many of our northern cities is now well over 50 percent immigrant'.
This is a blatant lie. The majority of Britain's black population have been born here. Not one city has a black population anywhere near that figure. Bradford's black population is fewer than one in six and in Leeds it is 5.8 per cent.
Churchill's claims that Britain is being swamped by 'immigrants' come at the same time as the government is about to implement the Asyfum Bill, making it even harder for people to come into the country. it is more difficult than ever to enPlaying the race card to deflect anger about government policies is dangerous and inflammatory at a time of increasing racist attacks and murders. Churchill's provocative remarks have been condemnedi but significantly not by John mator - mis stence implies sup The last two weeks have shown the real face of racist Europe. ment passed a new bill restricting immigration just two days before the outrage of the murder of five women and young giris in Solingen by Nazi thugs. The British gov. ernment is on the verge of passing its new Asylum Bill. Anti-Racist Alliance THE BNP Lawrence murder marks new stage THE And on the very night that Winston Churchill made his Infamous speech attacking immigrants, two Pakistani youths were brutalised by a racist gang in Luton.
Meanwhile the new rightwing government in France is organising a witch-hunt against immigrant workers.
But the victims of this racism are not just immigrant workers, and those from the third world seeking asylum. The victims include tens of thousands of Bosnian refugees, rapidly becoming 'Europe's Palestinians'. Britain has taken just 4000 refugees from Bosnia; now the British and other European governments are determined to keep the Bosnians out.
Although they are subject to daily massacres, Fortress Europe, Racist Europe, is deA founder member of Malcolm X's Organisation of Afro-American Unity, Kwame Somburu is on a European tour organised by the Fourth International Brixton: TUESDAY JUNE 227.30pm Lambeth Town Hall Acre Lane. Birmingham: WEDNESDAY JUNE 237.30pm Afro Caribbean Centre 339 Dudley Road.
BNP termined to keep them in camps 'near their homes'. Even if they have relatives in western Europe, they will not be allowed to come 'except in The real face of Fortress Europe is being revealed. The likes of Churchill, Major and Kohl just give the green light to racist attacks, Euro-racism needs a Europe-wide fightback.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 44 June 12 1993. Page 4 The four occupiers: Shelia Gregory is the one on the left Four women from Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures (LWAPC) occupied Parkside pit for four days beginning on Friday 28 May. HELEN SHAW spoke to Socialist Outlook supporter SHEILA GREGORY who took part in the occupation. *WE'VE DONE our best to sustain the men in remaining stalwart against the pit closure in the area, we've had our pit camp at Parkside since 18 January. Our determination certainly seems to have helped the men. • We had been planning an occupation at some point. We were determined that we should not take direct action of this sort until it was possible to do so withdue processes had been gone through. But once we got to the point where the High Court had Parkside women celebrate occupation ruled that the ten pits could be shut we felt that was our moment to move. The effect it did have was to stop them serving the closure of the pit for another four days which was quite useful.
Four members of WAPC participated in the actual occupation but the whole group during from the pit camp.
We mounted a commando style raid late on Thursday night, carly Friday moming and approached the pit from a route we wouldn't be expected to come from and gained access to number one tower without being spotted.
We got to the top of the tower which is 260ft, through various staircases and a series of long ladders and were seen just as we were getting onto the roof by the winder.
To start with management remanaged to get up there! And then a lot of anger. They started using tactics to ty and persuaic us to come down like, 'you're in caneer and vanous silly things that they wouldn't have thought we'd thought of. We took great delight in winding them up.
They didn't know bow we were communicating - we had a walkie taxic, walle we were up there the four of us worked out elaborate signalling systems and apparently signalled to each at points around the colliery with binoculars trying to work out what we were doing... it was quite funny.
Management said they wouldn't discuss with the men what they intended to do until we finished the occupation. It wasn't fair that the men should be put in that position by us being there so we came down. We'd made our point and we believe we've given the men some more resolve.
somcoming that struck mie ro ally forcibly was, that although it was a difficult thing to do, in the end how easy it was to stand up to these people, how disorganised they were and what little effort it takes to overcome them - just some courage and determination.
LWAPC is building for the North West Peoples March Against Unemployment and Pit Cosures. we are spcaking al various rallies along the route and we're organising the final rally at the pit on Sunday 20 June.".
Stephen Lawrence
NO MOR RACIST KILLINGS
Hear Kwame M.A. I Somburu!
FIGHTING RACISM RACISM