Socialist Outlook

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Rahman campaign slams Churchill

· Socialist Outlook no. 44, June 12 1993 · 356 words

RAHMAN Family Defence Campaign members joined other anti-racists at a Bolton protest the Saturday after Winston Churchill's speech at the town's Conservative Club. Hundreds of passersby signed the petition condemning his racist outburst.

The Campaign fights for the right of the Rahman family to stay in Britain.

Mrs Rahman originally came to Bolton from Djibouti to visit relatives. She fell ill with a rare form or cancer and was joined by her husband. ment she needs regular follow-up treatment not available in Djibouti. The Red Sea statelet is also unable to offer the special coucatona rachues necoco dyl Shabana, one of her two daughters.

When the Tory leadership try to counter Churchill - saying the current laws are enough - the mean that people like the Rahmans are subjected to racist mimitation proce dures. It is the immigration laws which should go. The Rahmans and other black people threatened with deportanon must stay! • Contact the Rahman Family Defence Campaign, Socialist Club, 16 Wood Street, Bolton BL1 1DY. survived only by repressing their own working class. waomon of marx, encois, Lenin and Broisky establish its own class rule. in 40 countries world-wide. formed workers states and degenerated USSR, whose regimes We are a marxist current, based not on the brutish totalitarian parodies of state marxism, nor on the tame, toothless version of marxism beloved by armchalr academics, but the revolutionary Our socialist alternative is not based on parliamentary elections or illusions of peaceful legislative change. We fight to mobilise and unleash the power of the working class - the overwhelming majority of society - to topple the corrupt and reactionary rule of capital and We struggle against fragmentation by building solidarity, working to link and unite the various struggles of workers, the unemployed. of women, of pensioners, of the black communities and ethnic minorities, of lesbians and gay men, of students, of youth - and of those fightng imperialism in Ireland and throughout the world. Socialist Outiook is above all an internationalist current, in solidarity with the Trotskyist Fourth International, which organises co-thinkers Unlike some other groupings on the British left, we do not believe

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