NO what Howard describes as intelligence and liaison with other agencies' -snoopers and racists - has stepped up the harassment of suspected illegal Last year they 'caught' 10,000, most of them in low-paid sweatshop jobs: Howard does not say how many Innocent black British citizens and legal immigrants were also harassed in the process, or much this petty and There is no doubt that creating a new hue and cry over a handful of asylum seekers is a deliberate attempt by the accords Tories to stoke up the fire of racism so ably exploited by Thatcher in the past. communities have a right to demand that Tony Blair's Labour Party. supported by the TUC which last month called a national demonstration against racism, lead a full-scale counter-attack against Howard's cynical pack of lies, half-truths and repression which is intended to drive new wedges between hlack and white Labour should pledge to scrap the battery of racist immigration laws brought in since 1979, close down Campsfield and the other immigration prisons, and tear up the Schengen • Campaigns fight back - See p 5
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