The Socialist Alliance held a press conterence on racism on May 2 to make clear its determination to make antiracist politics a key aspect of its profile in the forthcoming General Election Four of the Alliance's black candidates - Cecelia Prosper from Hackney North, Theresa Bennett from Vauxhall, Berylene Hamilton from Dagenham and Ateeq Siddique from Bradford Christian from Horsey and Wood Green and Jabez Lam Community Centre. As the press briefing explained "The Socialist Alliance believes it is not CRE pledge and not enough merely to denounce the more extreme forms of racism preached by the BNP "We need a practical comtims of racism. We need discussion of the policies -racist violence, criminal justice, public services - that what must be an unremitting from all our institutions We see our general elecbroad-based and continuing struggle against racism. While New Labour and the Tories compete over who can be seen to be argue for a crackdown on racism in the police, prisons and other government agencies.
While New Labour and the Tories compete about how many people they can lock up in prison, for an enhanceextension of all our While the media, along with elements in the judiciary and police, foment a backlash apainst the argue for a co-ordinated strategy to stamp our racist The briefing went on to set out the many manifesto pledges that are particularly relevant to taking this fight ber of statements made by local alliance candidates.
*I'm not surprised that the BNP has gained the conficonsidering the climate of ated by politicians and media alike.
This is a direct result of Straw and Roche competing with Hague and Niddecombe in blowing up the asylum seekers issue.
The BNP is a worm that crawis out whenever there's enough filth to feed it. It will take chicken tikka masala platitudes to starve it to death. un Caster sunday a group of 40 white racists attacked Asian Green, Bradford, with bricks and milk botties. A key element has media discussion of the background. For years New Labour and the Tories have been competing to be the seekers. This has encouraged racists to organise.
wie li be opposing ue las cists in Oldham and anywhere else they creep out of doing more than that. We'll be challenging the racist policies that give the fascists room to breathe.
"We've seen that New Labour has pandered to racism just like the other parties. Now there is an alternative - the Socialist As part of the same offensive against racism, Mark Abet, Socialist Alliance PPC or Southampton Test. managed to get the following letter published in the Southampton Daily Echo.
*There is one obvious way to elminate the garus of human traffickers: legalise "If multinational companies like Ford and BA T can shift oroduction from Britain to anywhere in the world to boost their profits, why seck a better life for themselves and their families in "Making immigrants legal would also prevent them being exploited by sweatshop employers and slum this group apparently were.
"A House of Lords commitneeds more immigration to compensate for skills shortages and the growing pro. portion of pensioners in our We should oppose all attempts by both Tory and immigrants and asylum seckers as scapegoats for the problems we face in Britain, rather than the vicuns Wie fedily die.
Outlook Asylum seekers "If a detainee voices his displeasure at all,