of victims of the Act and propagandising on the need to build a mass movement against South London CARL, which has been in existence for about six months, has been involved in similar activities and has won the backing of a number of black organisations and Labour Party and YS branches.
MEETING Considering that the Tories' Nationality White Paper is due out now, S. London CARL has decided to make its priority the building of a mass meeting to spread awareness of the Act and begin to mobilise forces to fight it. Speakers at the rally will be Ann Dummett of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, and, provisionally, John Tilley (Labour MP for Lambeth centrall an:
Vishnu Sharma, of the India"
Workers Association (SouthRets oin S London CARL.
preparations for the meetingcontact SL CARL, c/o Lansbury House, 41 Camberwell Grove, London SE5.
eroded if the Tory proposals get through. It is also of concern to the entire labour movement.
The Tory attack on Black people has one aim and one aim only: it is to divide and confuse the labour movement, to pin the anger and resentment against soaring dole queues and falling living standards on Blacks instead of themselves.
This is why it is essential that the labour movement - which on paper is committed to repealing the 1971 Act - begins to support the campaign. Only by attacking, head-on, the Tory attempts to blame Blacks for the crisis can the labour movement face the difficult years ahead united.
Already, a number of local Labour Parties, Labour MPs and Trades Councils have given their backing to CARL. That support has to be increased a hundred times if the racist offensive is to be stopped in its tracks.
REPEAL THE 1971 ACT NO MORE RACIST CURBS NO NATIONALITY ACT
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