IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Education

Socialist Challenge No. 181, 22 January 1981 · p. 13 of the scan · 192 words

The scan: sc-n181-jan-22-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 13 of the scan

It is a first rather than a final step.

Incomplete it may be but will be entertaining for blacks, men commun sensitivel depicted. And it is a useful zeal is yei mary howledge of the brutal matched rudimensullerea •y ine olack. Wolcott, Britain's first posedly colour-blind law.

In four hours there is HO I single black character of any worth, depth, dignity. programmes present instead cavalcade OI cardboard cut-outs, radiating racist stereotypes every twist of the meandering plot; the drug dealer, the mugger, Kasla, rapist, the politico, the il Iegal ligtant, and ine helpless shopkeeper who pays procton money Self-help projects and the Rasta movement, which are in reality organs of black resis tance, are associated with a variety of criminal activities. The leader of the black gangsters describes his drug racket as the 'revolution and cannol decide we nel to be Malcolm or Fagin'.

be •Wolcott' - stop it!

tion an Asian supermarket owner portrayed here as a teartul and isolated victim, - black people. is pularsingly central no increasingly central way ponce see lie black community.

Wolcott contained an exceptional degree of explicit violence which, like racist stereotyping,

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