weeks swing into the final two reparing our welcome to Ronald Reagan, fen f any of the major black organisations seem to be with us. anything to do with black people in this coun try? On the contrary black people do have a stake in coming out to 'greet' Reagan.
First, because he is the leader of the greatest imsystematically oppresses Ku Klux Klan are the friends of Roagan's anti-black policies Why? Doesn't this the third aspirations of the people there, through direct military inO KLUX FIR opposed as the main ally OI Margarcl leader of the which dedicated to repression of black youth, restricting the right of blacks to live here and imposing such economic measures on all working people that the right to work and to decent living standards are denied the VaST majority of black people. population as a whole 'Among black youth traditionally ment has been 30 per cent official. In September 1981 for the first time since they've been keeping figures, official unemployment among black youth was 51 per cent. Youth 'That doesn't count the youth who've stopped looking for work or who are underemployed.
In CLIC like Detroit where the official rate is about zu per cent. the rate for black youth is in the region of 80-90 per 'It's always been a saying in the black community that a recession for the economy as a whole means super-depression for By Fred Kingdom the proposed site for 96 Cruise Missiles.
The demonstration was trades Greater London Association of Trades the NUM executive and many other union bodies It aimed, not to 'try and stop work on the base' as the media has claimed, but to start a dialogue with the construction workers and rights movement was i provement in educati including desegregation schools, progr in bussing programm Reagan is against all th "There's been back in the schools wh affect all youth, with few grants for blacks to go college 'Across the bor things have got wOr This sets the stage for wl happens movement about should be done Just as the black mo this COUL responded to the rights struggles USA, so should it join black movement opposing the US war dr and act in solidarity w US blacks fighting agai racism and the drive.
ON WEDNESDAY 12 MAY over 200 unionists attended a demonstration called London Region CND outside the works g entrance to the Greenham Common Air Ba local UCATT official pressed the hope tha the next Labour governm would dismantle all American bases in Brit and refuse the Сп missiles.
The demonstrat was the first of its k since the 1950s. It was encouraging to ser union banners and delegation of construc workers from Southai UCATT national deles conference in Great 1 mouth, the south region will put forwar resolution calling for union to boycott all w on missile bases. say chairperson, told a p Alan Sapper, conference demonstratior "There must be indus paign for nuclear disar ment. We've got to b nuclear bases Such important me need to be linked to the creation and impleme tion or alternauve • for production «abouT movement so workers employed ir arms industrv are no ing asked by other tr unionists to go on the d action aro the bases should be lin to the building of a n movement to force government to unilater disarm Socialist Challenge 21 May 1982