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their "eligibility" for operating over 8,000 It is already policy in DHSS specially screen claiming supplementary benefit. In Oldham recently there was By M Wongsam, Manchester City Labour Party, anti-racist committee AS THE government increase the intensity of their attack against the black community by deepening the role of the state machinery in the internal control and surveillance of blacks, resistance to these attacks is beginning to The latest move by the government is to inLa scheme of natonality checks into the NHS, whereby blacks will be obliged to show their pasports to prove free health care in hospitals. In one hospital where this scheme is people have been already, since the 1st of October. resulting in only one person being found 'not reported 680 cases of black claimants being refused nenet the grounds that they did not "qualify" for benefits under the 1980 supplementary benetits act. In fact, when these cases were takcI by the COMMISSIO!
Racial Equality, the DHSS capitulated on all but six.
Cases such as these in nationwide scale.
that chance oldham CRE took the decision to pursue such an investigation that the case came to light. These instances blatant state racism have not gone unnoticed by local anti-racist activists.
There are in existence several campaigns aimed al particular facets of state racism; now .=• seems that mere o a coog cuance ua they can come together in united action around the general question of state racism. The labour movement is now also beginning to take a long overdue interest.
Recently, both CPSA and NUPE have taken for mal opposition the HHICMCHLEEUI FUCE checks, and NALGO are against their members carrying out pasport checks, thouch only on the grounds that would create too much work, and would cost more money than it would save. The timidity of these responses can only be challenged by sebes yosk amo these memberships in order to make the schemes inoperable It is to adress itself to these questions that the Manchester District Labour Party has called a day conference to discuss out the implications of imnal control ll is hopen hoped that out of this conference there will emerge united effort on the part of party, trade union members, and antı-racist ESTSES! fight back these unbridled attacks WOUL the blac! community and working class in general.
must see clearly that the attacks being perpetrated are a disguised attack on the whole working class, and that the опіу feasible response therefore united resistance of the whole working class.
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