Race and Immigration: courses at Preparing for Power 1984

RACE

AND

IMMIGRATION

WORKERS AGAINST RACISM

COURSES AT

PREPARING FOR POWER 1984

FRIDAY 13 - FRIDAY 20 JULY

POLYTECHNIC OF CENTRAL LONDON

NEW CAVENDISH STREET

LONDON W1

FROM

IMMIGRATION

REPITRTTION

TO

WEEKEND OF DISCUSSION AND DEBATE

FOR ANTI-RACISTS FROM BRITAIN AND EUROPE

FRIDAY 13 • SUNDAY 15 JULY

Europe's rulers have their disagree- -ments over wine lakes and butter mountains. But they are unanimous on the need to make foreign workers carry the can for the capitalist crisis •In Germany Kohl's right-wing government has forced more than 30 000 migrant workers to accept 'voluntary' repatriation in the past six months •In Mitterrand's socialist France riot police raid immigrant quarters and round up 'illegals' for deportation, while black workers face mass redundancies at the Peugeot and Citroen car plants •in Holland a pro-repatriation party recently won 10 per cent of the vote in Rotterdam's local elections The European labour movement is doing little to protect 12 million immigrant workers and their families from this racist offensive. How can anti-racistsmatch Enoch Powell's call for 'concerted European action on immigration? Discuss the issues and get organised at Preparing for Power.

Why is the far right calling the shots in the immigration

SESSIONS SESSIONS SESSIONS

MITTERRAND'S HIT LIST

Socialist government has meant racist terror for blacks in France. But immigrant workers re leading the resistance to the bosses' offensive.

areth Evans provides a first hand view.

IMMIGRATION-A POLICY FOR WORKERS

Round-table discussion on amnesties, work permits and illegals'. Should the immigration laws be reformed - or scrapped? Can we stop raids and deportations? Join in the debate.

WOMEN-FIGHTING BACK IN THE GHETTC

SESSIONS

WORKSHOPS ON:

• RACISM AND IMPERIALISM

• WOMEN UNDER FASCISM

• APARTHEID MADE RESPECTABLE

• NATIONALISM-LESSONS OF THE THIRTIES

RACISM AND REACTION

debate, while the left competes for racist votes?

Judy Harrison, WAR's national organiser, examines the impact of the crisis on black workers 1 Europe. Migrants have few right: in Europe. But black women have none at all. Leading WAR activist Pam Lawrence exposes the plight of black women in the ghettos of Europe

AND THE WORKING-CLASS

A WEEK LONG COURSE AT "PREPARING FOR POWER"

COURSE CONVENOR:

JUDY HARRISON

WHAT IS RACISM?

Are all whites racist? Are all racists white? Judy Harrison gets to grips with the ABCs of fighting oppression.

GEEN STEMRECHT

voor

VREEMDELINGEN

"No votes for immigrants'.

Amberes, Belgium.

HALAL

MEAT

MUNICIPAL RACISM

The GLC's anti-racist year: what's in it for black workers? Halal meat in schools: why is it the hottest political issue in Bradford? Eileen McEvoy, Bradford WAR organiser and recent election candidate looks at the race relations record of Tory and Labour councils and asks: whats the difference?

'I HAD A DREAM'

Whatever happened to the black American dream? Today, America's blacks and Hispanics face mass unemployment and police terror. While Jesse Jackso campaigns for President, black ghettos threaten to erupt in another long, hot summer of riots.

Zaro Costello, just back from the USA, reports on the prospects for American

FASCISM

AND ANTI-FASCISM

The French National Front wins 12 per cent in public opinion polls. Old Nazis are crawling out of the woodwork all over Europe. Judy Harrison extracts the lessons for today fascism in the thirties.

•WORKSHOPS AND EVENING SESSIONS

MALCOLM X •••••THE NATIONAL FRONT

POLICING THE GHETTOES•• ANTI-SEMITISM

WORKERS AGAINST RACISM- HOW IT WORKS

racism revolutionary.

RACISM

FASCISM

'THE POINT IS TO CHANGE IT'

What did Marx, Lenin and Trotsky think about blacks? East London Workers Against Racism organiser Farehk Afzal looks at the communi tradition and leads a discussion on different strategies for fighting - reformist, separatist and

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Workers Against Racism The miners' strike in Britain, carworkers' occupations in France, the metalworkers' strike in Germany - in recent months millions of workers across Europe have moved into battle against their employers.

Our class is fighting for its survival. But it cannot succeed if the labour movement remains divided along national and racicl lines.

When Peugeot carworkers - mostly immigrants - went on strike near Paris in January, the bosses used hired scabs to whip up racism on the shopfloor and smash up the dispute.

British trade union leaders added insult to injury by offering to take on work from the strike-bound Peugeot plant.

Racism has always been a problem. But in the eighties it threatens to become a plague. The pressures of recession have made racism respectable.

State attacks on blacks are accepted - and even encouraged - by the leaders of the labour movement. The spread of racism into every aspect of life cannot be fought by appeals to reason. Racism will not go away until workers destroy it. That's why WORKERS AGAINST RACISM aims to build an anti-racist movement on the power of the organised working class.

WAR campaigns - in the unions and on the streets - against all immigration controls, and for workers' defence against racist attacks. Once we drive the racists out of our ranks and take up the fight for black workers' rights, the workers united will never be defeated. Join us!

RACE COURSE (flat rate for whole week)..

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