SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Socialist government opens door to racists

· Socialist Action No. 30, 21 October 1983 · p. 9 of the scan · 416 words

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DROITS POLITIQUES IMMIGRES the ports.

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In Mitterrand's propositions, his unofficial personal manifesto, the President called for an end to discrimination and equal rights for migrants - including the right to vote in local elections after five years residence. It is tragic that A FASCIST MAYOR elected in a small town west of Paris. Black people from Britain turned back at Truly the Mauroy-Mitterrand government is an to the workers of Europe! But the French Socialist Party has not always advocated the deportation of a thousand "illegal immigrants' as Prime Minister Mauroy does if this small reform had been the fascists have ' been overwhelmingly defeated in the breux ov-ciccuol.

Although one French national in five has at least one foreign grand parent, been endemic there as it is in of the royalists and fascists of the thirties was out into practice by mass collaboration with the Nazi War Two During Algeria's of liberation in the fifties dozens of Algerians thrown into the Seine, others were found hanging in the woods around Paris.

'anti-fascists' yesteryear, the Gaullist find themselves in alliance with the fascist 'Front National" showing that for ruling anti. fascism is a matter of tac tics rather than principle.

It is not surprising that a government one ent should be attacked by the ruling class. NORS SUI prising that racism is one of the weapons usea. bu the Mauroy does not fight that racism it tries to accommodate it and thus makes it respectable.

Having declared itself for the expulsion of so many immigrant workers £3.50 the government then tries to fight facism in Dreux.

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ministerial whizz-kid Michel Rocard and the symbolic release of 1983 pigeons was not sufficient to convince me eectorate of the error of its ways Heartened bi the retusa of a minority of right wing ponticial. back the fascists the Socialist Party publicised their call for .... an abstention!

Racism fascism can't be fought by government that seeks. 'national concensus' with the racists. The fascist viclory was not only aue le working , class voters turning to the Front National Many workers stayed at home rather than vote for the Socialist and Comparties whose austerity programmes de 100 4 41 2 01 DREAMS; IDEAS AND ACTIONS FROM THE WOMEN'S PEACE MOVEMENT MALCOLM SPAVEN Documents in alarming detail the militarization of Scotland

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