12.10.1995

Playing the race card

IN RECENT weeks newspapers have reported that a new series of attacks on ethnic minorities will be announced at this year’s Tory Party conference in the context of a Tory and media-inspired anti-‘foreigner’ hysteria.

These proposals will include turning nurses, teachers and DSS officers into immigration officials, checking on the ‘immigration status’ of those seeking to use social services. A snooper society is emerging in which all arms of the state will increasingly report on immigrants and asylum-seekers. This will lead to an increase in the numbers of people interned without trial in detention centres for people from ethnic minorities, such as Campsfield and Harmondsworth.

It is therefore vital that there is a large presence of those opposed to state-inspired racism on October 14 outside Downing Street.

• No more racist laws!
• Stop harassment of black people and asylum seekers!

Jacob Secker
Close Down Harmondsworth Campaign