Repeal racist asylum and immigration laws
For months the Government has pandered to Tory press
hysteria over asylum-seekers. Using the lexicon of the racists and fascists,
the reactionary press have spread the myth that the country is being swamped
by “bogus” asylum seekers and that working people from ethnic minorities
benefit from better funding and resources.
The ruling class seek to keep black and white workers divided, each thinking
the other is more privileged when in reality both are cheated, deprived and
oppressed, though on average black and ethnic minority workers are more oppressed
and deprived.
Now under Tory attack over alleged bending of the rules to favour imperialism’s
client states in eastern Europe Blair has belatedly come to the defence of
the ethnic minorities.
All asylum-seekers should be entitled to basic social security benefits so
that the cost of their maintenance does not fall on a handful of local communities
while their claims are being processed. Britain is a fabulously rich country
and if the costs are shared fairly and funded through centralised, progressive
taxation this should cause the working class no hardship at all. The racist
Asylum and Immigration Acts passed by both Labour and the Tories during the
1990s must be repealed.
