Established 1817 __________________________________________________Vol 14 No. 1__________________________________________________________ Fortnightly l/6d. ROGER LAW of an imperialism which holds two-thirds of the world in its thrall. Against this, two liberal traditions were thought to stand firm. The first L.S.E. ’s GREAT concerned the climate of British political life: in which racism might be permitted TRADITION in Britain’s possessions abroad, but would not be elevated to a main At every point in British society the principle in domestic affairs. The second question of race may be found. Open the concerned the values which British REPRESSION press, and its pages speak of the concern culture professed: of calm and which the problem arouses: of houses dispassionate thought, of respect for all turned by the blacks into slums, of a sides in debate. national assistance borne down by their The Dwarf discusses the spurious nature N. IRELAND weight, of classrooms where no English of these liberal traditions, and places is spoken. Or walk down to the City, them in the class context of Britain where the institutions of commerce and today. It indicates the extent to which BLACK trade testify to thriving imperial links. the black community has become thè Or reflect back over the records of tool of the political right and the Callaghan, Wilson, and Heath, whose scapegoat of a society and government BRETHREN most iniquitous hours have been passed whose aim is the renovation of a in depriving coloured passport holders of capitalism which should have been long rights, in arguing whether keeping in its grave. It gives an account of the SCHOOLS married people apart would constitute a position at the London School of final solution. Economics, a microcosm of the The problem has repercussions abroad. university system and the values it holds. For twenty-five years the grand gestures BRAZIL PERU The LSE, it appears, was never a centre o f furnishing aid, of granting of detached and benevolent science; and independence to all, have meant in practice those who govern its course, no less than the rich growing richer, the poor staying the ideas which are taught, are the BRITTANY poor, and bombings and napalm for instruments of racism abroad and those who protest. The straightforward reaction at home. colonial considerations which dominated The black community, no less than the British politics for more than 100 years political left, is under attack. More WHO IS have given way to considerations at exposed than the left, it is the most times more obscure but as omnipresent obvious victim of general repression — a ENOCH POWELL as ever: considerations of profit and loss, repression which flows from the crisis of gain and retreat, in the machinations throughout the whole of the West. The Black Dwarf 14th March 1969 Page 2 THEREFORE THERE ARE TWICE AS MANY WHITE AS COLOURED IMMIGRANTS Between 1964 and 1966, average inflow from Common Market countries: 24, 000 per year. From white and coloured Commonwealth countries: 11, 000 per year. A coloured immigrant receives, on average, £48 per year in social services. The aver­ age white worker takes £62 per year. Yet, because they are younger, coloured imm­ igrants pay more in National Insurance contributions. Nearly half our junior doctors and a fifth of the training nurses and midwives in hos­ pitals are coloured. 5, 000 doctors from Asia and Africa alone. WHO Is 15 % of London’s bus conductors and drivers, and 20% of railway staff are coloured. ENOCH POWELL? He is a right-wing Tory opportunist who will stop at nothing to help his party and ULSTER his class. He lives in Belgravia. BLUFF SINCERITY It is rare for a bourgeois parliamentary election forced any liberal — let along socialist to clarify the issues at stake. Two weeks ago in initiatives on the clique in Stormont are these WHAT DOES HE the six counties, however, an election achieved same left extremists — the People’s Democracy just this effect. and the genuine committees of action. Unionists, whether O’Neillite, Craigite, or The left must build on the mass support Paisleyite, had wanted nothing to happen in expressed in the recent elections, and destroy Ulster; they have been opposed to all change. the appeal of those worthies of the Derry BELIEVE IN? Lynch and the Fianna Fail crew disliked the Action Committee who have ridden to activists in the North as much as anyone else, Stormont on a wagon which was not theirs to In higher unemployment. He has consistently advocated a national average of 3 per for they have little to be proud of in Dublin ride. cent unemployed. itself. The renegade Wilson, stirred by the It faces a number of problems. The movement In cuts in the social services He wants higher Health charges, charges for state catholic voters of Huyton, has mouthed only a is non-sectarian in terms of religion — yet its education, and lower unemployment pay. pathetic ‘concern’. None of these parties, main support is drawn from the. catholic, rather than the protestant, working class, and this fact In attacks on trade union rights He resigned from the National Discount Company however, received much comfort from what has transpired. must be realistically faced. because the company agreed to a closed shop in one section of its business. The People’s Democracy and their associates The border issue has so far been In high rents and luxury housing “the two giant evils of rent controls and housing have emerged from the election with clear counter-productive. It is drenched in subsidies have inflicted incredible hardships and squalor on the people of this proof of extensive support. They have not built chauvinistic myth and nationalistic reaction. country”. “The Council House system today is immoral and socially damaging.” a mass socialist movement, buy they have Yet the militants in the six counties must continue to organise with comrades south of In fewer and poorer schools “I believe in a reduction in the prospective rate of advanced by a singular step: they have broken the hold of the old nationalist green-Tory party the Border. increase of total state expenditure on education. ” over the catholics. They must work out their attitude to the In mass sackings in the docks. Again and again he has argued that the docks are The next step is clear: to return to the possible activation of section 75 of the ‘grossly overmanned’. agitation, to the direct action which provoked Government of Ireland Act, which would, if In Munich. “Britain’s part in the war was a great mistake; Britain should have made a the original crisis; and to organise in the face of used, enable Westminster to bring Ulster a repression which will certainly follow. directly under its control. treaty with Hitler at the time of Munich leaving Europe to the dictator and the What of this repression? Its rationale is not hard We in this country should not adopt the Empire to the British”. to seek. The British government and press had patronising attitude of the British press towards hoped that O’Neill would win; and, mistaking Ulster (‘facing the past’). The comrades there Enoch Powell is the consistent, declared enemy of the working class - a high priest the wish for the deed, they had fervently have not only marched, occupied, and defied of the capitalist system. He is opposed to all controls except immigration control. predicted this outcome. O’Neill had the correct massive repression. They have won the support blend of upper-class hypocrisy, appropriate of 25,000 people; they have begun the end of Powell is playing exactly the same game as Hitler and Mosley played before the last genuflections towards ‘moderation’, and, above the Ulster police state. war. He is saying exactly the same things which Mosley was saying five years ago. He all, the sense too see that you should beat a is whipping up racist feeling against the minority in order to gain the support of th e, man up in darkness rather than out in the day. majority. The workers who fought for Hitler in Germany in 1933 soon paid the He wore his orange sash under, rather than price. Their trade unions were smashed. Their lives at home and at work were over, his shirt. But O’Neill’s position has been quite undermined, terrorized by Fascist thugs. Eventually, eight million Germans paid with their lives. and those who have most praised his moder­ The choice is simple. Either to work together with all nationalities and colours for a ation - for the reaction it hid - now begin to strong and socialist trade union movement. Or to support Powell and see jobs, change sides. The British press is coming to homes, and the standard of living go down in a wave of racist hysteria. terms with the Reverend Paisley himself. The ruffian of yesterday becomes today’s colourful and rumbustious crusader. In Paisl­ ey’s bluff sincerity there will be much to ad­ WHITE IMMIGRANTS: mire, and he will be actuated, you may be sure, ‘by a genuine desire for Ulster’s improve­ ment. ’ In Britain, demonstrators, Welshmen, and Ireland 750, 000 students are flung into jail; and unofficial strikers are shortly to follow. In Ulster, the extremists of the People’s Democracy will be Canada, Australia sharing this fate. What is the truth? The only people to have & N. Zealand 1 7 2 , 000 Germ any 1 3 4 , 000 GOVERNORS Poland 1 1 0 , 000 PLACEMEN AND KNAVES Nicholas Bateson, lecturer in Psychology at the A. second important objection, however, was USA 8 7 , 000 London School of Economics, was recently that the Director and Governors of the School called before a court drawn from the Standing had the most intimate links with racism and Committee of the Governors of the School.