ON 24 January a conference will be held to give the Campaign for Non-Alignment impetus.
'The conference on non-alignment for says Tony Benn in the CNA iterature being distributed to Parties early this month, "marks an important turning point in the development of thinking about British foreign and defence policy.
The event will be held in Kingsway Princeton Workshops include NATO and the US bases, Central America, South Africa, Ireland, and 1110C • Registration costs £2.50 (unwaged £1). Further details from: CNA, c/o Jeremy coroyn, kea nose Centre, 129 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 7QGk THE Labour Party's role in defending black people against racist immigration controls came under scrutiny at a recent meeting of the Bangladeshi community in Islington.
Organised by the Islington Muslim ASSOCIA tion (IMA), the meeting on 21 becameer was al tended by 30 people from North London, who heard MP Jeremy Corbyn and Islingtgon councillor Talal Karim talk of the operaof immigration controls and of their : current visit to Bangladesh.
HISTO Y of immigration controls racial mistory discrimination measures designed to restrict the entry rights of black people in These legal measures significantly reduced the numbers of black peopk who have rights to be in this country and laid the groundwork for the discriminatory practices that the home office use to further restrict the rights or Diack people wno are able enter under the legislation.
The introduction of visa controls last October for Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ghana was a further step down this path.
Imposed only on people living in black coun tries, it is now a require boarding a plane to Britain Already accounts reaching Britain of long waits for interviews, which when they take place are designed to 'catch out' the applicants.
Jeremy Corbyn Talal Karim are taking a number. of cases to examine and will visit familes and the British High Com.
Bangladesh to collect evidence on the visa system is working.
The IMA meeting felt strongly that the Labour Party should be prominent in their defence of black people's rights to enter this country. The leadership should not conceed one inch on the ques tion of racist immigratior controls.
The material collected by the two-person visit to Bangladesh should be used by the Party to highlight the racist prac tices of the Tories and the immigration service
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