ethos and prejudices among the teaching staff remained. Decause Dulllage was a pir ected school, the arrival o a new head team committed to implementing the coun cil's anti-racist policies met with growing resistance.
In 1982, tollowing the riots in Moss Side, the Man chester Education Committee (MEC) called for all educational institutions in the city to produce individual policies on racism although it did not issue any guidelines, etc. Also, in deter was cucuated to all head teachers and Dals on te Hollot ing of racial tension, giving guidelines on immediate action to be taken.
A report in 1984 concluded that the city council had policies on multicultural education, rallying call STOr apologists of racism precisely because of this counterposition between race ane class — concretery. because it objectively makes concessions to a rew lacisi theory, that of the white blacklash.
John Lloyd, who has been one of the clearest exponents of this approach wrote the Financia Times, 21 May, liberals, who have 'salved their consciences on race bi favouring blacks over whites He praises the report for prompting: a new on racism. In its call for an ending to a period in which races use ds a weapon ol guilt, for recognition that where race can be all ou percent, comprising 10.6 le and 204r cent, 20.4 per cent, ie double, among black peo ple. This differential level of unemployment, resulting poverty alienation, is entirely due to the accumulated effects of racism, and clearly, because many of the anti-racist , policies were stimulated by the events of 1981 and 1985 in the inner cities. black people demonstrably not wait until the white its peckishness before dosomething about its own starvation.
Lloyd wants to prepare the ground in order to rol back the progress mad race policy to the pre-GLC ILEA, etc 'new left' era, by making ideological inroads into some of the left's most profound proglallal munities with the least stake in the existing order in their own countries. words, the best way to pursue selfishly its own goals is not to protect its social advantages over black com munities and semi-colonial working classes, but to ac tively promote the elimina tion of these differentials against the interests of its own bourgeoisies Clearly, those sections of the modate to the 'white backlash' by arguing that positive discrimination, and hence logically, anti-racism the more, is emine are word. is divisive, really exhibiting a backward sectarianism which will advance consciousness of the white working class oy not even one men