F-DEFENCIA NO 10 | Socialist Action 1983

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GRAHAM LING — a councillor in Moseley, Birmingham — is at the centre of a over his racist propaganda.

At the Tory conference he supported resolutions calling for an end to all immigration, for voluntary repatriation and for the dismantling of all antiracist legislation.

Returning to Birmincham Ling decided an offensive against the 'spoilt' black Asian residents of near derelict, inner-city property.

He stated: 'There are plenty large damn houses, and we have CODIC willacks Asians who refuse them simply because ot thei distance mosques and their communities.

'If Asians are going to have large families, the onus is on them to provide their own accommodation. They are used to having large families in India, surthehas e na to surviving. have educate them that large families are unsocial. Response 'Far too much money is spent on these families. The more you do for these people the more they exOCCI This incredible racism brought a barrage of protests that even the ultra curseivativc local couldn't ignore. Spurred on by the angry reaction of

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