Tariq Ali, a leading member of the IMG and the Fourth International, recently concluded a successful tour of Australa Jomuy sponsored Dy the Australan Union ol students and the communist League, an Australian revolutionary organisation in solidarity with the Fourth grant workers and to step up the number of deportations.
This comes at a time when immigrant workers have begun for the first time to engage in militant struggles, as at the Renault car plant earlier this year. The new restrictions, launched in the 'Fontanet circular' late last year, include measures which make the employers responsible for providing accommodation - thus leaving the immigrant workers totally dependent on them. Over the summer, the Ministry of the Interior has taken steps to deport a number of immigrant workers, and further deportations are in the pipeline. This has gone hand in hand with a growing harassment of immigrant workers by the fascist groups, who have been encouraged International. Ali spoke at public meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on "Imperialism and Revolution in Asia' and at numerous other meetings on The Class Struggle in Europe' and The Politics of the Fourth International.
All's tour was one of the most successful to be conducted by a member of the Fourth International. The politics and ideas of the Fl were presented to over 1,000 militants at public meetings. The visit was also fully covered in the Australian press, and in frequent interviews on TV and radio Ali explained in some detail what the Fourth International stands for. Given the recent wave of strikes in Australia, in
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