IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Beyond England

Red Weekly No. 21, 5 October 1973 · p. 5 of the scan · 441 words

The scan: rw-no21-oct-5-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

in other parts of the UK is necessary if the NF is ever to become a real foroe in British Mosley's British Union of Fascists, at the height of its upsurge in the late 1930s, never extended seriously into Wales or the North of Ireland, despite its glorification of Sir Edward Carson's Lister Volunteers of 1911, as fascist forefathers "in bearing, will, act and thought. Modern conditions, however, present the National Front with pare opportunities which they are andous to seize. While their infant forces in Scotland have yet to find their feet, the NF is fully conscious of the possibilities created by the deepening and dramatic crisis of Ulster Unionism.

Longstanding Front agitation in the traditional areas of the English midlands, Greater London, and,around the South coast, now reaches further afield. In June a candidate was rushed into the clections for the Northern Ireland Assembly in South Down, as a "National Front Loyalist.' Despite poor support at the polls, they saw this first effort in Uister as a real base for promoting branches of the NF throughout Northern This represents something of a shift from the situation on 1 May last year, when Martin Websier spoke for the Front alongside William Craig at a Vanguard rally in London, decorated with the banners of both the Orange Order and the NF. As Unionism changes and splits under the challenge of the minority in the North of Ireland, the NF is rejecting public alliances with this or that formation in the Orange camp, and attempting independent initiatives. This will have interesting repercussions on the sidelines of Unionism in Ulster and amorigst its offshoots in Britain - UDA branches in the Midlands, Orange Lodges in working children in schools for the "Educationally Sub-Normal', and an end to the present method of collecting statistics.

The Report will raise the temperature of political debate around the question of blacks in education. It will provide some leverage for those forces campaigning for an end to many In view of the plans of British capitalism for black children, the education authorities do not go out of their way to give black pupils the opportunity to overcome the built-in disadvantages a black child must inevitably face in a white English school. Many parents of black transferred to ESN children have been forced to create voluntary and black workers. The experience of black school leavers, black youth unemployment, etc., fully confirms this for the black pupil. Such expectations necessarily have a devastating effect on their performance at school, and this opens them up to a permanent danger of being In addition, the fact that some caldren are

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