Articles by Farrukh Dhondy

Wilson's Double-Talk Farrukh Dhondy THE Conservative party, having been beaten in the February snap election, is counting the blessings of defeat Its second rank politicians are continually saying that it is quite willing to let Wilson's Labour minority government rule for a year or so without deliberate and concerted filibusters. A narrow parliamentary defeat for the Conservative party seems to have avoided a major political defeat. The Labour government of Harold Wilson hangs by a majority of six over the Conservatives, who could with the 14 Liberals and the rough assortment of Ulster Unionists and Welsh and Scots Nationalists force a re-election at any time. From their parliamentary tactics of taking part in debates but staying away from the lobbies, it seems that the Tories have to work hard to stay defeated and to avoid the embarrassment of another thrashing by allowing the Labour government to try and sort out the mess of industrial antagonisms that they bred.


LONDON Capitalist Capers Farrukh Dhondy "INDEPENDENCE, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheay price. It is worth living for, it is worth fighting for, and it is worth dying for." Thus spake Enoch Powell in a characteristic, rhetorical preach-in

sing and be allowed through immigration, is that nobody cares. No state power in the world has proclaimed itself prepared to see that they get their rights. Very few organisations in the world have attempted to mobilise support for them. The government of Britain has made a show of living up to its international responsibilities only because it suits the exigencies of national policy, and has left the problem of Yusuf and cases like his, unsolved. The decision to admit Ugandans had less to do with international perssures and more to do with defeating the Powellites within the Tory party and with acquiring a new source of cheap labour than is supposed. And now, without provocation, Carr the Home Secretary, makes a statement in the Commons to the effect that whatever the international rights and wrongs and pressures, Britain will admit no more of its Asian citizens who find themselves in the predicament of the Ugandan Asians.

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Workers Collide with Profiteers Farrukh Dhondy NO more free tomatoes for the population of the Channel Islands, the dockers having returned to work, the farmers will be able to ship them to market in the UK. An end to the tourist attraction of fungoid tomatoes piled by the highways with notices inviting motorists to help themselves. Not all the rotting tomatoes of those islands would have been ammunition enough for the militants of the dockyards greeting their trade union delegates after the decision to go back to work had been taken on August 16 at Transport House in London. Jack Jones, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union to which the dockers belong, coauthor of the unacceptable proposals and settlement which sent them back to work, was greeted the same day with more bitter sauce from his rank and file than that served in the cafes of East London. With no relish in the decision, his own men, as he calls them, stormed a press conference he was holding after the deal and shut it down. "King Rat" they called him, amongst other picturesque working class epithets, and then turned on the representatives of the bourgeois press for their biased reports of the entire struggle of ordinary working men fighting for their livelihoods against the encroachment of growing capital and profits.