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This article reproduces a front-page opinion piece in the West Indian Gazette, Vol. 4, no. 11, November 1961, by its editor. In it she explains why the proposed controls on Commonwealth immigration under Conservative Home Secretary Rab Butler (the first immigration act, passed in 1962) are discriminatory: a colour bar or form of apartheid. The bill has to be opposed because it will open the door to other forms of discrimination. The piece is prescient in that the bill proved to be a watershed, setting future British governments on a course of increasingly draconian immigration legislation and thereby embedding a pattern of state racism which, over half a century later, is still targeting migrants. The bill is, the author claims, a tactic to divert attention from the real issues of the day – living standards, wage freeze, credit squeeze and the threat of nuclear war. It makes a mockery of the idea of a multiracial Commonwealth and the way in which Commonwealth workers have helped to build up crucial areas of the economy.

Verlagstext: Hochmut, Habgier, Trägheit, Völlerei, Wollust, Neid und Zorn die sieben Todsünden sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil des christlichen (und insbesondere des katholischen) Glaubenssystems. Tatsächlich betrachten selbst Atheisten diese sieben Eigenschaften zumindest als Laster oder Charakterschwäche. Doch die Wahrheit ist: Wir alle sündigen und wir tun es die ganze Zeit. Und wer von uns kann sich auch nur einen einzigen Tag in seinem Leben erinnern, an dem er oder sie nicht mindestens einem dieser Laster gefrönt hat?

Resumo: O artigo é a tradução de um ensaio publicado originalmente em 1949, pela intelectual e ativista negra Claudia Jones na revista Political Affairs. No ensaio, Jones demonstra as origens e as múltipmas dimensões da dinâmica do sistema de opressão a que eram submetidas mulheres negras e critica a inabilidade dos comunistas estadunidenses em mobilizá-las. Ao argumentar que as mulheres negras compunham a fração superexplorada da classe trabalhadora, a autora as posiciona como parecela central da militância internacional contra o fascismo e o imperialismo.