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Socialist Resistance no24  |  page 2-3

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Deaths in custody - both in police cells and in prisons have continued and young black men have been the most frequent victims. The recent inquiry into the death of Zahid Mubarek in Feltham young offenders institution in March 2000 has chilling parallels with what we know about police racism.

It has shown that it was no accident that Mubarek was placed in a cell with a known racist. Rather it was a deliberate action by some of the prison officers, who treated such conflicts as sport!

The main targets of racist attacks and prejudice shift as migration patterns change.

The Caribbean community in general has now lived in Britain for many years. While this is true of large numbers of people coming from Asia too, this has been undercut by the anti-Muslim bigotry, which accompanies the so-called "war on terror".

Many African people come to Britain to work and study, but because of their skin colour, they and many from the Caribbean are assumed to be asylum seekers.

It is no accident that the

CONGOLESE COMMONITY Congolese asylum seekers join the April 2 demonstration in Manchester against New Labour policy increasing focus of hate campaigns against travellers comes at the same time as increased migration from Eastern Europe, including from Roma travellers, has folNew Labour policy gives a false respectability to racism and succour to the far right in its various forms.