the alternative to black sections in the cooperative movement? "That would not give the separatists everything they want should not be a party of sepalausin.
This is the sting in the tail oI Ene compromise put forward by the liberals in ine Labour rally. Wilal is somehow not legitimate for black people to organise independently of that society.
• 1 tre that they have inferior brain-power. includes all those who would propogate defend the supremacy of white people in a society that is determinedly racist.
ty. history Is one o repression of colonial people, justified in the name bringing Then the benefits of our own 'adSUDOIECE who think that condemning a tamine in einiopia. created by a ruthless imperialist drive for profit, is an alternative counterposed to building strong caucuses of black people in the Labour Party in Britain, are every single bit as racist as Neil Kinnock and his ilk believe that black people naVe rights separale and independent to those bestowed on them ov the predominantly white male leaders who hold power within the party.
Both these strands of opinion within the party rest on hundreds of years its effects on the British working itself. Socialists, especially those of the white male variety, must get it into their heads that unless they fight side by side with their black sisters and brothers struggling for their own liberation in a racist society, they will never their ends.
The fight against racism in every form is a SHOCK?
TO PUT THEMSELVES АтЕ? тоbedrock of the struggle to The movement must recogniss that the history of the British working class, and the of socialist movements in Britain. indelibly marked by this fact of British racism Neil Kinnock and the Militant are not the only so-called socialists who The British left is blessed WiLl SHOC than ILS fair share of white chauvinists.
Pectoralism A recent editorial in Socialist Worker opposed black sections the explained: Such fight (against racism) cannot be built by establishing black sections in a party whose commitment to elecinevitably means concessions to racism.
'It requires a different sort of organisation, which the conscious minority of socialist, antiracist workers WOrk to intervene every struggle that takes place. And in such an organisation there should be no need for black sec. tions, since it is the duty of every whatever colour, to fight all forms or racism and oppression.
Thus do the white 'socialists' in Britain explain to their black comrades that demands fo self-organisation unnecessary and devisive.
DID HE THREATEN THEM OR DID HE URGE THAMTOTAKL PAKINITe DEMOCRATIC PROCESS?
BEFORE THE ELECTOROH. SHUT UP!
Apparently, the answer to racism in Britain does not te in the hands of those whom oppresses, but with the moral imperative of white socialists who claim to 'understand' it The fight for Labour black sections about the right of black people to orthey think in whatever way best, to combat the and racist oppression them Tne which bottom put. of every social, economic and political pile. It is not for Ine oppressor, however beneficient or enlightened they consider be, to decide how best black people should do that.
The strongest support that white socialists in the Labour Party can offer to black people fighting for their rights, to support their demand that ther allowed to organise in the way the' Walkl and to DI recognised. In the months remaining berore annual party conference, the most service that socialists can offer black party members is to stand alongside them in their fight for self-organisation - the prerequisite in the battle against the institu tional racism always existed in the Labour Party.
Neil Kinnock and Militant lining up against black sections represents, both of these forces, opposition to any fundamental challenge to British im.
perialism.
®Cornac TO MKNOWN GETTING RATHER BORED WITH THE IRISH QUESTION!
YOU ARE BORED?!
THINK OF THOSE POOR REPUBLICANS WHO HAD TO SIT AND TALK TO WHITELAN!