LABOUR PARTY FRINGE MEETING THURSDAY, 3rd OCTOBER AT THE WESSEX HOTEL, WEST CLIFF ROAD Labour Party emphasises the fundamental precondition that leads to the troubles that massively high level of unemployment the area, and the vicious ascmmmaol against young black people which meaens that they have had no jobs at all.
It's important that should be said and said clearly at Labour Party The attempts ›f the police and the pre: to obfuscate pretending that something to do with hard ULUE drues - which is a lie, a simple and straighforward ie - should be corrected the Does the Labour Party ilistive plan to take any in- locally Yes. There's been meeting of the officers of Sahdsword, ward of the Ladywood Constituency Labour Party, it planning a Labour Party meeting and hoping to inBena. Tarcargi, Paul Benn, Tarig Paul boaltl3, Vishnu Sharma forward platform 'Fight the Tores and not each other' and fight the socia derivation area and we hope that will come off within a month.
is public meeting September.
The which will be held at Holte school in the Lozells Road area will be the first forum in which the issues raised in the 'riot' can be discussed out. One key objective will be to dispel any sugges„on ta e ro oe z caused by 'racial' tension DCLWCC. Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. A demonstration may also be •ier o we tacic cupaign in the near future.
The idea of first publicty floated by Birmingham Trades Council. In meeting enea be them on they proposed a march on the of *jobs for youth'. The defence cam paign rejected this pro. posal on the grounds that any initiative had to come from the black organisa tions themselves would have to confront broader issues affecting their communities, in particular the issue of racisn in the light of this stanc the proposed march wa dropped and the labou movement organisatiol present pledged their su Many initiative paign To organise these events, the legal defence of the black youth arrested will require extensive resources. An immediate task is to get speakers from defence campaign around to as many labour movement bodies as possi both political and finan cial support.
writing HLDC, Heathfield Road, Hand sworth, Birmingham.
• At the time of going to press details of the defence committee public meeting have not been confirme should therefor KPRRerY phone the defence com 021-554 KEELEE 0026/2747 to confirm this.
THE reason that the NUM Socialist Action 27 September 1985