SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Black sections target the TGWU

Socialist Action No. 117, 11 October 1985 · p. 5 of the scan · 323 words

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page 5 of the scan

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the ground the conRuppo (over 1,000) the publicaminers' racial through 100 per Hattersley's attacks on those in Inout of their LO SOCI out left at Labour ponent of the left leadership.

youth of Handsworth, which refuse to give them support.

has slapped black members face. The TGWU refused to even discuss black sections when Labour Party conference vereganol mel few days previously, Bill I'm not the dutifully, sult its TGWU its million against The : largest volvement with black workers' the '50s Imperial in the '70s.

members. They we re workers have TGWU '40s when the portunities hazarRacism unheaded the Heathrow black face AMONG the most significant developments Party conference was the role played by black sections. Not only were new forces — notably the NUR and NUPE won to support the demand for black self-organisation, but the black section played a leading role in support of other key struggles at the conference: the miners, local govern. ment, the Womens' Action Committee and lesbian and gay rights. As a result there is now a growing force of black socialists in the Labour Party who are becoming a key comFollowing the conference the black sections will be taking up the defence of the Brixton and Tottenham and taking the campaign for black sections into those unions, like the TGWU We print here and article by BERNIE BUNSEE on the TGWU, which first appeared, in a slightly different form, in Rank and File Briefing at biggest work. its The TGWU has learnt nothing from local authorities public sector unions who are at their least trying to do Nor unions the NUM NUR, NUPE and ACI have backed our .TCMI struggle fou black Bill, ing tc sectioms the us.

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