SocialistAction 1983–88

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

Boycott Labour's advisory committee!

Socialist Action No. 130, 7 February 1986 · p. 4 of the scan · 310 words

The scan: 130-feb-07-1986-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 5-7 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

visory committee.

I went on to call for non-cooperation with the advisory committee, A RESOLUTION from Vauxhall to the recent national committee meeting of black sections applauded the work of the campaign which in just two years has increased the representation of Afro-Caribbean and Asian people in the party and forced the national party to set up an NEC black and Asian adhowever, 'unless and until black members of the party have the sole say in the reference and representabelieves that this can only sultation with constituency parties, amendment from black section strengthened Vauxhall Pointing out that the very Labour Party:

Petition:

membership of the Labour Committee on Ireland.

local elections and the next general election.

decision.

around local Labour Parties, returned to:

Afro-Caribbean menders when the basis of the black 'unite them on the basis of their own self-definition ol amendment called for an "active boycott'.

mounting a campaign leadership's token concession to une aemands Back supporters tions to the advisory comAT ITS recent national committee meeting, Labour Party Black Section agreed to circulate throughout the party a petition in support of Amir Khan and Kevin Scally, recently Birmingham-Sparkbrook We the undersigned are appalled by the decision of Sparkbrook Constituency Labour Party to expel councillor Amir Kevin Scally, both long-standing and respected members of the Labour Party. Cllr Amir Khan is a founder-member of the Sparkbrook Labour Party black section and Kevin Scally is a leading member We believe these expulsions will cause considerable damage to the Labour Party at a time when the need is for a united campaign around socialist policies to defeat the Tories and the Alliance in the fortheoming therefore call upon Sparkbrook CLP to reverse the • Copies of the petition should be circulated at regional conferences, and among affiliated organisations, and Party Black Section, 10a Palmerston Road, Wood Green, London N22.

← Benn welcomes shadow elections'Labour left' drops its mask →

Something wrong on this page?