SocialistAction 1983–88

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

London swings right; black section fights back

Socialist Action No. 133, 5 March 1986 · p. 4 of the scan · 243 words

The scan: 133-mar-05-1986-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); 3-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

DIANE ABBOTT, prospective parliamentary candidate for Hackney North has backed up Bernie Grant's controversial attack on racism in the right wing of the Labour leadership. Last week his criticism of Roy Hat(elsit earned him public rebuke from Neil Kinnock. entirely support Bernie and if Nei Kinnock wants 10 rebuke me he had better get his letter in the post, said Diane.

She was speaking in the Diane Abbott: 'Hattersley's remarks were colonialist, patronising and racist' black section debate at the London regional Labour in Brixton this weekend. But conference rejected composite supporting black sections by 500,000 160,000. Two years ago the region backed black sections. Several delegates followed the line Phey supported black secd NUPE who said tions but could not dorse a motion calling for existing black sections to be recognised.

also narrowly defeated motion deploring expusions anc calling for positive campaigning and an end to the encersoos alvısıve cal paign against local council which fight Tory cuts. An emersencv monon azalls the result of the NEC enquiry into Liverpool suffered a four to one defeat. However Conference overwhelmingly backed a modefending Lambeth councils LIVCI DUUl against the Tory attacks rejected a mouon callne Ior Labou MPs to be allowed to vote 'according their cons cinces' on unspecified questions. This right wing inspired motion was clearintended enable T noli nackbenca SUD.

for The Natoina) legislation. National ADOTGOD camDadı that this herald a new tactic by anti-abortion campaigners other regional conferences

← Midlands LPYSNationalist spectre haunts Scottish Labour →

Something wrong on this page?