YOUTH FIGHTBACK, an LPYS newspaper set up last summer and supported by Socialist Organiser and International supporters in tne LPYS, has split over the issue of whether to support Kingsley Abrams, who is black sections candidate for the LPYS place on the Labour Party National Executive Committee.
After 12 votes from Socialist Organiser were cast to oppose his campaign against nine in his support at their 23 February editorial meeting, the minority has decided to look into other ways of organising'.
The response to Kingley's campaign has revealed the actual commitment of the left to black sections. Militant's responce was to stand a black woman on an anti-black self-organisation ticket. This, however, does have the merit of electing the first ever black woman to the NEC of the British Labour Party!
Socialist Organiser has responded by standing a candidate of their own against Kingsley Abrams on the sectarian grounds that only suppurters of socialist Organiser's .
sections, anti-women's programme can defeat =-...? "eting to coorainate & in inning part in this campaign on : March at 2pm in Birmingham Civic
Socialist Action 12 March 1986