Labour Party black and Asian advisory committee

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Charles Turnock, Tom Sawyer*, Gwynneth Dunwoody Sagoo (Bakers Union), Anand*, Jahantia, Vaz*, S East — vacancv: bast Chris Sharma; North Rafique Malik;

Secretary: Joyce Gould Ethnic Virendra Sharma * denotes black sections supporter. The national party's toothless alternative to black sections had its first meeting recently, 27 February, in the House of Commons. Its From the NEC: Roy Hattersley, Jo Richardson*, From the trade unions: Sardul Marwa (EETPU), Ollie Jackson (TGWU), D Graham (AUEW), P Norman Jolly (APEX)

From the regions: London.— Ben Bousquet, Vidya Lincoln Crawford, Valerie Vacancy; Wales — Vacancy; North - Keith Vaz*, one vacancy (due to Trudi De Hainey's withdrawal); West Midlands — Narjma Hafiz, Ron Lisk Carew, West Ernie Taylor*, Scotland - Robert Thompson minority officer (full time worker): Black section supporters at annual conference 1984

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Socialist Action 4 April 1986 JUST HOW great are the transformations in the position of women and black people — as well as the rise of white collar militancy - inside the labour movement in the last years?

JOHN ROSS argues that what we are seeing is the the third great historical wave of development of the British labour movement. One as great in its scale and the 20th centuries. It is a themselves out. implications as the creation of the craft unions in the 1850s or the unskilled male manual unions -and the Labour Party - at the end of the 19th and beginning of development whose implications are still only beginning to work