what is involved in both the most dramatically in the black gains in the local government elections is two completely different conceptions, and two completely different roads, ment.
For the bourgeoisie the role of the labour movement is seen as a police force over the working class, and its allies. The role assigned to the Labour Party is to carry our such tasks as imposing incomes policies, decisions calling for an end to nuclear power, and all the familiar rigmorole we have seen for decades.
But the working class and oppressed built the labour movement for a quite different purpose. They thought it was an instrument to fight capital police these two different labour movement. that actually are dedicated to defending the interests of the exploited and oppressed win controi of sections of the labour movement.
Arthur Scargill did that when he led the NUM to fight against the attack on jobs in the mining industry. position to politically defend the black communiBroadwater Farm onslaught of the police.
Liverpool were doing it when they built council houses and tried to defend jobs and services.
Representatives of the oppressed also come forward to symbolise a way forward for the communities they represent -step forward to see Bernie Switch hunt and, communities' for the labour move defying themselves. Periodically paths totally clash in the Because periodically forces Bernie Grant did it when he used his against racist With all their limits and what a superb or Linda Appropriately enough, the same issue of Tribune Contams an alack on unc campaign. of the Labour Women's Action Committee (L WAC) under the title 'Constitutional change will not win women's votes.
individual conIn an nouon to une ascissol on the election results in Islington South, Phil Kelly a Tribune staff jounalist, acreatea waite male candidate, continues: 'For Loose ex istence of these prejudices, I invite them to examine the election results. Every single black or openly gay candidate, and even those non-English names, wild regardless of party, polled fewer votes than white anes name coreates of the same party.
The 16 May edition of New Satesman echoes the same racist theme. selects the following 'Enley Taylor: attracted fewer votes than his white running mate in Earlsfield