THE activities of Greater Manchester police chief James Anderton became too much even for the home office.
Following Anderton's office. himself gays.
Anderton not resign. as he wanted.
That, after all, is what the police are there for.
IMMIGRATION was among the issues discussed at the recent executive committee of Labour Party Black Section.
A paper by Sanjiv Vedri, brought up to date to take account of the imposition of the visa controls, was widely supported and referred to the national committee for broader discussion. Commissioned to explain black secuon s opposition to racist immigration laws, it will eventually be brought annual meeting of Black Section, which takes place in Nottingham on 14 March, Education will be a major issue at the 1987 Black section Delegates will also be presented with a national committee paper on policing as well as one reviewing Black Section's parliamentary work.
Conference will
consider constitutional changes to the structure ol Dlack sechon including provision for a Parliamentary Black Section.
Further debate will also lake place on now best Black Section can Party, both in terms of wining recognition for black members' right to policy for inclusion in Scorease and of Labour's manifesto. alliull wood.
polled 50 per cent of the vote in the London education authority This anti-woman, anti-left campaign was scotched a week later. An opinion poll reported in the Observer estimated that Labour would take 60 per cent of the vote and win with a 10,000 majority.
The local Mercury reported fellow ILEA 'She has perfect credentials to fight as Labour's candidate. She is a working class woman with kids of her own. I think of myself as an ordinarv person. and I got on with Diedre straight away.' since une opillon poll, the gutter press has had nothing further to ay on the question of selecting a lett wing woman. Clearly such a candidate would greatly aid Labour's election call valle youth conference, and for the first time adopted a major orientation to work against apartheid in and with the black communities in Britain.
the campaign for 'comprehensive mandatory sanctions imposed and enforced through the United Nations Security Council'. It was agreed to call a mass demonstration and festival in 1987 and to approach the TUC and Labour Party to jointly promote it. The AGM continued the priority given to 'people's sanctions' and a number of resolutions calling for legally enforcable comprehensive sanctions by a British government were adopted. The AGM launched a major campaign against Shell along the lines Africa People's Organisation the African Conthe ANCS plained the slogan tor is 'AdHe the AGM today place .E.
South allu freedom hands of apartheid posals to the growth over present whereby Call attend vote. decision the London of the longer be time by disrupting amount of this AGM's ume was of shouting minority able the pose which Call tional This peculiar where the AGM not the sovereign AAM rected.
welcomed African any TUC The central objective of the movement was set as n against Barclay's Bank. filiate to the British and tiona Confederation Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).
Tort Ahe call ted to SIDDON cal to the whole labour movement concert with the AAM movement, to strengthen the boycott against South African and Nailsale and ic help to achieve a complete Cubal eu upon all trade. commercial, financial, cultural and sporting activities, and to support by every means possible trade By Redmond O'Neill unionists who may be victimised for complying with this policy.' This resolu tion particularly propriate as the Dunne's anti-apartheid strikers In again been victimised by their employers.
An 'support all campaignLocal up their with the setting up local Ulul the potential to be the vanguard of the anti-apartheid struggle.
The resolution youth encouraged the formation of local youth and student structures, called a national ference, and decided that VOILI the next AGM would consider if the establishment of a youth section was appropriate.
resolution applauding the leading role of women in the struggle, and urging local groups to organiser was agreed.
The AGM correctly condemned Ine letter in The Scotsman of July 1986 which appealed 'all those nations contemplating withdrawing from the Commonwealth games to reconsider their position'. This letter had been signed by Bob Hughes MP, chair of the AAM, Brian Filing, Secretary of the Scottish AAM. The • resolution pointed out that this letter 'gave support to those who seek to maintain links with and it committed the AAM to 'sup The outlining the campaigning plans for the movement in 1987, A New Offensive for Sanctions' was introduced by the National Committee, but only minutes were allocated to introduce and discuss it. Furthermore it was not pur to the vote and could not be amended by delegates.
This was a manoeuvre by the platform as this document is ambiguous on the strategy the movement critical balance-sheet of critical the AAM's concentration of its resources on mass the past eighteen months. tion proposals with a cen- it combine colony good ac tra ninto for Sanctions, around which was not available to the AGM. This is oriented including Liberals, and Tories in the general with view minority for sanctions. gaining 'parliamentary This orientation progressive members of the Alliance and Tories i undoubtedly in contradic. tion with the strategy the Such ambiguities will hav. AAM needs to be thrashed out in the movement over the com ing months.
Overall the AGM has adopted decisions which Wall extend the move. ment's social alliances, in cludes a series of major mass actions. and bv mak ing : the movement more democratic thereby allow the real strategic allow real strategic political decisions differences in the movement to be thrashed out in action and debate in 1987.
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Anderton goes too far
Black Section debates immigration
Greenwich to select candidate
councillor Dot Bigwood as saying of Diedre