Second The entire increase in the Huge problems still exist for for labour are, of foremost electoral defending the black the demands must make. outnumbered on one side and women and does not make the have FIGHTING RACISM and defending Labour councils will be the theme of the Campaign Forum rally to be held in Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton, on 16 February. It will be addressed by Bernie Grant, Linda Bellos, Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, Dennis Skinner, Gul Zarina Khan for the Labour Party Black Section, a member of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign, and a speaker from the Labour Women's Action Committee. It promises to be the most important meeting organised by the Campaign Group of MPs since the end of the miners The core strategy is to widen every differential division within the working class.
This means, in particular, concentraling Is black community. leadershir been going along with this attacks local councils with black leaders Haringey, Brent and Lambeth.
This rally, in contrast, brings together leaders of the black community with the most advanced forces in the white working class Line leaders miners and the Campaign vroup or Mrs. Its Dasis Is principled the black stood shoulder to shoulder solidarity with the miners throughout the strike, now the NUM leadership and the Campaign vroup art standing up to be counted Geese ot the black community against the government's racist campaigns, Black council leaders Merle been by the people well women, low paid, who. with black make UD the of the London There second been discredit anti-racist work of ing class in England, Scotland Wales population.
The Lambeth rally brMiss in ere Campains the Campaign of the NUM, who come overwhelmingly from left wing northern, and mining constituencies, black working class the black working London. This is a vital link in up working unity, fighting racism, creating principled basis for the left of the labour movement.
Lambeth rally contains the seeds of an alternative course Ior the labour movement to Kinnock's disastrous policies. It sets out to create a majority for Labour, and for socialist poncies from the core of Labour's support the mining communities, linking this to the traditional working class bastions in the North Scotland, joining with the communities concentrated in London and a number of big cities, grasping that only a labour movemen which represents champions cal. ever remotely approach majority support, linking these alliances with struggle against the Thatcher governichl Mare Wadsworth, chair of Black Section, told Socialist Action: "This milestone in the histore a meeting should prove the left supporting black struggles in Socialist VIPs in Darlla ment have been brought together with campaigning black socialists on key Labour councils and communitv struggles like the Broadwater Farm issue. It is long overdue.
Campaign Forum PUBLIC MEETING LAMBETH TOWN HALL (Brixton tubo) 7.30 pm Chair Linda Bellos, Leader Lambeth Council Vice Chair Labour Party Black Section Speakers Bernie Grant, Leader Haringey Council Arthur Scargill, President National Union of Mineworkers Tony Benn MP Eric Heffer MP Gul Zarina Khan, Labour Party Black Section Dennis Skinner MP Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign Labour Women's Action Committee • Admission £1 (50p unwagad) • p&p Campaign Group News, c/o Bob Clay MP, House of Commons, London SWIA ORA
Socialist Action 23 Jan 1987
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Fighting racism Defending Labour Councils Campaigning for Socialism MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY