most effectively. As a result, the campaign for WAG's demands for changes in the structure ot the Labour Partv to empower women has not been taken up to the fullest possible extent in the London area.
explained that strengthening this reglonal organisation and LWAC's ability to campaign for power for women was especially important this year.
Key to this will be winning unity by women in different sections of proposals for a women's organisation witn power — trade union women, women in black sections, constituency Munira Thobani explained that women in Black Sections have the greatest possible interest in campaigning for power for Labour women. But LWAC must also take on the demands and terms set by Black women.
The meeting was a positive step towards building a campaigning London LWAC fighting centrally for the changes needed to create a powerful and meaningful Labour women's organisation. to campaign against Labour Party Black Sections has been submitted to the West Midlands regional Labour Party conference to be held at Opengate Town Hall, Telford, on 21-22 March. Submitted by TASS No. 12 division, it says Black Sections are divisive, would lead minorities within the party, and would detract from the unity necessary for a Labour victory. This is only the latest move by TASS. previously reported a resolution to TASS conference from South Wales region also denounces Black Section as divisive and unrepresentative.
The Black Section will oppose the resolution and fight its passed. Far Black Sections being divisive the West Midlands conference shows the real problems facing the party.
Some months ago the regional office asked all affiliated organisations to submit resolutions on either the jobs inissue of health For those wanting to take up the plight of black people this was not a problem.
eight years of Thatcher the situation in the West Midlands is grim: A RESOLUTION calling on the regional executive to the isolation of ethnic As Socialist Action has 300,000 jobs have disappeared, unemployment is 15 per cent, and the region has fallen from second to sixth in the earnings league. But among black people things a whole unemployment is 31.5 per cent among Afro. carribeans, 28.4 per cent among Asians and 10.9 pe cent among whites.
Even the regional executive recognises the als panily. sultative document, The West Midlands can make the executive argues that 'expansion will not automatically benefit everyone the region' and that 'the specific needs of women, the young and Can inner call for special measures' However nowhere in the document does it say what special measures for racial minorities would be.
But affiliates who have submitted proposals on this have met with predictable response. Instead of their resolution being included in the jobs industry val dale have been given an opportunities their own. Supporters of the resolutions concerned that they will never be discussed. After all there is a long tradition of arguing that even discuss special measures to combat black unemploy. ment is divisive Black Sections were formed to oppose this sort of unity, which ignores the real divisions between black and white workers discuss effective measures for overcoming them. The TASS resolu tion is testimony to hov eftective Black Sections have been in this fight.