The way to combat Labour's racism | Socialist Action 1983

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Linda Bellos on SHI- tackling the discrimination that exists in all organisations against Cosy acknowledge our need to do so.

Because racism is part of my daily reality I do not react with the alarm and anic o some omner member or unc Labour Party when it is suggested that the Labour Party is racist. It do not take been it personally even though, by inference, it includes me. And if some wonder how l can stay in a party I acknowledge to be racist, I must quote Basil Manning and Ashok Ohri in Racism: the Response: 'Britain is a racist society. realm or facet of life in British society in which black people do not experience racism'.

I racism is everywnere in brush society, where can I go to avoid it except the best conditions for beginning to defeat racism. The black communities will lead the fight against racism. The Black Section is organising to create the alliances necessary for that fight within the British labour movement. Any antiracist must welcome that.

But the Black understands, as Bellos explains in her Independent article, that necessary precondition for the Labour Party beginning to combat it. That is also why self-organisation of black members is so vital to the anti-racist struggle within the party the Labour Party Black Section is racist. have A Labour Party committed to the fight against racism — as many have urged me and all black people to go -like millions of black people in this country, will vote Labour, and continue to fight racism within the traditions of struggle and solidarity of the black communities, and within the Labour Party — unless, of course, I am thrown out.

the only credible party that at least claims to be anti-racist. I hope 1 remain There is no within to contribute to a debate on racism that allows the sufferers to define it and how to overcome it.

• This article is reproduced from the Independent of Friday 1 May. black self-organisation with open arms disposal in that struggle. Instead, the Labour leadership is out to smash it.

struggle to rebuild Labour's support and to acreal tne tory government. It is a fundamental component of that strug Section also gle. Support for the Labour Party Black Section against the vicious attack from recognising the leadership • Labour Partv is a essential.

whether the Labour Party is racist were left to the likes of Neil Kinnock. method of proving it's not is to expel any party member who says that it is.

• would welcome Sporting the clear,' use racism is part of my daily real wrong.

unilateral - out of the country. No. I I hope I am not, because Labour is wrong?

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