WHEN annual conference remitted composite resolution 28, which called for proper black representation at all levels of the party, the national executive promised a working party to 'study how best to implement the principle contained in it'.
Since then, black members throughout Briain have been organising in their constituencies and their regions. Some black SECHOIS arc low established within constiruencies and, in the case of Vauxhall party in South London, those black : presentatives have full :ating rights.
Despite the national executive's tardiness - the arking party met for the *time only a few weeks London region for stated its enfran :o drag its feet. -solution on Inis H) was passed the two-thirds required tor change, opposition :rade unions supporters of the Maitan: new spaper.
Im he words of the nablack sections' creat. Billy Hoe Nong Pot: 'A miltion anti-racist resolutions passed by GMCS meant nothing compared to composite H, which passed by such substantial majorities, indicative that major body of the Labour Party is at last acting positively.
Black sections are calling on constituencies and affiliated organisations to put forward the following model resolution for this year's annual conterence:
recognises that whereas 80 per cent of black volers support une Labour Party, black people still remain the least politically represented group within the Labour arty and in the country generally.
Conference therefore conmust be taken by the Labour Party to remedy this situation, and recommends the creation of Black Sections in the part! as a base on which black people can devise ano pro pose strategies for change tion and racial equality can created throuch the development of a socialist Constituencies are asked Walter the wor ding of this resolution, to that each is printed seperately in the resolutions booklet.