CUTE RALLY I AM disappointed that the NEC did not have the sense to overturn my expulsion. From the start I have not been satisfied with the proceedings. Ken Cure who chairs the appeals and mediation commitinto the Sparkbrook fiasco in the first place. And the fact that Roy Hattersley sat on this committee is also prejudicial. His attendance could well have influenced how people palling conditions: black unemplovment is 60 cent; housing conditions are really bad.
Black people are looking for progressive policies to begin to solve these problems. They're not getting them the local Labour Party and that's why they are keen to set up a Black Section Black Section meets unofficially Sparkbrook, and we discuss prowe are going to launch a Birmingham-wide Section, Wil conference which take place in a couple of months time Une Black Section acluss Birmingham will put us in a much stronger postion create broader base for the politics we want to discuss.
I think that will be a big step towards helping LIVE expulsion. If is takes 10 or 20 more expulsions, so be They saying to tHemselves 'if people al C tions, there must something to them'.
The only way out of the crisis black people face in Birmingham is for us to or callist organisation to force the take up these issues. In the past we've had the Pakistani Workers Association, the Indian Workers Association, the Bangladeshi Workers Association.
Black Section has brought all black people under one umbrella. I feel very proud to be part of that organisTHE Campaign Group will port comrades who have temporarily IN AID OF CHARITY FOR THE ETHIOPEAN FUND NON tion, am already getting massive support against expulsion. Since the Sparkbrook party expellec Kevin Scally and me w have been up and down the tings. Letters of sup speaking meetings. port have flooded in That will continue despite the NEC decisior week. two days after that meeting £300 had been raised in Birmpaign. Inal Is couraging.
People are furious al the Birmingham expulsions. will carry on fighting until I get back in to ine however long that takes.
continue to fight against the witch hunt, and will continue to suphad their membership refused. We will continue that battle not only up until the annual conference, but if it is not won there we will continue the battle after the annual conference for their reinstatement into the