THE QUESTION of racism and police harassment are of increasing imfor the bortalce movement in general and the black community particular. But recent devero pments indicate Unal the response of the labour of what is required for an adequate unified answer. • the recent discriminaRussell Profitt as a parliamentary candidate • the fact that there is a very small number blacks active in the Labour Party (for example in Toxteth, black community activists are coming to lind conclusion that in order to tion they have stand • anti-racist campaigns are usually peripheral to the labour movement and therefore to lack significant Wedn this results in many cases in a sectarian the Labour Party I like you!
Mick Gosling's letter of inThe labour movement need not tear itselt apart in port for anti-working class ideas. but a wav will have Old ideas around this and action seems to me to government committed to positive in the racism of riots of the anti-deportation cantuarys campaign, Newham the ining class left the alternative to black workers.
steps have been around the Police R for example the question of These considerations lead to the CENTRE movement campaign for black rights, which would actively bott internal and external take issues to the Labour Party.
conditions for such a movement now exist with the groundswell of interest around the Police Bil and the emergence of a small new layer of Labour black activists (mainly around London).
Such movement would be necessarily rank and file based and would draw in those black tivists who at the moment feel excluded, or on the periphery of the movement Great steps forward have been taken around women's and gay rights, however the HOvelC lags behind on the black question movement campaign for black rights vital component of working class strategy for the future.
T. WONGSAM SHELLSHEARS