Black Sections taking stormy organisation in the Labour Party.
direction.
Although Saturday's is main y for auses revision, there will discussion 81S0 around organisation, the incoming national committee. Up until now there has been a certain amount of unclariabout organisational questions, and hopefully delegates observers will come out of Saturday's with much more laca THE NATIONAL conference of the Labour Party Saturday place This is because the press ballyhoo which accompanied its inception last year, and which lasted up to and beyond Labour conference in October has subsided. The Black Sections must now decide on policy and future what the movement is and where it is going.
Black Sections Steering Committee overriding issue for the incoming national committee however will be Ine › mimon voles cas against constitutional change which would provide representation for black people various levels of the party. Since the Incollng Natora committee will be more of a presiding body than the outgoing steering committee it must not forget that black people are still not recognised in the party, and therefore a campaign must continue to be wagThe proposal is that the committee will be delegate body black secbased on local tions, will better TCLICCI the of black people in the party.
is therefore of paramount importance that a definite campaign be established order to conduct the struggle in the and now very importantly, the unions, intervening coming trade union and regional party conferences with national tion. Appeal It must be emphasised that in the absence of extensive press coverage this struggle can only ducted through a concen campaigning work which is different from the presiding body. The establishment ot a campaien committe is therefore one of the first priorities of the incoming national committee. • The meeting is in the Council Chamber, County Hall, London, at 10 a.m.
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February marks another milestone in the short but history of black people's struggle for self