[Labour's campaign document: a new Social Contract, p…]
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Labour's campaign document: a new Social Contract, p. 14; lessons from France, p.2: fudging the issues, and SLV gets underway, p.12. People's March, centre pages. CND and Greenham Common, back page and page 2. Ford workers fight Japanese methods, back page, and report from Japan, p.5. LONDON HOSPITAL DUTC The Soul LONDON Lonelon MUST NOT CLOSE «We need to make demands... the Manifesto is the interim demands. Our job is to make demands after the election as well as before.
•The Greenham Common women would be making a big mistake if they packed up their camp the day a Labour Minister moved into the Ministry of Defence.
*We should struggle for what we want... see the General Election as one benchmark. Once you stop struggling they take it all away"
Yes indeed! The 'Socialists for a Labour Victory' campaign has been set up so that the Left will not stop struggling for Labour democracy and for implementation of radical Labeur conference policies. lies, and the toll of deportations continues to rise.
While derisory sentences have been meted out to white youth who beat up blacks, the Bradford 12 had to battle to secure recognition of the right to defend themselves, and police racism has been repeatedly exposed in the case of the Newham 8, and more recently in the death of Colin Roach and the Brent SPG raid (page 3). John Fernandes, the black teacher who lifted the lid on racism at the Hendon Police College, was sacked.
The challenge before the labour movement is whether it can throw off the appalling racism and indifference shown by the bulk of its official leadership towards the problems of black people, and make the struggle against racial oppression a central plank of its fight against the employers and the Tory government.
Not until black workers see in practice that the org anised workers' movement is prepared to act in their defence does the workers' movement have the right to count on the necessary support from the black working class for the re-election of a Labour government and the struggle to secure socialist policies.
In giving our support to the CARL demonstration, Socialist Organiser urges our supporters in union branches and Labour Parties to follow through the fight against every aspect of racial discrimination as part of the socialist campaign for a Labour victory.
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Socialist Organiser no 125, March 24, 1.983, Page 2