demonstration of about 50 the campaign should go forward.
I think their policies are almost indistinguishable from those of The snoutar new rem our or murraon controis as long as they're not "racist', but they base their arguments very much on nationalist lines.
What I've found really frightening is their reporting of demonstrations. I was on the Winson Green demo and when I read ine report in me morning star you got the impression tau there were helpless blacks who were being smashed into the ground by the police, not that the blacks themselves had actually initiated action. It wanted to portray all the time to the middle-class and the reformist leaders that the blacks are a helpless minority, "please help us", and they were prepared to distort the facts to keep their relationship with these reformists going.
One next step we must take is to try to involve the Labour Party and the CP in united activity against the NF, which is particularly important now in the election campaign. We didn't get that today. We have to make sure that in future we draw trade union branches, Labour Parties into active opposition.
the Labour Party has its own demonstration in Walsall on 9 October. David Winnick [the Labour Party candidate in Walsall North] is standing on a platform of I'm not racist but I strongly support immigration controls'. That's the point we should take up with him in public, and get as many people there as we can.
We need to try to force these Labour leaders to act against racism because if they do take any steps, however small and — it gives us much bigger opportunities to build a real anti-racist. campaign among the tens or tnousands of workers wno identy with the Labour Party and vote Labour. They're the-people we've got to win. And if these MPs and so on refuse to 'act even anaer oressure. oeopie carn mar reur une worus are tust not air But to simply ignore them just lets them off the hook, and lets down those people around the Labour Party who are opposed to The Communist Party had a Midlands area mobilisation for the Walsall people. Weekly asked shop stewards committees and ward - like the Labour Party's anti-racist campaign on us. They must be smashed.
KEN black people against fascist attacks.
• RED WEEKLY 30 Segoember 1976
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GRAINGER, a long-time anti-racist activist who recently left the party, what he thought of the CP's policies on racism and how he thought