The conference attracted -ITTERE SIDERI hundred delegates front antiTabour movement bodies, from women' sand gay groups, and 16 from ethnic organisaA number of important decisions were taken.
nen TEMSE BEASOC CARF was adopted as the national paper tor the movement*The conference voted overwhelmingly to support work coscy with the Anti Nazi League and decisavety rejecied a sectarian attitude to the ANL.
*The conference adopted a broad, non-exclusive statement of aims, which centred on mass mobilisations against racism and fascism. It rejected a move 10 festcI Ic Dams ot b national movenent to those analysis of racism and fascism.
step cannot hide the failure of the allerence to adequately map Fund programme fascism. hy nò dit unions and how these questTons related to building a mass ricting the movement to "non violence" in the struggle against 11 supported aMrateiy of mass moblisation in the discussion on the movement's aims. But neither motion was discussed in the contest of an overall strategy and progrThe failure to adequately these vita questions nevianv led lo tristration and exacerbated the tensions between the widely different traditione and experiences of the forces participating. and AWARENESS delegates HIrom morenenes tended no cpe women's, pay. from other delegates too great an avareness of the relation struggle against and fascism, and the THEESER roots of sexual and racial Other wrongly felt that these questnot particulariy CWCIC important.
These differences were not taken up politically by delegates, who responded with Tose From the labour move ment- to leave carly In a hurried debate at the end of conference, the proposal to committee lo decled Trom TeunS SOTE TESTIC 350 activists attended the first national the black delegates This will make more difficult( the task of building a strang authoritative national body capable of resMany deegates were drap T CSS CRESC TEd VALERIE COULTAS (IMG] speaking the conference and its Wing to events and giving a D0NECHS 85 3 build the ANL ried by the conference. It is CARF to forge a SEXIST whenever they Hut T thes It ls an Orford, Emasculaled beginning. thai sexual picarure at the breadth of support for decis OnLInUn lots on CARF and the ANL..
All activists must sow help to conference in Joly: step up the campaien gain immigration controls strengthen the newspaper Strong national anti-racist moventent.
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mention the writer Jan Morris, cannot resist mentioning that she used to be James Morris (itter, titter).
nudgenudge style of humour reaches an all-time low in, of all places a crusading "socialise" journal.
Inder of che rapid decline of the New Statesmun (sic) under its new editor Bruce Page that it could publish :
eview of the Orford Book e edited by Morrig under the tille "Jan Morris's fall Oxford" (godditt). But that Is only the Peter Conrad obviously imagines he has hit upon a clever theme *Jan nee BRC NanG TEUNTOE HE both national monuments (or embodiments SOE IDC national probiem), and there is an implicit analogy betweer The explains He can hardly contain hi disgust at Morris: 'Love is no longer the enjoyment Lof existence other than ont's own but the surgical excavation ol Bas complementary sexua] identity inside onesclf. Love has retracted into hermaphroditic self-love."
In ocher words Conrad has made the terrible discovery that men for Morris's Oxford i of England. The purpose of ber TECTEIC Conrad's knowledge of human thing to be desired!
vein. For example: " ber pew Oxford is intricately feminine, swith hidden entries und hack physically ventilated annexes and 1, secret as maiden To get the full Navour of its nastiness you would have to rcad the whole article. But we advise against iE.
Youth Work METROPOLITAN Police force hus mot been slow to recognise that the new wave in mowe is calbenne numeroo:
enthusiasts. Both Sounds magazine and the New bast week carried a full-pape recruiting ad from the Beensed to carry a cosh in their pocket brigade.
The advert in Sounds was lastefully positioned opposite witk Tom Robinson. The police forgot to mentioa thelr policy on gays or their attitude to racists and THE far-seing and perceptive ability of Socialist Challenge lo analyse the present conjunc: tural world siluation accordu ta the noens of mism ifie Leninism Trotskyism has never beer BOTC 40U3C1 Compare the following two and ask yoursell who the LORIEL anti-revisionist position on the issues under discussion:
*So anyone who thinks the World Cup and polities are separate and should be kept so is living in as big a dream world as is Ally McLeod with his vision of Scotland lifting the championship (hocialist Challenge, 1 June)
"Im both cases it is clear whi will go through. In Group Four the two will be Holland and Scotiand. Neither Peru BOE Iran will have the strength or skill to mount seriou: challenge on the two favourites" (Socialist Worker, June).
We now have every right to demand, nAy proletarian duly to demand a WOrKETS rank-and-file enquiry into the fraudulen: anti people position of sotalled Socialist so-called Worker whose historie bankruptcy is now proven for all the world to P.S. This augurs well for the SC-v-SW cricket match in July, Foreign Legum SINCE we pablished our little life history of the Ohserver's Colin Legum s couple of weeks ago the latter duy cold warrior MTO UEL apais. "exclusive" revelations of Fas Ceras invo vement en ca revel "invasion" of Zaire.
One reader has written ir suying thal we were a bit suff on BETUT S/be transcript of a South African Assembly debate Lebruary 1940 lo prove point. This was the time of the CICIN TOSHIOLR squallers, when Legum wa chairperson of the city's special housing commitiee.
According to MP Ballinges OE BIN emergency (the squatlers), that the police them and they demanded ferther the spication of what I regand as the of the 192T Native : Administratiun Act, which is a blot on any democralic society.
*They demanded that thes provisioos should be applied t he people who were accused o fostering this agitation, Bred thut these people, three of them adviser beard, shoald be removed from Jest becaase the Johannesburg City Connell did not Ike the things they did.
TESSINT quotes fram memo by Legum and snother councilor- "The Comittees most strongly urge that the seecssity for provision of allernulive acomation does not arise. The Committees are emphutically of the opinion thut if these natives are ejected without the necessity of being removed elsewberel and prevended for three or foor dafs from roccapying the bouses in question, the whole moverea will collapse on ils own accord LNO LAE nU UmBE COnO EL will retur themselves to the accomodatioa trom whích they calle.
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anti-racist and anti-fascist conference in London last weekend. The results were mixed, reports DAVY
Statesmanship SEat s: 99 per sent of them)
Should J. Nichol be dope tested?
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