Schlagwort: Blacks
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…
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Bob Lee: The Inner cities erupt – what lies ahead for blacks in Britain?
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 14-18] Eighty per cent of blacks who vote support Labour. But this instinctive class solidarity could ultimately give way to despair if the Labour leaders fail to offer a way forward. Last summer’s inner-city upheavals highlighted the plight of the oppressed minorities. They also provided a fresh…