Black people mustbefree to determine their own future through their own organisations.
The task of revolutionary socialists is to unconditionally defend that right strategy of the existing reformist black leaders. Their argument is essentially as follows:
Black people are only per percent of the population in Britain so they need allies. They must seek allies from the labour movement. especially the labour leaders. The latter cannot always be relied on, so we have to organise ourselves for mass action to pressurise these leaders and sometimes that will involve standing independent candidates to those of the But we must not let that action go too far in case we frighten off the labour leaders altogether.
The concessions we expect from the labour leaders, the argument goes, are aimed at making discrimination illegal; stronger Race Relations Acts and greater involvement of the black leaders in policing those laws are needed.
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subordinates the struggle of black people to gaining an alliance with the leaders of the labour IT CHICHL the objective reforming capitalism.
Increasingly, however, activists has emerged among the black peoples; activists who reject this strategy. After seeing the labour leaders promise a lot and deliver little, their silence on the Southall show trials, and their defending these activists consider that black people can no longer rely on such allies.
They are saying that black people must rely only on themselves; that they must decide on their own demands and objectives without tailoring them to labour leaders; and that they should go out and fight for these demands now In the past this approach has been taken by organisations such as the RAAS and the Black Peoples Alliance. It has now stimulated those involved in the Asian youth movements and black women's groups, and it has led to the formation of committees which stand against racist violence.
It will be from these activists that a new and militant leadership for movement will come. To be able to win the support of the majority of black people they will need to offer a credible alternative to the strategy offered by the black reformist leaders.
There is a discernible among the present activists which correctly says that black people must organise themselves to fight, that they should not tailor their demands to suit the struggle is against imperialism, but this does not fully answer how a revolutionary alliance is to be built with the white workers.
While the struggles peoples of the weaken and paralyse the imperialist ruling class Britain, final imperialist British state can only be achieved by the black and white working class in Britain itself.
White It is not enough to say that black people will struggle on their own account and then see who supports them - they have to go out and fight for that support, to win the white workers away from their present racist leaders.
The task of socialists in fighting to build a black liberation movement is to show how a genuine unity with the white workers can be forged; to show how it is possible for the black peoples to fight for united action with the abour leaders at the same time as seeking to win their followers among the white workers to giving active support objectives of the black movement As the next steps towards building a black liberation movement, the IMG must fight for the following:
First, to unite the black peoples as a whole in action. The broadest possible mobilisations of black people can only be overcoming the divisions between the national minorities, and through a consistent struggle to force the reformist leaders into action.
This has been most successfully achieved around specific cases in a number of localities, leading to une creation committees - the Ahmed defence committee ALCHISE campaign in Oldham against the deportation of police victimisation, Abdul Azad, the campaign against racism in nightclubs in Birmingham.
Even where it is not possible to force the reformist leaders into united defence bodies of this kind, a consistent fight for joint actions such as demonstrations and necessary, as nas Newham Defence Committee.
Self-organisation Secondly, these campaigns should aim to increase political organisation among black people in a struggle for liberation.
This requires moving beyond the limited welfare, and organisations which currently exist, towards organisations which can involve the mass of black people in a day-to-day way — at work, in and cultural institutions, and as tenants.
Thirdly, mobilise black people to force the working class and the movement to act in defence of the rights of black people.
The successful Abdul Cathan, Trades which involved Oldham Council, possibilly achieving struggles of black people over the past few years have already had an impact inside the WICH labour movement.
The resistance of black youth to blanket police invasions in Lewisham, Notting Hill, of and Southall resulted in Labour's election manifesto pledge to This was for opportunist electoral reasons, but layer of it opens the way to force the opportunists to act on their words or face a fight to remove them from the leadership of the labour movement. refusal to support black people themselves against racist violence, what is acceptable to the local for La black liberation political current labour leaders, and that their non-white against imperialism STOP RACIST MURDERS ID MORE POLICE RACISM: