together in of these but whether the deciding and and parties.
oppressed religions, Commonwealth Committee government ume agam the inner-citv arreds necessity of collective self-help in the face of a hostile white society, all enabled the retention national traditions despite the pressures of British society to abandon them.
This is most clearly revealed in the growth of welfare and political organisations of black people based on different national minorities Indian Workers Association, Pakistani and Bangladeshi associations, Afro-Caribbean groupings. These reflect the divisions between the national minorities and within them, such as the split in the WAs along the line of the split in the Indian Communist But in spite of these divisions between the national minorities, they suffer essentially the same oppression in British society - they are black people. This increasingly led to the formation of political alliances between the different black peoples.
In 1961 this developed in opposition to the Immigrants brought the formation of the Co-ordinating Against Racial Discrimination.
Similar coalitions have been created time and the most recent being the Campaign Against Racist Laws, growing repatriation and citizens, the need for minorities. the the For Pakistani youth movements decade.
their own organisations. has people.
which this page All photos: G. M. COOKSON [Socialist Challenge] With each new generation born in Britain. grouting y facing the clamour of the right for up as citizens of this country treated as second class BaCK political unity against their oppression in Britain increasingly overrides the divisions between the national One example is the formation of Asian Youth Movements - rather than, say, Indian in the last For this reason we are confident that it is possible to build a united black liberation movement; one based on united political action between the black peoples which respects the right of the various national minorities to retain That political unity can be forged by united campaigns on the crucial issues confronting black people as black The policies for which the IMG believes it is necessary to fight in order to build a united black liberation movement are presented on The fight to build such a movement alsc necessitates the formation of a new leadership. In particular it will, require challenging the
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