Lilal we Had no call slob ping the meeting but would con Their sole aim was to stop the This is proved by were not even immediately chargPolice of Holloway area are on black people.
sellers of Fight Racism! Fight Im.
because they were exposing the truth of vicious attacks on black people and the growing revoluavallable tionary struggle of black people We will be back on 5 July, do- member all your readers to support this One mulux or new Stand up against police harassto the MAXINE WILLIAMS, London amost loenica THE letter from Colin Herd and Steve Treloar (5 June) dealt with their experience in the SWP and we suoscoucil acus on to icave and join the IMG. I've been through a similar process myself and would like to add to what uney sao or two reasons Like many people, I'd been around the left for some time and never scen any reason to joln any particular organisation. I eventually joined the SWP because I was moressee ov me Aloa League and saw them as the main initiators of that movement. I had also been reading women's voice regularly and saw it as the best women's liberation journal My experience as a new of the SWP was that no aliciol was made to caucale 11t in the politics of the organisation The one and only training schoo I attended occurred as a result of mender. through the ANL. It was devoted 'turn' away from the ANL ana back to rank and must This 'turn' was never discussed by the whole organisation either perore me scnoo or aterward My experience of Women's Voice (the organisation), was • Il gradually became more directly tied to the SWP. A woman joining Women's voice was in lact loinine caeow r but without enjoying the rights of Women's Voice allowed the swr leadersnip, and Ine La whole, to do and say very little regarding women soodression orone women's movement - all such discussion being channelled off in to a seperate organisanon. Une o] the results was that the rampant sexism which exists in the SWP goes largely unchallenged.
For the SWP a cadre organisation is unnecessary, the implicahon being inal joining Ine swr (or Rebel or Women's Voice or a rank and file group) is in itself I hope that the debate between our two organisations continues on a political basis. Like Colin cal ana steve, I met many commitec revolutionaries in the SWP for whom I have a great deal of respect. My personai nope is tnal we will eventually convince these