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The case for Lambeth Councillors (PDF)

A pamphlet fundraising for the surcharged Labour Councillors in 1986

A pamphlet produced by Lambeth Council in 1986 in defence of the 32 surcharged Labour councillors.

Featuring an introduction by David Blunkett, head of Sheffield Council. 

You can download the PDF below 
The case for Lambeth councillors

Black Sections in the Labour Party

Linda Bellos (l) speaking at a Black Section meeting
Linda Bellos (l) speaking at a Black Section meeting

“The Labour Party has always quietly congratulated itself as being, almost by definition, the anti-racist party. It may be true that very few Black comrades take up positions as Party activists, that fewer still are elected in the name of the Labour Party to public office and that a Black delegate to Annual Conference is still a rarity, but the reasons for this, whatever they may be, cannot be the racism of the Labour Party structures themselves. Just how true is this myth ?”

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