Tribune and the Civil Rights Struggle
In Martin Luther King’s era, Tribune provided an important platform to the civil rights movement in both Britain and the US, cementing the publication’s beliefs that racial justice was inseparable from the struggle for socialism.
On their feet, MPs Bernie Grant and Diane Abbott, watched by MPs Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz (arms folded) during the debate on the creation of separate black sections within the Labour Party at the party's annual conference in Blackpool. (Photo by PA Images / Getty Images)
The Labour Party doesn’t have a single black MP, there are no black people on the NEC [National Executive Committee] and the number of black councillors is still relatively tiny. To ordinary black people it seems increasingly hypocritical for the party to claim to be anti-racist when no black people are involved in the decision-making […]
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