Segun is the general secretary of our Nigerian sister party, the
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – the CWI in Nigeria).
Segun is also chair of the National Conscience Party, (NCP) in Nigeria’s
capital city Lagos.
Left: The DSM on an anti-fuel price rise strike and demonstration
The National Conscience Party is a mass workers’ party
in Nigeria that we are part of.
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24 April 2004
"A Lonely Death With No Dignity"
CHRISTOPHER ALDER is one of 81 black people who have died
in police custody since 1990 in England and Wales. Christopher's death,
however, is unique - his final eleven minutes was shown to millions in BBC's
Rough Justice programme. More ...
Make The Police Accountable
Christopher's CASE (see
above) is no surprise to Black and Asian
people who for decades have seen the authorities covering up for each other in
cases of custody deaths and institutional racism.
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The way forward now for working and poor people
Discussion of the importance of a genuinely socialist
alternative. Meeting organised by the Committee for a Workers
International, of which the Socialist Party is part.
Public meeting Saturday 24 April, 2004, Upper Hall, Tooting (junction Derington & Blackenham Road)
Time: 2 pm to 5 pm
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31 January 2004
ON 17 January 2004, demonstrations took place in many
countries against the French government's proposal to ban the wearing of
the hijab (headscarf) in France's state schools.
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statement about this issue from the Committee for a Workers
International (CWI - the international socialist organisation which the
Socialist Party is affiliated to), as well as comments from members of
Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI, France).
Socialist Party members initiated the organisation
Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) in 1992, which is also organised in
Greece, Germany, Belgium and Sweden
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Website yre.org.uk
From
The Socialist 8 November 2003
Hugo Pierre (above) comments on the BBC documentary
"The Secret Policeman" in a major feature on police racism.
Hugo Pierre, member of the
Socialist Party Black and Asian group
The Secret Policeman showed a group of white police
recruits at a training college explaining how they treated Asians and
Blacks badly for minor offences, dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members,
stating Stephen Lawrence (Black victim of a racist murder) deserved it and
displaying hatred in particular for Asians.
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SOCIALIST
STRUGGLE Produced by Black and Asian members of the Socialist Party
September 2002 Anti-war newspaper
13 July 2001: How the Socialist Party
reported and analysed the events of the Bradford riots in 2001.
Articles include a feature Oppose The Bosses' Divide And Rule,
by member of the Socialist Party Black and Asian group RAPH PARKINSON, who
is on the UNISON National Executive Council and the North West UNISON
Black Members' Committee (writing in personal capacity)
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We call upon the
trade unions to name the day for a national demonstration against
racism.
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For a socialist
programme to eradicate the causes of racism by providing decent jobs
and homes for all and ending poverty and unemployment.
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