ABSTRACT
The growing debate on 'coloured immigration' was expressed locally in the growth, in the late 1960s, of the organisations such as the Anti Immigration Society, the National Democratic Party, the National Front and a variety of anti-racist organisations. However, these groups adopted, as did the largely white anti-racist groups, a variety of approaches to the problems of racism. This chapter focuses on the local political organisation established to counter the political movement of the far right in Leicester. The Black People's Liberation Party (BPLP) was founded in 1969. The policy of the BPLP had been to put energies into combating the very real and immediate presence of state repression in the way that the police related to black people. The Inter Racial Solidarity Campaign was founded in the summer of 1969 in response to increased right wing activity. It was an initiative of the Young Communist League and the Communist Party together with the Indian Workers Association and others.
