| Description | This file contains a variety of typescript and handwritten material consisting of: conference agenda; circulars to Indian Workers Association branches giving details about the conference; press statements released after the conference containing information about issues discussed and resolutions passed; draft resolutions passed at the conference setting out Indian Workers Association policy on the political situation in Vietnam, and India, and on Afro-American struggles; typescript draft of the Central Executive Committee conference report, together with notes in Joshi's handwriting (see MS 2141/A/1/4 for the published version of the report).
One of the circulars containing information about the conference also contains details about a meeting arranged by the Indian Workers Association with Home Office minister David Ennals in Birmingham in October 1967, to discuss some of the problems faced by Indian migrants to Britain. This circular includes a list of the names of members of the organisation attending this meeting, and the branches they represented.
The file also contains a number of letters and telegrams from individuals and organisations invited to the conference, including the Caribbean Socialist Union, L'Union des Vietnamiens de France, Youth Forces National Liberation, Standing Conference of West Indian Organisations, Aston University Guild of Students, Aston University Asia Society, Birmingham University Arab Students Society, Partai Rakyat Malaya [The Peoples Party of Malaya], Pemuda Sosialis Malaya [Young Malayan Socialists], Aston University Socialist Society, Black Power activists and Mozambique. This correspondence conveys greetings and messages of support to the conference, and some letters contain information about the liberation struggles that some of these groups are engaged in. |