| Description | This file largely consists of handwritten notes on the reports of local branches of the Indian Workers Association, presumably made at the 1978 conference in Coventry, together with handwritten attendance lists containing the names and addresses of individual members from local branches attending the conference. Branches represented are Leamington, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Indian Workers Front Southall, Leicester, Central London, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Derby, Bedford, Nuneaton, East London and Essex, Birmingham and Plumstead in London.
The file also contains copies of an outline report to the conference by East London and Essex branch, summarising their local activities between 1974 and 1978; handwritten and typescript copies of the press statement issued by the Indian Workers Association following the conference, giving details about the organisation's resolutions on the struggle against racism and fascism in Britain, support for the workers and peasants in India, and the need to organise younger people, women and oppressed castes - so-called 'Untouchables'.
There is also a letter to Joshi from Harjinder Sandhu, secretary of an East London branch of the Indian Workers Association, sending congratulations on the 1978 conference, and giving the names and addresses of the members of his branch committee. |