 Another loose "Maoist Black Power Alliance" successfully campaigned against Labour's "In Place of Strife" and called for a boycott of the new GLC elections in Wandsworth where Labour's safe majority vote vanished.The WPPE also organised Bengali self-defence groups in Tower Hamlets.Friendly relationships were established with the Chinese Legation in London and with the Albanian embassy in Paris, and a few members of the WPPE became members of the Afro-Asian Journalists' Association.In May 1968, the LWC formed the "Working People's Party of England".