years of continuous BUFP activism, became one of the founding members of the group's "political descendant", the APLO. Decline and dissolution Despite various initiatives aimed at "rebuilding the black movement", the organisation was, by the mid-1990s, more of a marginal fringe group than it had been in 1970. Membership hovered at around the ten-person mark, public meeting attendance was around 30 to 50 and Black Voice sales were down to about 1,000 a year. A radical revision aimed to create a new body with more appeal to the African-Caribbean youths who had grown up in a post-apartheid, post-colonial and post-Soviet political climate. In 1998, after two years of internal discussion and public consultation, BUFP members, along with several members of the public launched the African People's Liberation Organisation (APLO). The APLO was far more Afro-centric in its rhetoric and programme. Unlike the BUFP, it did not admit Asians and labelled itself as "Scientific Socialist" rather than refer to the European theorists Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. In addition, the lack of the word "party" in its title was deemed to be of crucial significance - signalling a potential retreat from outright battles in the political arena. A few months later the BUFP convened for the last time and formally transferred all of their collective assets to the new organisation, before permanently adjourning their last General Meeting. Bibliography Vince Hines, How Black Power Overcame Fifty Years of Oppression in Britain 1945-1995 (Volume One: 1945-1975), Zulu Books, 1998. Professor Harry Goldbourne, Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean consciousness and action in Britain, David Nicholls Memorial Trust, 2000. ISSN 1740-1577 A. Sivanandan., Racism in the Age of Globalisation, Independent Race and Refugee News Network, 2004. References External links Black Voice journals (part of the Small Press Collections) at University College London Leftist Parties of Great Britain List of Personal Members Papers of Sanford Berman Political parties established in 1970 Political parties disestablished in 1999 Defunct political parties in the United Kingdom 1970 establishments in the United Kingdom 1999 disestablishments in the United Kingdom