Port Louis — On 23rd February 1936, Dr Maurice Curé held a public meeting at Champ-de-Mars in Port-Louis.
In the press communiqué announcing this meeting, Dr Curé included the agenda of the day: the formation of a political party. That Party was going to identify itself root and branch with the working classes and press for the betterment of their social and economic conditions as stipulated in international conventions. At the end of a rousing speech, Curé's initiative for the floating of the Labour Party was enthusiastically voted together with a number of resolutions addressed to the Secretary of state for the colonies. Curé's Manifeste pour un Parti travailliste published that year sets out the reasons why it became imperative to launch a political party.
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