8 and 9 March.
organisation should be.
a letter to the newspaper SWP. spelt it out:
'We do not share organisation.
squabbling.
Debate from branches. and no documents were Tony Cliff, John Deason and Simon Turner were examples.
away more than a little disillusioned this way course we think that it is. But we do disagree training temselves as revolutionaries.
and Lenin.
organisations that have stifled the development of their own youth groups by stifling their independent development. In the case of the British Labour Party it repeatedly resorted to bureaucratic expulsions when the youth got out more restimony to the Militant's alignment with the bureaucracy than any liberalisation in this regard re-establishing the Leninist approach to relations between the youth and the party -collaboration and voluntary political solidarity. An important part of badd for that conference is to convince other revolutionary youth of the necssiy st such a revolutionary youth organisation. Fed the MC BETWEEN 60 and 70 youth attended the national conference of Rebel, youth wing of the Socialist Workers Party, over the weekend of The organisation and content of the conference revealed some of the differences within the left on what a youth It was made very clear that Rebel is under the control of the SWP. In fact in Revolution, Simon Turner, national secretary of the your view of the need for an autonomous youth We reject the anti-party notion that independent organisation is necessary so that youth will somehow drift to revolutionary politics. We believe that suen an organisation would not lead to greater unity but rather to sectarian Following the logic of this view, the Rebel conference did not take motions • sinibuted berorenana. on ine contrary nearly every session was introduced by an old guard of the SWP -No votes were taken. As a result many of the Rebe! branches who had sent in resolutions went Revolution members argued that a youth organisation cannot be built in under the strict tutelage and organisational control of the adul party. But this does not mean that we see Revolution as some sort of loose youth movement. On the contrary Revolution has a Marxist programme and at its founding conference will take its own decisions on building a revolutionary IMG members will argue for political solidarity with the IMG and the The difference with the SWP is not over whether a party is necessary; of over the best form revolutionary organisation to win youth to Marxism and to aid youth in In fact, contrary to Simon Turner's assertions, it has always been the Marxist, revolutionary wing of the workers movement that has argued for the organisational independence of the youth organisation — an approach that goes back through Trotsky to Luxemburg On the other side it has always been the social democratic and Stalinist nand. The long standing stability of the Militant tendency within the LPYS is The Revolution founding conterence in May will mark a new step in based on the right of the youth to decide things for themsetra
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