chis month.
There is an alternative to this sort of society. At the moment society is run in the interests of a small, rich and powerful minority who gainand power ea newel hrough the exploitation of throughout Revolution Youth fights for society the neces ot al C put before the to make promit; a society were dec isions are taken by the peo. ple whose lives are affected by those decisions; a society tree oppression and the threat of war.
short, Revolution Youth fighting for socialist society.
An example of what we mean can be seen in the tiny Caribbean island Grenada. There, the people are working to rebuild their society after years of repression from the US-backed dictator Eric Gairy.
Since the Grenadan people overtnew Gairy March 1979, they have made enormous gains.
Unemployment has been cut by 50 per cent, a free health service has been created, and women have won the right to equal pay tor equal work These gains will never be made by he likes of Thatcher and Reagan. They use their police and armed forces against anyone fighting for their rights - .: as an independent revolutionary youth organisation We're one year on in the fight against the system they prisoners in Ireland or black youth Brixton In El Salvador for example, Ronald Reagan is propping upd brutal military against resistance of the people.
the people Salvador have their strength as workers and farmers rely on, as well as the of spiration Tine tions in Cuba, Grenada and They also have the potential support workers, farmers and youth the world over.
Revolution Youth sees its role as building support for liberation struggles ever and WHenever take place. The worldwide support for the Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade last year was vital to its success in eradicating amongst the rural population.
Britain has been hard hit by the world recession and the monetarist policies the Tory government.
has doubled in year, standards have declined and social services have been begun to aboe a Padin has The Labour fightback against the Tories' anti-working Tudssive tions against Liverpool Mell Glasaow. More people are looking a ternative to une lones Bristol and The leftward shift in the seems to native. that Benn's mass transformed into action to really challenge the Tories. The movement to Britain has also massively •vel revolu vear, witn tens or tnousands taking to the streets to protest against Thatcher's supof port of Reagan's war drive. Revolution Youth has taken a lead in the youth wing of the anti-missiles fighting to win more young wher- people to the ranks of Youth they CND.
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illiteracy building an organisation of young women workers, young blacks and all young people who want to fight against the sort of future that the Tories offer Un. us. nearly organisation fighting living socast society future worth fighting for.
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holding a rally in London on June: TO first annivelsary has class policies demonstraunemployand and more for an behind Benn outer unar diler. We must make sure and unemployment. We know
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that Reagan and Thatcher offer us: a society with evergrowing dole queues, where the murder of black people goes virtually unopposed, and where death in a nuclear war is the only future to look forward to.