END ing on that fight, instead of taking on the Tories now, there are going to be big problems.
I think there will be more riots this summer. Certainly the Tories are preparing for it.
Party Young Socialists has to repond to this situation urgently. It has to involve itself youth who are on the streets and it has to play an important role in side the party itself campaigning for radical policies to be adopted.
There are 25,000 young people in the Labour Party today. I he vast majority of them are not the Young Socialists. joined the party because of the developments taking around the deputy and around policies for nuclear disarmament which the YS has not been involved in.
The approach of the Militant tendency, which is in the leadership of the YS, is not to go out to youth, to the mass radicalisation and mobilisation of youth to try to recruit them. Militant is scared of a mass Labour Party Young Socialists, it is scared of losing the leadership which it holds very tentatively.
It accommodates leadership of the Labour Party in order to avoid witch hunts. So it does not favour a mass campaigning YS which is what is needed if youth are to be attracted in large numbers.
The way in which Revolution Youth would build the YS - and it's what we've attempted in those areas where we have supporters is by taking it out to wherever VOLUTIONS up the struggles of the workers throughout the world.
young people Ronald Reagan The Labour calender.
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Youth what Reagan's up to, Photo: COLIN HEADWORTH We want to build the YS out of the thousands and thousands of who will greet when he VIsIts Britain in June. This event will be the most important event in the LABOUA YOU New pamphlet just out 20p a copy plus 15p pap available from Revolution PO Box 50 how? London N1 2XP. Write for The YS should be building, alongside other forces, a massive anti-imperialist contingent on the CND demo on 6 June to show Reagan what we think of him. It's jobs not just in America that Reagan's unpopular, he is the she word for American tod American certainly understand particularly They'il be out on the streets in their thousands to And just Reagan, the YS should also be leading the fight against lebbit Many Young Socialists are trade unionists. The YS has led a good against the schemes. Now it has to organise all young workers to take on Tebbit. That's the best way to help those on YOPs schemes and at the same time to recruit to the YS.
that campaign into the heart of the trade unions. The union leaders have said they want to fight Tebbit, but In my union, Boyd Duffy have said they want to link up with the bosses' federation, the CBI.
But then what else can you expect from leaders who have tried to smash a strike of their own members who were fighting for at Laurence Scott. workers like these, many whom are young, that the YS has to support.
The union leaders remember how they got the Tories to back down last time, in 1972, against with the Pentonville dockers.
threat of a general strike by the TUC, and they were out of jail The miners showed last year how to stop the Tory onslaught when YOPs they struck against pit closures.
The train drivers have done the same. This is how to take on the governmen and Tories anti-working policies.
Militant's tends movements countries which are fighting have fought to and system in their countries. Unlike thousands of youth Militant spired by the revolutions. It is the same with Ireland, where Militant has come under pressure from the trade union and Labour Party bureaucracy not to rock the boat. Revolution Youth are internaof tional socialists.
gle takes place on an international scale and a defeat for the working should class and anywhere in the world is a defeat for the working class world wide.
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Vietnam, defeat the class of the world. sectarianism in other or overthrow the so the YS. throughout take the YS are not in- supporting base itself The class strug oppressed people A victory is a victory for us, and it strengthens our position in When the mightiest imperialist power, the United States, is defeated by a tiny nation like is terrified by the revolution of 110,000 people in the tiny island of Grenada, that says something about the effect such revolutions have on the rest It is a really exciting period we're entering into. There has tr be a change in the YS. There ar‹ many opportunities to build This conference has to outwards towards CND and the women's right to work event, and against Reagan and Tebbit, and to get the youth involved in these campaigns into the YS This is where the YS has to instead of on small propagandistic type meetings. has to become a real campaigning force that gives a lead to the thousands of youth who are taking on the Tories in the factories and on the streets.
Revolution Youth is fighting in the Labour Party and the Young Socialists for committment to CND and YCND. IS CND and YCND are to be successful they have to win the support of the labour movement The Labour Party has a vital role to play because of its links with the We have to fight inside the party now to make sure the next Labour government is actually A member of YCND can play a vital role in changing YS policy and helping to ensure that Britain gets rid of nuclear weapons.
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