Let's raly the for CND!
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by Jane Ashworth ON Monday 14th, members of London branches of the Labour Party Young Socialists met to discuss the YS's relationship to Youth CND.
We heard from Judith Bonner, a member of the YCND National Committee and Coventry South East LPYS, how YCND views the YS: they don't think very much of our input!
Judith commented
how ridiculous it is that the two largest progressive youth organisations in the country, who have the same policy, for unilateral nuclear disarmament, only rarely work together.
The meeting felt that we should try to improve the relationship between the YS and YCND. We agreed to try to persuade our YS branches to campaign with YCND to build the May 7 Rock the Bomb festival in Brockwell Park, South London.
We also decided: to organise a contingent on the march to Brockwell Park and produce our own leaflet about the need to be in the Labour Party fighting for nuclear disarmament as well as in YCND. This leaflet will be available from Peckham YS, Lansbury. House, 41, Camberwell Grove, SE5 by the end of the week.
Another leaflet for YS conference will urge the YS to organise for the Festival.
The YS regional committee is apparently going to produce a leaflet for the festival, but we thought we couldn't wait for this. We were also not convinced that it would have a very positive approach to YCND. •We