Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

YCND march on TUC

Socialist Organiser no. 139, 7 July 1983 · scan p. 2 · about 610 words

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YOUTH CND will march from Manchester to the inco mureer TUC conference in Blackpool in September. And it will stage a march outside the Labour Party conference a month later.

cuts, perks, and fat salaries to the wealthy few.

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MICHAEL Foot has come out in firm support of Arthur Scargill and committed the hanging' campaign.

Labour Party to extra-parliamentary activity. law and their order they seek to protect.

-Labour's defeated leader has acted to subvert the democratic wishes of the people by infiltrating hard-baked Marxists into power and influence through the back door. volence. But Mrs Thatcher, ever alert to the Sovict menace, has acted quickly to stop his plans by vetoing his list of lords.

If Mr Foot had his way, diedin-the-wool reds would infiltrate raw socialism into the system through their erminc-lined seats in by Tom Rigby, editor, 'Second Generation' We will be demanding action from the labour movement to stop Cruise missiles being sited FINANCIAL TIMES Not content with this permanent holiday on the state for thousands of printers, Maxwell has a reputation for creating left wing extremists wherever he goes particularly amongst people who work for him in his companies.

Mrs Thatcher has outsmarted her opponents. She has proposed 11 new Labour peers to be created as part of Norman Tebbit's youth training programme.

The new peers would be paid £25 a week to learn how to become part of the real Establishment.

Market Mr Tebbit, supporting • the move, said, "There is no shortage of candidates from old Labour Party hacks to become members of the House of Lords, and £25 is casily more than the market rate.

Harold Wilson himself has alrcady decided to accept elevation to the House of Lords under Mrs Thatcher's list, which also includes that ever-popular , fgure.. in in Britain and to put an end to the warmongering system. These were amongst the most important decisions of last week's YCND conference in Manchester.

Unfortunately the TUC march isn't going to be demanding 'Britain out of NATO'.

Supporters of Revolution Youth lined up with the more apolitical elements of YCND to block this. The reason given was that it would 'alienate' trade unionists who would otherwise support us.

This is a serious error.

YCND needs the support of the militant rank and file in the trade unions, active support capable of physically stopping the war machine, and not just a few friendly pats on the head from the odd left-talking bureaucrat.

Sponsor If we go to the trade unions but do not challenge the politics of the existing leadership, who nearly all support NATO, then we will not be able to organise the kind of action needed.

Despite the inadequate politics, maximum support possible should be built for the march, particularly in the labour movement. Get your local ward or trade union branch to sponsor a marcher and help try and set up local labour movement reception committees on the route from Manchester to Blackpool.

An effective and well-organised march will give a clear message to those like len Murray who don't want to organise extra parliamentary action against the Tories, and also to Duffy and Co., who are doing their best to get the TUC to drop unilateralism. No way!

This year's conference was smaller than last year's. But the 'Rock the Bomb' festival this May was huge.

YCND has tremendous potential for building a mass anti-nuclear youth movement. It needs to get itself together. That's what we'll be trying to do in the coming year. da sicke 2302==

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