Lobby the TUC

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IN THe next few weeks and months, Youth CND will be taking the issue of nuclear disarmament into the labour movement.

We have two national events as a focus for this. First, a lobby of the TUC in Blackpool in early September; and then in October, along with Labour CND; a demonstration and rally Labour Party conference.

The key political message for these events is the need for the labour movement to move beyond existing paper policies of unilateralism and to start organising mass action against the missiles.

lo get this message across YCND and CND as a whole will have to build on their existing links with the labour movement.

Youth CND groups should be looking to the labour movement locally and nationally, to help build for the two lobbies.

There are lots of things lu do:

*Write to Labour Party and trade union branches, trades councils, etc., and get them to sponsor, support and publicise the lobbies.

*Send speakers to trade union branch meetings so that YCND can develop a dialogue with activists in the labour movement opposed to nuclear weapons. If possible, try to organise workplace meetings, to explain the issues to the largest possible audience.

*Contacts built up this way will provide a solid base for the YCND trade union conference planned for early next year, at which we hope to discuss education/information work and a plan of action against the missiles.

This is not all YCND has planned. Annual Conference voted to support two important demonstrations.

On September 11 there should be a big mobilisation from YCND groups for the demonstration called around the slogan 'No more Chiles". This demonstration marks the tenth anniversary of the coup in Chile and is centred on opposition to US involvement in Central and Latin CND has a mass demonstration planned for October 22 in London. YCND will be working for the largest possible mobilisation of youth.