Organise to fight back!
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THE Class Fighter conference will be on November 26/27. We are working to ensure a big turn-out.
It's going to be a much more useful conference than YS annual conference, because everyone will be able to have their say in the workshops, and we will actually discuss how to build campaigns. Is annual conference is just set-piece debates. There is no opportunity to talk to other comrades about what they're actually doing.
We'll be showing videos, too, and on the Saturday night there's a couple of bands.
What is Class Fighter all about?
Class Fighter sponsors Socialist Organiser (which is why, I guess, you're interviewing us, and we have much the same policies and orientation to the labour movement. Like SO, Class Fighter is trying to transform the labour movement.
We are trying to organise a youth movement which unites young people to fight the Tories. We want to work in single-issue campaigns like YCND, the women's movement, lesbian and gay groups, and the black movement, to try to pull them together in a massive anti-Tory campaign.
What will you be at the conference?
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ment's Youth Training Scheme]. There is an official Labour Party Young Socialists Young Workers' Conference on December 10 in Manchester, and we want to take YTS 'trainees' with us.
At the moment most CF supporters are working around YTS: some are doing work, together with the unions, to unionise trainees, and some are leafletting 16- and 17-year olds about their right not to go on schemes.
And lots more besides, course...
How do you relate to the Labour Party Young Socialists?
We are a YS tendency. That's our aim, to take over the YS.
But we know that won't happen by just going along to YS meetings and conferences and arguing with the Militant. And anyway we wouldn't want to run the YS like they do.
We'll win a majority in the YS by building it as the organisation which pulls together the different campaigns and movements youth are involved in.
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Youth need to get organ- ised against the Tory