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CLASS FIGHTER made its political presence felt at the 400-strong London Regional Conference of the Labour Party Young Socialists.
Because YS Regional Conferences are very much smaller than the Annual Conference, opposition delegates have more time to speak. Class Fighter was thus able to put our views over on Ireland, gay ana lesbian liberation, YTS and the health service cuts. Unfortunately, we were not called to speak in the debates on housing, ILEA, privatWe had our hands up to speak, but the dominant Militant tendency like to be able to present us as trendies with nothing to say on such A mark of progress was that Lesbian and Gay YS had a strong influence on the conference. It started by putting 'Gay 16 Okay" badges on everyone who walked into the hall and hanging up their banner at the front of the room. Their fringe meeting also attracted Unfortunately the lesbian and gay debate passed a Militant amendment which deleted proposals for a discussion document on gay oppression and support for councils which stress that they do not discriminate against gays and lesbians. So, it's YS business as usual, a statement against discrimination but no action.
On YTS Class Fighter motions were rejected because we called for trade unions to stop schemes going ahead where they were undercutting union rates and rights and where YTS was being used as a substitute for real jobs. We were told that this was unrealistic - Organiser, in a sense, panders to the image white racists are trying to project of themselves. This thought came as I read your article, 'Tory Racism" , (Socialist Organiser, February 2). Let me explain.
You call one racist group, WISE and then include their own definition of that mnemonic: 'Welsh, Irish, Scots, English" . But is this not saying that there are no black, brown, yellow English; but only the persil-white variety shown in the photo you published? That is why largue against the policy of calling these racist groups by their own names.
I propose, therefore, that the Left adopt a distinct policy which will fucus attention upon the racist nature of these miniscule groups. We can do this by rearranging the names slightly to read like this: "Scots, Welsh, Irish, Nurdic English" Or SWINE for short.
Yours Jock-u-larly, HARRY MULLIN Maryhill, Glasgow isation or local government.
matters, so we weren't called.
about 30 people.
even though it is happening all the time!