AT THE YORKSHIRE LPYS conference which took place last weekend, delegates from 32 branches debated 23 resolutions. The conference was smaller than the previous year, despite the fact of mass uprisings of youth in the inner-cities and youth mobilisations in the Anti Apartheid Movement as well as student struggles against grant and educaNone of these campaigns were reflected in the which remained business as usual, with mundane debates and abstract calls for socialism. In fact solidarity with South Africa by affiliating locally and nationally to the AAM were opposed, as were emo on collar work waunacca and Ireland. Also rejected was a resolution defending the elementary right of black people to selfThis indicates the LPYS leadership's refusal to take the opportunities to turn outward towards the forces which could develop the YS into a powerful mass current. Such an approach was posed by the black section candidate for the youth position on Abrams, at a Youth Action fringe meeting. He explained the need to 'support all forces in struggle nationally and internationally' and that 'this needed a radical change in the leadership of the LPYS.
Only in this manner can the LPYS defend itself from attacks by the party leadership. These attacks were outlined by Dennis Skinner: a further cut of £3000 in the YS budget, attacks on the position of youth officer and stopping the subsidy to The course of action posed by Youth Action with South Africa, Latin America and Ireland, as against police harassment and the right of black people to organise within black sections the way forward for the YS. The speakers at the Youth Action fringe meeting, attended by over 40 people, included strikers from Silentnight and a mittee. These are the very forces the YS needs to fight on this basis to build and defend the YS from attacks from the party leadership. calling on lne 1o lo express Dasic LABOUR WOMEN'S ACTION COMMITTEE: