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on the Labour Partv national for • on LIC let alone the other be seen as relevant to youth, especialagree on be relevant to vouth in the 1980s thai cheap-labour system of and YTS schemes. positions and interna- perspective, taking up the struggles of black youth in particular. I Will also be campaigning against the Sawyer proposals and for the independence of Labour's youth organisation. This LPYS is a mass movement of youth the type which reflects the politics of youth.
labour movement and especially in of the Militant and others economic LABOUR PARTY Black Section is backing Steve Jomoa as its candidate in the election of the youth ty national executive committee. Steve's campaign will build on the growing support for the demands of Black Section throughout the will take up the need for the Labour's youth organisation to relate to the struggles of youth on the streets of Britain and solidarity with liberation "The campaign is about the programme of Black Section,' said chair Mare will develop specific issues relating to youth such as defence campaigns like Broadwater Farm and the rejection of the Sawyer proposals for the LPYS.' STEVE JOMOA explained his campaign to Socialist I AM standing as Black Section candidate for the Young Socialist place ecutive committee in order to properspective in the youth organisation. This is crucial if Labour politics are to tant is stagnant. They have no interest organisation, one that relates to the real struggles of youth taking place on would not be able to control it. But to is exactly what the LPYS must do: support black youth who are fighting in the defence campaigns and against who are fighting unemployment and Coll all de oraanisanon are carrying on throughout the whole Measure So I will be developing the politics or ine allances black secuon benever it is necessary to build and which is reflected in our support for Labour Left Liaison and Campaign Forum. We want to see a labour movement vouth ir which genuinely reflects and fights for the interests of the whole working class and oppressed in society, as op posed to the class reductionist politics That means support for the self-organisation of black people and for the demands of women through the Labour Women's Action Committee;
determination; it means support for unilateral nuclear disarmament and campaigning for the removal of all US from NATO; it means support of the Palestinian people; it means support for the struggle of the people of Central America; and it means support working class, not an addition to it. It will be about developing a consistent port for struggles for freedom and oiled machine, but it hasn't got the politics capable of responding to the of vouth current v place in Britain and internationally. It hasn't got the anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-imperialist politics that can be translated into mass activity and that members into the Labour Party youth up, the LPYS was a sort of holy cow.
run by the left. But what sort of a left is it that doesn't relate to the sort of politics that I have mentioned? Since the Black Section campaigned last year for Kingsley Abrams to be elected as the LPYS representative on the NEC it has now become possible structive way because we want to turn the youth organisation from being a stagnant and bureaucratic body into a mass campaigning force that attracts presents LPYS leadership, the natural Black Section has launched the campaign in the black press. Articles have Times and West Indian News, interviews are taking place with the campaign will also reflect this. first will be a tringe meeting at the West Midlands regional LPYS conference, supported and built by black Section and organised by Youth Ac tion. Another is planned in Bristol, where I will share a platform with Jagun Akinshegun who is vice chair ot the st Pauls communitv associa tion and chair of the St Pauls aparStruggles paign raised the flag of Black Sections and the alliances we stand for inside the Labour Party Young Socialists One measure of the success of that campaign was the refusal of the platform at the national LPYS ference to count the votes in favour of the Black Section resolution debated closeness of the vote. Although it lost on the floor of conference, the size of demonstrated the wide support that exists for our demands, including at This year the LPYS representative on the NEC, Linda Douglas, is sitting on the bantustan Black and Asian Adleadership has established to head-off been told by Militant supporters that committee. Now she is not only participating in it, but at one point was jockeying to take the chair. It was onBlack Section that made it impossible for her to do that. This issue is one of character of the current LPYS leadership; it gives cover and support to the tance of our campaign in the LPYS alongside the fight of bláck socialist councillors such as Bernie Grant, Linwith those black candidates who are begun to reeducate the Labour left on serious about building paigns and mass support for socialist • Labour Party Black Section candidate Steve Jomoa can be contacted at 46 Somphoning (home) 01-57