'The vote was a vote for Sinn Fein that told them: look, solve this problem once and for all. Do it by non-military means if you can. But if you have to use military means, all right, you.' Fr. Wilson said that the themselves into a position of depending 'almost pathetically' upon clerical support, and proposed that they should sit down with Sinn Fein and the Although this final note seems to contradict the main stands head and shoulders above the whacky proposals coming from the Methodist Assembly held in Enniskillen should be turned into an EEC protectorate.
we'll support SDLP had got points of fr. Wison's aroument. it stil which proposed the 6 Counties. THE ANNUAL Youth CND conference in Manchester on 2-3 July will be the first major opportunity for debate in the disarmament movement since the general election.
youth movement in the last year including the hugely successful 'Rock The festival was al Lence or 70,000 people making Youth CND Britain's biggest vouth move. ment and the fastest growing wing or tae disarmaYCND National Office at now ere somers at the rate per month.
The YCND's conter ence's main 10b will be to build on this through more testivals. allu ches, national and locally, and further The main focus for the conference will be the job of building the 22 October demonstration in London as part of a massive international day of action.
Reflecting this international dimension a motion cans coasteriadonai youth conference on disarenormous boost in many Guropean countnes wriere will also mark the meteoric growth of the the Bomb' festival and youth, are not separately organised or where youth committees established recently. It also poses the possibility internationally coordinated youth aluvilies.
But above all the conference will be trying to answer the question can we stop the missiles?' With the re-election of a reactionary Tory government totally committed to nuclear madness, this question is a very serious one. If Thatcher was completely unmoved by the denies or ten so mucel strikers, she won't be moved by individual protest at missiles sites.
There is a danger that, in the face of these difficulties, activists will : OF THE ACTION DREAM TICKET!?!
THE WHOLE THING IS MORE LIKE NIGHTMARE... • WITH MORE THAN A TOUCH OF «FARCE. either move increasingly towards desperate direct alliull _ resulting in more hardship and ultimate demoralisation • or towards Increasing cynicism and inaction.
Youth CND has a good record of standing by the demands of the movement for unilateral disarmament and Britain out of NATO It is expected that this will be re-affirmed this year's conference.
Youth CND has also always identified with the most active wing of the movement exemplified in lne recent past by lne Greenham women but also has tought tor mass action by the labour moveA resolution proposing a march to the TUC Blackpool Manchester will be a focus for such a campaign alongside a proposed conference for young trade unionists.
These and other issues will oe laken up al an LPYS fringe meeting organised on the Saturday, featuring speakers the Greenham the People's March for Jobs.
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