OVER TWO thousand youth attended the Labour Party Young Socialists annual conference in Bridlington over Easter. Two issues stood out from the conference: the decision to turn massive support behind the miners and the decision to campaign against Reagan's visit to Britain in June. most delegates when he miners to unite around the All respona 1o ference DISLIENS Rowland who is the big boss at Lonrho and proObserver's editor to go conference from the platTOTH. Introduced by was tremendous standing ovaLol. vote from young World War. Its chief task on a course to overcome But this is not the only orce in the YS, brough as things were looking up JESSACE Mr Trelford's friends got ing Lonrho's ownership De inserted CUL control over any political Many S0 He alle vouth was almost vourn wandering dowll ble DUL YS. mas. peace. were subsuluca 10 •And irom next sunday li taking the the policy adopted largely OI discrimination was oppos allO any of the movements that SIYE US A FUTURE IllFederation or Britain aist 'S away from inBy Anne Kane, Pollock LPYS of the ference was organised to be more like a rally who urged the conference have been standing ovation at LPYS conference!
Malvina likes precisely in Militant's combination or lyin cen people are repelled by this I nis Is wny most the new recruits to the YS Deci wave. THE FIRST day of this year's LPYS conference showed how far the YS has come in adopting policies that mean something to youth in struggle and how far it still has to go. Unfortunately most repeating old policy and suggesting no real actior But Saturday's conference was brought alive by two issues: the response to the miners' strike and defence of the Nicaraguan revolution. But the absolute solidarity of the delegates with both of these struggles was held back by the way conbeen used by delegates to explain what they have done in their branches to support the miners and to discuss what should be done in the future to build But the most stunning show of solidarity for a long time was reserved for the Sandinista youth the Sandinistas address conference must be seen as a great victory in itself. It means the LPYS leaderpushed off the their previous denunciations of what they called petit-bourgeois Hopefully the LPYS will go ahead and adopt similarly liberessin attitudecialisme it free no. Maybe next year we'll see Gerry Adams receiving a in 1ioz the lett indepen went over 23 per cent - 69 the left of Militant is the through The for replacing the Militan the ference the let opposition CON was again divided, in the NEC Bernie It is clear that a united for a campaigning YS could win increasing sup build the YS on this basi thi Socialist Youth paper ru Line Wes bulletin now ar paigning action in Britai
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