That is why all of Kinnock's gimmicks to appeal to the youth vote stop short of actually building up a self-governing Socialists. On the contrary, resolutions on the LPYS adopted at this year's Scottish regional Party conference showed, the Labour kadership and its supporters are actively considering ways to bring the LPYS under the control of the dead-hand of the bureaucracy. response of Kinnock and friends to the magnificent role of youth in the miners' strike is to take steps to keep the lid on the LPYS.
But, unfortunately, cellent work by many, many branches, the LPYS nationally did not come forward presenting a clear political alternative to Kinnock in the course of the miners' ine committee could and should have been a voice oi opposition to policy - with statements denouncing every retreat from support for the NUM, lobbies of the NEC and party leadership, and a campaign for a national solidarity demonstration in support of the miners. his would have made the YS very unpopular with Kinnock, but it would have won the support of every young supporter of the miners and thousands of recruits. Failure It was a similar wish not to rock the boat of accommodation abour bureaucracv. based on accommodating to imperialist backwardness, which resulted in the failure of the LPYS to build out of the wave of youth rebellions which swept British cities in 1981. At that time, *Rioting no answer' distributed in Liverpool won the LPYS and its vltant leadershin the condempt of thousands of militant black youth, even though it certainly found favour with the leadership of the party.
Militant's policy of existence with the Labour Party leadership will not defend the YS from witchmine the ability of the YS as a national organisation to build the kind of supSocialist Action 5 April 1985
mpaigning LPYS! NOLO NO NARD NUCLEAR