WHERE TO SCOTLAND ABERDEEN - Graham 0224 694404 EDINBURGH - Raph 031 GLASGOW - Andy/Des 041 649 7542 WALES CARDIFF - Jane 0222 23182 SWANSEA - Graham 0792 299151 BANGOR - Nisha 0248 LOVI ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM - Lucy 021 643 0669 BRISTOL - Piers 0272 426419 COVENTRY - June Anne 0203 76699 LEEDS - Paul 0532 39071 x61 LIVERPOOL - Mark 051 728 9982 MANCHESTER - Duncan/Rob 061 236 4905 NEWCASTLE - Pete 0632 737 507 OXFORD - Helen 0685 48081 SWINDON - Kim 0793 32048 LONDON Ann/ Alix/ Richard 01 359 8371 For any other areas contact Revolution, PO Box 50, London N1 2XP. Or phone 01 359 8371. course, but haven't got a job.
/ knew it would be difficult to get a job when I left school. The state of the country just seemed to be getting worse. Some terrible statistics were mentionee. like une bossromity of 5 million unemployed.
Meanwhile the aovernment is going to spend £5 billion on Trident missiles. nere are already enough weapons throughout the world to kill everyone, and more and more are being built.
The situation was obviously crazy. / decided that l'd moaned tor long enough, and wanted to do something.
/ Joined Revolution Youth because / could see it was an actve organisation which seemed determined to achieve its aims.
Being part of a campaigning organisation like Revolution Youth, you see that you don't have to accept whats going on. There is action you can take to build a better future.
Surely that's what we all want!
Rhona, Edinburgh Revolution Youth Revolution page ii THE DOLE queues lengthen by the minute. Even the official unemployment figures are expected to pass the 3 million mark by the end of the year. Youth women and black peobie have been hardest Thousands of youth have never had a real job. Even those leaving Youth Opportunities (YOPS) courses often end up back on the dole. And the Tories are now discussing conscription for forced community work, in a desperate attempt to hide the effects of their policies on youth.
Increasingly youth are
looking to the labour movement for a lead to fight back against the Tories. They are looking to the Labour Party and the trade unions for radical answers to problems like unemployment and the economic crisis. hese are the issues at the heart of the battle in the Labour Party.
In the last year the Labour left has won important victories: the automatic raht to reselect MPs, the election of the party leader and deputy opened up to the whole party not just the MPs, and radical policies like unilateral nuclear The Gang of Three split to form the Social Democratic Party over these issues. Most of the right wing MPs stayed behind. They are now organised in a group called Labour Solidarity which aims to stop the left advance in the party.
The biggest blow to the plans of the right wing was Tony Benn's decision to stand for deputy leader. We support Benn's stand against the right wing MPs and union leaders, and his fight to continue debate on party policy.
We believe Benn is absolutely right to stand against Healey, the candidate chosen by the MPs. Healey represents the policies of the last Labour government which cut public spending, allowed unemployment to rise to over a million, and which attempted to hold down wages. These policies resulted in the first ever decline in votes for Labour from those under 25.
Benn's election campaign is important because it takes the battle in the Labour Party into the trade unions which control the majority of votes at party conference. Now the fight is on for democratic control of the union bloc votes.
The struggle in the Labour Party will be decided in the Revolution supports many of Benn's policies like an end to unemployment and the restoration of social services But his broaramme doesn t represent the overall socialist solution that we support. In particular it has nothing to say about what the Labour Party MADE should be doing now to fight against the Tories.
Youth on the dole with no prospect of a job cannot afford to wait another three years before a Labour government begins to tackle unemployment. Tony Benn and the whole Labour Party should be fighting now for action to detend lobs, suppor ting occupations against redundancies and campaigning for a 35 hour work week They should be fighting for positive action for youth, women and black people to have jobs. Most important of all they should be building a movement to kick out the Tories.
But despite these weaknesses Benn's campaign for deputy leader will swing the Labour Party further to the left, creating the best conditions for fighting for socialist policies.
That's why Revolution supporters will be working all out to build support for Benn's campaign and to get rid of Healey and the right. this campaign.
What you can do Party the Tory attacks. branch Labour Party bodies peal wing policies he stands for.
We urge all youth to join us in We give full support to the Tories. candidacy of Tony Benn for deputy leader of the Labour We believe that the campaign offers the best opportunity to discuss and organise to win policies which me labour move Leven. ment needs in the face of We call for every branch, committee, and conference of the trade unions and Labour Party to discuss the election for deputy on strike leader of the Labour Party. *Circulate this appeal in your union, LPYS or Labour Party *Pass a resolution endorsing the appeal to go to the national and district union and *Ask other union and Labour week o Party members to sign the apUNEMPLOYMENT IS RIS millions are being spent on while social services are cu on the increase - but we wo get away with it.
Across the country, yo fighting back for a better fu CND, on the streets of Bris try, on the People's March unions and Labour Party.
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