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Socialist Challenge No. 262, 25 September 1982 · p. 11 of the scan · 1,105 words

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YOUTH MARCH jobs Manchester sept 23 › Blackpool sept 26. march to Labour other support.

ford Park E70 was raised for the march. Engineering, Stockport, have also sponsored a marcher.

march, raising more than E80.

CND real thing.

barriers that are put up by society.

walk down the streets.

you are not sure you'll get home in one piece be recognised ism but all the attacks of the Tory government home cooking and looking after the kids.

ment is obviously mad billions of pounds on megadeath weapons ches and the Tories down from, like they have in other years tant on their own.

It's the movement behind them — us. There are hundreds of thousands workers in this country fighting for their liberation.

Salvador and Nicaragua.

went to NATO and the Americans marche can change things through action now. In the countdown to the start of the Youth CND Party conference at Blackpool union branches all over the north west have been responding with financial and A number of engineering factories have taken shop floor collections. At Parkinson Cowan in TrafFimons Eddie, a shop floor worker in the Ferranti's Cairo Mill, ran in the Manchester Marathon in aid of the Kerry is a member of Manchester Youth On this march we don't just want to pay lip service to women, we are going to make positive action a A lot of people have asked what positive action is. Well I think it's recognising that for women who want to get involved in things like CND or the Labour Party, we have to smash down all the sexist It's all right for blokes. They don't have the kids round their necks 24 hours a day. Men don't have to face abusive comments about their bodies and risk getting beaten up and raped when they It does put you off going to a meeting when That's why we want a women's day on the march. A lot of young women are involved in YCND and it's about time they had a chance to speak and We want a day when it's women that lead the march and the meeting in the evening to have all women on the platform, not just to talk about sexOne day on a march isn't going to change the world; it won't stop the Tories' attacks; it won't stop blokes being sexist - but it will show that women are going to fight and won't be kept in the Rob is 24 and He is a member of the LPYS, the AUEW and Youth CND.

I'M GOING on the march because this governThe system we live in cannot afford to pay the health workers or give young people jobs and ye it's prepared to risk millions of lives and spenc The Malvinas war showed that the Tories don't just rattle their sabres — they use them to kill people, think CND is great and we should have more marches like this, and stop sucking up to the churA lot of activists I know write off the Labour Party, but we have to keep the pressure on all the time. We aren't campaigning for a Labour Party with good intentions, we want a party with a cas iron manilesto commitment that they can't back MP's and trade union leaders are not impor of arms I used to be one. 1 201 paid t80 a week for making guns that would kill peof tears you apart depending on the death of well. 1 like the fighters in E But they didn't. They It's hard to convince people that there is an alternative and that we can change the rotten society that we live in, and that's why I'm going on this small sample of the support coming in.

from Prestwich Hospital.

The launching workers.

Below we speak to some of the marchers.

was once asked by a guy from CND;

motors for Polaris submarines?' came clearly. "Whose fault was it?' Nicaragua, Grenada and Cuba.

Socialists to fighting Thatcher to the death.

day during the war over the Malvinas.

health workers a living wage.

fighting for now.

sticks to its policy of nuclear disarmament.

à nuclear war.

any backsliding by the Labour leaders.

why I'm going on it.

Grand Benefit for the With: the Chameleons; Tut-Tut; Disco:

Late Bar.

Wednesday 22 September. 8.00pm UMIST Students Union.

Sponsored by Greater Manchester Health Shop Stewards Committee. Organised by YCND March Committee One marcher, a member of the NUR and Oldham YCND, has collected more than 50 from his union branch and work mates and this only represents a The works committee at Horwich Rail Works will be greeting the march, as will the shop stewards from BL. Leyland. In particular the march will be giving a warm welcome to delegations from hospitals passed along the route, starting from a delegation Wednesday September will now be held in aid of the health Phil Penning is a member of the AUEW and YCND.

While 1 was on strike with Laurence Scott, I *Why should I support you when you make For a time I was stumped. But then the answer Do we blame workers who have no interest in a nuclear war or do we blame the Tories who want to It's the Tories who support the death squads in and take action against workers in That's why I think it's important to make a call on the Labour Party and Labour Party Young end to Tory madness by That's why I support this youth march.

Dave is a member of York LPYS THE TORIES spent £1 million pounds a They spend £16 a week per head of the population on nuclear weapons, and they say they cannot afford to pay the That's why I think that Jobs not Bombs' is the sort of thing we should be I'm going on the march because I think that we need to make sure that the Labour Party actually All we are being offered by the Tories is the dole queue, YOP's and the prospect of death from The situation is too desperate for us to allow This 1 what the youth march is trying to get across and I'm not a pacifist though, I support the people of El Salvador in their fight against the Americans We must fight injustice home and abroad Join the march and make your voice heard! Socfalist Chalfenge" 25 September 1982 page 11

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