cher establishment against Nuclear Disarmament. He has already explained that one of his first priorities will be to challenge CND's audience amongst millions of youth.
Youth CND intend to take on the Tory government in 1983 Vice-chairperson of CND itself. *Young people have been in the forefront peace movement in Britain thinkable that CND could and Europe. 1S unexist without YCND youth part of CND but keeps its own identity as the of young people within the campaign. We are growing the rate of LICW members a month. joined day week. But numbers members are not the whole 'Young people today live with daily social inunemployment, racism, sexism, low pay. he question is how help youth express their rejection of the arms race when they are facing much injustice themselves.
•This year the YOND Festival will be treated as one or me man events de ing promoted by CND. Its people are aware of the to marshall the forces of the British the Campaign for ANNA-JOY DAVID told us how CND and Anna-Joy David is National Organiser of Youth CND and a newly elected threat to their future and do have the strength to oppose it.
'We want to involve people the music DUSHICSS who oppose nuclear weapons. Michae Heseltine plans spending promote the government's anti-CND lim the Peace Game' i schools. bands are fluence to convince people oppose une government's plans. Event The event will be callPeace and YCND Festival for Saturday May. Our slogans are the Bomb' and *A Future Without Fear. We have invited bands uke The Beat, Paul Weller's new band, Madness, Linton Kwesi Johnson and many others. It will start with a demonstration the embankment and finish the festival Brockwell Park, South London.
*1983 will be a very important year. There is likey to be a general electior and CND has the ability te make sure that Margaret not re-elected. We will be Inatcher s LOVELINCH organising a door to door 'peace canvas' against the missiles Thousands young people voting for the first time and many of them oppose nuclear weapons.
"CND's strength comes being a non-partypolitical campaign. I'd like to see a firm commitment by the labour movement to make sure te Labour rarty carries out its policies.
'In the past they have ignored them when they got into power. But that Is different from saying that support Party. We support any that has unilateralist policy that fits the policy of YCND.
*Young people are very disillusioned with the existing political parties. We see working through youth culture as far more impor tant that the party political youth organisations. As we do try to work with the tar as pontical parties Labour Party Young Socialists. Personally think their response has been very slow.
"The LPYS don't invite us to speak at their TaSK TOr Us To write for their newspaper Whereas YCND does seek cooperation. aike to work with Also would the Young Liberals because they got opposition to Cruise through the Liberal Party conference. Lastic on has been fanLaSLIC. shows tha women are just mothers, or wives, but are people who can be everything that men are in their own way. Women "The leadership of YCND is dominated by women because young women in particular realising how strong they can be That doesn't mean we all have cropped hair and dungarees as the antiCND press tries to present us. I think 'Take the toys away from the boys' is an excellent slogan.
*Look at the whole saga of the Falklands with the women shown waving goodbye to their loved We ve had no role in the as the ships sailed arms race can't afford to lose our fight in 1983. We are now in a situation, East and. West, of a new arms race, which is designed to increase the possibili ty of a first strike' "That the and us all getting blown to bits. We welcome the negotiations going on i Geneva now. But negotia for 37 years and haven't achieved much. So would not advise anyone to rel n them in 198 *We'll only be able to stop this new combining all of the dif ferent types of action. For example, non-violent, direct action can be effec tive if used at the right time, not every day of the week.
"Th emphasis will the special emphasis on trade union movement. At CND conference ine importance of the unions was recognised and we will b appointing tultime organiser for work in the We have to get - UHORS through to the grassroots of the unions in order to pressurise the leaders to act. This is starting to hap pen. The West march year got tremendous support and financial help from the factories *I am confident we can get some real solidarity action between the unions and CND. The kind of ac tion we need is like the campaign organised to support health workers?
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MICHAEL HESELTINE, the new Tory minister for war, has been appointed by Margaret That-