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1. Build a mass campaigning socialist youth 2. Build the National Union of School Students! We will fight to win support for school students in the unions, YSs, and in the National Union of 3. Turn the Labour Party Young Socialists out to 4. Fight for democracy in the Labour Party and in the Young Socialists. The National Committee should be elected from the YS Conference. No extended speaking time at YS Conference for National Committee members. Equal speaking time for different viewpoints in the YS. 'Socialist Youth' to carry open debate and discussion. 5. Full union rights for the unemployed. Unionise the YOP cheap labour schemes. For full trade union rates and rights on YOPs. Cut the hours, not the jobs. Build an unemployed 6. Fight for the YS to take a lead in the fight for women's and gay liberation. Campaign against sexism in the labour movement and in the YS to make it possible for women and gays to play a full and equal part in the labour movement. For woman's right to work. No discrimination on the 7. Unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from NATO. Build CND. Fight to draw youth from CND into the struggle for socialist policies in the labour movement. The war drive comes from imperialism! Defend the Soviet 8. Troops out of Ireland now! Political status for Republican prisoners. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Support the Labour Committee on Ireland. Support all actions in solidarity with the anti-imperialist struggle in the North of 9. Fight racism. Purge racists from all positions in the labour movement. Organise to drive fascists off the streets. For united black and white labour movement defence squads. Build labour movement support for black self-defence - including against the racism and anti working 10. Fight for genuine rank and file control of the whole labour movement - unions, Labour Party, YS. Fight for a workers' government - based on and under the control of the labour movement -to break the economic, military and state power of the ruling class. Never again a Labour GovernToria not just in words, but in action, schemes, organ- unionising riots it is necessary to ising into the workers. unemp- YOP unemphave a look at what we loyed ment; organising in the we can take the struggle schools sexism, racism, against petty further. Firstly, it would be wrong to go up to the and the Tory cuts. in all this has to be the organleaders of the communitAt the moment the Labwhat you have done is our leaders have done jobs of youth, they have cause you'll have to find a more sensible way of real instead they have sat for youth, unemployment and polsands of us come out of the riots were at this We have to say that of a job. They have collwith the Tories in setting they have shown us the potential strength that up that are taking the jobs the openly schemes cheap ortantly this experience of their members at a quarter of the rate.

the questions what is the the rank and file trade most importantly, what are we going to do about to fight for real jobs for youth. They can see all it? better conditions than ation. The blame has to the real these for the building of leaders of the labour 8 organisation of youth - of touch with the memyouth, and not just ones bership. The warning that the sections of youth ident- riots carried should not just go to the Tories, it way that whole sections should go to them no new trends other way of struggling among identity with the National Front lead, they have no jobs and the British Move- strike. We have to force 'can't go ment. At the moment many anti-Tory, but this can whose side they're on. labour and to say easily be contained by youth _ or against us? Are they with ainly could'nt cope with vatonoui Class Fighter int erviews a member of the Unemployed Workers' Leicester orkers Union.

Q: Why did you set up an Unemployed Workers' Unionin Leicester?

We want to see the trade unions organising the unemployed, but at the moment they are very reluctant to do this. If you are unemployed and and General Workers' want to join the Transport Union you have to 1 October-1 Novemb National Conference into a holding branch that 38p a week only to be put Union you have to pay Idsmith College Stud of the unions do not want never meets. The leaders Cross, London Union to see the unemployed active in the unions, after all it would be they who would be arguing the most for action to defend eristing jobs and fight to jobs. CONC ix: ie presett le: 0533-898324 organise the unemployed we approached the T&G and asked them to set up When we first begar. io a branch for the unempYOUNG loyed or get the holding branch to meet. They told us they would like to see this but they had to obey the national guidelines. We knew this was a lie because they have a functioning holding branch in Liverpool.

We decided to set up the UWU to organise the unemployed immedleaders off the hook, we encourage all our members to join the official trade unions and fight for them to organise the unemployed.

Q: What sort of things do you do?

We have been involved in a lot of activities, we go out and support picket lines, we played a major part in saving Beale St. Nursery from closure. It was occupied on the day it =: due io close and we == peckeep it accupied 24 hours a day for three months. Then we won and the nursery was kept open.

We have also been organising a campaign to get free bus services for the unemployed. All day the buses are going around half empty and we have to walk miles for interviews or to sign on because we can't afford the bus fare.

As well as that we get to know the ins and outs or claiming so we can combat the real fiddlers, the Tories, who make 400 million a year out of unclaimed benefit. Throughout the civil service strike we fought for support for» the civil servants against the government. q: What plans does UWU have now?

The main job is to turn UWU from a local group into a national group. We took a big step towards this in June when we organised a conference in Leicester which over 30 unemployed groups attended and the plans were drawn up to launch a national Unemployed Workers' Movement. From the Conference a movement.

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industrial workers' struggles. workers' movement. basis of sex or sexuality.

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class brutality of the police. ment like the last one! steering committee was elected who are now fighting to build for the biggest possible launching of UWU. The more new local branches that are established the better, so get to work.

Q: Do you have any message for the readers of Class Fighter?

Just to point out that the bulk of our members in Leicester are youth. It is clear that youth are looking for a way forward to fight unemployment, we must build the unemployed workers' unions to offer an alternative. The only other people who are recruiting the unemployed at the moment are the fascists.

• We must also fight within official trade unions to get them to fight for the unemployed and organise them. We are not opposed to the unions. Our quarrel is with the union leaders, that is shown by the main slogan of Leicester UWU -UNEMPLOYED AND EMPLOYED UNITE.

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ey re no i rea to Thatcher hoar enthe Ma boasts 'Nick in nick', who is a overpriced Ben WHAT'S been happening to the 3000 youth who were arrested in the riots over the summer?

If you go by the press and the TV, you'd think we'd all been wiped off the face of the earth. Unless you get a really vicious. sentence like Robert Gittings got - 6 years - then it's news for a day.

But it hasn't only been in Manchester - Robert was from Moss-side - that the punishment's been doled our. In Wallasey, a youth of 17 got 3 months for throwing stones. In Leicester a youth got 3 months for threatening behavOES 40T CAMPS iour. In Nottingham, 6 months has been given for threatening behaviour.

While in Liverpool there has been a total silence from the police and the authorities on the death of Davy Moore as a result of 'positive policing'. In Coventry, fines of hundreds of pounds are being dished out.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Most of the cases coming up in court have got no publicity. Youth were charged with anything that came into the coppers' heads at the time.

Basically youth are on trial for just being on the streets at the time a riot was going on. How dare we upset the natural order of things!

For that crime, of being where we usually are, as most of us haven't jobs, the courts are coming down as heavy as they can.

Youth are to be taught a lesson. Shut up or be locked up. Well, we won't - and we won't let the misleaders of the labour movement shut us up either. We must force them to come out on our side - instead of keeping quiet and sitting on the fence.

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