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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 withdraw al 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 movement.
Students. industrial workers' struggles. basis of sex or sexuality. solidarity with Solidarity have been hoping for a let up in the military regime so they can sleep soundly at night in the knowledge that Jaruzelski is getting things back to normal.
The problem for them is that the Polish working class aren't taking the repression lying down.
These people in Britain make a big thing of supporting solidarity with Turkish workers, but not Polish. Ireland. class brutality of the police. ment like the last one! against the bureaucracy and the military and must be supported. Yet it has brought out some of the most sickening hypocrisy I've heard for a long time. There should be no conditions on our support for Polish workers. Don't be wary of taking on the arguments. What better time to show up Reagan and Thatcher's crocodile tears over Polish workers?
Chris Hosea