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Paper of the National Left Wing Youth Movement THOSE people who say the Tories don't give a thought to the millions of working class youth left A MEETING with more chance of a nuclear fry-up than a decent Nothing could be further from the truth.

Margaret Thatcher, Keith Joseph, Norman Tebbit and a number of other important cabinet ministers take time off from their pressing affairs of state to sit down every now and then to discuss the problems of the family and just what they should do about them.

They meet at the Family Policy Group which is a clearing house for all the whims, prejudices and brainstorms that the cabinet ministers have in their But these bizarre, revolting and malicious ideas are being turned into policy by the FPG. The minutes of these meetings - which we have seen - show that Thatcher is insistent that she means business.

It may look like a revolting creature from outer space, but this is what the Tories have in store for job are wrong. baths. your tomorrow The minutes go on about "seeking ways of Tory plans for youth counteracting those fac- are included in a tors which tend to under- document which has mine, or even prohibit been leaked to the the exercise of personal press. Class Fighter responsibility and a sense has seen it. of individual self-respect". Does this perhaps mean giving people most direct bearing on a job and so counter- youth. acting the demoralisation The very first proposwhich goes with unem- al backed by Tebbit and ployment! No, it Howell says simply "Endoesn't. In the topsy- courage mothers to stay turvey world of the at home" and we later Tories it means the find out the social opposite. The problem pressures the Tories want isn't unemployment. The to put on young women lack of self-respect comes to convince them they from being able to rely don't want a job. on state benefits. Indivi- 'Responsive' dual selt-respect iS created by removing the School courses will welfare state! change to become 'more responsive' to industry's Proposals needs stop reading that book and there will be asses "proApril From "Maggie's Farm' by cartoonist Steve Be Two editions ASSEMBLE 11am at the Embankment. March to Brockwell Park for Rock the Bomb Festival with Paul Weller and more LPYS Pete Cashman and Jane Ashworth loc at the issues comir up at this year's Y conference - see centre pages.