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JOIN THE LABOUR PART YOUNG SOCIALISTS! cently housed and are p pared to let those work that they cannot empl street homeless. fight the ranks could be swelled reers LOy if HARROGATE'S a Tory town. It's got lots of rich people, lots of Tory councillors, and condequently lots of homeless people. OUt of a population of 60,000, 1,700 are on the housing list. This underestimates the problem.

Mark Osborn, who's on Yorkshire YS Regional Committee, interviewed Tim from Harrogate YS and Class Fighter. He is living in a bed and breakfast hostel.

Can you explain how you became homelss?

I was living with my parents, who moved. They were pissed off with me and kicked me out.

I looked around for a flat, staying odd nights with friends. On nights when I oculdn't find anywhere to stay I kipped in a bus shelter. After about a week a couple of friends said I could sleep on their sofa, unitl I found a place to live.

I went down to the Council and put myself on the waiting list. They effectively said "get lost"

After about a month on the sofa my neck was killing me. My friend's landlord saved my head from falling off by evicting us. I went down to the Council to declare myself homeless. They were really unhelpful, and | spel another week sleeping where could.

'The DHSS gave me a list ‹ B&B "accommodation" • i weI to one of the places on the lis and spect an afternoon trying 1 overcome the bureaucracy. Tr SS eventually decided that tr place was too expensive, eve though it was on their list. The sent me to an alternative one.. turned it down when i found would be sharing with four oth people. After I was told I cou have a room to myself, l agreed 1 go and have a look. When I gi down there and found I would t sharing, there was nothing I coul do about it because the DHSS ha already registered me there. the moment I pay £22 per wee for Bed and Breakfast. I share bedroom with one other persoi we've got two cooking rings b tween about 30 of us. The bat doesn't always work and I'm ne allowed any visitors. It's a hus rip off. The landlord's making fortune out of us. It would co less after a while for the Goveri ment to build houses than it cos to pay B&B rates.

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FOR 8 years Class Fighter has okay after the revolution. CAMPAC and the blame for that lies and the blame for that lies

BLACK YOUTH

THE labour movement doesn't really have much credibility amongst black youth.

One of the main reasons for this is that Labour has a very poor record on black rights. After all, it was the Labour Party that was responsible for the hated 1967 Immigration Act.

In order to draw black youth into our movement we will have to m ake it seem attrac-

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