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struggle groups of coppers will come over to the workers camp; when they do that, when they refuse to carry out their orders we'll accept them into our movement. But right now its pie in the sky to want them, as they are, inside our movement.

We support the police organising, because it might weaken the hold of their officers, but don't kid yourselves, Coppers are not ordinary workers who wear uniforms to work. 1921 when the British Tories, in alliance with the Unionist bosses, prevented all of Ireland gaining independence.

The boundaries of Northern Ireland were drawn up to guarantee a Protestant majority. From its creation it has been a sectarian state based on disEEC WHO dictated that the last Labour Government slashed public expenditure by 8 billion and implemented policies that resulted in 1½ million unemployed?

Not the bureaucrats in Brussels, but the IMF, the City of London, the oil monopolies and the Board rooms of companies like the Ford Motor Company of Detroit. Under capitalism this will go on whether Britain is in the EEC or not.

We have no interest in deciding what is best for British bosses - an independent capitalist Britain or Britain as part of the EEC. For British workers it doesn't make any difference because there is no such thing as the national interest in Britain today. The only thing we have in common with the British bosses are the chains between exploiter and exploited. And we'll still be lumped with them in or out of the EEC.

Our real allies are European workers. To call for withdrawal to form an indebosses means turning our backs on those workers and siding with British bosses I have been asked to write a few words about why I am standing for the Labour Party NEC.

The basic reason is obviously political.

I want to see a different kind of LPYS to the one that exists at the moment, a YS that is a real youth movement, that takes up basic issues facing working class youth like unemployment, low pay, YTS, racism, sexism and police harassment.

This must be done in way that does not amount lecturing or boring people.

Such a movement would have to be a lot more habitable for certain groups of youth than the YS is at the moment.

The problems with the YS don't just revolve around the fact that it is not always an inviting organisation to belong to.

A lot of what is presented 'socialism' and 'Marxism' the YS is a bit dodgy too.

Socialism should be about working class people liberating themselves through their wn direct action, the eleccan't be reduced to tion of a Labour government committed to a bold socialist programme" or whatever.

Don't get me wrong. The fight within the existing labour movement to change, transform and shake it up so that it really fights for working class interests, is central but my point is simply that the struggle cannot be reduced to a set of neat, cut and dried formulae.

The YS also needs to • be a little less sectarian to' wards the rest of the worl d. In particular, the YS shoul Id try and link up with YCN D. It can do that now aroun d the big anti-Reagan demo nstration on June 9.

The YS should alsi o try and relate to the wol men's movement far more th lan it has done up till now.

Organising /oung women's conference v vould provide an important t sridge between the labour 1 novement and the women's i movement for a lot of women 1. The YS should take the init iative and try and do it.

I believe a mass, a Ictive, campaigning LPYS coul d be a great force to transforr n the existing labour move ement and we should go out ar id try to build one. Judith Bonner is Class Fighter candidate for the LPYS place on the Labour Party National Executive Committee.

Judith, who is 23, has been active in the LPYS for nearly five years. Along with other members of Coventry North East LPYS she helped organise a meeting of over 400 youth in response to fascist attacks in Coventry in 1981. That meeting helped draw forces together who organised Coventry anti-racist defence squads.

Recently, Judith has been involved in the disarmament movement, she has heen a member of YCND National Committtee and spoke for YCND at last year's LPYS conference. Judith is now a member of CND National Council and has been very active in trying to build links between the struggle of the Greenham women and the organised labour movement.

She is a delegate from Peckham LPYS.

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