Broadcasting YS bankruptcy

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WITH THE final offending footage snipped from the film on the instructions of the right wing, the Labour Party Young Socialists' own 10-minute party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party was screened last Thursday night.

On the theme of Youth the broadcast was a recruiting exercise aimed at tempting Britain's youth to join the The LPYS is dominated by the self-proclaimed "Trotskyists" of the Militant group, who would have us believe that they are opposed to the right wing Labour leaders and their anti-working class policies.

But once the broadcast got going we were treated to ten minutes of solid illusionmongering in the reformist Labour Party so- by these called Marxists.

The broadcast maintained a bogus left image by stringing together a few facts on the ownership of wealth by a small minority and then proceeded to explain that the Labour Party is a "democratic socialist" party committed by its constitution to the nationalisation of the wealth of the land.

The Tories were (correctly) fingered as the enemy of the National Health Service, blacks, state education and the working class in general.

Young workers were urged to join the ranks of the "13 million strong labour move. ment" and the LPYS National Secretary was interviewed ' to explain the importance of voting for the Labour Party in order to change society.

At no point, however, did these so-called Marxists point to any of the attacks launched by the Lib-Lab coalition against the working class or the abandonment by the Labour leaders of the constitutional policy of Not a mention was made of Callaghan and Healey's attacks on the NHS or education or the 1½ million workers on the dole or the three years of wage If further proof of the total bankruptcy of the Militant group's politics were needed, this was it.

As cheerleaders for the Labour bureaucracy they help provide the necessary left cover to deceive layers of young workers into placing their confidence in the Labour Party. PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report •229 Ghetto advocate Tatham

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