THE NEX1 meeting of the Labour Youth Campaign Group (LYCG), on 30 August will discuss campaigning priorities in Labour Clubs and student unions in the first term of the new academic year. These priorities will be based on the fight of LYCG for a campaigning Labour students organisation, and a campaigning NUS, through active support for all struggles of the working class and oppaigns for democratic change and representation organised by the Labour Party left in This meeting will help coordinate meetings in Labour Clubs with speakers from campaigns such as the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, the Black Section, the Women's Action Committee, the Labour Committee on Ireland, and the during the first term. in particular immediate y around freshers weeks. Also for discussion will be ormly pan aroups in Labour Cluos, a sulldent broadsheet for the beginning of term, and a fringe meeting with speakers from the Campaign Over the last year students have dominated acdemonstrations and boycott actions in the colleges. Students came out in thousands to protest against the bombing of Libya. In the wake of the Sinn Fein college tours organised through the LCI, NUS became the first mass organisation in Britain to commit itself to support for British withdrawal vigorously agalst allacks On places, granls and DHSS payments. Student unions have been present week after week at the Wapping pickets.
organised current or leadership capable of drawing LUTELIC which goes nowhere; NOLS is used to help attack and witch-hunt the LPYS; and on the Middle East and Zionism a reactionary sentiment is developing which adds up to opposing the right of return of the Palestinian people. All this flies in the face of the type of political activity thousands of students building organised support for the demands of the Labour clubs and NOLS. That is, to get NUS not just to oppose racism in the abstract or tell individuals just to get involved in groups like AntiFascist Action, but to fight for political power for students to fight for Black Sections in the Labour Many currents inside NUS are fond of saying students must alv with the labour movement. For the Democratic Left this means an alliance with Kinnock, while SSIN has written a whole policy bulletin on the fight for a campaigning NUS which never concretely promotes the only real alternative This alternative - an alliance with the left in already in the campaigning work of LCI and Black Sections amongst others. The weight that has been given to the demand for Britain to İreland and by the understanding of the LCI of the potential for winning support from NUS is the best example of the importance of building such a curIclle Over the next year the LYCG wants to deepen this orientation of the left campaigns, win further support on policy and fight for NOLS and NUS to be led by the type of alliances that have emerged in the Labour Party.
• LYCG meets at 2pm, on Saturday 30 August in the Cole Room, the Fabian Society, • Both the youth and student networks of the LCI have produced bulletins on their recent acbulletin contains information on policy gains in NUS and plans for the next term and the youth bulletin on recent youth and Ireland action, how to involve your LPYS in the activities of the LCI and fighting for policy inside the LPYS.
Following a very successful youth and Ireland dayschool in Glasgow in July, LCI youth are planning Sinn Fein. NUS and the labour and trade union more about this, get copies of the youth or student bulletins, or get involved in other activities contact LCI student officer, Conor Foley, or the youth ofCampaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights is passed at NUS