support CND's national demonstration in London on Saturday 25 Delegates also gave preliminary consideration to Labour CND's model resolunons to party Their themes wil be• the reallocation of all money saved on nuclear weapons to be diverted into welfare programme, including building schools, hospitals and homes; Britain's withdrawal Hom NAlu, ana tne removal of all US bases moil is country.
must step up its work on strip-searching, with the L.CI, and, in London, with Irish women's groups in particular.
(Guest sneakers included Barbara de Bruin from Sinn Fein, 1987 LPYS conference was held in Portabello town hall, Edinburgh, over the weekend of February-1 March, attracted the smallest turnout in many years.
Clydebank LPYS and Fraser Taylor, Dumbarton LPYS Its size reflected the inability leadership of the LPYS to politically Curlidal tacks on Labour's youth organisation by the Scottish party leadership.
That same malaise war reflected in the debate on the Sawvel which attracted 10 resolutions to the conference. Seven supported the Militant position three supported the views of the Coordinating Committee.
Contributions Militant supporters on the 'tremendous record' of the LYS and its role as the biggest youth organisation in Britain were obviously fake. Ine conterence ad dress by the national chai of the LPYS, to the effec that any young person at tending this would be 'filled with en thusiasm' for the Young Socialists, was belied by the atmosphere of conMilitant were also on the run on a number of which the debate on Ireland. Of the six resolutions two were favourable to the Labour Committee One of these, from Dum barton, called for support for the LCI. In a roundabout way LCC delegates called for support for the LCI and voted in favour of the Dumbar. ton resolution.
Militant's position, for a 'socialist federation' of Britain and Ireland, was directly counterposed to the LCI position. For the first time at a Scottish LPYS Miliant supporters openly al acked the LC Despite this despite an attempt by the leadership to ban a Sinn Fein speaker Aengus O Snodaigh, tending the LCI fring meeting, that meeting was packca our. The meeting was chaired by Paul Car National Union of Students convenor A woman from the Alliance and a Labou Women for Section attracted these were on the Labour Party NE( Linda Douglas, was callec to speak the platform before the vote was taken. But not once did she refer to Black Section. nor to her own record of of the ard fheis to stand candidates the forENCONTE! County general election The evening Youth Action fringe meeting developed the theme of the central role of interna tionalism in ar for socialism, and how, if it is to grow the YS must take on a more internationalist calvar u perspective, the YS must relate to the actual