Labour 'Young Socialists' bankrupt on Ulster

LABOUR PARTY Young Socialists will be asked this weekend to allow the Tories to continue with their present Ulster policies.

. resolution before their eleventh annual conference, which WEATHE R WEAK trough of low pressure over S and W Scotland and NE England will move slowly N.

The greater part of Scorlanot N Ireland, western districts England and Wales will remain generally cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle in the N: Central and eastern districts of England will be dry and rather warm.

Outlook for Sunday and Monday: Mainly warm with sunny periods in the S and E at first, but cloud and rain in the Nand W will probably spread E on Monday followed by sunny intervals with temperatures falling to near normal.

01-720 CIRCULATION 01-622 7029 Press. 186g Street. London. its doe opens at Scarborough today, calls on the Tories to 'govern Ulster the same way as any other part of the United Kingdom is governed.' Withdrawal of British troops from Ireland does not find a mention in this or any other resolution on the subject.

The LPYS conference this year is bound to be the stage-managed job it has always been.

Unlike the real Young Socialist majority which split from the Labour Party bureaucracy in 1964, the LPYS has found it possible to co-exist and assist the work of reformism.

The witch-hunt which the labour leaders carried out in 1964 revealed their complete contempt for the construction of a mass socialist youth movement.

All those who remained servile to Harold Wilson's policies--including the revisionist 'Militant' group which now controls the LPYS-now form the bulk of the movement.

Any visitor to the conference, taking a casual look through the agenda, can hardly fail to notice one glaring contradiction-the contrast between the number of branches claimed by the leadership and the number of resolutions before conference.

The National Committee report says the organization has 499 branches. Yet only 125 have bothered to put forward resolutions of any description.

Last year their conference was attended by 150 delegates, and the organization branches.

In their desperate attempt to give reformism a 'left' face, the revisionists of the so-called 'Militant' group deliberately omit any referrence to the capitalist system's economic and political CrISIS.

Peter Doyle, in the Political Report repeats last year's main slogan, saying the 'taking over of commanding heights of the economy' can solve the problems of the working class.

'We have to point out that the movement which can carry out such a change has to be struggled for ... inside the Labour Party and the trade unions.' Not one clear statement on the need to make the Tories resign.

Instead the conference has before it no less than eight resolutions calling on the age limit of LPYS to be increased to 30.

This, says Reading South YS, will bring the LPYS 'into line with both the Young Conservatives and the Young Liberals..: March ban stays WILLIAM Whitelaw, Secretary for N Ireland under the Tory government's direct rule, announced yesterday that the ban on marches must remain "for the present'.

This means that Republican marches commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising scheduled for the next few days will be illegal. I enclose ..

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