LONDON YCL OPPOSITION GROUP LAUNCHED
By Brian Behan
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A ‘London YCL Opposition Group’ has been organized and has issued a duplicated bulletin appealing to members of the Young Communist League to ‘stay in and organize’.
Referring to the League’s loss of 44 per cent. of its members in the past two years, and to its isolation from the working-class movement, the bulletin says the first duty of League members who want to see a Marxist youth movement in Britain is to organize ‘the national opposition movement which alone can bring about a change in policy and a return to Marxism in the League’.
The bulletin goes on: ‘We know that many comrades have doubts about breaking the rules of the League ... We feel that the present position of the League is so weak that action must be taken now, and the legality of that action will be decided by the course of events.’