Bradford youth lead on socialist

The Newsletter, vol. 8 no. 366, 17 October 1964 · scan page 4

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policies HAROLD WILSON'S Visit to Bradford as part of the Labour Party's pre-election rally began with the grand organ playing of hymns and a selection of tunes from World War I-and the speeches that followed never rose above this dreary level.

Careful attention to Wilson's speeches revealed that he really had nothing at all to say about socialism.

Phrases like 'Labour is concerned with people, 'Housing is a social service' ', 'Vote for your children', , 'A Labour goverument will accept responsibility for social welfare, sound fine to an audience of loyal Labour supporters, but they are merely a gloss to hide the complete poverty of Wilson's election programme.

Labour youth

• Meanwhile, 150 Labour youth were marching through Bradford behind the banner of Bradford North Young Socialists, some of whose members were recently ejected from a meeting of their constituency party by the police.

Organised by the banned West Yorkshire Federation of Young Socialists, this demonstration focussed attention on all the urgent working-class problems which Wilson was so skilfully evading.

With placards calling for a socialist solution to the problems of housing, racialism, colonialism and dead-end jobs, these young people—hated by the organisers of Wilson's meetings-had a real message for the working class of Bradford.

At a meeting in Bradford Mechanics Institute 180 young people-the extra numbers had joined in during the march— heard a call to fight for socialist policies.

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