NORTHERN IRELAND YS BREAK FROM LABOUR PARTY BY a unanimous decision, members of the Northern
By Jack Gale
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La unanimous decision, Ireland Young Socialists have disaffiliated from the Ireland Young Socialists Northern Ireland Labour Party.
This action, announced in a recent statement, is in protest at the failure of the Northern Ireland Labour Party to dissociate itself from the attacks on the working class by the British Labour government, and the continual witchhunt against Young Social- -ists in Northern Ireland.
Young Socialists who were expelled from the Party included the YS chairman, Bill McElroy, and YS National Committee member, Jackie Vance, who was also a member of the Labour Party's executive committee.™ The Northern Ireland Labour Party is an artificial Party, being kept in existence by the British Labour Party, who supply its main funds. It is isolated from the working class and has never been associated with any of the major strikes and struggles which the Irish workers have taken on.
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The expulsions were the culmination of a long campaign by the right wing against the YS and their policies. In order to carry out these attacks they have to resort to slanders, accusations of violence, refusal of membership, and the contents of a scurrilous anonymous letter.
But by their principled campaigning the YS has gained much support in the labour movement in Northern Ireland. Newsletter Correspondent