Ycnd Resolutions

The resolutions submitted to the annual conference of the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which is being held on the 19th and 20th November, show the impact of various campaigns on this youth movement. We have selected the more important resolutions to illustrate this: "Hatkney & Islingtori YCND - That YCND should make it clear in all propoganda relating to Vietnam that the prior condition to any negotiated settlement in Vietnam should be complete withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Ealing YCND ~ That YCND deplores all subjection of the Vietnamese people especially through military means. This means that support cannot be given to either side in the war. Brighton YCND ~ This branch proposes that National YCND should support actively the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. Bristol YCND - This conference declares its support of the fight for freedom against occupation of Vietnam and calls for the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces and feel that disgust must be expressed that the British Government has allowed the recent farcical elections in South Vietnam to take place unopposed. Swansea YOND - That this Conference supports the initiative taken by the Radical Alliance and Fellowship Parties in putting up independent candidates at the elections oppo:e4 to Government defence and foreign policy. West Ham YCND - It is impossible to remove the bomb until the machinery of the State that produces it has been destroyed. We should oppose all bombs East and West. Harlow YCND ~ National YCND should express their anxiety over the British military build-up in Thailand and their feeling that owing to the tense situation in South East Asia this can only serve to inflame the local situation. Swansea YCND - That this Conference fully supports the initiative taken by the Executive in forming the Youth Peace in Vietnam Committee and urges that the Executive pursues increasingly this line of policy throughout the political and trade union movement. London Region YCND - This Conference believes that the main task of national YCND is to stimulate local activity and to produce educational material and not to organise national demonstrations except in an emergency. Bristol YCND - This Conference moves that YCND co-operates as a body with all other political groups on aims that they have in common, Baling YCND - That during the coming year the National Executive devote a greater proportion of their time to campaigning for nuclear disarmament among youth. West Ham YCND - We should refrain from vain appeals to politicians to work for peace. . We should form Direct Action groups, e.g. SCRAM, and engage in all forms of anti-state* activities, e.g. sabotage of military installations. We should also encourage indus-~ trial action against the bomb. < Brighton YCND - This branch proposes that National YCND opposes the increasingly centralised control of the Easter March and all attempts to exclude various Young Socialists and Anarchist groups from the March. West Ham YCND - A dramatic change in the organization is badly needed with rank and file control and throwing out bourgeois elements, also the forming of Direct Action groups, i.e. SCRAM, Viet Peace Direct Action group. Brighton YCND - This branch proposes that the vresent membership fee system be abandoned and replaced by the payment of an annual fixed affiliation fee to be paid by each branch and that membership fees should be decided upon by the Committee of each group.