Youth Section
WORKERS PARTY YOUTH - THE FUTURE ON OUR TERMS

WORKERS PARTY YOUTH is comprised of young workers and students throughout Ireland interested in securing the future on our terms. Ireland has the youngest population in Europe, and Workers Party Youth aims at uniting all the young people of Ireland behind revolutionary socialist policies aimed at ensuring decent education, proper job training, full employment, and a society where young people will be able to fulfill their potential.
WORKERS PARTY YOUTH says 'NO' to the failed policies of the right-wing governments, North and South. We reject policies which sacrifice the interests of working class children in education, in training programmes, in job opportunities to the desires of middle class parents for their children. We say 'NO' to a system which deprives the vast majority of young people throughout Ireland of opportunities and condemns many of them to a life which consists of alienation from society, petty crime and drug abuse. We say 'NO', in short, to the capitalist system which deprives Ireland's young people of their rights, and which abandons the majority of them to the scrap heap in favour of a privileged few.
WORKERS PARTY YOUTH says 'YES' to a society where all young people have the chance of good integrated comprehensive education, proper training and full employment . 'YES' to a society where young people enjoy their rights as citizens, where they are recognised as the future. We say 'YES' to a society where sectarianism and bigotry have been defeated and replaced with working class unity. In short we say 'YES' to a socialist society where the dignity of young people and all citizens is respected, and where all young people can develop to their full potential.
Workers Party Youth maintains close contact with comrades from other countries as part of our commitment to international socialism. We form part of the struggle for a democratic Europe , and recently a strong WPY delegation attended the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students. We are committed to broadening our fraternal contacts in the struggle for socialism.

To join or find out more, Workers Party Youth can be contacted at Party Headquarters, or at the Northern Ireland Regional Office, whose addresses etc. are given elsewhere on this site.