All about Labour Youth
Labour Youth is the Youth section of the Irish Labour Party and is open to all members of the party under the age of 27. We are organised through a branch structure. Our annual conference makes the decisions that determine our policies and campaigns. An elected executive is responsible for the day to day running of the organisation.
Between our annual conferences, decisions are made at our national meetings. These take place at least four times a year and are open to all Labour Youth members in the country. The national meeting is a place where the executive report to the members about their work and where members can raise issues with fellow party members.
Labour Youth members are also encouraged to join and get involved with their local party organisation. In the constituency, youth members are organised under the constituency Youth Officer who is elected at the constituency AGM. At a local level, youth members are encouraged to campaign to elect Labour councillors and TDs; and to organise on issues that are important to young people in their area.
We believe that genuine social change comes from the ground up. In our view the best way to transform society is through the direct intervention of ordinary people – workers, students, the unemployed, new immigrant communities, and many others coming together to campaign and work for a better world.
Our organisation is determined to play it’s part in providing a formidable opposition to inequality, discrimination, injustice nationally and abroad, and environmental destruction. We hope to build, in co operation with others, a Socialist future where genuine democratic control over economic, political, and social life becomes a reality for all people. As young socialists, we are determined to build a society which gives true fulfilment to the promise of our country to “treat all the children of the nation equally”, as declared in our proclamation of independence. This equality is our goal and this pamphlet introduces our mission.
We invite you to work with us in building a new Republic based on the fundamental principles of solidarity and equality. This new Republic will not come into being unless people organise for it and it will not be realised without opposition from those who continue to exploit the vulnerable in our society. Labour Youth re – affirms our determination to work alongside all those who share our aims in the hope of making the socialist future a reality.
In the words of James Connolly, founder of the Labour Party; “The only true prophets are those who carve out their own future"
