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Labour Youth ((アイルランド語:Óige an Lucht Oibre)) is the youth wing of the Labour Party of Ireland. Anyone under the age of 30〔http://www.irishtimes.com/premium/loginpage?destination=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/labour-extends-age-limit-for-being-considered-a-youth-1.1613472〕 is eligible to join Labour Youth. It replaced an earlier organisation, the Young Labour League. The 1990s saw Labour Youth change and reestablished after the merger of the Labour Party and Democratic Left. In the 2007 General Election, Labour Youth opposed a pre-election pact with the centre-right party Fine Gael. Labour Youth Delegates to the Labour Party Special Delegate Conference in March 2011 also opposed the entry into a coalition government with Fine Gael. ==History== Labour Youth succeeded the Young Labour League as a full section of the Party in 1979, under Party Leader Frank Cluskey. The first annual conference took place on 13 May 1979. John Kelleher was elected as the first Chair, Jane Scott as Secretary and Robin Hanan and Ted Gannon as the first representatives on the Labour Party's Administrative Council. The first campaign undertaken by Labour Youth was on combating unemployment. During the 1980s, Labour Youth proudly stood with the Dunnes Stores employees in their long strike against the apartheid regime in South Africa. They raised and donated £1900 to support the striking workers, and regularly joined them on the picket-lines. The 1980s also marked a high-point in terms of youth participation, whereby Labour Youth had over 1200 members and could call demonstrations of over 1000 people in Dublin alone. From the early 1980s Militant Tendency wielded significant control over the group, with Clare Daly, (now a ULA TD) being elected a youth representative for the Labour Administrative Committee. In 1988 a broad left coalition led by Vincent Byrne, Pat Montague and others won control over the group. The following year the leaders of Militant were expelled from the party.〔http://www.labour.ie/youth/about/history.html〕 Members were extremely active in the election of presidential candidate Mary Robinson, forming a base of membership during the campaign that would provide the backbone of leadership within the organisation for years to come. They provided leadership to the National Youth Council of Ireland and in 1992 were among the founding members of the European Council of Socialist Youth (Ecosy). The #Tom Johnson Summer School, which is still a major date on Labour Youth’s calendar, was first initiated in 1994. In 1999, along with the main party, Labour Youth merged with Democratic Left Youth. The group recently undertook an extremely active and visible role in the 2011 Irish General Election in support of Labour Party candidates. They later called on the Party to abandon talks on forming a coalition government with Fine Gael, describing the proposal as inherently undemocratic.〔http://www.independent.ie/national-news/labour-youth-call-on-party-to-ditch-coalition-talks-2565098.html〕 Labour Youth played a core role in the successful election campaign of Labour Party President and former Galway West TD Michael D. Higgins as the ninth President of Ireland in the 2011 Presidential Election. Throughout Higgins' long career in the Labour Party, he had been a vocal supporter of Labour Youth, and was a regular speaker at the annual Labour Youth Tom Johnson Summer School. In October 2013, Labour Youth condemned the Fine Gael-Labour coalition's cuts to welfare payments for young people in the 2014 budget.〔http://www.labouryouth.ie/2013/10/labour-youth-condemns-cuts-in-social-welfare-or-young-people/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Labour Youth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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