I daresay we'll be hearing a lot more of this after this CPB Congress this weekend but it seems to me that one of the problems is that these new YCLers don't understand the difference between "autonomy" and "independence" these days. In the old Party it was always understood that the while the YCL elected its own leadership it was still the youth movement of the CPGB (that at least was my understanding at the time).

Guy Burgess
Eton & Cambridge