IUSY

It seems like half of the NZ left blogs are heading overseas to theInternational Union of Socialist Youth Festival in Austria.

You have to love any organisation which still has a body called a “Presidium” – it sounds so Soviet 🙂

To be fair I’ve actually served on a UN Working Group with the former head of the IUSY and he was a great guy – got on very well. In fact the three political reps (the socialists, liberals and conservatives) often get on well as they all have an interest in politics, and hence more in common than reps from the non political groups.