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Delegates Marxist Group was represented by five the founding conference of the Jeunesses Revolution[Revolutionary Com- in Mexico. munist Youth] in Paris over the weekend of 17-18 March. conference The conference followed a year of organising supporters youth launched by the Communist independent The new organisation starts of over 1,000, representing all sections - workers and school, technical college and Its declared aim is to unite all the class for socialist This will involve the JCR fighting to organise unions which independently organise the different sections of youth, central political camThe conference decided on two campaigns to establish the JCR as a national organisation:
March Against Youth Unemployment and contraception rights for also voted to campaign in defence of youth prosecuted under the French age of consent laws and to send a telegram demanding that the United States government give political asylum to Hector Marroquin, a Mexican Trotskyist who faces the threat of deportation and imprisonment The main debate at the concerned the Fourth International. At the vote, it was overwhelmingly agreed that the JCR, itself an organisation, should affiliate to the Fourth As one speaker put it: The youth are not a class, we choose a class to ment with: the Intercontinental Pres:
WORKERS UPSURGE DEMANDS HALT TO FRENCH COL STEEL LAYOFFS working class. In choosing a class we must also choose programme and a banner. We choose the programme of socialist revolution and world socialism. We choose to build an organisation which prac tically embodies that programme the Fourth Revolutionary youth organisations from Portugal to the USA were represented at the conference, and we left feeling that an important step had been taken not simply in building a revolutionary organisation of French youth, but also towards re-building a Revolutionary Youth International.
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