carried the guns into the streets, and spurred on the masses with their fighting enthusiasm for the uprising. Today in the north of Ireland. British soldiers invading Catholic ghettos get most uneasy once school 15 0u1, because it's then that youth are on the streets, and prepared to fight back.
In every revolution that has taken place, youth mounted the barricades, at the meetment. The fish forted foretront the workers liberation as an oppressed group in society is part and parcel of the struggle for socialism - for a genuinely democratic society which enda all inequalities and injustices.
It's on this pobtical basm that socialis support the organisation of youth - or women, or blacks. Support is not a moral question. As long as any pilt or society remains oppressed, the working class itself will not be The revolutionary party aims to politically unlite oppressed and exploited by winning them to a programme which champions their rights. The party is not just an added extra in SEaR struggle for socialism - it's vital. this - they can strengthen it enormously. The future of the party is in their hands; and in their dynamism and enthusi2s11.
It's they who can guarantee the party will remain in touch with all the new and critical developments in the strugale But even If everyone agreed have that a party is essential, no one would be too quick to say it is an easy task to build one with mass influence in every section of society.
Its especially difficult in Britain, where revolutionaries have been divided for too long. often on secondary issues, and torn apart with seciarianism.
A mass party in Britain will be built through splits and fusions inside rhe cristing working ciass political events on us internatinnal scale.
We want to win youth to this goal, but there are spocial ways In 1916 Lenin said: the middle aged and the aged often don't know haw to apprpach the necess than t socialism in a different way, by other paths to their fathers fand that is why we eggae fans march against the | organisational independence of Youth Leagues...
For unless complete independence. the youth will be unable either to train good socialists from their midst or prepare themseives to Tead socialism forward. Class Lenin was dead right.
way youth radicalise calls for their independent organisation.
Moreover, youth are making up their minds about their lives. and about society in general. They are in the process of being formed as members of society.
Of course, they don't have the personal and social stability of'adult revolutionaries. That's why they need to organise in a way which takes account of "e's for all these reasons that Socialist Challenge welcomes the appearance of the youth paper Revolution, It's the first step towaris building a youth organisation based on a full programme for socialist revolThe Lution.
It's through building this kind organisation today towards our common aim of establishing a mass revolutionary party on an international scale. society in order to exclude the they have The that vouth drawn Today in Czechoslovakia | south; for the extension of