Vol. 71/No. 44      November 26, 2007

This column is written and edited by members of the Young Socialists, a revolutionary socialist youth organization. For more information contact the YS at 306 W. 37th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10018; tel.: (212) 629-6649; e-mail: youngsocialists@mac.com.

BY MAURA DELUCA  
NEW YORK—Join Young Socialists from around the United States and beyond in attending a national public meeting on Saturday, December 1 in New York City, sponsored by the New York City and Newark Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists.

The featured speakers will include Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, and Mary-Alice Waters, editor of New International magazine and Our History Is Still Being Written, recently back from China and Venezuela.

The presentations will explain the real perspective that U.S. imperialism offers working people and youth today—from economic devastation to expanding wars worldwide—and the perspective of building a revolutionary working-class movement in this country. They will describe the ongoing transformation of vanguard layers of the working class in the United States, and the participation of the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists in that process.

The speakers will take up the living example of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on working people and youth internationally, as seen in the response to the example of the three generals in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces who are of Chinese background: Gustavo Chui, Armando Choy, and Moisés Sío Wong. Their stories show how rebellious youth in Cuba from different backgrounds joined the fight led by a proletarian movement to change social relations completely, from the dog-eat-dog nature of capitalism to a society based on human solidarity. Both before and after the program there will be opportunities to meet young socialists and socialist workers from all over.

The following day, Sunday, December 2, at 10:00 a.m., there will be a gathering for those who would like to continue the discussion or ask questions on what was presented at the public meeting. Then at 1:00 p.m., there will be a national meeting of the Young Socialists, where perspectives for upcoming political activity and education will be planned and voted on.

This weekend will be a prime opportunity for young people interested in learning about revolutionary working-class politics and in joining the fight to eradicate capitalism and all its social ills. Join us this weekend—and beyond!

For details on the December 1-2 events, see the ad on the front page.

Maura DeLuca is a member of the Young Socialists in New York.  
 
 
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