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sects the MEET warmest greetings to the Young Socialists' 12th Annual Conference in Scarborough this weekend.

By their consistent, tireless and uncompromising struggle against Toryism and reformist treachery, the Young Socialists have justly earned the praise and admiration of every section of the labour movement.

For the same reason they have also attracted the venom and proscription of the right-wing traitors and their Stalinist and revisionist allies in the trade unions and Labour Party But as the achievements of 12 years' principled struggle shows there is no force that can stop the inexorable progress of the YS.

The unique history of the YS is the most significant testimony to the correctness of the Marxist method and programme. It also confirms in the most vivid manner, the political genius and perspicacity of the founder of the Fourth international, Leon Trotsky, who fought to establish the revolutionary international on the new generation of workers.

The YS has a record of which it can be justly proud. It LED the campaign in 1964 against the Labour Party right wing's policies of class collaboration and witch-hunting.

CAMPAIGNED on behalf of the old age pensioners in the period of the Labour government.

FOUGHT uncompromisingly against every attempt to stifle independent trade unionism.

ORGANIZED against the infamous Prices and Incomes Act while the Stalinists and centrists were asking workers, to IN NEXT WEEK'S Cliff Slaughter disstatements recently SCARBOROUGH TURDAN & SUNDA IN CONFERENCE wait for CAMPAIGNED to establish solidarity with the seamen on strike in 1966, despite the diversions the Stalinists and AND all through the period of the Labour government's betrayals the YS joined with the Socialist Labour Leagüe in the campaign to expose the right-wing leaders, make the 'left' MPs fight and lay the basis for an alternative leadership in the working class.

Because of this principled struggle and its refusal to compromise with the reformists, the YS was able to make a powerful contribution to the creation of the daily paper, the Workers Press, the building of the All Trades Unions Alliance and to strengthen and consolidate the The magnificent rally of 8,500 at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12, which ended the Right-to-Work marches, has shown that the YS is well on the way to being a decisive political force in Britain.

No other movement has made bv arch-revisionist, in and in th view with 'Der Spiegel'. ursday: lan Yeats begins a four-part investigation of one of the most ruthless engineering battles in England. No engineer facing pay and jobs fights can afford to miss this completely-documented series.

Iday: The execution of the leading Communists in the Sudan: a casebook in treachery. able to organize anything comparable to this tally or match the audacity, energy and political ambition of the YS. This is the greatest tribute to Trotskyism in W Europe.

Today the progress of the YS is seen in the qualitative growth in membership and regional organization and the circulation of its monthly paper 'Keep Left'.

Above all, it is seen in the quality of its political and theoretical work and the training of a political cadre which will provide the leadership for the coming British revolution.

The highpoint of this struggle is expressed in the draft main resolution of this weekend's conference.

The resolution begins with the monetary crisis and the August 15, 1971, measures and shows the irreversible nature of the economic crisis and its immediate and historic implications for the working class. It says:

The crisis within world capitalism drives the employers to attack all workers' rights and living standards and to move increasingly towards dictatorial and fascist forms of rule.

At the same time it must intensify the trend towards war above all war to recapture the markets and territories lost to capitalism following the Russian and Chinese Revolutions.

The alternatives before the working : class are very sharply posed in the world- either to go forward to socialism or to barbarism.

To accept this analysis, however, is not enough. To concretize it, as the YS resolution shows, is to participate in the struggles of the working class, defeat and expose its reformist and revisionist misleaders and direct all the energies of the class towards: TROOPS FOM ULSTE The defeat and resignation of the Tory government and the election of Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

In the words of the resolution:

No Young Socialist can sit back and accept Heath and his cronies be allowed to remain in power for their full term of office a further three and a half The truth of these words is amply borne out by the manner in which the employers and the government are implementing the Industrial Relations Act against the unions.

It is the attitude to the Tory government and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies that differentiates the revolutionaries from the reformists in the working class.

But if this task is to be successfully prosecuted, it will not be done spontaneously or by some rank-and-file pressure and protest. The entire history of the YS and the construction of the Workers Press confirms, in every way, the correct and most decisive conclusion of the YS resolution:

To build the Young Socialists into a mass revolutionary youth movement is to lay the foundations for the greatest transformation in human history. This task is impossible without the corresponding development in consciousness to the highest level yet achieved-in the Marxist method of dialectical materialism and its application to a scientific study of society.

This is the challenge of Scarborough 1972. We are confident that the YS will once again confound its enemies and inspire its supporters by accomplishing this task.

AND BOBBY SEALE Rolls-Royce Scottish plant gives pay strike notice FOURTEEN hundred hourly-paid workers at the larger of the two Rolls-Royce factories in E Kilbride, Lanarkshire, voted at a mass meeting yesterday to give seven days' notice of strike action over a pay claim.

The action was recommended by shop stewards who told the meeting that discussions on the claim were to be held next Thursday between the company and full-time union officials.

Works convenor Alastair McCulloch said afterwards that the meeting had been two-to-one in favour of strike notice.

Notice would take effect next Friday unless Rolls-Royce conceded to an 8 per cent increase without strings as a basis for negotiation.

This would give workers rises ranging from £2 to £2.50 a week.

Workers at all the other Scottish Rolls plants-at Hillington (Glasgow), Blantyre (Lanarkshire) and the other E Kilbride factory — accepted increases of between. £3.25 and £4.75, a. week.

Press, Saturday