Liberation! is a response to the weakness of the groups that have traditionally organised young people - the trade unions, student unions and mass campaigns.
While we argue for the existing movements to open themselves up to young people, we also what to organise the fight for young people's rights today.
The Liberation! masthead states that we are 'For a Red, Green and Feminist Youth Movement. So we have been out in the colleges, on the streets and going to a number of anti-racist activities. We've had a good response in even the least expected places.
We also sold out of 12 copies at Manchester University's Labour Club. More reports of sales are coming in all the time.
Experience
For the moment, is a modest and also an ambitious project. Young people involved in producing the paper have met with activists with experience of building other radical youth organisations.
Two weeks ago a meeting of Liberation! supporters heard Seán Healy from the Australian young socialist group Resistance speak about their campaigns against censorship, in defence of the environment. deRevolution, the youth organisation sponsored in the 1980s by young British marxists. Young militants of the Fourth International - the worldwide socialist organisation - have also eagerly read the new quarterly.
In addition, Liberation supporters have participated in major gatherings outside the UK, of leaders of the revolutionary youth organisations supported by the Fourth International. and of its' ecologist militants.
Several thousand leaflets were distributed on the Unity demonstration advertising a Liberation! public meeting held in the heart of London's East End protesting the rise of the Students and youth alike, largely ignored by the trade union and Labour movement, have snapped up copies of Liberation! right. Asian socialist Bala Kumar and student militant Louise Whittle explained at the forum why a vouth movement must be built in Britain.
A new supplement to Liberation! will be printed next month. Regular meetings of Liberation! activists are continuing and a three-day course, including discussions, videos and classes by leaders of the Fourth International, will precede the editorial weekend for the next Liberation!, on 18 and 19 December.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 51, October 30 1993, Page 4