Liberation!'s mobilisation for the Fourth International's youth camp in Italy next month is well underway.
After the victory of the far right government in Italy earlier this year, the attention of many radical youth has been drawn to Italy.
The camp, to be held north of Arezzo on July 22-29, will be an international celebration of the red, green and feminist alternative to the right. Young socialists from Canada, Russia and 16 European countries will enjoy a week of concerts, discos, films, sport, cabaret, trips, good food and share a wide range of experiences.
This year the anti-sexist content of the camp is especially attractive. Discussions at the camp include women in the former Yugoslavia, marxism and feminism, violence against women and children, women at work, the family and men and feminism.
The British delegation will run workshops on imperialism and the third world (the topic of the centre spread in this Socialist Outlook), and on economic liberalism. The camp will also include a range of discussions based around film showings in a special 'memory space' and more theoretical sessions.
This year's camp will have the biggest British delegation Even the beer is revolutionary! since 1990. The successful mobilisation is especially attributable to the efforts of Socialist Outlook readers. Leaflets and posters - especially around colleges and at May's Anti Nazi League carnival - have produced new inquiries about the camp.
This week hundreds more summer camp leaflets have been mailed out to selected Liberation! and Socialist Outlook readers about the camp.
Members of the Fourth International Supporters Association are being sent copies of the new issue of Liberation! and asked to consider making donations to allow further unwaged youth to come to the camp for the first time One thousand pounds has been paid down on the bus -entirely collected from the deposits of campers. Adult volunteers are being asked to come to help with translation and other technical work at the camp.
A July 3 meeting will finalise the details for the camp - agreemembers of the camp's governing committees - and will start to draw lessons for having an even larger delegation in 1995, when the camp may be even closer to Britain.
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NEXT MONTH the British government is host to Antonio • Martino, the new Italian foreign minister. Martino is a leader of the National Alliance, formerly known as the Italian Social Movement, an openly fascist organisation which numbers among its members Benito Mussolini's grand-daughter.
Foreign secretary Douglas Hurd says that opposition to Martino's visit is 'patronising', an attempt by British people to tell Italians what to do.
Hurd is either an idiot or knows nothing about Italy, or both. Martino's organisation is the first fascist movement to get into government in a major country since 1945.
The governing coalition in which the National Alliance participates, headed up by media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, is the most right-wing government in Europe, put into place to launch major attacks on workers' More than that, the election of a government including fascists has led to a wave of attacks on immigrants and foreigners. Three weeks ago tens of thousands of Italian skinheads, giving Hitler salutes, marched through the town of Vicenza. The election of Berlusconi's government was greeted with a giant fascist demonstration through Rome. Open fascism is on the march again in Italy. The National Alliance's accession to government has given heart to fascists throughout Europe; it was greeted enthusiastically by German Republicans' leader Franz Schoenhuber and by ultra-right-wing nationalist leader Zhirinovsky in Russia. But the visit of Martino offers us the opportunity to build demonstrations which will hearten workers and anti-fascists throughout Europe. Antonio Martino - not welcome here! WE BRING YOU unequalled international coverage, execellent reports of campaigns and labour movement activities in Britain. Subscriptions include theory+practice, our ocasional review, and Liberation!, the red green and feminist youth quarterly.
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