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The following is the text of a leaflet given out in French and inglish at Helsinki to participants in the world Youth Festival.
Dear Comrades,
The Fourth Intornational , World Party of the Socialist Revolution, founded by Leon Trotsky and by the Left Opposition of the Communist Intornational to defend Leninist principles against Stalinist revisionism, greets the youth of the world gathered in Helsinki to express the fraternity of the peoples of the world.
The Fourth International greets this youth that lives in a decisive . 1 stage of the history mankind, the stage of the disintegration of imperialism and capitalism, the stage of the world struggle for Socialism.
But today this youth lives under the threatening shadow of the huclear destruction of mankind. The Fourth International declares to them: there is no — other means to remove this threat than the victorious struggle for the disarmment of world capitalism, for the conquest of power by the workers in the principal capitalist countries, Great Britain and the U.S.A. It is a dangerous illusion to believe that it is always possible to avoid war by the mere exertion of pressure upon capitalist governments, through the so-called policy of 'peaceful co-existence! Faced with the dilemma of capitulating witiout a struggle to the rising revolution-— ary tide and defending itself by all the means at its disposal, including the use of nuclear weapons, U.S. imperialism will undoubtodly launch a nuclear war, if not thwarted in time by the working class of that country.