Lelegates to the Helsinki Youth Festival had distributed to them copies of Tilanne (Situation) a left wing socialist discussion journal. The editors had brought out a special issue for the occasion in Finnish, Inglish and Russian. The journal earlier this year published Natalia Tortksy's letter to Khrushchov demana= ing the rehabilitation Of Trotsky. Some idea of the approach of the journal can
"Tilame began to appear in November, 1961. The magazine is published in five ordinary editions and two double editions, whose tdal number of pages was 280 as of the last issue. Contributors to the magazine include a number of intellectuals who belong, or have belonged to the Finnish People's Democratic League or the Finnish Communist Party, and also workers and independents or other young intellectuals belonging to socialist parties. Many of the contributors are well-known writers and critics. Many belong to the Kiila organisation, a group of independent writers and artists who banded together in 1936 to oppose fascism and ware Fourty percent of its members sat in prison during the war against the Soviet Union. The purposes of the magazine are to generate froe socialist discussion on theoretical and practical questions, to follow the different directions the workers movement takes, to strengthen cooperation among the workers! movements and to unify the forces of socialism and humanism, "Our point of departure...is the revival of the thinking of the workers' movement and socialism. But the program and tasks of the movement are not determined by scme small magazines; workers! organisations do that. But on the other hand..a magazine can ignite, and be of service in, a discussion of principles....necessary for the revival of the movement"