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The follwoing report appeared in La Conquista, lst October, the journal \ of the Italian G.F.G.S. (the Nenni Socialists Youth Fecsration). Hd. Note,
At Kessingland in ungland, there was held from the 7th to the 14th of September a TZuropean seminar of left-wing young socialist organisations, in which which .P. Thompson, Henry Collins, i. Roberts, John Rex, M. Kidron, Tony Cliff, R. Miliband and several others participated. The seminar which had as a theme "Reform or Revolution", waz organised by N.A.L.S.O. and by some Young Socialists, both of which are connected with the Labour Party, and by the journals New Left Review and Young Guard.
Among the participants at the seminar, besides the sponsors, wore the “nglish ¥.C.L., the Norwegian Union of Socialist Students, the review Clarte of the Swedish Socialist Students, the Association of Austrian Socialist Middle-school Students, the Socialist Young Guard of Belgium; and ovr organisation was represent— ed by comrades Giacardo Lucerni and Guido Pollice. There were also present some fifty young reople from English youth organisations and from the Labour Party. The initiative taken at the Ariccia Congress at Rome, promoted by the F.G.S., to set unity of action and discussion of the left-wing organisations of Surope, led us to join this seminar.
The discussion, although it was not at a very high level (excepting the sessicn held by Ernest Mandel of the Belgian Left Socialists) demonstrated the great need for ideological precision in seeking to regroup and unify in action the diverse forces of the Inglish Lsft, so that they may undertake a concrete struggle against the right-wing of the Labour Party and towards revolutionary perspectives for the inglish \lorkers! movement. Today more than ever it is ° necossary for the forces of the iiuropsan Left to unify, to work out a revolution~ ary strategy which leaves no room for reformism: because today's "reformism" is that of Fanfani, MacMillan, Kennedy and similar people. The international workers! movement needs to discover how to organise itself as a class, and to pose concretcly the alternative to the power of capitalism. ; It was with this intention that we participated in this conferel:ce, and with this intention we shall join in future meetings, in the hope that from them it will be possible to develop concrete political action in every country.