Hull youth mobilise for by-election

from a Hull reader Arising from the determination of the Young Socialists in Hull to partidpate in the forthcoming by-election campaign, not as mere canvassing fodder, but on the basis of maintaining the socialist content of the Labour Party's 1964 manifesto a mass meeting of all socialist youth on Sunday, December 5th set up an ad hoc Youth Forum Committee and adopted the following statements "A Labour Government should not be judged in terms of its populsrity with pollsters or even in terms of its effectiveness in comparison with the morally corrupt crew that went before theme It should be judged solely in terms of what it does to change the bases of our society in a socialist direction, “That is why we are opposed to some of the present Government's major initiations, In particulars "1. We oppose the Immigration White Paper, as a victory for racialism which substitutes colour, country and creed for class, We demand full freedom of immigration for workers everywhere. "2, We oppose the threatened anti-union legislation as being solely in the interests of the bosses. On the contrary, "3, Let Labour fulfil its rusty promise to nationalise basic industry starting with steel now. "4, We oppose the Government's gunboat tactics in Aden and their support for American genocide in Vietnam, We demand the withdrawal of troops from both and active support for both national independence movements. "5, We oppose the Government's union with the bosses, And demand that they take measures to open company accounts to public scrutiny. The workers must be protected from the vicious attacks from the employers and the right wing press, "We should be aple to discuss these points and others affecting the Labour Government and the Party. Only in free discussion can the democratic traditions of socialism be confirmed, We shall fight to keep the Labour Government in office and we shall fight for North Hull to remain Labour and we shall fight to achieve socialism in this country and the world," The tenor of the discussion which preceded the adoption of this statement reflected the same sense of urgency which has attended the setting up of the Manchester Socialist Conference, and the Centre for Socialist Educatione Whilst the immediate purpose of the Youth Forum is to make known the voice of socialism within the Labour Party, at a time when attention will be focussed by the by-election, the healthy converging of different trends within the left upon a common enterprise is worth noting for its wider implications,