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DRAFT PRINCIPLES

(The Labor Youth League) works for a peaceful, secure, and happy life for

every young American

worker, student, veteran, farmer.

It educates youth in a spirit of devotion to the working people. It bases irs program on the proposition that the needs and desires of the youth are bound up inseperably with the immediate and fundamental interests of the working class. I recognizes the working class as the source of progress in the modern world, as the deferder of the democratic traditions of our country, as the force capable of assuring lasting peace. Therefore, it stimulates interest in, and study of, Marxism, and educates youth in the principles of Scientific Socialism-the beacon-light and historic goal of the working class.

(The Labor Youth League) at all times promotes the cooperation and unity of American youth, Negro and white, to improve their daily lives and advance their democratic aspirations. It organizes young people irrespective of sex, color, national origin, or religious belief. It strives to enrich their lives, build their characters, train them for leadership--promoting both study and action, providing culture, social, and sport activities.

(The Labor Youth League) stands against the big business tycoons whose system exists by war and human misery. It opposes Wall Street's preparations for a third world war. It opposes reaction's drive to fascism. It opposes all efforts to militarize America's young people and to poison their minds. It combats every form of chauvinism, war mongering, white supremacy, religious bigotry, anti-Semitism, labor-baiting, and anti-Communism.

(The Labor Youth League) strives for friendship between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. as the cornerstone of lasting peace. It also builds fellowship and solidarity with the democratic youth of all nations, united in their determination for peace, and in their hatred for imperialism and colonial oppression.

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(The Labor Youth League) calls on youth to defend, support, and build the trade unions. It calls for a vigorour defense of the economic rights and interests of working youth, threatened by mounting unemployment and developing economic crisis. It opposes every kind of special exploitation of young workers, whether through wage discrimination, speed-up, or child labor.

(The Labor Youth League) works for the forging of unbreakable solidarity between Negro and white youth, in the conviction that this unity is indispensable to the fight for peace and to every struggle and advance of America's working people. It combats every aspect of the national oppression of the Negro people, and fights for the full equality of Negro youth in every phase of American life. (The Labor Youth League) strives for the democratization and expansion of education, opposing the concerted efforts of reaction further to limit educational opportunity and corrupt its content. It works for the health and recreation needs of young Americans.

(The Labor Youth League) defends the Constitution and Bill of Rights against every enemy of democracy. It rallies young people to defend and extend the democratic gains achieved in the rich history of our country, through the glorious struggles of America's common people. It inspires youth to love our country. (The Labor Youth League) instills young people with faith in the America which can and will become a land of free and equal people, a land of Socialism. It creates confidence in a future free of man's exploitation of man--a future without wars, without want, without racial and national oppression. (The Labor Youth League)

believes that through the conviction and unity of the overwhelming majority of its workers and common people, America will become a country which offers its youth limitless opportunity for creative work, education, and happiness.

In åll of its endeavors, (The Labor Youth League) holds high the tradition of young Americans of past generations who were never found wanting in time of Crisis. It honors the heroes and heroines who are the symbols of youth's service

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to the cause of progress and to the people: Nathan Hale and Crispus Attucks of the War of Independence: the young rebel slave Gabriel and the sons of John Brown; Harry Simms, Joe York, James Ashford, and Dave Doran, Young communists who gave their lives organizing young workers and fighting fascism in the forefront of the great democratic youth movement of the 30's; Dorie Miller, Colin Kelly, Meyer Levin, Herman Boettcher and every young American whose blood was joined with that of the young heroes of other nations in the anti-Axis war.

This, our heritage, is our inspiration.

(The Labor Youth

League) proclaims its confidence that young Americans of today

will not be found wanting in humanity's cause of peace and freedom.

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A SPEECH

THAT BECAME THE

PROGRAM OF ACTION

OF THE KOMSOMOL

an article by: N. NIKOLAYEV

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In May 1948 the Soviet press devoted much spone to tie ihm anniversary of J.V. Stalin's address to the 8th Congress The Latin Young Commmist League of the

Soviet Union.

Together with Vladimir Lenia, Stalin took part in found lan Developing and concretising Lenin's directives of the tutan að te Ocameniet Youth League, Stalin elaborated the ideological and organisatkʊamā pūšasiples of the Koma omol. He gave a clear definition of the Homrtimol, of the place and role in the Soviet state as one of the principal "levers" of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as the aid of the Bolshevik Party in the education of millions of young people and children in the spirit of Communism.

Along with Lenia's speech at the 3rd Congress of the Young Commmist League of the Soviet Union, Stalin's address to the 8th Congress of the League became a program of action for the Komsomol and pre-determined its future development and activity.

SETTING OF THE 8TH CONGRESS

The 8th Congress of the YCLSU was held May 5-16, 1928. That was on the eve of a period famous in the history of the USSR; the period of the Stalin Five-Year Plans, in which the USSR, thanks to the inflexible will of the Party and the unparalleled heroism of the Soviet people, took the great strides that transformed it from a backward agrarian country into a leading industrial power.

Underlying the work of the 8th Congress of the Komsomol were the decisions of the 16th Party Congress (December 1927), which laid down the directives for the drawing up of the first Five Year Plan. They called for an acceleration of the pass of the country's industrialisation and for the fullest development of collectivisation in agriculture.

Guided by the directives of the Party, the 8th Congress discussed the questions relating to the direct participation of the youth in the development of the national economy. The Congress drew up a concrete program of work for the Komsomol to aid in the realisation of the First Five-Year Plan.

It adopted a number of important decisions of the education of young workers and peasants, and on the training of cadres. It became imperative for all Komsomol organisations to intensify their political, cultural and educational activities among the youth, to conduct a resolute struggle against alien-class influmes, against the survivals of tho past. At the 8th Congress, the Koms othol was presented the Order of the Red Banner in recognition of its combat services on the frents of the Civil War.

Stalin carefully followed the proceedings of the Congress and guided its work. At the concluding session, Stalin addressed the delegates. The leader of the Soviet people gave a profound analysis of the specific situation prevailing in that period, and defined the tasks of the Bolshevik Party and of the Komsomol in light of that situation.

What were the specific features of the situation then, and the nature of the tasks?