500 young supporters of the revolutionary organisation the Fourth International (FI) gathered in central Portugal on 26
Activists from Britain, France, Italy, Spain and beyond braved temperatures of over 40 degrees to share ideas about movDennis Rudi from Germany said; "The best thing about the youth camp is being able to gain international contacts and enter into debates. We have the unprecedented opportunity to talk about different conditions in different countries and how to make politics active. " While Jenny from Sweden said the best thing about the camp is so many socialists coming together from across the world. It's vital that we get the opportunity to share ideas, discuss different situations and get
The camp provides a unique opportunity to meet with students and young workers across Europe. The average age at the camp was just 18 years old. This year's British delegation was the largest for many years and reflects our involvement in
Even though the experiences were in some ways very different, the common experience of mass movements against war and capitalism came to the fore. This enabled us all to plan a common strategy, for example to intervene at the European Social Forum in Paris this November. The youth camp gave young Resistance supporters in Britain the opportunity to new ideas about how to mobilise and how to recruit". many initiatives and campaigns in the past year. No
PAE WAR war, No lies, No Blair! A GUERRILLA WAR against US and British occupation is raging in Iraq. The north of Baghdad is now an open battlefield between resistance fighters and imperialist troops. Every day sees more deaths of innocent civilians, and more British and American troops sent home in body bags.
The supposed establishment of 'democracy' is nothing more than a sham, with even middle eastern states friendly to the US refusing to recognise the interim gorernment. It is nothing more than a fig leaf for the privatisation of public services in Irag, an attempt to impose the same neoliberal agenda that has seen 50 million people in America without electricity, and millions die in the third world from poverty and AIDs.
US troops and multinationals now control every important aspect of life in Iraq; from water and electricity to oil, ports, hospitals and factories. This is like 19th century British colonialism.
In Britain, Tony Blair is a discredited liar who used his own terror tactic of the imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction to push through his and George Bush's vile agenda. He lied to us, he lied to his own party and he lied to parliament. After four months of occupation, not one single weapon has been found.
Now Blair has the nerve to tell the Hutton inquiry that anyone who questions him is attacking the credibility of the country. The death of Dr David Kelly has exposed the lengths new Labour will go to to protect themselves. They phone tapped to BBC in order to discredit their claim that the 'dodgy dossier' was sexed up, they used David Kelly as a fall guy, now they are fighting amongst themselves. July - August, to discuss the development of the international far left. ing forward the anti-war and anti-capitalist movements at the 20th youth camp. establish contacts with Fl activists across Europe, contacts that will prove invaluable to our work over the next year. R MURDER * • TO STOP THE WAR TU The government is in crisis because millions in Britain opposed Bush and Blair's lies from the beginning. Alistair Campbell's resignation is a sign of the government's weakness. The two million strong demonstration of the 15th February saw the biggest anti-war mobilisation in wartime in British history. That mood has intensified since the end of bombardment. At the end of August more than 1000 activists attended the People's Assembly organised by the stop the War collation. Tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of people will demonstrate in London on September 27 against occupation. In colleges and universities across the country Stop the War groups will be mobilising opposition to Blair and what's left of his cronies. Whilst he wages war in Iraq, he attacks students and young people, pensioners and workers with his neoliberal model of privatisation, racism and war. The anti-imperialist movement in Britain is part of a Over 500 young people found a space in the shade and joined the discussions