Young Socialists is the youth section of the Workers Revolutionary Party. It organises young people in the fight against capitalism.

Young Socialist is also the weekly colour newspaper of the YS.

This week's editorial (22.11.08) of the YS is:
Stop military recruiting on campus! Troops out of Iraq & Afghanistan!

Young Socialist is completely opposed to the military recruiting students from universities and colleges around the country. The Young Socialists Students Society has therefore launched a national campaign to keep the military out .
Young people do not go on to further education to become cannon fodder to fight imperialist wars on behalf of US and British imperialism. But the army, unable to attract new young recruits, is targeting schools, colleges and universities promising young people ‘excitement’, ‘a training’, ‘a job’ and in some cases, even ‘offering to pay university fees’, in an attempt to lure youth to sign up and join.
A similar plan was carried out by the Bush administration in the US promising poor young people, particularly in the Southern states, that they would return from fighting in Iraq and be given the chance for an education.
Some will never get that chance ... they lost their young lives fighting for imperialism against ordinary Iraqi people so that US imperialism could grab Iraq’s oil.
Young people’s future does not lie in fighting for an imperialist system that is destroying millions of people’s lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries.
In fact, the imperialist troops meet huge numbers of Iraqi and Afghan people who are resisting them ferociously as these troops are used to try and grab the rich resources from these countries for imperialism.
So far, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already resulted in the deaths of over one million people! It is imperialist barbarism to try and keep a dying capitalist system going.
No one should be under any illusion. The army, navy, the officer corps, etc train youth to use weapons to kill.
Young people are being used to defend imperialism that at home, is destroying all our lives.
It is the same government that is driving up fees, creating mass unemployment, cutting education, bringing in privateers into health, education and housing.
We have no reason to fight to defend such a government. Instead our role is to join with the working class to bring it down.
That is why we completely oppose any militarisation of youth and have launched this national campaign to keep the army out of schools, universities and colleges. And in universities and colleges here in Britain, students are already passing motions to keep the army recruiters out of freshers fairs and off campus.
The leaders of the National Union of Students refuse to lead any campaign on this issue and we demand that they be thrown out and a new leadership be immediately put in that will fight in the interests of students – not imperialist governments.
The greater the crisis of this capitalist system, the more it will launch ferocious attacks on workers and youth all over the world.
We stand side by side with the youth, students and workers of Iraq and Afghanistan. Their enemy is also our enemy – US and British imperialism.
That is why we urge all students to join our campaign, demand the immediate withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and drive these army recruiters off our campuses!

If you would like to get a copy – its only 40p then contact us.

Young Socialists Students Societies meet in most colleges. If you would like the latest Student leaflet please contact us.

YS organises social activities as well as political meetings which include sport, dances, music, etc. For further information contact us.