THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS AND THE COMMON MARKET Herewith the text of a resolution passed at the Young Socialist annual conference.
This Conference views with dismay the Trades Union
Congress and Labour Party's lack of a policy independent i che plates the do so sea
of the capitalist class in relation to European unity. Conference declares that the present attempts to unify Europe, i.e., economic unification accomplished from above through capitalist governments cannot succeed designed for the benefit of the monopolists and the financiers of Europe and will create a reactionary political
Conference recognising the historic and organic necessity £ European unity declares that it can only be achieve n the basis of a Socialist economy Labour Party of Britain and Europe to take the lead It therefore calls upon in organising the working class in the struggle for a Social. ist united Europe. As a first step to this, convening a general Congress of European Labour into which should be invited all the sections of the Labour Movement.
It believes that only such a policy can bring about € real unity, permit the planning of resources and industries and the aid of underdeveloped countries, and lay the foun. dations of peace and lasting prosperity. Conference restates the fundamental Socialist belief that economic crises and war are an inherent part of the capitalist mode of prois against the policies of declining world capitalism and the Common Market is one of these and is for an independent working class programme of International Socialism.
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