The youth today feel some of the sharpest effects of the crisis of capital: slim job prospects, with a youth unemployment rate of 19 percent (38 percent for black youth); decent education only for a select few, because of the small number of jobs requiring a decent education; communities saturated with drugs. The youth have no future under capitalism. The striving of the youth today is not for the “freedom” that the youth of the 1960s sought. Their goal today is survival. Our program directs our comrades to draw the youth into the struggle in their own interests, against the capitalist class; to bring to the fore their class interests; to build a powerful communist movement of youth, a movement against capital.
We must move fast or we may lose a whole generation to bourgeois values or, even worse, to fascism. We therefore recommend the Party set up a task force on youth.