Six years efter its demise, Rebel is again published as the cuthentic voice of the Labour PF rty Young Socialists. “ith the edvent of Hocus, the unbelievably insipid paper which Trensport House has foisted on its long cuffering youth movement, the regular publication of such a paper written for youth and by youth is an absolute necessity if the Young Socialists are to attract the attention of the politically conscious or, for that matter, the politically curious. It is the latter who are in danver of beincm weaned away into the Young jiwerals, where they will be able to pursue the right policies in the wrons organisation, and where thev will be suffered for just so long as their influence is neglirsible admittedly a lons, term prospect in the Liberal Party. Rebel should convince them that the firht is still very much alive within the Labour Farty. Low that we have entered the phase when socialism itself is openly proscribed by Uransport Uouse (for that is what the expulsion of Ten Coates and the disciplining of John Palmer and others really count to), it is obvious that the Youns Socialists will be under constant vressure. Unlike the abstentions of the traditional left snolesmen, their activities are likelv to be hich on the list of luxuries which Sara “arker cannot aiford. hat Rebel will speak out fearlessly for socialism is selfevident by its first issue: that it will support others who are under attack coes without saying. Whether or not it, in turn, will be supported depends upon the extent to which the left has learnt that it cannot afiord to be picked off one by one. The new, tough Wilson line should have made it clear to ail that Sara Yarker has a list as lons as ho-Mo's in ‘The Mikaco'. ; As with Ko-ko's list, "there will none of them be missec”. It is simply a matter of priorities, in which the purge will eventually seep down into the corridors of Westminster. “righton indiceted that the lesson was Leing swiftly, if belatedly Lecornt is many quartors; end one hopes that Rebel has arrived et the right moment to be assured of the sunnort which it deserves and which it wit. most certaini* need.
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