p According to the CPSU Central Committee Report to the 24th Party Congress more than half the Soviet Union’s population are young people. "The Party,” Leonid Brezhnev said, "has been and shall go on giving much of its attention to the problems, cares and interests of young people.”  [9•1 

p The 1969 International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties paid much attention to youth and its role in the world revolutionary process. The successes of the world socialist system, the class battles in the capitalist world and the upsurge of the national liberation movement are drawing more and more young people into the revolutionary struggle in active opposition to imperialist wars, militarism, racism and neo-fascism.

p However, the contribution which they make to the general revolutionary struggle depends on their orientation, ideals and the road they follow.

If a keen ideological struggle is to be waged for the minds of young people, then a theoretical analysis of their role and place in the revolutionary process and in building socialism and communism is required. This analysis should be accompanied by practical work in helping young people shape an integral Marxist-Leninist world outlook and drawing them into the active struggle for the revolutionary transformation of the modern world.