The Labour Youths has to be on the forefront to prevent anyone from being discriminated because of disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or political affiliation.

The Labour Youths together with its European colleagues is duty bound to struggle in favour of a new social Europe which invest in people and strengthens solidarity.

Preceding this event was a powerful speech by Prime Minister Mintoff that reached its peak with the final two paragraphs: ‘Is-Siegħa tal-Prova waslet.

Il-poplu Malti li tant iġġieled fl-imgħoddi battalji ta’ ħaddieħor issa wasal biex juri lid-dinja jekk veru kibirx u sar nazzjon.

Biex ikun irrispetat minn popli oħra irid juri li hu lest biex il-battalja għad-drittijiet tiegħu jiġġelidha b’aktar qilla, b’sagrifiċċju akbar u b’rieda aktar soda milli fl-imgħoddi kien jiġġieled il-gwerer ta’ ħaddieħor Quddiem Alla għandna raġun.

Issa sta għalina li dan ir-raġun neħduh ukoll mingħand in-nies ta’ din id-dinja.

The first factor was that the British Government in Malta prohibited the officials of the General Workers Union from using the ‘Rediffusion’ (radio station) to inform their members who should or should not go to work.

Some of the drivers feared that they would lose their jobs and thus they tried to work but they were becoming the target of the protesters who were blocking the roads with barricades and spreading oil on the streets.

Fighting between the protesters and the Police, which were helped by the British commandos occurred in Raħal Ġdid and Marsa with the worst episode happening at ‘It-Telgħa ta’ Kordin’.

Following the Referendum for Integration with Great Britain in 1956 and the general strike of 1958, the Roman Catholic Church in Malta was becoming more suspicious of the Labour Party.

In the 1950s the Labour League of Youth used to organise Socialists Summer Camps and was being criticised by adversaries as spreading the Communist ideas amongst its members.

Some youth columnists’ names are quite popular since they went on to be the leaders of the Labour Party such as Lino Spiteri, Lorry Sant, Joe Micallef Stafrace, Danny Cremona and Pawlu Xeureb.

On 21 February 1960, Archbishop of Malta: Sir Michael Gonzi and the Bishop of Gozo Gużeppi Pace, wrote a Pastoral Letter to be read in all churches of both dioceses to prepare the believers for the coming Lent .

On the front page a big heading title: ‘Tibqa’ ddur’, an article by John Rizzo who was in fact a ‘nom de plume’.

The article mentions the story of the astronomer Galileo Galilei who had to sign a declaration in front of the Inquisition in Rome in 1633, that he was rejecting his theories that the world circulates around the sun.

In a globalised world no one can isolate himself and thus the Labour Youth Forum's intentions during the 1990s was to find other partners around Europe to work with them and even to get an international recognition.

On 21 January 2012, Dr Joseph Muscat carried out his discourse at the end of the General Conference of the Labour Party with a speech that was to be the base of his vision for Malta.

This campaign saw the Labour Youth Forum gaining importance since it was working with people who sympathised with the Nationalist party but who were in favour of the introduction of divorce in Malta.

The general election could have come as early as January 2012 when Franco Debono, a Nationalist member of parliament was threatening not to support the government.

In 2012 the ‘START’ campaign was introduced with the aim of encouraging and giving all aid to young people who wanted to be involved in the local council elections.

As part of ‘START’, youths were invited to address the Annual General Conference of the Labour Party and have their say about issues concerning our country.

The general election was coming close so it was important for the Labour to increase the number of youths that were ready to support and be active in it.