WFDY News July August 2008

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In this issue:

The India USA Nuclear Agreement

The Caucasian War

& more...

July/August 2008

ULDY Lebanon Anti Imperialist March


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August was a real hot month this year!New indications for the emergence ofinternational conflicts appeared in theCaucasus after Georgia involved in theexpanding NATO projects and newemerging power of capitalist Russiainterfered. The war caused the deathsof thousands of civilians from bothsides and proved that United States andNATO are no proof for stability in anycountry. On the contrary, their

expansions projects can only bringdeath and misery to the peopleinvolved in the process. Russia proveditself as the main power in the regionbut also proved its imperialist characteras a country militarily interfering toprotect its interests. This region willwitness more troubles and tensions asthe indirect fight between NATO andRussia evolves through other countries like Ukraine, Poland and Czech Republic.

This also reasserts the need to stop the militarization of the world and the importance of the dismantling of themilitary bases in Europe and across the world. WFDY and its member organizations have been strugglingagainst those bases for long years, and were clear in their opposition of the new suggested bases in Poland andCzech Republic. Peace and stability in the world cannot be established under the presence of more than 700 U.Sarmy bases around the globe with millions of troops of NATO interfering and invading countries like Iraq andAfghanistan, and dividing countries like the former Yugoslavia and its descendant countries.WFDY will continue its struggle for the right of a peaceful world free of wars and sectarian and ethnic divisionscreated by imperialism.

In this respect it is also important to emphasize the opposition of our member organization in India for thenuclear agreement signed by the Indian government with the United States, and the march organized by ULDYLebanon to bring the Lebanese people together above the sectarian divisions that create continuous tensions andstrives.

The struggles of the youth against imperialism continue in different regions around the world from LatinAmerica with its Bolivarian alternatives to the streets of Europe for the students and young worker's rights. The

thFederation of Young Communists in Italy organized its 4 National camp under the title of Resistance 2008and gathered hundreds of people to reinforce the struggle for the students' rights during next autumn and thedifferent rights of Italian Youth under the neo-liberal policies of Berlusconi.

WFDY continues its actions in service of youth rights and will be near to the youth in their anti-imperialist

struggles against wars and exploitation, for peace and social transformation.

Editorial

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The victory

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Under the slogan of All of Lebanon is for us all, the Union of LebaneseDemocratic Youth launched a 34-day march that started from the city of Aley inmount of Lebanon on July 6 and finished in a central activity in Beirut on August 9,008.

The march walked for 34 full days, 7-8 hours per day through all major Lebaneseowns, villages and cities covering about 1000 km of total distance demanding thenity and the civil peace in the Lebanese society, and enlightening the youth abouthe dangers of sectarian divisions promoted by foreign interventions and internaloliticians.ectarianism is the one of the most dangerous tools of division in the Lebaneseociety that consists of 18 religious sects. And the Lebanese youth and people havelways been victims of divisions and tensions reaching the level of civil wars ateveral times in recent history.

The importance of the march lies, not only in the huge distance covering allLebanese towns, but also more importantly in the message that it carried to youthrom all regions and religions in Lebanon. The message was that the bordersetween Lebanese people are only illusive and fake, that we can unify ourselves

WFDY Activities

The 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students,1951 was convened in Berlin to continue its verytradition of fighting for justice, peace and friendshipagainst fascism and imperialism. The choice ofBerlin was imperative as it was the place fromwhere the fascism was grown up and speeded itsugly tentacles against world people, and finallywhere it was turned to dust by the power of worldpeople. That festival was convened under theslogan For Peace and Friendship against NuclearWeapons as the race of nuclear armament was

being again threaten. It was especially creatingtension in Asia as America was waging a war inKorean peninsula and France was intervening toIndo-China. Even in western countries, the 'WitchHunt' in the US and punishment in military court

ULDY Anti-imperialist March

The Coordinating Council of WFDY and an International Consultative Meetingof the World Festival of Youth and Students took place, on July 17 and 18, in

Caracas, Venezuela, hosted by the Communist Youth of Venezuela.Both meetings had the presence of more than 30 organizations, which

contributed to enrich the discussion on the steps to be given in the future tokeep reinforcing the youth's struggle against imperialism. The continuation ofthe Campaign on Education We struggle for a Public, Free and Quality

Education for All!, as well as the solidarity towards KSM Czech Republic,Burmese and Palestinian youth were highlighted as priorities of an intense

calendar of struggles and activities ahead of all organizations until the GeneralCouncil Meeting of WFDY, to take place in India, next December.

Throughout the ICM it was clear that, despite the difficulties that thewithdrawal of Belarus to host the Festival, all organizations are willing to work

for an anti-imperialist 17th WFYS, even stronger than the 16th in all politicalaspects.

WFDY CC and WFYS Partners meet - The struggle goes on!

WFDY HistoryThe 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students - Berlin - 1951against progressive forces was under way.However it was the time of great resistance ofprogressive forces and the festival was markedby the same.

Imperialist forces had denied visa to thedelegates of festival and Berlin road wasblocked. American and British helicopters werecontinually scattering pamphlets againstfestival. In one night, anti-festival and pro-fascist forces entered eastern Berlin andvandalized the streets. But this only fueled

more the feeling of unity and resistance. On12th of August, around one million youth fromGDR accompanied by the festival 26000delegates took a march in the street ofWestern-Berlin against militarization of FRG.

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nd walk to each other's places.The diversity of the members of ULDY among all regions and groups helped intensify the message and reach thousands of youth who wereesponsive with the idea and greeted the march in their respective towns. Some of the media was also responsive to the new idea and had some fairoverage of the event, and this allowed it reach a big audience of Lebanese yout

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International NewsThe Nuclear Agreement between India and USAThe current UPA-led coalition of Monmohan Singh has finally agreed Indo-USNuclear deal despite the serious opposition of lefts. The Indo-US Nuclear deal has beenull of controversy ever since its inception. The serious question raised by lefts is thathe deal betrays the values that India has been carrying its legacy of non-align

movement. It binds Indian right to decide its independent energy policy enhancingndependent relationship with different nations.ndia is an energy hunger country to feed its growing economy and there is no doubthat it needs multifaceted energy development plan. But the nuclear deal can only fullill 3 percent of energy need of India and it could reach 7 percent even after completion

of whole project in 25 years.t is claimed that India would get access of US Civilian nuclear technology and fuelnstead of allowing civilian nuclear facilities to inspection. The fear of progressiveorces of India is that the US will influence too much over India's foreign and nuclearolicy. Moreover, this huge amount of money could be used in health and education byuilding 20,000 new public hospitals or colleges.

WFDY member organizations in India have been organizating huge campaigns in parliament, in streets, in colleges and in villages. Till nowhundrends of thousand of youths and students have taken demonstation against this pact, showing that they want the continuation of its tradition ofndependent foreign policy that born from the cradel of national independence.

FGCI Camp - Active Resistance 2008Upon the invitation of our member organization Youth Federation of ItalianCommunists (FGCI), WFDY participated in the 4th national camp of FGCI underhe title of Active Resistance 2008. This is the 4th consecutive camp of FGCIut it is the first with international participation. This year 4 organizationsarticipated: WFDY, JCP-Portugal, KNE-Greece and YCL-Georgia. FGCI plans to

keep the international participation for the next years and improve it.The camp was held in a camping place named Heliopolis by the seashore about

00 kms away from Rome, and accommodation was held in small private tents.The program combined a summer vacation program with a politically organizedrogram. All working sessions started in the after noon or late after noon leaving aot of free time for the participants.

The camp came in a critical period after the defeat of the Rainbow coalition inhe elections and the absence of any communist representative from the parliamentince WW 2. FGCI were very worried about the future of Italian communists.

Eventually, during our presence there, the 2 congresses of both parties wereoncluded (PdCI and Refoundazione) and both parties took the choice of formingcommunist coalition to revive the struggle and go towards the next elections.

During the month of August the escalation of the international tense brought a clash betweenGeorgia and Russia.

After the Georgian attack to Russia, Russian troops invaded Georgia. The violence during thedays of the war between Georgia and Russia lead to thousands of victims between dead and

wounded people and refugees.This conflict, in which the youth and people of Georgia are merely victims, is a sign of thegrowing aggressiveness of imperialism and demonstrates that NATO, USA and European

Union members' strategy of surrounding Russia, China and DPRKorea and achieving goodgeo-strategic positioning to attack Iran is leading to a very tense and dangerous situation for

the people of the world.

The American anti-missile shield, as well as other military measures, will only bring moreturbulence and eventually burst into conflicts such as this one. This proves, once again, that

only by defeating imperialism is possible a world of peace and friendship, and that ourstruggle is more up to date than ever!

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The Caucasian War Georgia (and NATO) vs Russia

The camp lasted from July 26 to August 1 and had discussions and seminars about education, unemployment, young workers, Italian Mafia, drugs,LGBT issues and the future of Italian communists.WFDY saluted the comrades for their efforts and wished them successful struggles against imperialism in their country.


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