On behalf of member and friendly organizations, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) joins the youth of Africa in commemorating Africa Day on 25 May 2010. WFDY reaffirms its support in ensuring that there must be hardly any imperialist interventions in the governance of the African continent and it is up to the African people to determine their way of governance and they are the only ones who are obliged to choose their leaders.We salute the courage and bravery of the fallen and living heroes who sacrificed their lives to ensure the political liberation of a number of African countries. On the same note, we believe that total independence of the African continent will only be achieved when all indigenous people of the continent are in full control of their natural resources. Hence it is mind boggling, to witness that some erstwhile colonizers continue to create some carnival puppets in Africa and mask them as opposition parties in their quest to manipulate the government systems thereby destabilizing the gains of independence on the continent.

It is a great shame that 50 years after the decolonization process within the African continent, a fully fledged member of the African Union (Western Sahara), finds itself under the yoke of colonialism. We therefore call upon the African Union to play a leading role to ensure the immediate decolonization of this last colony in Africa. WFDY will therefore play an active role in ensuring that we continually expose the continued human rights abuses and torture of the innocent people of Western Sahara by the imperialist controlled regime of Morocco in both the occupied and freed territories.

We feel concerned about some African leaders who give residence to the occupying forces under the banner, AFRICOM, or USAFRICOM. These moves have nothing to do with the security of the people on the continent but it is a modern way of the re-occupation of the continent by the brutal imperialist regimes which still have blood on their hands as they recently massacred African people with hardly any justification, but to fulfill their quest to loot the abundant resources in the continent. At the level of youth representatives we call upon the African Union and regional blocks to reject such moves by the European Union and the United States of America as this can further bring nothing to the already suffering citizens of the continent. Instead of intervening in facilitating for decent education, health and accommodation for the people we still witness these double standards by these imperialist regimes to bring heavily armed soldiers to Africa in order to satisfy their so called interests.

WFDY salutes the African Union and SADC in fully supporting liberation movements which are under serious attack from the unrepentant imperialists. These organs stood firmly in denouncing the diabolical sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Britain and its allies. We fully appreciate this brotherly solidarity as this can give us the power on the unity which exists within neighborly countries especially in Southern Africa. We will always stand side by side with revolutionary and progressive movements across Africa which are under threat from being wiped out of the political space and together we will defeat imperialism.

Furthermore, on 25 May we call upon the people and youth of Africa to keep their struggles in our strong fights against neo-colonization, imperialist military bases, unjust sanctions, racism and all forms of imperialist interventions with renewed energy in this special year when the World Festival of the Youth and Students is taking place in December in South Africa as the most important moment of our struggles coming together for a world free of imperialism.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth has followed with much attention the demonstrations of students that have been taking place in Puerto Rico and that since April 21 have been in strikes against the budget cuts in the public education system in the country as well as as the negative measures of the island’s administration against the University.

It is extremely shameful that still today the imperialist government of the USA, with its hypocrite speech, keeps Puerto Rico as colony, which is unacceptable for us as young anti-imperialist and progressive people of the world particularly in a moment when we are preparing for the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students (in December, in South Africa), which is why we should stand by the youth and students of that country for the achievement of total independence.

WFDY, on behalf of all its member and friend organizations and all the progressive youth of the world, expresses its sincere support to the students and all young people of Puerto Rico, and calls upon all the anti-imperialist youth of this world to express in all possible places our solidarity and keep struggling for the total independence of our fellow people of Puerto Rico.

On the morning of May 9 of 1945, 65 years ago, mankind woke up free from nazifascism after the brave Soviet soldiers finally entered Berlin and defeated the hideous Nazi regime. Nevertheless, this victory could only be achieved after a war of suffering for all mankind and destruction of most of Europe, particularly the Eastern side, in which the troops of Nazi and Fascist regimes destroyed and killed all in its way until they were stopped.On this 65th anniversary of the peoples’ victory against Nazifascism we remind the main actor of this victory that freed mankind: the people. It was the popular resistance organized against fascist imperialist offense that defeated fascism. We remind particularly the contribution of the Soviet people, who had to face more than 2/3 of the battlefronts. It is upon that victory, essentially conquered by youngsters, that WFDY was built to ensure that the youth would never again live under fascism and would never have to face war again.

However, 65 years after the peoples’ victory over fascism the total freedom is still not here. As 65 years ago also today the dominant classes are using the crisis of capitalism to directly attack the workers’ rights, to promote xenophobia and racism against immigrants and to attack the freedom and democratic rights attempting to criminalize all those who struggle for an alternative to this obsolete capitalist system. It is remarkable how now, as in that period, the communists, anti-imperialist and progressive forces are always the firsts to be chased.
Nowadays the people of Palestine suffer the same slaughter, persecution and humiliation that Jews faced from the fascist regimes that chased them, enslaved them and killed them in their concentration camps that were not that different from the authentic ghettos that the blockade policy of Israel is spreading throughout the West Bank, as the siege done together with Egypt and USA to the Palestinian land of Gaza.

Even 65 years after the use of the nuclear bombs against people, following the limitless ambition of power of USA against a already surrendered Japan, the race for massive destruction, high technology and nuclear weapons continues and is lead by the USA, whose leading position as detainer of the biggest amount of nuclear weapons states for itself as a fact against all sorts of hypocrisies made by its administration.

On this occasion, WFDY calls upon all its member and friendly organizations to rally their efforts and spread throughout the world the criminal nature of the fascist regimes as upper stages of the not less criminal nature of imperialism and capitalism. For the full recognition of the historical facts and its inclusion in school books, for the end of all sorts of discriminations and xenophobia, for freedom, democracy, social justice and peace, let us join our voices as one and stand up to conquer this world forever free of injustice, war, destruction, hunger and illness.

Never again fascism, never again war - let’s defeat imperialism!