WFDY, taking the opportunity of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, expresses its solidarity, sympathy and support for the just struggle of the Palestinian People for the recovery of legitimate and inalienable national rights, against imperialist threats of the U.S. and Israel.

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was established by decision of the UN General Assembly in 1977. The November 29 was chosen as the date because in 1947 the General Assembly of the UN adopted Resolution 181, which provided for the creation of two separate states in Palestine, a “Jewish” and an “Arab”, a joint capital in Jerusalem.

The situation in Palestine remains extremely difficult. The Israeli government policy leads to a vicious circle of blood, violates international law and any notion of human rights and removes the possibility of reaching a solution. We condemn in the strongest manner the plans of U.S., NATO and its allies, aimed to control the region, to serve their own imperialist interests and we call on peoples of the region to stand against their imperialist plans.

We consider the historical claim of the Palestinian Authority to the UN to become a full member state to be of great importance. The diplomatic struggle of the Palestinians has led to international recognition in its first victory with the passing of their request for full membership in UNESCO. It is worth to underline that the United States had warned that if approved the request to upgrade to full Palestinian State will suspend funding to UNESCO, which now stands at $ 80 million equivalent to 22% of the budget.

Taking this opportunity we salute the militant Palestinian people and especially the Palestinian youth which after all this decades are still fighting for their freedom. We also salute the anti-imperialist movement and all the people who for decades are standing in solidarity by the side of the Palestinian People, and of course our comrades in Israel who are fighting for peace and justice under the repression of the Israeli state.

As WFDY we will continue organizing our struggle in the anti-imperialist youth movement to reach to a peaceful solution for the Palestinian issue. A solution that relies on the implementation of resolutions 242, 338, 194, and 425 United Nations, which provide for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from all occupied Palestinian territories, the Golan heights and the other Arab territories under occupation by the 1967, in recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and to recognize an independent, sovereign viable Palestinian state full membership of the UN, within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

In a few days, in Spain another act of governmental and state repression against the popular movement will take place. On the 1st of December, three members of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and the Collectives of Young Communists will be on trial under false accusations fabricated by the police and without substantial evidence. In reality their real “crime” is their ideology and their participation in the struggle of the peoples of Spain for social justice.

The case of the three Spanish militants is not the only one. All around the world, even in the self proclaimed “democratic” states of Europe and North America the popular movements and the struggle of the peoples are prosecuted. The criminalization of communist ideals and communist organizations, the falsification of history by the European Union, the police violence against demonstrators, the arrests of progressive and socialist students and the provocations against the massive class oriented popular demonstrations are all examples that in different scales and levels capitalism tries to eliminate every core of resistance.

The repression, the prosecutions and the attacks against militants of the popular movements must alarm every democratic and progressive young man and woman. All this comes in the same framework as the attacks on the social rights in all of these countries.

WFDY expresses its solidarity towards the three comrades in Spain. Their battle is an example of the many battles we have to give against imperialist mechanisms. Even though these mechanisms seem powerful we are sure that the peoples struggle and especially the struggle of the youth will one day defeat them.

We call upon all WFDY member to express to solidarity with our Spanish comrades in the framework of the struggle that their developing in their countries for democratic rights, against imperialism.

WFDY once again condemns the repressing regime of Turkey that gets more and more aggressive towards the social and civil rights of the youth and people of Turkey. For years the progressive, democratic and communist forces in Turkey were suffering by the governments, but recently and especially during and after the latest elections, the attacks are getting more intense.

Turkey under Tayyip Erdoğan rule is not the country that the media try to present to the rest of the world. The European Union and especially the USA and NATO try to convince their peoples that Turkey is a democratic state with respect to civil rights, the right of free speech etc, and that Turkey is an example of an “Islamic Democracy” that should be an applied by Arab countries.

In reality, Turkey is still serving the interests of NATO, the US and EU. Turkey is the biggest ally of these forces in the Middle East. Additionally, the national reactionary forces that find their political expression through AKP and Erdogan, have strong interests on the exploitation of the Turkish people and also the peoples of their neighbor countries.

The organized struggle of the youth and the progressive movement in Turkey is that what scares the reactionary forces. That is why the Erdogan goverment uses the police and the criminal system to repress everyone who opposes his policies, especially the organized youth movement. They have increased their pressure on socialist organizations, Kurdish movement and even on journalists. Today, there are more than 500 university students in jails because of political reasons.

WFDY calls for solidarity towards the popular strata of Turkey and especially the militant youth which remains in the first line of the popular strata. Their struggle is of great importance, not only for their own people, but also for the peoples of their neighboring countries. We look towards their struggle with hope and faith that despite the difficulties and the repression, the peoples will prevail.