WFDY has received with concern the news that the Senegalese President Abdoulaye WADE wills to install a monarchy in Senegal by being succeeded by his son Karim. The Senegalese youth refused to allow this “ticket to presidency” to be voted by the people’s elected deputies. Wade and his clan have imposed on their members who form a large majority in the National Assembly to vote blindly the project that would allow him to be elected with only 25% of the votes.

This obsession of the President and his clan to ignore the people’s will led him to change the Constitution several times so that he is re-elected by the minority. And this, in spite of the indecent management, the abusive administrative divisions, the fund misappropriations, the financial scandals of the ANOSI, the money laundering, the murders committed (more than 14 people have been killed without finding the responsible for the murders), the bag of misfortunes born by the people of Senegal and more.

On June 23rd, the youth said “NO, DON’T TOUCH MY CONSTITUTION”, and showed itself ready to defend it to the end. Youth answered by various gatherings, especially in front of square SOWETO (opposite to the National Assembly, in Dakar), in order to denounce the way one man was forced upon them.

Despite of the police repression and the fact that they used all that was at their disposal to stop the wind of revolt, the youth remained all day in front of the gates of the National Assembly to wait for the outcome of the vote. The police injured more than 107 young people, arrested citizens that were demonstrating for FREEDOM.

WFDY stands in solidarity with our comrades and the youth of Senegal that struggle for democracy and freedom in their country, so that once and for all this people can enjoy full self determination and development.

In the coming days the workers of all generations, particularly the young workers, will celebrate once again the International Workers’ Day (IWD) on May 1st.The IWD celebrations have been and are, more than ever, important moments of struggle of the workers of the entire world. In our days, when imperialism is unveiling in an even more clear way the irrational and unjust nature of the capitalist system, tearing apart in months achievements of decades of struggle of the workers and historical progress for mankind.

In the framework of the current international capitalist crisis, the dominating class has taken all steps to attempt to smash the rights of the workers and youth, implementing an agenda that had long before been planned and which has now the arguments and tools to implement. Particularly the young workers are suffering of this limitless attack with their rights destroyed, increasing of the already massive rates of youth unemployment, low salaries and widespread to practically all young workers of precarious contracts or with no contracts at all. All this can only be overcome through the reinforcement of the struggle and, necessarily, of the class trade union movement - essential tool of the workers and their struggles for now and for the future!

Furthermore, it is important to underline how in this context the monopolies and other big economic groups keep having millions and millions of euro and dollars of profits, which are not only huge, as they are increasing more and more, proving that the sacrifices demanded to the workers, peoples and youth are nothing but a strategy to reach the increase of profits and intensification of the exploitation.

In this context, WFDY calls upon all its member and friendly organizations to take the streets on the next IWD and, together with the class trade unions, make this day yet another glorious day of struggle that means a reinforcement of all the struggles to come until we are able to defeat these policies and imperialism itself!

The World Federation of Democratic Youth condemns the bombing of Libya. by NATO and its members, under the excuse of defending the “human rights” of the protestors that want to overthrow Kaddafi’s government.In fact, the simple act of recognition of the rebels as a partner for dialogue by the European Union and other structures represents in itself, a provocation to the sovereignty of Libya and an unacceptable interference on the Libyan issues.

The double standards of imperialism are further clear when in case of the Saudi troops entering Bahrain to smash the ongoing popular movement or in case of the suppression of the peoples’ movement in Yemen, the imperialist states prefer to remain silent, supporting the ongoing brutal repression.

Eight years after the invasion of Iraq and eleven after the bombing of Yugoslavia, imperialism is yet again betting on confusing the minds of the peoples of the world to justify an invasion to a country with the sole motivation of stealing its resources and taking over its geostrategic position. If imperialism had ever before any honest worry with the Libyan people, what would justify the high level of relation between the government of Kaddafi with France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the very USA until some months ago?

Once again, we underline that we reject the suppression of the rights of protestors in Libya, but we underline that the only solution is a peaceful understanding between all parts inside Libya and that a military intervention is totally unacceptable, as we believe that only the Libyan people is able to solve its own problems.

(click on the picture to check out the material of WFDY for the international day of action against the war in Libya, on March 24)