The World Federation of Democratic Youth with regret was informed about the death of comrade Branko Kitanović, General Secretary of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

WFDY expresses its condolence for this loss of the movement. Comrade Branko was a militant of the peoples and the workers struggle in his country and on international level.

The death of comrades as comrade Branko who devoted their lives to the struggle against imperialism, for peace and social justice, are always a great loss.

As WFDY together with our condolence we express our support to the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia. Our common struggles will continue honoring the life work of comrades such as Branko Kitanovic.

After the success of the 18th Assembly WFDY continues its work and activity to implement our decisions and our goals. The dynamics given to WFDY by the Assembly are not to fade away. We continue our struggle feeling even stronger and more determined. The times are difficult for the peoples of the world. Imperialsm continues to work against our rights against our freedom and against peace. But so do we continue to resist and organize the youth for the future of peace, solidarity and revolutionary social transformation.

In this framework we organizing our first regional meeting, the meeting of the Commision of Europe and North America. The meeting will take place in London on 25 and 26 of February 2012. During the meeting we will discuss and evaluate the political, social and economic developments in our countries and in the region and their effect on the youth and the people. We also will discuss and collectively take decisions about our next steps and goals for CENA in the year 2012, always in the framework of the decisions of the 18th Assembly of WFDY.

Having always in mind the forthcoming mission in Western Sahara, we will look forward to the next CENA meeting in London and the continuation of our work. As the struggles of the youth against imperialism continues restless so does WFDY, the bigest expression of the worlds anti-imperialist youth movement.

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.