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.

WFDY expresses its solidarity and salutes the massive demonstrations organized by the Greek workers, people and youth, the class oriented trade unions and PAME (All Workers Militant Front) against the reactionary measures planned in common by the Greek government, EU and IMF. We condemn the organized murderous attack against the forces of the All-Workers’ Militant Front (PAME), that led to several serious injuries and to the death of a construction worker, trade unionist of PAME.

On the 19th and 20th of October the Greek government of PASOK brought to the Parliament another law aimed at demolishing ample sectors of social rights of the Greek people. Namely, among others, the abolishment of sectoral collective contracts, cutdowns in salaries and pensions, increase of the taxes and “extraordinary contribution” of the people in the name of the crisis.

Responding to this violent dilemma, the working class movement took to the streets organizing a 2-day strike on the 19th and 20th October. The unprecedented participation of hundreds of thousands workers, small bussinessmen and youth in the demonstrations shows the contempt that the Greek people has against the austerity measures imposed by the Greek government and its domestic and international accomplices, EU and IMF and the parties - supporters of them, shows the committment to reinforce their struggle against these barbaric policies.

Under this situation, mechanisms of the bourgeois system, hooded provocateur mechanisms, with the toleration of police, organized and implemented a planned murderous attack against the most vibrant and numerous part of the demonstration, against the blocks of PAME. The result of this attack of the anarcho - fascist groups was the death of the PAME trade unionist and construction worker, Dimitris Kotzaridis, 53, and the woundings of dozens of PAME demonstrators.

Despite the attempts to terrorize the demonstrators and disperse the thousands of participants, with the intervention of the class-oriented trade-unions, of PAME, of the members of KNE - Communist Youth of Greece and of the Communist Party of Greece, this attempt was thwarted.

We explicitly condemn the murderous attack on the demonstrators and especially on the forces of PAME, KNE and KKE, as well as the dangerous forces that orchestrated it. We express our condolences to the family of the deceased Dimitris Kotzaridis. We have faith that the struggle of the Greek people and youth will fortify, showing that the collective and organized class struggle is the only way for the people and the youth to claim their rights and overthrow these barbaric capitalist policies.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth stands in strong solidarity with all those who struggle every day in the United States namely the growing Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement.

We are thrilled to see that thousands of young people have taken to the streets in hundreds of U.S. cities. We send our sincere comradeship and support as you face police repression and the dropping nighttime temperatures of the fall season.

United States capitalism and its supporters are a substantial part of the origin of current international crisis of the capitalist system. As U.S. corporations force the world’s economies into privatization, WFDY members around the world are experiencing a deterioration of socialized medicine, education, housing, and other human rights. The U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other U.S. military occupations around the world, also threaten young peoples’ futures. We understand that one of the principal reasons why these wars have occurred is so that the companies which produce warfare materials can reap profit.

The global capitalist crisis was sparked in the U.S. and has been met by militant responses by the youth of Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. U.S. youth and their allies are now taking their rightful place in demanding that the crisis not be solved on the backs of working class and youth.

WFDY is truly inspired by all those who have come together inside the United States to say, “Enough is Enough!” Your willingness to take this stand is a powerful message of solidarity with youth movements that also struggle against imperialism throughout the world. We want to match your courage with support from WFDY and its allies.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth encourages its members and allies to send messages of solidarity and support to the Occupy Movement and to our comrades in the USA. The coming Assembly of WFDY will surely enhance the forms of solidarity and cooperation to support the struggles that, in all countries throughout the world, the youth and workers are taking forward for social justice and against this inhuman and irrational system called capitalism, now in its upper phase: imperialism.