From Athens to Madrid, from Lisbon to Paris, Rome and Dublin, governments inflict Europeans populations with unprecedented austerity cures. The challenge is clear: making peoples, especially the young, kneel down while only a few still gets fatter.

Everywhere in Europe, we undergo the same logic and the same consequences : 300,000 young Spanish expelled from their housing ; 65,000 teaching appointments eliminated in France ; the soaring unemployment rate in Ireland that reaches 31,5% of those under 25 of age, more than 39% in Greece, youth unemployment higher than 28% in Portugal. In North America the peoples are also suffering these imperialists and capitalists’ policies.

Paying for them: NO WAY !

Since the beginning of “their” crisis, that they provoked themselves by their antisocial politics, the states of the European Union have lent the banks almost 700 billions euros, spoiling our money. Private debts became a public charge also aggravated by the numerous tax breaks granted to big companies and worldwide shareholders. Credit rating agencies and financial marketplaces now keep speculating on this very debt. This crisis is not a product of bad administration of the system or a bad moment of economy, but is deeply connected with the irrational and unfair nature of the capitalist itself.

Today, as capitalists lose their mind, governments impose us austerity in the name of bankruptcy: dismantling public services, calling for an increase in the working hours, contracting the national staff, reducing wages, breaking down the fair standards labor acts… Moreover, they want this austerity written in stone with the “Euro Plus” pact, elaborated behind our back. We blame them: they wish we never opposed and presented an progressive policy for our countries in Europe and North America. But we won’t be a lost generation!

The young people call for RESISTANCE !

Young Europeans and North Americans are mobilizing at the forefront, like across the Mediterranean, refusing austerity and demanding a better redistribution of wealth and public policies in such areas as education, employment, quality housing, for general policies in favor of the peoples’ interests, not of the bank and big corporation owners… Therefore, we, young people throughout Europe and North America call for the young people to participate in all the many and diverse struggles taking place in the coming weeks and months in each and every country, as the day of action on Saturday October 15th, with which WFDY stands in solidarity for peace, justice and revolutionary social transformation!

WFDY condemns the reckless violence and widespread criminality of recent nights, however we understand it as a direct product of the capitalist system and of the resulting dangerous lack of stability and rights for the youth of today, accompanied by disenfranchisement and exacerbated by unprecedented levels of alienation.

It is clear that the anger of the youth is derived from a number of factors including police brutality, the massive reduction in public spending on youth and other services, and a general frustration at a future with little prospects. Furthermore, WFDY notes that the cuts in public spending have had a disproportionate impact on both the youth and ethnic minority groups.
The first and main responsible for the wave of violence that now is taking place is the system under which the British people live, responsible for massive unemployment, huge rates of precarity, extremely expensive access to the higher levels of education and almost impossible access to proper housing, mainly for the young generations. It is also important to remind that it is this system that engages the British youth in wars just to satisfy the greed for profit of the big national and international monopolies.

We admit these concerns along with our member organizations in Britain, especially with comrades of YCL Britain, demanding to address the root causes of unrest and violence and by supporting the genuine concerns of young people in the street and their frustration while outright rejecting their way of vandalizing, looting and creating chaos without certain goal of socio-economic transformation.

In this extremely sensitive moment, WFDY calls upon all the young people in Britain to organize themselves and find the best ways to revolutionarily transform their country, which will surely be through the overthrown of this dominant order and not through the destruction of public or private goods, for a Britain and a world of peace, solidarity and social transformation.

The World Peace Council and the World Federation of Democratic Youth are uniting their voices with the hundreds of millions of peace loving people, the Youth and Students in all corners of the world, in solidarity with the people of Palestine which is suffering a slow genocide under the occupation of its territories. The case of the ongoing occupation of Palestine by the Israeli regime constitutes a crime against humanity and a flagrant provocation against the thousands who suffered and struggled heroically for the noble goal of freedom and justice. Despite the many concessions made from Palestinian side during the years in order to find a viable and just solution, the governments of Israel and the current one, refuse to accept the right of the Palestinian People for their independent State alongside Israel.

We express our sincere and full-hearted solidarity with the Palestinian men and women, the youth and the students in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in their desire to end the humiliation, the discrimination and the occupation.

We condemn the support US imperialism is giving throughout the years to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the hypocritical policy of the E.U. which is keeping “equal distance” from the aggressors and the victims.

We consider it to be the high time to have this year in September the recognition of the independent State of Palestine within the borders of 4th June 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.

We call upon the Member States of the UN to adopt in the General Assembly this proposal and the United Nations as such, to proceed with the necessary steps to ensure this demand which is being embraced by the vast majority of the nations in the world.

We underline our demands for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails and the right for Palestinian refugees for their return according to the UN Resolution 194.

We furthermore salute the peace loving forces inside Israel who struggle side by side with the Palestinians for their just cause and reiterate our solidarity to all peoples in the region who are struggling against imperialism, its mechanisms and policies.

Lastly we underline our categorical rejection to the foreign occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and to the ongoing imperialist aggression against the people of Libya as well as against any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of the countries of the region. The peoples have the sovereign right to determine and fight for their freedom, democracy and social justice.

Under this light WFDY and the WPC will undertake a common initiative and organize a solidarity mission to Palestine during September 18-22, 2011 to meet with Youth and Peace organizations in order to express our strong support to the campaign for the recognition of the independent State of Palestine and our concrete solidarity with the peoples under occupation.