The recent developments in Egypt have attracted much attention from the progressive youth around the world.

The insistence of the Egyptian youth on the continuation of their uprising against the prevailing regime of Mubarak and the new leadership of the Military council is a brilliant example on how the youth can continue the struggle until the full achievement of the demands rather than accepting middle solutions that were just a continuation of the previous policies. It is still the same regime, with the same oppressive policies and same connection and dependence on USA and countries of NATO. This is why the people continue their struggle against the regime as well as against the reactionary forces of the Islamic political currents that prevail in Egypt now.

The results of the first round of the elections have shown the strength of the Islamic modern and extreme forces in Egypt. However, we are aware of the deep cooperation between those forces and the remains of the regimes, as well as their connection to countries with suspicious roles in the region like Qatar and Turkey, and their ideas of domination and conservatism in Egypt.

WFDY re-affirms its support for the progressive youth of Egypt in their struggle for freedom, social justice and sovereignty. We believe that it is important to emphasize the big changes that those youth have initiated despite the continuous efforts of the counter revolutionary forces represented by the Military council and the Islamic forces to dominate in the new political situation.

The future will carry a clear competition and struggle between the democratic and progressive forces against the reactionary forces and it will only bring victory for the people.

WFDY expresses its full solidarity with the Egyptian people and youth and their continued struggles for a future of hope and of change towards democracy and social justice.

WFDY was informed that, three days ago, our comrade Naser Azeez was arrested by the Israeli occupying forces. Nasser Azeez is a member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President of General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), our member organization.

This is one of the many incidents of Israeli repression and aggression towards the Palestinian people.
The arrests and the imprisonments of Palestinian people and youth by the Israeli forces create more tense. The Israeli aggression aims to destroy the possibilities of finding a solution.

WFDY demands the release of Naser Azeez and that the Israeli forces put a stop to the arrests of Palestinian youth and students.

As it is mentioned in the declarations of the 18th Assembly of WFDY, the reactionary governments all around the world want the cost of the capitalist crisis to be paid by the peoples and not by the capitalists. Once again our analysis was reaffirmed. As it is the time of the year that the states budget in most countries is presented, more and more reactionary measures are implemented.

This is also the case in Sri lanka where the government presented its budget on the 21st of November. The anti-popular budget attacks the rights of the youth and the workers and explicitly ignores the major problem of youth unemployment.

The popular strata in Sri Lanka and our comrades of Socialist Youth Union of Sri Lanka are fighting against these policies. SYU launched several demonstrations. One of their recent marches to the Ministry of Finance of Sri Lanka was brutally attacked by the police. Due to the attacks more than 15 young people are badly injured and hundreds got minor injuries. However the protest was very successful in terms of participation and of the political outcome. Now the government continues repressing the popular movement by arresting members of SYU.

This is another example of how imperialism reacts to the struggle of the popular movements not only in Sri Lanka but through out the world. They will do everything to secure the profits of the monopolies. They will generate even more repression every time they fill threatened.

We stand with solidarity to our comrades of SYU and to the struggle of the popular movement in Sri Lanka. Taking this opportunity we would like to salute the rallies, the demonstrations, the strikes and the struggle of the workers and the youth for their rights, that takes place all over the world. In different places across the world the anti-imperialist forces are giving their fights against our enemy, imperialism. With our struggle for social rights we prove that the road of the youth is the same as it is of the workers and the peoples. No matter of the repression we will continue fighting to overthrow imperialism.