Over the last months, particularly the last weeks, a growing international awareness has been raised around the situation of the Greek economy, as if this country was “bankrupt” and could not survive without exterior intervention.
This campaign of international proportions, promoted by the EU together with the Greek Government, with wide coverage and highlight of the international imperialist media, aims to create the conditions to justify an even stronger attack to the Greek people and youth. If accomplished the goals established by the EU, it will only mean more privatizations of public sectors and less rights for the Greek people and youth. They hide that the big capital, which was supported with billions by state budgets, is responsible for the deficits and the debts in Greece and other European Countries.
Furthermore, WFDY considers that this manoeuver deepens even more the anti-democratic and anti-popular character of the EU, confirming that its construction, action and goals are against the peoples and against the youth of its member states towards the construction of a consolidated imperialist block.
The so called “EU solidarity” towards Greece is followed by terms which serve the interests of Greek capital and are against peoples’ rights. It is a help for the capitalist profit and not for the people. Once again it is proved that imperialism and its organizations and governments focus their trials in loading the crisis and its consequences to the people’s backs. The rescue of the banks and other big monopolies is the only thing they care about.
WFDY stands by the youth and people of Greece in their struggle against the ongoing measures taken against their rights such as freezing of salaries, wage and pension reduction, increase of retirement age etc. Together with the Greek youth and people, WFDY considers that the only way for overcoming the social and economic problems that exist is to struggle for a different way of development and to guarantee the rights of the people, orienting society and economy towards social justice and general welfare, against the dictatorship of monopolies and capitalist single purpose of profit.
WFDY calls upon all its member and friend organizations, particularly those in European Union member states, to denounce the situation in Greece relating it to its own country and by that reinforce their own struggle against imperialism!

The World Federation of Democratic Youth express its condolences and strongly condemns the assassination of the 15th years old Alexis Grigoropoulos, shot by a police man in Greece. This assassination is an incident that the Greek government and the leadership of police bear outsized responsibility. This is a result of the education and orientation of the security forces which are directed against the people, against the popular and working class movement, against the struggle of the youth. Such kind of incidents can only come out after all the EU directives of the limitation of the democratic rights the implementation of the EU Anti-terrorist Act by the imperialists.

WFDY salutes the great demonstrations and the struggles of youth of Greece. This militant reply of students of schools and universities, of young workers and people in Greece doesn’t only express the outrage of young people for the assassination of 15 year old boy. Moreover this struggle highlights that in circumstances of the financial crisis of capitalism young people can see more clearly that only through their struggle can raise their full demands for education work and life .WFDY stress and support as well, the decisive confrontation of youth and working movement in Greece with the provocative mechanisms that they aim  to defame and disorientate their struggle .

WFDY salutes the mass struggle of the Greek youth as well as the youth solidarity demonstrations in many other countries that have been taking place recently, showing that the youth has a common enemy: imperialism.

Now, as before, we are sure that the organized struggle of the youth and peoples is the only way for victory and we call upon all our member and friend organizations to reinforce their efforts spreading the facts happening in Greece as a way to reinforce their own struggle!

Budapest, 16 December 2008