Last Thursday, 13June, 2008, the people of Ireland made, once again, History. By clearly rejecting the European Union’s Reform Treaty in the referendum held on the upper mentioned date, the youth and people of Ireland showed their will to build a land of peace, sovereignty and social rights.

This victory is one very important milestone and is a clear sign for the EU leaders that, not only in Ireland, but in all other countries as well, the youth and the people do not want war and exploitation in their present and future.

The rejection of the Reform Treaty was a victory against all the imperialist pressures put on Ireland by many of those who daily work to increase inequality and unfairness, by bringing war, starvation, exploitation and lack of education, health and culture to the people living inside European Union borders, as well as to those who are victims of European Union’s (joint with USA and Japan) imperialist and aggressive policy.

Facing the defeat of their intentions most of the European Union countries’ Governments immediately put back what they had said just some days before and started giving few importance to the Irish result, so that the anti-democratic process of imposing the European Reform treaty to the peoples continued, now in even more anti-democratic a way!

Everyday since the public release of the results the pressure has increased on the Irish people and youth, so that this referendum can be considered invalid. Possibilities that go from excluding Ireland of the European Union until those that suggest the need of a new referendum in Ireland are nothing but ways to blackmail the brave Irish people and youth.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth firmly rejects all ways that may be taken to overcome the result of the Irish result and try to continue this process.

WFDY calls upon all its member and friend organizations and all the youth of European Union’s countries to rise and struggle against this new anti-democratic measure and to ensure that, following the results of the Irish referendum, the European Reform Treaty is considered totally and definitely dead.

Budapest, 18 June 2008

WFDY SUPPORT TO IRISH YOUTH AND PEOPLE
AGAINST THE EUROPEAN UNION LISBON TREATY

In the past 13^th December, the Heads of State of the European Union approved in Lisbon the new version of the “European Constitution”.

In the all these countries (except Ireland) the Governments decided to take the decision to adopt this document in the National Parliaments, as they were afraid that, once again, the peoples and youth of the European Union countries would reject this document as happened in France and Holland, in the respective national referendums in 2005.

WFDY firmly rejects both the Governments’ strategy to aprove this document and the document itself. We denounce the anti-democratic process going on in all EU member countries and we state that this is due to the fact that the content of the so called “Lisbon Treaty” will only bring more exploitation, poverty and war to the youth and peoples.

WFDY expresses its full support to all the progressive organizations that all through European Union member countries struggle against the “Lisbon Treaty” and we call upon all young people of Ireland to rally under the banners of anti-imperialism, national sovereignty, international solidarity and social development and give a clear “NO” to the EU Treaty on the referendum that will take place next month in their country.

Whatever is the path chosen or the devolopments occured, WFDY will never give up on the struggle against imperialism and will never accept the anti-democratic contents and procedures followed by European Union regarding the whole “Lisbon Treaty” process.

The CC/HQ of WFDY
Budapest, 27 May 2008