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