WFDY Statement

Call for youth to struggle in Europe and North America

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!