The 8000 of delegates of the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students who gathered from 88 countries in Quito, Ecuador, under the slogan “Youth united against imperialism, for the World of Peace, Solidarity and Social Transformation” declare the following:
We salute the people of Ecuador and its struggles;
we express our solidarity in the struggle of the Ecuadorian people for popular
conquests and radical social-political changes. With the support of the
progressive and militant youth of Ecuador which in the past years have made
important steps forward and achievements through its struggle through the
process of the “Citizens Revolution” the international anti-imperialist youth movement constructed
another important moment in the history of its organized struggle. We gathered in Latin America, a
continent were the youth movement is steadily growing, once again for the
biggest anti-imperialist youth event in the world to strengthen our common
struggle towards our common goal: the overthrown of Imperialism.
The 18th
World Festival of Youth and Students has also been a tribute to all the people
and especially the young men and women that have given their lives in the
struggle against Imperialism, that have dedicate their lives to the struggle
for the ideals of peace, independence, popular sovereignty, solidarity, ending
of exploitation and for socialism.
In the honour of all these peoples we symbolically paid a tribute to
personalities that have contributed to this struggle like Hugo Chavez, Eloy
Alfaro and Kwame Nkrumah. We also take this chance to pay our tribute to
comrade Edwin Perez the General Secretary of the Communist Youth of Ecuador who
was murdered in 2010 by the reaction.
The success
of the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students re-affirms our political
will, to continue what the other generations started in Prague in 1947 with the
first Festival. Through the World Federation of Democratic Youth and its
international partners, the flame of the Festival movement was lit. Through its
68 year course, the Festival movement created an important space of
internationalizing the historical struggles of the peoples against colonialism,
dictatorships, fascism, wars interferences, and attacks on the sovereignty of
the peoples and on the rights of workers, peoples and youth. We do not forget the support that the
youth Festival movement had from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and
the other socialist states. Despite the new and more difficult conditions
created after the overthrows of the 1990s, we see the World Festival of Youth
and students being a very wide movement deeply connected to the most militant
and consequent forces of the worlds youth, to continue being, as it has been in
the past editions, a very important mark in the anti-imperialist youth’s
struggle. The youth anti-imperialist movement through the Festival highlighted
the way of the peoples, the road of peace solidarity and social progress of the abolition of the capitalist
exploitation. On that road the youth of today is continuing the struggle.
Today we are
living in a period of great imperialist aggression but also a great potential
for the popular struggle and the possibility to achieve our victory against the imperialist forces, on
the grounds of the objective material conditions of the historic moment that we
are living.
Imperialism
continues its aggression with new means, new methods, as well as the
traditional methods of wars, occupations and military interventions. The
imperialist war machine has never stopped working in order to serve the
interests of the monopolies for expansion to the markets of resources and
energy routes. In the past few years militaristic expansion has grown all over
the world. The capitalist crisis is worsening the need of monopolies for
intensifying the imperialist aggressions and expansion of wars, as it creates
realignments in correlation of forces, intensification of inner-imperialist
contradictions and competitions. The rise of emerging forces that compete with
the traditional imperialist forces is increasing the tensions.
Therefore we
have seen that in the years since the 17th WFYS the direct military
aggressions have increased especially in areas of geopolitical importance for
imperialism. The recent wars in the Middle East especially with the violent
targeting of Syria, the increased military aggression and build up (like
military bases and pacts) in Africa, Asia Pacific and as it is also indicated by the imperialist
strategy of menace and threats against the continuity of the progressive
processes and the peoples that struggle in Latin America, for this reason
Venezuela today represents one of the principal targets of imperialism.
The
interventions do not stop in the military arena but also have to do with
actions of political interventions, economical blackmail against sovereign
states, financing of mercenaries, promoting conflicts between neighboring
countries,
support towards reactionary forces, use of terrorism, national and/or religious
conflicts etc. In this kind of the capitalist classes work their way to
increase their influence and participation inside the imperialist system and
the power distribution. Towards their goals we witness, state repression,
misinformation, anti-popular propaganda, manipulation of the popular struggles,
support of fascist groups, anticommunism and persecution of radical and
revolutionary ideals (as is the official policy of the EU and other capitalist
power, various pretexts for aggression etc.
The
participants of the World Festival of youth and students are calling all the
young men and women to allying their struggle with the struggle of the popular,
workers and student movements in national and international level, to allying
their selves with the peace movements of their countries and the
anti-imperialist movement. We strongly believe that the interests of the youth
and the struggle for peace and friendship amongst the peoples can only be
served with these popular alliances and never by the being aligned to the
interests of any imperialist power, established or emerging.
In this
framework we stand by the side of all the peoples who are developing their
struggle for peace, for popular sovereignty, for independence, for socialism.
We express our solidarity to the heroic people that despite the wars, the
occupations, the blockades and the repression are continuing their national
struggle and their resistance, as well as their struggle for self-determination as it is defined by the
rights of the peoples and not by the interests of imperialists. In this regards we send our militant solidarity and support the people of Cuba, we support
the right of the Palestinian people, of the Cypriot people, of the people of
Western Sahara, we support the peace process in Colombia, we strongly oppose
the imperialist intervention in Syria and the menaces towards DPR Korea and
Eritrea, we condemn the imperialist wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Libya, the intervention in Mali and in the Central African Republic. To all this examples of peoples’ struggle and to so many others
around the world we express our solidarity. With our support we are sure that
their struggle will be victorious and that the end of imperialist interventions (will be another step towards international peace and solidarity.
At the same
time the participants of the World Festival of Youth and Students express their
solidarity to the people who are suffering but also fighting against the
consequences of the capitalist crisis and following attack of the capitalists
towards their rights. For
these reason we call the youth to participate in the struggles of the working
class and the peoples movement for the revolutionary overthrow of the actual
regiment of imperialism.
This crisis
has revealed once again the dead ends of the capitalist system as well as its inability to resolve
the problems that humanity faces today. This leads to
the massive attacks on social and labour rights that are highly affecting the
youth and the working class. Today, the youth unemployment in Europe constantly increases. In order for the monopolies to overcome
their own crisis they are forcing the working class to pay its cost. With cuts
on salaries, massive unemployment, privatizations and destruction of social
functions of states they are creating markets on every aspect of social life.
Health, education, environment and culture are becoming merchandizes with an
increased speed, while the ruling class is leading youth and peoples in a
future of misery and extensive exploitation. In many capitalist countries,
Education is becoming not a right for all but a privilege for few, due to the
policy of privatization and destruction of the Public Education, serving the
interests of the Capital instead of the student's interests and the development
needs of the countries. Many students have to leave their studies because of
this policy. Towards the achievement of these goals the exploitation towards
the working class is accompanied with division of the working class, intensive
exploitation of women, immigrants many other social groups, and even nature
itself. We stand by the side of all this that are discriminated and we call
them to join our struggle for equality.
The
participants of the 18th WFYS salute the struggles given by the
youth together with popular movement which goes hand in hand with the struggle
of the labour movement and the class oriented trade unions in order not only to
preserve their rights but to achieve new victories. We are a part of this
struggle and we express our confidence in the final victory of the peoples and
youth for their rights. We reaffirm our commitment to work strongly with the
international anti-imperialist movements as the World Federation of Democratic
Youth, the World Peace Council, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the Women
International Democratic Federation and the regional anti-imperialist student
organizations.
We salute the
struggle of the young workers the struggle for a dignified Work with rights, without precarious
conditions and outsourcing policies. We salute the
millions of students who demand free public and democratic education for
everyone. We suppot the struggle of the student movement and their demand for
education that will serve the popular needs and not the needs of the
monopolies.
We salute the
important manifestations of the youth, popular and anti-imperialist struggle
that has increased in the past period all over the world. We believe that these struggles must
increase their levels of organization and mobilization.
We strongly believe that the works of the 18th WFYS will contribute
to this struggle as it gathers the experience of struggle from every country
and every continent.
Our
conviction for the right of our struggle comes from the understanding that
imperialism is a system, a system based on a specific economic structure, the
higher stage of capitalist development imposing different forms of exploitation
but always in the same line of goals. Therefore we understand our struggle as a
struggle to overthrow this system and construct the new world: the world of
peace of solidarity and social transformation, the world were the social-economic
system will guarantee that the fundamental means of production will be in the
hands of the people and of the workers and where economy will developed in the scope of
the popular needs.
These are times of youth
anti-imperialist struggle and unity; the 18th WFYS underlines the need of
revolutionary changes and social transformations. To achieve that, unity is of
great importance when it is based on principles.
The youth of the world must organize in order
to promote campaigns for the conquest of our rights and demands;
In this
international framework we understand that our struggle has a special
significance. We are able to choose our future and construct the new world! The
18th World Festival of Youth and Students is sending a militant
message of hope to all the peoples of world. Our hope is to find the possibility for the
organization of the next 19th WFYS in 2017, in the commemoration of the 100
years from the triumph of the October Revolution, which is a significant date
for the anti-imperialist movement.
Together with
the anti-imperialist youth of Latin America and Ecuador we re-affirm our
commitment for international cooperation of the anti-imperialist movement, for
our own counteroffensive and for our struggle until the final victory.
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