CJC International

From the CJC we want to produce homage to the men and the women who decided, in front of the frustrated fascist coup d’état against the II Republic in the fateful day of 18th July, 1936, not to bend the head and fight. This struggle was not so much for the simple defense of a legal bourgeois republican frame, but for the military defeat and definitive politics of the oligarchy, the landowners and the catholic hierarchy, authentic bases of the fascist regime that began to grow during that July 18.
The desicion of the peoples of Spain not to give up before the outrages of the fascism would suppose the begin of the Spanish Civil War, one of the most clear expressions in the Spanish State of the always present class struggle. In front of the oppressors it was conformed the so-called “republican side”, were an antifascist alliance was formed where political expression was the Frente Popular (Popular Front). This was a polyclassist front, but where the hegemony and the main actors were the working class, the peasantry and the popular sectors.
The Republic of 1936 was not yet the one of ateneos and appassionato speeches about freedom, equality and brotherhood. This corresponded rather to the 1931 one, an illustrated Republic as the renewable Project of some bourgeois sectors. In 1936, on the other hand, it was the working class who was making the republican frame his and saw in him the possibility of making to advance a project that materialized his interests and there was making possible the target to construct the socialism.

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After the previous Festival held in Caracas (Venezuela) in 2005, the World Federation of Democratic Youth has marked for December in this year the celebration of his 17th Festival in South Africa.
These festivals congregates the world democratic youth, provided of a clear antiimperialist character, of fight for peace and solidarity, of continuous construction of a world with social justice and support of socialist processes and, in the present situation, against the structural crisis of capitalism which is suffering the working class, and which reserves for the youth one of the worst faces as: precariousness, unemployment, temporal work..
The struggle and the organization of the youth are essentials for the future of the society, the social change and the advance towards the socialism. The youth has been historically an example of fight, for the rights related with education, genre´s equality, against the racism, against the fascism…

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     The World Federation of Democratic Youth is deeply concerned with the tension created in Korean Peninsula following the sad incident of sinking South Korean warship leaving 46 sailors dead on board.
The tension is heightened as South Korea accused for the Torpedo attack from DPR Korea is responsible for the cause; however the DPR Korea has outright denied so. It is noteworthy to mention the investigation is unilaterally carried out denying the request to receive investigation team to help to investigate from the first hand information. The allegation to DPRK is not based up on scientific evidences and fabricated after a long time of incident is to isolate its fellow country by the ultra-right and conservative government of south.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth supports the idea to carry out independent investigation with the involvement of both counter parts. In this regards the environment of investigation will be more conducive by the facilitation of their immediate neighbors or those parties already involved to mediate the Korean crisis. We appeal to concerned parties to maintain restraint and allow mediating dialogue to find the way out of this tension.
WFDY always supports the idea of regional stability and peace in the region that is free from any imperialist occupation and war. Thereby, we reject any solution or rhetoric that aims the idea of any sort of revenge or hate, and we highlight how some sectors of the south Korea are making use of this event to take advantage in the coming elections to be disputed soon in that territory.

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NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Which counts with 28 countries in Europe and North America, is an extension of U.S. military power and acts according to their interests. Its formation in 1949, shortly after the Second World War and six years before the Warsaw Pact marked the aim to diminish the influence of the socialist system in Europe both by political and military means, to stabilize the capitalist power especially in West Europe, to attack the people’s movements that were
growing up rapidly.

The history of NATO cannot be separated from the history of war and U.S. imperialism, and is also part of Portugal’s history, starting in the dark days of fascism.

Today, the expansion to the east is advertised as a sign of rapprochement to the West and “modernization” of the former Socialist Republics. The membership of this organization in 1999 in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic and in 2004 of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania , Slovakia and Slovenia is almost parallel with the process of European integration.

But a serious look on the activities of NATO since its founding, and especially in recent years reveals much of its aggressive and interventionist nature. In the scenarios of war and conflict NATO plays a leading role in the militarization of
international relations and is the main driving force of conflicts and interventions today as proved in the cases of war in former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Afghanistan.

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The delegates that participated in the 8th Meeting of the European Communist Youth Organizations, held in Brussels on the 16th and 17th of March, 2010 under the slogan “The struggle of young communists against the capitalist barbarism and anticommunism; for Socialism” declare the following:

Since the last Meeting of the European Communist Youth Organizations in Barcelona (November 2008), the capitalist crisis has deepened in the European countries and the attack on the rights of the working class and the youth has intensified even more. Working class youth are the first victims of unemployment, the spread of flexible working relations, the overthrowing of working rights, changes in social security systems, the privatization of the public services, the destruction of the environment, the commercialization of Health-care and Education and its connection to the needs of the monopolies for flexible and conformed graduates – workers with no rights.
These negative developments confirm that the manifestation and the deepening of the capitalist crisis is used to implement anti-labor, anti-popular measures which have been unanimously decided many years ago in the European Union, by both neoliberal and social-democrat governments. These measures are incorporated in the Lisbon Strategy. These developments confirm, yet again, the imperialist character of the EU, which has nothing to do with the cooperation between the peoples of Europe. With the implementation of the Euro-treaty and the several “plans of austerity”, the anti-popular character of the EU structure becomes even more obvious, in the direction of serving the interests of monopolies in the current conditions of the crisis and the intensification of capitalist antagonism.    

At the same time we concentrate our attention, with great concern, to the intensification of the antagonisms between the imperialist powers, the US, the EU and the uprising imperialist powers like Russia, on an international and regional level. The process of the incorporation of the EU in the strategy of the USA and NATO, as well as the incorporation of the aspects of militarization, of political intervention and of interventions in the “European Security Strategy” is a proof of this. The disputes over the control of the commercial routes of gas and oil acquire central importance. There arises the possibility of new clashes, of the re-ignition of old military tensions and of new crimes of imperialism against the people.

We reject the bourgeois and opportunist theories of “immoral capitalism”, which blame the corruption and greed of some bank managers and other monopolies for the crisis, while absolving capitalism itself. These theories spread illusions on the “humanization of capitalism”. They confine the struggles of the working class and youth toward the aim of a supposedly better administration of the system. However, the capitalist crisis is a crisis of overproduction. Its causes lie within the capitalist mode of production, the pursuit of profit. This is inevitable in the framework of the capitalist mode of production. No form of administration or state intervention can rid capitalism of its crises. The manifestation of the crisis highlights the vitality of Marx’s analysis on capitalist economy and Lenin’s analysis on imperialism. It shows the historical limits of capitalism, as well as the need for its revolutionary overthrow. It confirms the need for the struggle for another path of development, the socialist one.

We salute the struggles of workers and the youth in the European countries against anti-popular measures. We clearly demonstrate that the crisis must be paid by those responsible, the large capital and their political representatives. Not the people. We condemn the political representatives of the monopolies and those forces which call for sacrifices from the workers, for “national consent” and “cooperation” with the capitalists in order to overcome the crisis. It is a call of submission and new sacrifices for the profits of the capital, for the perpetuation of its rule.

We believe that in today’s conditions, new possibilities for action arise for communists. The crisis helps the youth draw new conclusions. The Communist Youth Organizations bare the great responsibility of organizing the struggle of the youth to secure the satisfaction of its contemporary needs, for full and steady employment, exclusively public and free for all healthcare, education and social security. The Communist Youth Organizations must contribute to the counterattack, not only to protect our rights, but to achieve new ones. After all, from the new generations, almost all rights won in the previous years have been abolished. Not only for the achievement of certain rights, but for the decisive blow against the capitalist system itself, for a relentless assault against the rule of the capital, for an alternative political solution – socialism.

Today, the produced wealth, the productivity of labor and the development of science and technology can meet all the contemporary popular needs, can reduce the working time, can eliminate unemployment, can raise the cultural and educative level of workers. The means of production and science can no longer be private property, used to exploit workers in order to produce profit. They need to become social property and be developed according to the benefit of the workers. In a society where there will be no exploitation of man by fellow man, where development will be based on the equality of the sovereign states and where the people will be the masters of their future, without imperialist interventions. This society is socialism. And the new generation has every interest to fight on the side of the working class for this new society, a society of peace and solidarity between the peoples.   

 We are certain that this truth, combined with the ground breaking action of the Communist Youth Organizations, will be the inspiration for the conscience and actions of the majority of young people. We commit ourselves to strengthen our efforts, so that anticommunism becomes invalid, as well as the propaganda against socialism and the lies surrounding the socialist construction during the 20th century, which the capitalists, their political ideologists and their representatives use in order to poison the minds of the youth. In this way we will be able to defend the contribution and superiority of socialism; to declare that socialism is the only true alternative solution for the future of mankind.

The future belongs to us.

 The common activity initiatives decided by the 8th Meeting of European Communist Youth Organizations are the following:

• Common action against the measures of the governments and the imperialist organizations that load the burden of the capitalist crisis on the working class and the youth. Struggle against the offensive on the modern rights of the youth of occupation, social security, access to education and culture.

• Organization of the struggle against anti-communism. Mobilizations of solidarity against the illegalization and ban of Communist Parties and Communist Youth Organizations. Establishment of days of common action against anti-communist anniversaries (eg. dissolution of USSR, unification of Germany, 23rd of August). Exchange of experience and information between our organizations on the struggle made in every country against anti-communism in schools and universities. Highlighting the superiority of Socialism over capitalism. Particular activities should be organized to condemn cases of individual communists, members of Communist Parties and Communist Youth Organizations that face persecutions and state justice, as a result of their protagonist action in the communist, working-class and youth movements.

• Editing of the documents of the 8th Meeting of European Communist Youth Organizations. 
 

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE 8th MEETING WERE THE FOLLOWING

1. KJOe – Austria
2. COMAC – Belgium
3. YCL - Britain
4. EDON – Cyprus
5. KSM – Czech Republic
6. MJCF – France
7. SDAJ - Germany
8. KNE – Greece
9. UNGKOM - Norway
10. JCP – Portugal
11. RKSM (b) – Russia
12.  SKOJ – Serbia
13.  UJCE – Spain
14.  CJC – Spain
15.  YOUTH TKP – Turkey

                                                                                                                                
WFDY denounces that two members of the Collectives of Young Communists (CJC-Spain, WFDY member organization) and a member of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain are facing a trial in which each of them could be sentenced to three years and ten months in prison.

The state prosecution claims three years and ten months in prison for three Spanish Communists, members of PCPE and CJC. The prosecutor bases his request on the events that took place in Barcelona on 14 November
2007, on the occasion of the demonstration to protest against the murder of a young anti-fascist in Madrid on November 11, brutally repressed by the Spanish police in an action that caused several injured people. The comrades that face charge of being the promoters of disorder are accused of a crime related to an event in which not even all of them attended, since the accusation was formed only when they went to the police
station with some lawyers to know what was the situation of two other members of CJC Spain that had been arrested in the demonstration.

It is remarkable that all the defendants involved that are not communists are being target of legal action in one process, and all the communists are being target of a different process – this second one counts with one evidence only: the statement of the police.
WFDY denounces this situation and calls upon all its member and friendly organizations to widespread the news and solidarity towards our comrades of CJC Spain. This attack is a part of the attack that has been taking place in the whole world against the democratic rights and freedoms of the peoples, having as main target the anti-imperialist consequent forces in a clear attempt to shut down the struggling capabilities of the youth and
peoples.

As per request of our comrades, as one of several expressions of solidarity, you can sign an online petition they are organizing at: http://pcpe.es/formulario2010/index-en.php

The CC/HQ of WFDY
Budapest, March 22, 2010

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 CC/HQ of WFDY
Budapest, February 14, 2010

The World Federation of Democratic Youth joins the Mandela family, South African people and all progressive youth movements in remembering the 20th Anniversary after the release of Cde Nelson Mandela from the notorious Robben Island Prison of the apartheid regime.

We once again re-affirm our support for the great revolutionary leader who has stood firm and focused to defend the imperialist machinations and unconditionally defended the revolution for a free South Africa.

Today, the same imperialist regimes continue to craft draconian laws to further oppress innocent people of the world under the so called banners of the rule of law, democracy and terrorist activities amongst other endless list of imperial propaganda language.
WFDY still stand side by side with revolutionaries who resisted and who still resist all forms of oppression, leaders like Cde Mandela who made South Africa to illuminate with glory over the achievements they made in developing their countries.

On behalf of member and friendly organizations, the World Federation of Democratic Youth therefore salute Cde Nelson Mandela for the role he has played as a courageous father-figure, a role model par excellence and we applaud him for the historical role he has played in uniting the progressive masses of not South Africa but the world at large. His highest level of his sacrifice goes a long way in teaching us, the youth of today, to
actively participate in resisting all forms of oppression for a better and peaceful world.

11 February, 2010
Budapest, Hungary
The CC/HQ of WFDY

On January 13rd, 1985, the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain created the State Commission of the CJC, the first provisional direction of the Collectives of Communist Youth. There was fulfilled a year of the foundation of the Communist Party of that time and the refounded Marxist-Leninist project for the Spanish State recognized the need for a struggle organization for the communist youth.

The first Congress of our organization assembled more than 400 delegates in Madrid, with the challenges of an offensive of youth struggle in the student movement, in the trade union work –especially, after the General Strike of June 20th of 1985 –, the struggle for peace and against the NATO and the international solidarity work.

25 years after our foundation, the CJC we believe that today a youth organization keeps on being necessary for the communist project. Our 7th Congress celebrated between the 5th and 7th of December of last year, has done a self-critical reading of our work, indicating our wise moves and errors and raising the challenges of this new stage in the context of the structural crisis of the capitalism.

The history of the CJC cannot be understood to the fringe of the history of the communist movement with the Spanish State. Our foundation tried to be an inflection point that was marking the beginning of the recovery of the Leninism and of the abandonment of the Eurocommunism, project characterized by the ideological resignations, parallel to the conciliation of classes, the electoral struggle and the internal battles. The CJC we have always believed in a present organization in the struggles of the street, offering an organization and the struggle before the concrete and real problems of the youth, with a united and dynamic structure based on the centralism democratic and removed from all bureaucratism. Nevertheless, our desires do not come true automatically and it is obvious that this objective only has been obtained progressively.

In our history we found big battles, like the student struggles or against the NATO of the 80s, but also there exist black points that we have assumed with a critical way: the economic and political dependency towards the international devices of certain communist parties of East Europe, a structure of liberated and the practical disappearance of the CJC in the 90s, after two breakaway processes that were trying to sell off the Marxist-Leninist project of the PCPE.

The Forth and the Fifth Congress, in 1997 and 2001 respectively, supposed the recovery of the CJC as a state youth organization. But it is from 6th Congress, in July, 2005, when the CJC we begin an important process of growth, which extends our organization to almost all the territories of the State and it quadruples the militancy.

The recent 7th Congress reaches this growth period and passes to a renewed direction, which has established the objective to construct a CJC more linked to the struggles. We characterize our Congress as a success, for the militants’ high participation –including also 24 delegates and international delegates –, for the quality of the debates and for an increasing conscience between ours and between our militants across the constant work, the youth of the Spanish State can advance and appear more and more ambitious challenges.

Nevertheless, in any case, the success of our Congress must not suppose in falling down in the autopleasure. The successes generate expectations and we are ready to be on a par, with our work and our commitment.

We confront this challenge with the humility of knowing that, 25 years later, the youth organization of the Revolution still does not exist. The CJC are not this youth yet and neither another of the existing communist detachments until now. This youth is still under construction. We are a germinal nucleus that will help to build it and our contribution will be greater as, with our daily work, we manage to anticipate the features of the youth capable of doing the Socialist Revolution in the Spanish State. But for it, there will be necessary to count with a lot of communist young people who today they are not members in our organization. The unit of the communists, like our program indicates, is a hanging objective, as well as the construction of a young front of lefts.

At any rate, in the current frame of deep crisis of the capitalism and having overcome many of the difficulties that historically we have suffered like organization, the CJC we can be glad to be a useful for the struggle of the Spanish State youth.

Today, like 25 years ago, the CJC we are to the offensive to join to the youth in the struggle for a Republic with Confederal and Socialist characters, like the only useful instrument so that the working class becomes like a class in the power and for the free exercise of the self-determination of the peoples.

THE YOUTH TO THE OFFENSIVE!

BUILDING THE REVOLUTION!

KSM is Legal again!
On January 27th 2010 the Communist Youth Union (KSM) of the Czech Republic was tried again at the Municipality Court of Prague regarding the issue of illegalization of KSM. The Municipality Court of Prague, based on KSM’s extraordinary appeal and decision of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, cancelled the judgment at law from 2008, which rejected the administrative protest delivered by the KSM against the decision of the Ministry of Interior of Czech Republic on the dissolution of the KSM. This is very important decision for KSM, because it legalises KSM again. KSM now can again work openly as legal organisation.
The official reason of the illegalization of the KSM by Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic in 2007 was declared a programmatic goal of the KSM is to replace private ownership of means of production with a collective ownership of means of production. Also the reason for the dissolution of KSM was the convincement of the young people about the necessity to struggle for another society not based on the capitalist principles.
This step of the Ministry of Interior caused a fundamental disagreement of the majority of the Czech people. The petition supporting the KSM has been signed by thousands of the citizens of the Czech Republic so far. Against the decision of the Ministry of Interior protested, for example, also the organisations of the former fighters against fascism and guerrilla resistance movement members. The petition of the civic associations has come out from an initiative of the student activists that denounce the steps of the Ministry of Interior against KSM. The support for KSM has been expressed also by a number of the Czech political parties. Thanks to initiative of the MPs of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) proceedings of the Ministry of Interior were discussed in a Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
The initiative of the Ministry of Interior was reflected with a big consideration also abroad. Hundreds of the youth, student and trade organisations have expressed their protests. Thousands of the people addressed their indignation to the Ministry of Interior and embassies of the Czech Republic abroad, among others a number of members of national parliaments, European parliament, university professors, and former fighters against fascism. A number of protest activities took place in front of the embassies of the Czech Republic in a number of countries.
The judgment of the Municipality Court of Prague on KSM’s means legalisation of the KSM. It is very important victory in the struggle against anticommunism and anti-democratic development in the Czech Republic.

Milan Krajca,
Chairman of the Communist Youth Union (KSM)