World Youth Festival to be held in South Africa  


02/11/2010

Youngsters from around the globe will meet in South Africa at the end of the year for the 17th edition of the World Festival of Youth and Students, under the slogan “Against Imperialism, for a Better Future for Mankind, and for the Survival of the Human Species.”

Held for the first time in Sub-Saharan Africa, the event will be a demonstration of support for the most plundered continent, the one that has suffered all calamities and injustices typical of colonialism, capitalism and imperialism, and where entire nations are in real danger of disappearing.

After selecting South Africa as the event’s venue during a meeting held over the weekend in Beirut, Lebanon, the General Council of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) highlighted that the Festival will also be a demonstration of solidarity with the people of Nelson Mandela and his struggle against Apartheid and for a multinational society, with justice and rights for all citizens.

Representatives from 46 youth and students organizations from all regions of the planet were pleased with this decision, which confirms that, 63 years after the first meeting in

Prague, the festivals’ movement continues to strengthen, and that it maintains its anti-imperialist, antifascist and anti-colonialist essence.

In its final declaration at the meeting, the General Council of the WFDY reaffirmed its vigorous condemnation of the US blockade against Cuba and of the decision by the Obama administration of including the Caribbean island in its arbitrary list of states sponsoring terrorism.

Likewise, it ratified its support for the struggle of the Cuban people for the release from prison of five fellow countrymen, in US jails for more than 11 years now for fighting terrorism, and wished success to the Cuban youth in the carrying out of its 9th Congress and in the construction of socialism.

Attending this important meeting in the Lebanese capital was a delegation from the island’s Young Communists League, headed by Giovanni Barrueta, in charge of international relations in the organization’s National Bureau.   

Source: ACN