WFDY: Solidarity Statement with Hungary Left Front Communist Youth Alliance

World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) extends its solidarity with members of the Left front who are facing charges of “libel made in public”. The case is going before the courts on Friday 21st September 2007 in Hungary. Further, we appreciate the gravity of the charges as if found guilty the cadres can be sentenced for a maximum of two years.

Freedom and democratic rights are fundamental rights that assist all the peoples and all youngsters in the world and exist in a society that dignifies the human being and that goes towards the social progress. Nowadays youngsters all over the world face themselves with one of the most violent and aggressive offenses concerning freedom of association and organization, freedom of thought expression and freedom of reunion and demonstration.

WFDY and its organizations acknowledge that all these attacks and campaigns that are primarily aimed to the communist to isolate them and to mislead other democratic and progressive sectors – potential targets of the same kind of attacks that should be taken not only as attacks against the anti-imperialists youth organizations but against all youngsters and democratic and anti-imperialist forces, perpetuated due to the awareness of the attraction of the emancipating and progressives ideals near the youth, by the dominant class.

This development with regards to Left Front is part of imperialist agenda to globally demonise communist movement along with Fascism in Europe. The ban of our Member Organization KSM in the Czech Republic, dishonour of grave of Janos Kadar in Budapest, dismantling of the monument of Soviet heroes in Tallinn serve as evidence of what the imperialist forces are doing in order to do away with communist parties.

We denounce such moves and encourage all our member organizations to continue fighting for peace and more solidarity and against imperialism and all its values.

Finally, we urge to our all member and friendly organizations to take necessary actions by organizing meetings, protests and issuing statement in support of and solidarity with the Left Front.

The Coordinating Council / Headquarters of WFDY
18th of September 2007
Budapest, Hungary