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27th October 2004, 04:48
From YCL magazine, the Dynamic:
From June 6-9, delegates from 30 countries representing 50 organizations converged in the Brazilian capital to launch the preparatory process for the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students(WFYS). The 16th WFYS will take place in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 5-13, 2005, under the slogan "for peace and solidarity - we struggle against imperialism and war."
The choice of Venezuela reflects the delegates' unity on defending the country's revolution, which has for the last several years has been under intense attack by reactionary forces. It has survived hostile diplomatic pressure from central capitalist countries, a long shut-down and sabotage of the country's oil industry, and a attempted coup-d'Etat. In August, President Huge Chavez handily won a referendum that confirmed his legal standing till the end of his presidential mandate.
Traditionally, the World Federation of Democractic Youth (WFDY), a broad based organization of democractic, anti-colonalist and progressive youth organizations founded in 1945, takes a leading role in preparing the WFYS and moblizing world youth to attend. The festival movement began in Prauge 1947, where thousands of Youth came together under the post-war theme, "Youth United for a Lasting Peace."
The same week, Brasilia also hosted the 12th National Congress of the Brazilian Union of Socialist Youth (UJS) the sister oganization of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB). Since the 11th congress in 2002, UJS grew 250% percent. Over 1,500 delegates came to the University of Brasilia campus June 10-13 to represent the 50,000 members that participated in the municipal congresses in 600 cities from all 27 states. UJS currently holds the presidency of the national high school student movement, the national university student movement, and the national graduate student movement. It is about to launch another movement that will organize hip hop groups and artists around Brazil.
Despite this unique historical movement moment, where for the first time ever a worker (and not a member of the traditional elite), Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, won the presidency of the nation! The Brazilian government remains divided between neo-liberal and national development camps. UJS will work to support the presidency of Lula while putting pressure on the government to lean towards national development and national sovereingnty.
Anyways, so just to clarify, the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students will be on August 5-13th 2005 in Caracas, Venezuela. I plan to go, if you're American and in the yclusa (or if not, join up!), you can an email to them at [email protected] to get help in getting a ride over to Venezuela. Hopefully my parents won't faint when I say I want to go to Venezuela.....
From June 6-9, delegates from 30 countries representing 50 organizations converged in the Brazilian capital to launch the preparatory process for the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students(WFYS). The 16th WFYS will take place in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 5-13, 2005, under the slogan "for peace and solidarity - we struggle against imperialism and war."
The choice of Venezuela reflects the delegates' unity on defending the country's revolution, which has for the last several years has been under intense attack by reactionary forces. It has survived hostile diplomatic pressure from central capitalist countries, a long shut-down and sabotage of the country's oil industry, and a attempted coup-d'Etat. In August, President Huge Chavez handily won a referendum that confirmed his legal standing till the end of his presidential mandate.
Traditionally, the World Federation of Democractic Youth (WFDY), a broad based organization of democractic, anti-colonalist and progressive youth organizations founded in 1945, takes a leading role in preparing the WFYS and moblizing world youth to attend. The festival movement began in Prauge 1947, where thousands of Youth came together under the post-war theme, "Youth United for a Lasting Peace."
The same week, Brasilia also hosted the 12th National Congress of the Brazilian Union of Socialist Youth (UJS) the sister oganization of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB). Since the 11th congress in 2002, UJS grew 250% percent. Over 1,500 delegates came to the University of Brasilia campus June 10-13 to represent the 50,000 members that participated in the municipal congresses in 600 cities from all 27 states. UJS currently holds the presidency of the national high school student movement, the national university student movement, and the national graduate student movement. It is about to launch another movement that will organize hip hop groups and artists around Brazil.
Despite this unique historical movement moment, where for the first time ever a worker (and not a member of the traditional elite), Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, won the presidency of the nation! The Brazilian government remains divided between neo-liberal and national development camps. UJS will work to support the presidency of Lula while putting pressure on the government to lean towards national development and national sovereingnty.
Anyways, so just to clarify, the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students will be on August 5-13th 2005 in Caracas, Venezuela. I plan to go, if you're American and in the yclusa (or if not, join up!), you can an email to them at [email protected] to get help in getting a ride over to Venezuela. Hopefully my parents won't faint when I say I want to go to Venezuela.....