General Strike – A huge strength to defeat the Pact of Aggression and save the country

A powerful general strike rocks Portugal!

Statement by Jeronimo de Sousa , General Secretary of the PCP on the Portuguese general strike

1 - In thousands of enterprises and workplaces, millions of workers today expressed a fighting No! to the Pact of Aggression, in a memorable day of struggle in defence of workers’ rights and for a developed and sovereign Portugal.

The General Strike called by CGTP-IN and which gathered widespread support, represented a powerful answer to the biggest offensive since the days of fascism. A strike against exploitation and impoverishment, against the path of national disaster that PSD, CDS and PS, subordinated to the interests of big national and international business, want to impose on Portugal.

A General Strike that represents a great moment in the history of the struggle of the Portuguese workers and people, an expression of the intense class struggle being waged in our country, a patriotic and democratic affirmation, factor of mobilisation and confidence in the struggle for Portugal with a future.

Government spys on activists, then tells Boss class

Riot police at the G20 in Toronto waltz past the
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

OTTAWA -- RCMP records obtained under freedom of information legislation reveal a disturbing relationship between the national police force and corporations.

According to a CBC news report, the Joint Intelligence Group, an RCMP-led intelligence team that has extensively spied on community organizations and activists, "made a series of presentations to private-sector corporations, including one to 'energy sector stakeholders' in November 2011. Other corporations that received intelligence from police included Canada’s major banks, telecom firms, airlines, downtown property companies and other businesses seen to be vulnerable to the effects of summit protests."

Evict the system, not the people!

The Young Communist League condemns the anti-democratic and illegal evictions (and attempted evictions) of the Occupy movement in Halifax, London, Victoria, Regina, Saskatoon, Whitehorse, Quebec city as well as Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, and elsewhere across Canada.  In many cities the police attacks or threats against the occupiers have been pushed back by the largest showings of community mobilization since the demos began!

Across Canada, youth and students have been coming together behind the slogans “Occupy Everywhere” and “We are the 99%.” Occupy camps have been set up all around the world, with an extraordinary 300+ occupations in the USA and all major cities in Canada being occupied.

Youth should take heart in the fact that, despite increasingly cold, freezing, wet and snowy weather (as well as internal challenges) the occupations in Canada increased both in numbers and popular support. In many places they have been joined by representatives of the trade unions and striking workers, and have received official solidarity from a broad range of labour and people’s forces. The 99% have set up kitchens, meeting spaces, libraries and literally hundreds of tents, with a general sense of organization.

State violence against occupiers

An elderly woman in her 80s is pepper-sprayed in Seattle. 
Video below: a pregnant woman responds to the attack, she reportedly lost her baby.

Spanish elections confirms goal of the oligarchy

Results of the 2011 Spanish elections. Blue is the right-wing party, red is the social democrats, yellow and blue are political parties for the Catalan and Basque national communities, or regional parties. A summary of results as presented on Wikipedia is below. The right wing has already said it will abolish gay marriage.

Stop repression of Turkish youth

The repression of the popular movement by the Turkish state

WFDY once again condemns the repressing regime of Turkey that gets more and more aggressive towards the social and civil rights of the youth and people of Turkey. For years the progressive, democratic and communist forces in Turkey were suffering by the governments, but recently and especially during and after the latest elections, the attacks are getting more intense.

Turkey under Tayyip Erdoğan rule is not the country that the media try to present to the rest of the world. The European Union and especially the USA and NATO try to convince their peoples that Turkey is a democratic state with respect to civil rights, the right of free speech etc, and that Turkey is an example of an “Islamic Democracy” that should be an applied by Arab countries.

In reality, Turkey is still serving the interests of NATO, the US and EU. Turkey is the biggest ally of these forces in the Middle East. Additionally, the national reactionary forces that find their political expression through AKP and Erdogan, have strong interests on the exploitation of the Turkish people and also the peoples of their neighbor countries.

WFDY: A short history

On the occasion of the 18th Assembly of WFDY, the comrades made a way-colourful exhibition about the most important moments in the life of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, as well as the youth movement in general.


The story spans throughout the last 65 years, from the creation of WFDY after the defeat of fascism. 


Check it out by clicking on the link here.

Young wage-slaves in UK work for free

Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits

People taking up work experience places – providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour – face losing benefits if they quit

• Shiv Malik
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 November 2011 13.00 GMT
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Cait Reilly, who is currently completing three weeks at Poundland, working five hours a day. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Britain's jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job, the Guardian can reveal.

Photos of the 18th WFDY General Assembly

Delegate from Eritrea *

Photos of the 18th General Assembly of WFDY. Stared photos are thanks to the YCL USA. Follow the link below and click on the first photo to see a slide show.