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May 23rd, 2010

To Youth and Students of the World for the 17th WFYS, South Africa.

Youth has always been a vital force in the development of societies. With natural creativity, will of change, transformation and strength, the struggle of youth for freedom, peace and social transformation, for the right to education, employment, democratic rights and peace has always had a significant role in the general struggle for a fair and peaceful world.

Multiple electric train cancellations last week on the Octyabrskaya railway line including cancellations of the last trains, for which the administration was fully to blame, were bound to cause havoc. And this is exactly what happened as many people were forced to stay overnight on the platforms.

On June 22nd at half past 1 AM a bus specially rented by the Federation of Socialist Youth departed from the Baltic railway station in Leningrad. This was the start of the annual Rememberance Watch where representatives from the RCWP and RCYL(b) (a party flag was also present) took part.

It's not a secret that the quality of education in Russia is falling every year. This year wasn't an exception. While the government was telling us about the new education reform, we found out that more than eight thousand graduates will not receive their high school diplomas.

Recently the State Duma, at the suggestion of the United Russia, for the third time passed a law which abolishes free primary school education. This reform was popularly tagged as the "commercialization of school".

The 8th Conference of European Communist Youth Organizations took place in March 16 - 17th 2010 in the European Parliament building. The main slogan of this meeting was: "The struggle of young communists against capitalist barbarism and anticommunism for socialism". Delegates of Communist Youth Organizations from one hundred and fifty countries attended the meeting.

On the 18th of May a Lithuanian court dismissed the case of administrative violation against four young people who came to a holiday demonstration on the 16 th of February (the Day of restitution of Lithuanian Independence) with posters showing swastikas.

A picket of solidarity with the miners of Kuzbas took place in Chernyshevsky park in Leningrad on May 22 from 3:00 o'clock to 4:00.

Much has already been said about the accident which occurred at Raspadskaya mine in the Kemerovo region on May 8 and which carried away the lives of more than 60 miners. It is difficult to to add anything except that similar accidents are not something outstanding in today's bourgeois society.

For many years now May 9 (Victory Day) has been portrayed by the government as "a day to show national unity" and a day of remembrance of our heroic past. However, this doesn't prevent the government from treating our veterans like criminals - here is the story of outrageous cynicism that was shown by he authorities on May 9 in Belgorod. All opposition organizations were denied permission to hold events on Victory Day and Revolution square was closed off. This may seem OK - the authorities were preparing for the parade, but together with the square they closed off the eternal flame. On May 9 veterans came to the square to place flowers at the eternal flame and remember their comrades who died in the war, but they couldn't pass to the memorial. The police disappointed everyone and especially, the veterans. Only several people from the Union of Soviet Officers were able to finally get through to the flame, but even they had to beg the police to let them pass for some time. The rest were forced to go back. After this incident the veterans didn't have any strength or desire left to watch the parade. Instead of placing flowers at the eternal flame they went to place flowers at the other monuments throughout the city, meanwhile the authorities' greetings and assurances that the veterans' heroic sacrifice during WWII will forever be remembered snowed from sound amplifiers on the square. But who will believe them now?