The Political Motion for the Revolutionary Patriotic Democratic Youth Organization KIFAH
KIFAH’s congress is the result of the accumulation of struggles of the patriotic democratic line at universities first created. This militant activity has expanded to include the popular scene and it was further consolidated when the line turned into a Revolutionary Leninist-Marxist political party which adopted the working class’s thought and endeavored to take the lead of many aspects of this revolutionary activity. The party has offered huge sacrifices for the sake of the working class, the people, Tunisia and the national democratic revolution with Socialist horizons.
The Revolutionary Patriotic socialist party gives prominence to the youth and their revolutionary role, are they entrenched enough in the socialist scientific notion to relieve the working class and the oppressed revolutionary youth and people. Accordingly, the Congress for the Patriotic Democratic Youth, set as the militant arm of the Revolutionary Patriotic Socialist party WATAD, is a practical consecration of the party’s position and a militant endeavor to fully establish its bodies and activate its struggle. And if it currently fulfills this, it will be reviving the profuse militant contribution the national democratic youth have provided for the struggle guided by the scientific notion and the party’s guidelines and revolutionary positions.
After an in depth scientific study conducted on the current situation of the global scene and its material dialectic reaction, the congress notes the following:
1. The aggressive Imperialist powers’ attempt to control the working class, the peoples and the nations and subject them to their own interests by draining their resources and manipulating them politically and economically through the alliance of parties to extend their monopoly on the world using coercive means and all the ways and tools including the direct military interference to impose their dominance in favor of the financial capital and to satisfy the greed of the financial oligarchy such as Somalia in 1994, Yugoslavia in 1998, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011 and currently Syria, etc…
2. The resort to the Zionist entity and reactionist puppet regimes oriented to serve their interests and the preparation of reactionist forces as a backup when needed to perpetuate their dominance over the working class and the oppressed peoples.
3. Endless attempt of imperialism to stifle revolutionary breaths and target national Progressist forces in exchange for supporting the reactionist liberal and obscurantist right-wing forces.
4. The Imperialism’s perseverance on twisting the people’s awareness and especially the youth’s since they are the creative energy able to effectively contribute in the achievement of national liberation and social emancipation with the guidance of the working class and their principle allies.
However, the congress simultaneously points to the revolutionary advancement the populations all over the world are experiencing against global Imperialism and Zionism and other reactionist puppet regimes, duly proving the Leninist-Marxist theories’ accurate analysis of the disasters resulting from the class battles on a global level. This is what the militant fights, that many countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey have witnessed and still are witnessing, reflect.
On the Arab national level:
The Arab World has witnessed since the late middle ages different kinds of direct colonization starting from the Turkish Ottoman settlement to the modern colonization under the Western Capitalist State. This imperialist occupation was established to divide and re-divide the world. This colonization worsened when the Zionist entity rooted in Palestine, the heart of the Arab World. Imperialism resorted to all the conspiracies and means to perpetuate its dominance over the Arab World like appointing reactionist puppet regimes that serve Imperialist interests, support obscurantist movements, sow and feed religious sectarianism to weaken any militant breath and thwart the rise of national opposing movements as well as their blatant direct interference in favor of the interest of the financial capital. Nonetheless, this did not prevent the rise of national opposing movements in all the Arab countries among which many have succeeded in toppling colonization and achieving national liberation thanks to some global conditions among which we name: the Algerian National Liberation Movement and the rise of the Free Officers Movement in Egypt in addition to the National Liberation Movement in Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and many other Arab countries. These movements, however, soon vanished and were victims of betrayal due to the nature of the political leadership and the reactionist imperialist siege. In a nutshell, the Arab world is but colonized, semi-colonized and semi-feudal.
The current situation in the Arab world:
The imperialist grip is still tightening on the Arab populations and their revolutionary and National Progressist forces to infringe their national sovereignty and plunder their alluring resources for the sake of the financial capital and the Zionist entity. This situation triggered anti-imperialist movements of a solid militant impetus especially in some Arab countries like in the
case of Egypt, Tunisia and earlier Yemen, but Imperialism sought and is still seeking to divert them by conspiring against them and encouraging reactionist puppet forces like commercializing religion through fraudulent elections which enabled these forces from diverting the popular upheavals in an attempt to subject and subdue them to the interests of the Imperialist camp. The people, however, were vigilant and worked hard to complete the revolutionary process despite the Imperialist endeavor to conspire against them again, exactly like what is happening in Egypt and the indicators of the rise of anti- Imperialist youth movements in Tunisia.
The youth has played and is still playing an important role, and sometimes a leading role, in the ignition of these uprisings. Many oppressed social categories joined them and succeeded in achieving some of the gains threatened by the governing puppet regimes which serve the interest of Imperialism, Zionism and Reactionism.
The second popular uprising Egypt is currently witnessing after toppling the system is a practical and militant example of the people’s will to achieve the struggle and fulfill its objectives without losing sight of the Imperialist endeavor to monopolize them again.
On the Level of Tunisia:
Our people in Tunisia have fallen down under repression, oppression and exploitation for decades under the tyranny of direct colonization then under the Reactionist puppet regime of Bourguiba and Ben Ali to end with the Troika’s. Their modern history also recorded many militant struggles for its national liberation and social emancipation in many ways of different scopes and depth: from protest and strikes to marches and demonstrations and clashes with the puppet regime and popular uprisings against imperialism and its plundering projects: the struggles the movement of young students and pupils have fought for centuries, during which the national Democratic Youth had an efficient leading role since the 70s (1975- 1976) up to now under the influence of many objective and subjective factors in their struggles. Despite some errors and weaknesses, this continuous militant impetus was mirrored in the following uprisings: Movement of February 1972, the workers’ uprising in 1978 crowned with the general strike the UGTT organized then the Bread Uprising in response to the exorbitant inflation especially of the vital products under the command of the IMF, one of the fittest Imperialist arms, to bring the people under their control. It was then followed by the mining basin uprising in which the unemployed youth were active by the side of the other popular categories. This uprising paved the way to 17th December—14th January uprising which marked the effective role of the youth.
After a thorough analysis of the World’s current issues, the Revolutionary Patriotic Democratic Youth Organization KIFAH Congress KIFAH expresses:
1. Its appraisal of the Revolutionary Patriotic socialist party’s positions (WATAD) and orientations regarding the political issues of the Arab World and the country.
2. Its support of the global Youth’s struggles in its fight against colonization, exploitation and oppression Imperialism and Reactionism are exercising on populations.
3. Its reverence for and support of all the liberation movements namely the Patriotic Democratic and Progressist Youth movements in the country and the Arab World.
4. Its absolute support of the National Liberation Movement in Palestine in its struggle against the imperialistically empowered Zionist entity to free the Palestinian land from the Zionist grip, as it is an occupational, tyrant and exploitive entity.
5. Its refusal and condemnation of the Imperialist military and political interference in Syria through liberal and obscurantist agents and its simultaneous support of the Arab population’s strife for the national and democratic liberation and social emancipation in Syria.
6. Its appraisal of TAMARROD (Rebellion), the Egyptian National Progressist Youth movement’s effective support of the Egyptian population in its second uprising against the Reactionist puppet Ikhwani regime, which diverted the first uprising, not so much different from the previous regime, even greater in tyranny, depth and service of Imperialism and Zionism.
7. Its total support of and effective engagement in all the people and youth’s struggles that aim at toppling Troika’s betraying regime that diverted our people’s uprising and completing the revolutionary process to achieve the people’s objectives of National liberation and Social Emancipation.
8. Its respect of all the youth’s initiatives in the country that aim at overthrowing the Constituent Assembly and the different institutions that emanated from it and checking the foreign interference. The Revolutionary Patriotic Democratic Youth Organization KIFAH expresses its willingness to fully engage in the militant popular and youth’s movement and its determination in completing the revolutionary process in the country by the side of the popular masses and rooting it until a National Democratic revolution with a Socialist horizon is achieved.
On behalf of all the Patriotic Democratic Youth, KIFAH the Patriotic Democratic Youth Organization Congress pledges to carry on struggling unabatedly to achieve the following democratic demands:
* Defend the gains of the 17th December—14th January Uprising, especially those regarding individual and public democratic and syndical liberties such as the democratic revolutionary youth’s freedom of activity in favor of the toiling popular masses and their struggle to break free from class exploitation and imperialist oppression.
* Struggle for a national Progressist and democratic youth business unit and the establishment of developed forms to consolidate this unit and its general struggle against the external and internal people’s enemies.
* Struggle to establish the Youth’s right to employment and struggle to grant employment for unemployed degree-holders and other marginalized and impoverished young people.
* Struggle to improve the living conditions of the popular masses and the rest of the popular categories and grant them decent housing and free transport, health welfare and education for the unemployed.
* Struggle to put an end to the reasons behind the increase of immigration and clandestine immigration especially among the youth and work hard on providing them with the requirements of a decent life in Tunisia.
* Protect the youth’s rights in rural areas from all forms of exploitation, oppression and marginalization and grant them a decent life.
* Full attention to the young entrepreneurs in the economic field in the city and rural areas and removal of all the obstacles that may prevent the success of their projects.
* Struggle for land reform in favor of the youth’s interests in rural areas, poor peasants and farm workers to grant them lands and help them produce, afford life conditions and boost local economy.
* Struggle to establish the youth’s right to free education in all levels and for both sexes and make education free, public, compulsory, democratic, secular and national, promote and continuously support scientific research, establish Arabization in all levels by reviewing education policies to grant it.
* Focus on and pay attention to the young creators of both sexes and all writers and artists, liberate their creativity and fight Reactionist and obscurantist culture to establish a national culture that serves the people, work on spreading the enlightening national thought among young generations and youth and the rest of the social classes and popular categories to raise their awareness, broaden their knowledge and value in them humanistic
principles like freedom, genuine social justice, equality without exploitation, sexual or racial discrimination.
* Struggle by the side of the workers and popular masses to establish a National economy that covers the people’s needs and grant homeland development and prosperity.
The congress puts emphasis on the right of the youth and the rest of the popular masses to freedom of belief, forming associations, parties, organizations and freedom to belong to them.
It also focuses on the unity of the syndical movement and its struggle including UGET (General Union of Tunisian Students) and calls all the national revolutionary and Progressist members to establish this unity on the basis of the youth’s national, revolutionary, democratic and Progressist struggle. For this, the congress proposes the organization of a unifying conference to UGET based on the militant plan, democracy and unity to enable the organization to answer the young students’ demands and to become a feeder of popular militancy.
The Congress calls the Popular Front’s youth and the national democratic and Progressist youth to unite in their struggle against the people’s enemies and the forces diverting the popular uprising whether they be powers like Troika and all those associated to them or Nidaa Tounes and its proponents.
It also encourages the Youth’s initiatives aiming at overthrowing the Constituent Assembly and the government and opposing foreign interference to effectively unite in their field and political struggles by the side of the popular masses and the militant national political powers for the completion of the revolutionary process and fulfillment of the brave popular uprising.
* Long live the struggles of the working class and the rest of the oppressed peoples.
* Long live the struggles of the Patriotic Progressist and revolutionary Youth, ever so incenting the workers and the revolting population to struggle for national liberation and social emancipation
The Revolutionary Patriotic Democratic Youth Organization KIFAH
Tunis, 20th July 2013.