12/08/2025
**Statement of the WFTU Working Youth Committee on International Youth Day*
12 August 2025
The Working Youth Committee of the World Federation of Trade Unions extends its warmest greetings to all young people, to young workers, pupils and students around the world.
We especially salute the hundreds of thousands of young people who, despite the enormous repression, are participating, organizing and leading the international movement of solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people. Those who stand up against the imperialist wars and antagonisms. All young people who are fighting for the right to free , quality education, scientific and vocational training for all. To all those fighting for better working and living conditions, access to culture, sport and affordable decent housing for all.
At the same time, we call on those who have not yet taken this step to follow with us the path of collective struggle and solidarity, against the road individualism and fatalism that the system and its mechanisms project to us, as a the solution to our problems. We call them to join the ranks of the militant trade union movement and fight against the system of exploitation and profits , against the policies of governments that count our lives, needs and dreams as costs.
Especially today when conditions are getting even worse, when alot young people are facing war, poverty, unemployment and the deprivation of fundamental rights such as health care, education and social security. Today that the bourgeoisie’s attack on workers is being stepped up with the implementation of flexible forms of employment and the use of new technology for the benefit of capitalist profits rather than social well-being, this struggle needs to even more straightened!
The WFTU Youth Workers' Committee remains committed to this task so that together with the unions it can help organise, educate and mobilise the new generation of workers. The energy, creativity and determination of youth can give new impetus to the labour movement, to the struggle for a world free of exploitation, inequality and injustice.
We do not take a single step back from our needs !
Long live the international militant working youth and their struggles !