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La Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Canada condamne sans équivoque l’attaque terroriste contre l’ambassade de Cuba à Washington.

Dans la soirée du dimanche 24 septembre, la mission diplomatique cubaine aux États-Unis a été attaquée par des terroristes armés de cocktails Molotov. Il s’agit de la deuxième attaque contre la mission au cours des dernières années.

Les terroristes anti-cubains ont eu toute latitude pour attaquer Cuba, faire exploser un avion de ligne cubain, lancer une invasion de Cuba soutenue par l’armée américaine, faire des centaines de tentatives d’assassinat de dirigeants cubains, poser des bombes tuant des milliers de Cubains, utiliser la guerre chimique et biologique pour détruire les récoltes et les animaux, rendant malades et tuant des milliers de personnes, et ce pendant six décennies. Ces faits sont bien fondés et connus dans le monde entier.

Le YCL-LJC réitère son soutien au peuple cubain et à sa révolution, ainsi que sa solidarité sans faille avec son organisation sœur, l’Union des jeunes communistes de Cuba (UJC). La construction du mouvement de solidarité avec Cuba au Canada continue d’être une priorité pour notre travail en tant que jeunes communistes.

Les contributions de Cuba à la classe ouvrière internationale sont anciennes et variées. Qu’il s’agisse du soutien aux mouvements anti-impérialistes et de libération nationale dans le monde, y compris les innombrables gestes de solidarité envers la Fédération mondiale de la jeunesse démocratique (FMJD) et le Festival mondial de la jeunesse et des étudiants (FMJE), ou des actes désintéressés de Cuba dans le monde de la santé et de l’assainissement, y compris le soutien aux catastrophes naturelles et le travail récent de la Brigade Henry Reeve pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, Cuba a montré qu’elle était l’amie des peuples du monde entier, engagée en faveur du progrès et de la paix.

La jeunesse anti-impérialiste sera toujours aux côtés de nos frères et sœurs de Cuba qui, réciproquement, ont toujours contribué au développement de cette lutte commune pour un monde libéré de l’exploitation et de l’oppression sous toutes leurs formes. Nous ne pouvons pas oublier les contributions fondamentales et continues de l’UJC à la FMJD, à la fois en occupant le poste de secrétaire général de l’organisation et en contribuant à l’avancement de nos analyses et de notre lutte collective. Nous ne pouvons pas non plus oublier le geste altruiste de Fidel Castro pour réactiver le mouvement des FMJE, qui a été, après presque une décennie sans festivals et à un moment difficile pour la jeunesse anti-impérialiste et le mouvement dans son ensemble, d’accueillir pour la deuxième fois un FMJE, la XIVe édition, à La Havane en 1997 pour relancer cet événement très pertinent.

La Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Canada condamne ces actes terroristes qui s’intensifient et qui doivent être stoppés dès maintenant par la condamnation publique et l’intervention du gouvernement canadien et des mouvements syndicaux et démocratiques. Le silence n’est pas une option.

En outre, Cuba doit être retiré de la liste américaine des États soutenant le terrorisme, et le blocus économique et les sanctions des États-Unis à l’encontre de Cuba doivent être levés immédiatement.

¡No más bloqueo!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

The Young Communist League of Canada unequivocally condemns the terrorist attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington. 

On the evening of Sunday, September 24, the Cuban diplomatic mission in the United States was attacked by terrorists armed with Molotov cocktails. This is the second attack on the mission in recent years.

Anti-Cuban terrorists have had a free hand to attack Cuba, to blow up a Cuban airliner, launch an invasion of Cuba supported by the U.S. military, make hundreds of attempts to assassinate Cuban leaders, plant bombs killing thousands of Cubans, use chemical and biological

warfare to destroy crops and animals, sickening and killing thousands of people – for six decades. These are facts that are well-founded and well known around the world.

The YCL-LJC reiterates our support for the Cuban people and its revolution, and our unrelenting solidarity with our sister organization the Communist Youth Union of Cuba (UJC). Building the Cuba solidarity movement in Canada continues to be a priority for our work as young communists.

Cuba’s contributions to the international working class are long-standing and wide-ranging. From the support of anti-imperialist and national liberation movements around the world, including countless gestures of solidarity toward the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS), to Cuba’s selfless acts in the world of health and sanitation, including natural disaster support and the recent work of the Henry Reeve Brigade during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba has shown itself to be a friend of peoples around the world, committed to progress and peace.

The anti-imperialist youth will always be with our brothers and sisters of Cuba who, reciprocally, have always contributed to the development of this common struggle for a world free of exploitation and oppression of any kind. We cannot forget the continuous fundamental contributions of the UJC to WFDY, both by holding the General Secretary of the organization and by contributing to the advancement of our collective analyses and struggle. Nor can we forget the altruistic gesture led by Fidel Castro to reactivate the movement of the WFYS, which was, after almost a decade without festivals and at a difficult time for anti-imperialist youth and the movement as a whole, to host for the second time a WFYS, the XIVth edition, in Havana in 1997 to relaunch this highly relevant event.

The Young Communist League of Canada – Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Canada  condemns these terrorist acts, which are escalating, and which must be stopped now with the public condemnation and intervention of the Canadian government and labour and democratic movements. Silence is not an option.

Further, Cuba must be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, and the U.S. economic blockade and sanctions against Cuba must be lifted now.

¡No más bloqueo!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre! 

The Young Communist League – Ligue de la jeunesse communiste stands in solidarity with young people in Iran and their uprising in defence of peace, sovereignty, human and democratic rights, and social justice. We wholeheartedly endorse the statements of the World Federation of Democratic Youth and our sister organization the Tudeh Youth of Iran.

The heinous murder of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman by the ‘morality police’ in Tehran has sparked protests across Iran. Young people and students have been at the frontlines of the struggle, with protests at elementary and high schools as well at almost every university campus. The ​​Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations has played an important militant role and we salute the courageous struggle of teachers standing with their students and connecting the democratic and economic struggles. Despite deadly violent repression from the state that has taken the lives of young people and students, the protests have shown no sign of slowing down. 

The demands of the people have quickly transcended from justice for Mahsa Amini the abolition of the reactionary and hated ‘morality police,’ and even the end of the theocratic regime, as is evident in the slogans of the struggle: “Death to the oppressor, whether he is a king or a Supreme Leader!”; “From Kurdistan to Tabriz, our patience has run out!”; “If we don’t stand together, we will die one by one!”; and of course the rallying cry heard around the world that centres the systemic exploitation and oppression of women in Iran, “Women, Life, Freedom!”

As the protest movement in Iran widens, we can also detect certain attempts by reactionary forces in the Middle East, and their North American and EU imperialist backers, to take advantage of the situation to advance their own interests. The YCL-LJC concurs with the denunciations by Iranian progressive forces of these hypocritical attempts.

We also condemn the murderous bombing campaign by Iran and NATO member Turkey in Kurdish regions of Iraq. Civilian infrastructure, including schools, was unjustifiably hit in a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the people of Iraq.

We know that Canadian imperialism has pushed for further sanctions on Iran that have devastated the working class and the oppressed in Iran first and foremost. The federal Liberal government and its NDP backers have maintained the 2012 Conservative decision to break all diplomatic relations with Iran, which harms working-class people in Canada and Iran. If the Canadian government is going to sanction government officials for systemic violence by state security forces against women, it should start with itself. Canadian police have a history of persistent neglect of the cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. A report to the Canadian Senate released earlier this year outlines a long ongoing history of forced sterilizations of women in Canada, “including as a strategy to subjugate and eliminate First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples,” which also disproportionately affected other vulnerable groups, including Black and racialized women and persons with disabilities.

We stand in full solidarity with our comrades of the Tudeh Youth of Iran, the working class, and the progressive student movement as they struggle to widen and unite the forces for a democratic, secular, progressive movement in Iran. We wish to express our utmost solidarity with the family and friends of Mahsa Amini, as well as all victims of the ‘morality police’ and theocratic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We denounce any attempt by Canadian imperialist forces and their NATO allies to use this situation as a pretext for further imperialist aggression and interference. We reiterate that the future of Iran and its political system is a matter that should be determined by the Iranian people and them alone. We salute the mobilizations and the dignified demands for peace, sovereignty, human and democratic rights, and social justice taking place right now in Iran.