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Welcome note 3From the editors 3Message from Prof Jose Maria Sison 4

Special reports 6On the #ReformasiDikorupsi movement in Indonesia 6Palestinian Student Prisoners 11ILPS Youth Join Toxic Tour in Canada’s Chemical Valley 13Campamento Noa Para Liga 17

Solidarity actions and events 20Tyranny & Terror: Judy Taguiwalo gives Aotearoa New Zealand an insider’s view of the Duterte administration 20Invitation to the International Democratic, Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Youth Camp (IDAAC), Berlin Summer 2020 22

Spotlight on member organization 23Jeunes Socialistes pour le Pouvoir Populaire - JSPP 23

Cultural Contributions 26Notes from orientation 26Who has an American face? 27

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Welcomenote

From the editors We are honored and excited to welcome you to the first edition of our Youth newsletter. The ILPS youth commission, or commission 8, convened in June in Hong Kong at the 6th international assembly of the ILPS. Here, 400 participants from over 200 organizations and 45 countries gathered to discuss the pressing issues we are faced with and lay groundwork for further movement building. In our commission workshop we had 32 participants from ten countries and about 20 organizations (depending on how you count Anakbayan chapters!). During those hours together we addressed the challenges youth are facing in each country/territory and attempted to address how our commission could best work together. From that came several new communication platforms: a Facebook group, a google group; a Facebook page and this, our quarterly newsletter. Each communication platform serves a different role, the FB and google group allow us to share a forum to

rally solidarity, to request and share with each other statements and to share past and upcoming events and actions, to build knowledge, awareness and support within the commission. The FB page allows us to communicate externally, to share content and work of the various organizations that make up our commission. This platform can act as a recruitment tool for the ILPS and commission 8 specifically. And the newsletter is our communication tool to more fully explore and share our work. The newsletter is our space to document the work that is taking place in our organizations. It is the place to discuss ideas and analysis on the situation we are faced with as youth across the globe, from our different regions, the conditions that we share that the conditions that differ. It is a space to investigate and deliberate what is to be done. By sharing knowledge, praxis, our success, our lessons, theorizing collectively we endeavor to unite anti-imperialist youth across the globe and between those of us active in both the imperialist centres and the global south. We are in a time of uprisings, and upheavals. We hear everyday about

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heightening economic, ecologic and social crises. Let’s rally to lead the youth to move us towards a bright socialist future! Long live international solidarity!!

Message from Prof Jose Maria Sison I am deeply pleased and highly privileged to greet the Commission on the Rights of Youth for Education and Employment of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) on the launching of its quarterly newsletter for sharing reports and articles about the work of the commission in various regions and for facilitating discussions about issues that affect the youth. I congratulate the commission and the editorial staff for publishing the inaugural edition. I commend the excellent choice of topics and the writing style in the articles. I am confident that you will maintain a high standard of publication so that the newsletter can progress as a means of information, education and consensus for the youth’s common courses of action.

Let me point out that for the newsletter to be interesting to the youth and students it must uphold, defend and promote their rights to education and employment. But such sectoral interest is inseparable from the anti-imperialist and democratic line of struggle pursued by the entire ILPS, including the other commissions and all territorial organs and organizations. Your newsletter must heighten and sharpen the awareness among the youth and students about the constant rottenness and worsening crisis of imperialism, especially due to the neoliberal policy regime and ceaseless wars of aggression unleashed by the US and other imperialist powers. The youth and students suffer from what the rest of the people suffer, such as widespread poverty and hunger, increasing exploitation in the workplace, unemployment and underemployment, racial and gender discrimination, environmental degradation, repressive measures of state terrorism, displacement, mass forced migration, trafficking, and deportations.

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You must fight for all the democratic rights of the youth and students in the civil, political, social, economic and cultural fields. In this regard, you must inspire and wage the campaigns to make protests and demands and mobilize the youth and the people. You must strive to overcome and defeat the imperialist system and the domestic ruling systems in order to achieve fundamentally new and better social conditions. You must promote a system of studies towards a cultural revolution that is anti-imperialist, scientific and pro-people. Even now, the youth and students are awakening and rising up to fight for their rights and interests. And they are also joining up with the toiling masses of the people in order to resist the imperialist and other anti-democratic forces. The newsletter can contribute to further arouse, organize and mobilize the youth and students and to put them in unity, cooperation and coordination with all sectors of society in the common struggle against imperialism and all reaction. All the oppressed and exploited classes and sectors must unite and

rise together in order to realize a new and better world of greater freedom, democracy, social justice, all-round development and international solidarity.###

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SpecialreportsOn the #ReformasiDikorupsi movement in Indonesia By Giorgio Ramadhan, Treasurer of the National Student’s Front – Chapter of Universitas Indonesia, a part of ILPS Indonesia This short report is written on the request of Revolutionaire Eenheid Amsterdamya, from the perspective of a student activist

from the National Student’s Front and as a

Law student of Universitas Indonesia. #ReformasiDikorupsi, which means “Corrupted Reformation”, refers to the act of the Indonesian government under Joko Widodo’s presidency and the People’s Representative Council in the early September of 2019. September in Indonesia has always been known as “the black month” by activists due to the past tragedies, which often took place during this month. From the massacres of 1965, the killing of students; the 1998 reformation protests; the Legal aid building assault in 2017; and most recently the fatal police brutality of 24-30th of September, as well as the horrors that happened with the smoke crisis and the chaos in Papua today. Since the third week of this September, various sectors of society led by students has been united in one goal, the 7 demands

which are made to stop the perceived Fascist state terrors. This movement is the #ReformasiDikorupsi movement. Early this September, the Indonesian government launched the revision of the bills on the Commission to Eradicate Corruption (UU KPK), and also announced its plan to finally launch the proposed bill to revise the Wetboek van Strafrecht, from the Dutch based one to a newly Indonesian drafted one. This new bill, called the “RKUHP” was supposed to be passed along with other revisions on the laws on Land (RUU Pertanahan), Labour (RUU Perburuhan), and many other things, among them the Eradication of Sexual violence (RUU PKS). The government has been very strong in pushing for the former bills, yet has been very slow in pushing for the RUU PKS bill. The question now arises, how can we be worse than even the colonial Dutch? Apparently the reactionary politicians in the legislature, along with the pro-imperialist regime of the President decided that the widely distrusted People’s Representative Council (DPR),

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which is statistically the most corrupt state institution shall be the one giving permits for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to conduct their investigations. While the RUU KPK laws were accepted, the RKUHP was still on its way towards being accepted, and the new draft has extreme implications, such as fining the poor, banning all forms of non-marital sex, reducing the maximum sentence for corruption, and imposing further bans of abortion. There are many other horrible fascist implications on the revision, such as the codification on the banning of Marxism-Leninism, as well as other articles against sedition towards the president (as opposed to the state), and other vague provisions for death sentencing. The Indonesian students’ movement against the RKUHP and related legal revisions actually started much earlier. The National student’s front as well as other student executive councils and organizations had participated in rallies and joined public discussions about the topic since at least the previous year of 2018. The movement has historically always

involved various sectors of society, including students, lawyers, NGOs, Workers and Peasants. All that had happened in the past however, never was as massive as what had happened between the 24th and the 30th of September this year. In the 17th of September this year, the government finalized and accepted the revisions to the laws on the Commission to Eradicate Corruption (UU KPK), which appointed the new head of the commission from the police, and stipulated that investigations by the commission (KPK) must only be permitted by a body led by the People’s representative council (DPR). This marked the continuous string of tyranny that went onwards, as DPR would continue the finalizing of the RKUHP draft the exact next day. The 17th, 18th, 19th of the month would be marked by small scale student protests with the hashtags #ReformasiDikorupsi (corrupted reformation) and #TuntaskanReformasi (finish the reformation) as the slogans. These small movements were repressed on the spot of the demonstration by government paid demonstrators,

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counter-protesting the student demands. The paid government counter-protestors are organized by so called “co-ordinators” and they are easily identified by their lack of knowledge regarding from what university or institution they are from and by their demands. Indonesian University students have “Alma-Mater Jackets” which they wear to stand by the name of their University in protests of this nature, and they are easily distinguishable. The 23rd of September was when the protests first got massive, as more and more student executive committees joined and the police started using tear gas and other force to stop the students. Paid counter-protestors are also still on the ground, although now they are outnumbered in the centre of the protest areas in Senayan, around the People’s Representative Council (DPR) building. This day, the whole nation was awoken due to the increased publicity of the protests, and the increased publicity of the abysmal changes within the laws. The 24th of September, exactly on the state’s national Peasants day marked the one of the largest

student movement, which Jakarta had faced since 1998. Joined by Workers, Peasants, and other parts of society, students from the whole nation started the going to Jakarta, among them including from universities such as ITB, UPI, UIN Sunan Gunung Jati Bandung, and many others. #SenayanMemanggil (call of Senayan) was the slogan of the day. Students from far away regions also protested on their own regional legislature buildings (DPRD), whereby some local legislatures declared to support the students, such as in Aceh, Riau, and parts of Java. On this day, the Nation awoke to find the students rising up from their campuses, leaving their classes, many with the support of their lecturers, some still being repressed. Peasants and workers from various trade unions, peasant unions, and many other organizations helped storm the People’s Representative Council (DPR) along with the students from various executive councils, many of these unions jumped in straight from their own protests towards the Presidential palace, against RUU Pertanahan laws. The protest turned violent on night time after the

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police started using force, whereby the masses started to attack the DPR building violently and destroying gates and walls as well as many police and army vehicles. The students of Universitas Indonesia and other campuses was invited to talks with representatives from the People’s Representative council (DPR), the leader of the Student Executive Council famously declared the “motion to not trust” the DPR at this moment as he left the audience. On this day, the demands of the movement became more centralized, rejection of the RKUHP, UU KPK, RUU Pertanahan (revision of the old agrarian reform to not include land redistribution), RUU ketenagakerjaan (abolishment of permanent work contracts and holiday allowances). Rejection of militarization on Papua was brought up. Support towards the acceptance of the laws on Eradicating Sexual violence, and for the president to create an executive order to disband the UU KPK law was done. Leaders from the three big campuses of Indonesia, UI, ITB, and UGM was then invited to talk with representatives of the DPR on a

televised talk show called the “Indonesia Lawyers Club”, where the whole nation saw the students publicly arguing against the government. The President personally invited the heads of the Student executive councils, only for the student heads to reject the invitation based on the lack of action taken by the government other than delaying the RKUHP and based on past actions whereby the government had only pacified the people’s movement. The day ended with many things, namely the mass change in attitude of students of the entire nation, from all communities and all parts of student life. The police repression that led to serious injury of many students and the deaths of several students marked the start of tensions, which continues until today. Infamously bourgeois campuses join in the protests, rejecting their own internal campus regulations and forcing change upon their own university legislation. Change happened even when the state’s research ministry tried to force student rectors to ban protests.

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Police brutality was so severe for the day, that students are chased towards malls, medical posts, offices, and residential areas, whereby local folk hid students in their own bedrooms to hide them from police searches as many students were too injured to escape or were otherwise blockaded by tear gas or police blockades to safely get out of the area. One notable fact was that the Police did not stop at nothing to repress and hunt down students, in either kidnapping or beating students up, they would even pass by Military areas and engage the military in order to find and take protesting students. The exact next day, on the 25th of September marked the legendary day known as the “Chunin exams”. Highschool (STM) student fighting groups from various schools in the country arose, screaming the slogans “Our older Brothers and Sisters, rest now, for it is our time to rise”. Highschool students from the whole nation rose up on their respective areas, while centralizing their movement on the DPR building, burning police armored cars and physically attacking policemen. The casualties

continued to rise; yet the movement did not falter as practically insurrections are happening. The Highschoolers were fearless, and they fight proud with the support of the people in attacking the corrupt reactionary government. The Chunin exams literally showed kids Naruto-running and throwing molotovs towards the police, and successfully destroying many police assets. Sporadic smaller protests continue until the 30th of September. On the day of the mass killings in 1965, student executive councils, trade unions, and other organizations continued to repeat what had happened in the 24th of September. The death tolls rise, and so did the demands, which now include the stopping of all fascist acts of the regime, the resignation of the Minister for political, legal, and security affairs, Wiranto, and the release of all political prisoners, which are continued to be abused by beatings both verbal and physical in their capture. This night, the police attacked students and stormed the Atma Jaya University after pushing them back from the DPR building. The university was holding injured students and serving

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as a medical centre. Their tear gas and assault also reached the nearby Siloam hospital. As of now, the police have detained 1,365 people, many of which still cannot go back to their homes1. Many of the dead did not receive justice, and the police continue create hoaxes and to deny all that has happened2. The new term of the People’s Representative Council has elapsed, with newly elected representatives and appointed leaders rising. The head of the Legislature is now Puan maharani, the granddaughter of Soekarno, the daughter of Megawati Soekarnoputri from the PDI-P party. Puan replaced a previous Golkar strongman, Bambang soesatyo, from Soeharto’s political party. While many liberals and Jokowi supporters would support this change, most would laugh in disdain as this would mean that the Executive government is now led by Jokowi from PDI-P, the legislative by Puan from PDI-P, and the party leadership being Megawati Soekarnoputri herself leading the

PDI-P. The PDI-P has notoriously been a very neoliberal and pro-imperialist party since the ousting of the old president Abdurrahman wahid. Now, the masses are actively regrouping and planning for what is to be done in the continuing days. We hope that the resistance shall continue, and we urge comrades abroad to support us in any means possible by giving solidarity statements, and by contacting involved organizations and how to help! Long Live International Solidarity! Tolak RKUHP! Cabut RUU KPK! Hentikan tindakan Fasis! Pemuda Mahasiswa, Berjuang Bersama Rakyat!

Palestinian Student Prisoners By Saba Allabadi Voice of Palestinian Students Currently, there are 300 Palestinian student prisoner in “Israeli” jails. In recent months, the Zionist Occupation waged a vicious arrest campaign against a number of university students, in an attempt to

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constrain the rising role of the Student Movement at the university, both as a platform for national and political action and as one of our few remaining barricades in the struggle against the occupation. We, as Palestinian students across the globe, say in a unanimous voice, that we reject completely the policies of arrest, oppression and terrorism that are exercised by the occupying forces against our students wherever they are located. We further affirm that these attacks will only strengthen the student movement and increase its solidness in the face of zionist colonialism in all forms and methods. Therefore, we call all student bodies and councils, as well as all youth groups, in all of their respective locations, to increase and intensify the level of their work, and to rally public opinion around the case of Palestinian students under arrest, as a response to the repression and increasing constraints the student movement has had to recently face. We hereby recall some of the names of the Palestinian students who were arrested in the past few months:

Nizar Khames Qusai Hendi Mays Hanatsha Hadi Tarsha Nasim Barghouthi Mohammad Zahran Mais Abu Ghoush Yazan Maghamis Rebhi Karaja Ahmed Kharouf Amir Hazboun Hasan Abu Al-Hasan Nitham Imteir Samah Jaradat Rami Karaja Omar Yousef Israr Ma’rouf Qusai Iyad Yousef Al-Shayeb Hamza Abu Qare’ Abd Al-latif Subeh Osama Fakhory Omar AlKhader Yahia Rabee Mohammed Al’arouri Mohammed Obeid Moath ‘Abed Bara’ ‘Asi No’man Hamed Tawfiq Abu Arqoub Amir Adnan Bilal Hamed Mohammed Nakhla Laith Ladawdeh Ihsan Al-Imwasi

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Khaled Omar Qassam Hussein Oweis Al’ouri Mohammed Al’ouri Malik ‘Ayesh Qassam Awad Yahia Alawi Mo’tassem Zaloum Zacharia Al-Zubeidi Security agencies of the Palestinian Authority have also arrested a number of students under political detention including the following: Hamza Hamdan - Birzeit University Mohammed Naser - Birzeit University Mohammed Ramadan - Annajah National University Mo’ayad Halayqa - Annajah National University Mothana Al-Qawasmi - Hebron Univeristy Hussein Abu Shanab - Khuduri Univeristy Mo’men Mazza - Khuduri University — Detained since 8 months and undergoing hunger strike for 7 days. End political detention against students! Hands off Palestinian Students! Freedom to all prisoners in all detention facilities!

The atrocious arrests of students and members of the Birzeit University student movement on an ongoing basis have not and will not discourage the will of our student movement. We reaffirm and reassure that students of Palestine will remain the messengers of the revolution wherever they are, despite the whips of repression and terrorism! Our way and our struggle require sacrifice. Either we sacrifice today with all our time and effort to raise our cause higher and struggle, or we give up and surrender. There is no word in our dictionary for surrender.

ILPS Youth Join Toxic Tour in Canada’s Chemical Valley Sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, toluene, benzene, styrene, mercury, lead, nickel. Welcome to Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia, home to one of the world's first oil pipelines. Welcome to Canada's "Chemical Valley." ### On October 19, 2019, youth members of ILPS in Canada, including Philippine National Democratic youth organization

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Anakbayan Toronto, participated in the fifth annual “Toxic Tour” of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation reserve in southwestern Ontario, three hours west of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. The tour was organized by two Indigenous solidarity organizations, Aamjiwnaang & Sarnia Against Pipelines (ASAP) and the Porcupine Warriors. It was spearheaded by Vanessa Gray and Beze Gray, two Anishnaabe youth activists local to Aamjiwnaang itself. They are dedicated to raising awareness about the conditions within Canada’s “Chemical Valley” and contributing to the broader movement for Indigenous sovereignty. During the tour, we learned the specific history of exploitation and plunder perpetrated by Canada and Canadian capital in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area. We are grateful to have the opportunity to express our anti-imperialist solidarity against these crimes. Centuries of colonial injustice The Anishnaabe people (in the Ojibway and Algonquin languages,

Anishnaabek) are a group of related Indigenous peoples in so-called Canada and the US. Starting in the 1800s, European settlers removed the sovereign Anishinaabek from their traditional territories through colonial land-grabbing formalized as unfair treaties. This same process was repeated throughout Canada and the US, though in some places no such treaty is even in place. The land has simply been occupied without being ceded. Like many other Indigenous peoples, the Anishinaabek were then forced to live in reserves, segregated from the settler population. As part of their genocidal program for the takeover of the rich land and resources, the colonial government imposed a system of draconian laws, including ones stating that no Indigenous person could leave a reserve without their permission. Aamjiwnaang is one such reserve. Formed by the British crown in 1827, the name means “at the spawning stream”, possibly in reference to the bordering St. Clair River.

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This river acts as the border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of Michigan, which in fact, cuts directly through the traditional land of the Anishnaabek, who were forced eastward and now live in Aamjiwnaang. It is located near the city of Sarnia, Ontario. Chemical Valley For hundreds of years, the Indigenous people in this area lived and produced in harmony with the land and nature around them, without the colonial extractive excess that would come to dominate. One such productive effort was the use of oil scraped from rocky shores of the rivers, which provided excellent waterproofing for canoes. The European settlers, in their arrogance, later “discovered” these oils for themselves. They immediately set out to extract and sell as much of it as they could. In the 1850s, the first oil refineries in North America were set up in this region. Echoing the system of unfair treaties, trade deals set up by traitorous “Indian Agents” of the

colonial state brokered the sale of reserve land to private oil companies. In the 1880s, the aptly-named Imperial Oil refinery was set up; it remains as the oldest operating oil refinery in the world. Today, more than 60 chemical plants, representing 40% of Canada’s big petrochemical industry, crowd a tiny fifteen-mile radius in Aamjiwnaang reserve. These include plants for multinational companies such as Shell and Enbridge, operating at multiple stages of the petroleum production process. They pipe toxic chemicals around Chemical Valley. They spew hundreds of tonnes of pollutants into the air and water every year. This petrochemical industry disproportionately affects the Indigenous people in the area. From poisoned air and water to desecrated burial grounds, the lives and livelihood of the people of Aamjiwnaang First Nation are under attack constantly. Stories from Toxic Tour Visitors on the 2019 Toxic tour noted that the air has chemical smell to it, which was immediately noticeable from our tour bus, but

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Beze says that their sense of smell faded a long time ago. On a walking tour from the band council office to a nearby field, Aamjiwnaang community members told us stories about the poisoning of their land, water and air. The reality is shocking. Residents live in fear of frequent chemical leaks, which companies sometimes neglect to report for days. A train derailment on June 28, 2019 spilled 13,700 gallons of sulfuric acid into the river. Parents are afraid to walk outside with their children. Women have a high rates of miscarriage. Children are born in an anomalous ratio of two assigned female to one assigned male. Many develop asthma. Life expectancy is an abysmal 55 years of age. The stories told showed us a clear picture of environmental racism and the detriments of Canadian capital being given free rein to plunder. Anti-imperialist solidarity with the Anishnaabe people As anti-imperialists and internationalists in the ILPS, we see

a connection between the struggle of people of Aamjiwnaang and the struggle of working-class and oppressed people around the world. We recognize the sovereignty of the Anishnaabe people and see the inextricable connections between their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice for all. While Canada likes to present itself as progressive on the world stage, it is imperialist in itself. From its internal colonies outward to the whole world, Canada and Canadian companies exploit Indigenous people and destroy ancestral lands in their frenzy to extract resources. With Aamjiwnaang and Chemical Valley as an example, we see that Canadian fossil fuels are harvested at the expense of the Indigenous peoples here. They are exported around the world, most recently targeting Asian markets. And likewise, Canadian mining companies operate in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. They carve the land and poison the water wherever they operate. They are proven to hire paramilitaries that target human rights defenders speaking out against their practices.

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They terrorize and kill Indigenous activists, who are the most vocal environmentalists. We see that all these people targeted by Canadian companies have a common interest in exposing Canadian colonialism and imperialism, in ending the world system of capitalism which enables and necessitates this plunder, and in fighting for the self-determination of Indigenous peoples. Because of this, the visitors from Anakbayan Toronto raised the call: From Aamjiwnaang to the Philippines – Stop Canada’s extractive industries! ### To support the people of Aamjiwnaang, they encourage people to visit their new Pollution Reporter app and the website www.landandrefinery.org, which details the development of petrochemical industry and how the

colonial government stole land from the Anishiaabe people. We call on all progressives to support the struggle of Indigenous peoples to self-determination and their right to be free from environmental plunder as their struggle is crucial to the worldwide struggle against imperialism and colonialism. We remind the readers that ILPS also has its own Commission 10 focusing on the rights of Indigenous peoples and Commission 19 focusing on environmental justice.

Campamento Noa Para Liga JR-CHE Argentina -- Revolutionary Youth CHE The camp hosted by JR-CHE took place in North-eastern Argentina. In one of the most impoverished regions of our country, where unemployment and poverty, along with other urgent social problems reach alarming levels.

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At the camp, the problems affecting young people were discussed. With the participation of provinces Santiago del Estero, Salta, and Jujuy, the camp took place at Tucuman along with local colleagues. The main topics discussed were the construction of a consistent and militant force, ready and prepared to take on the challenges young people have in the fight for a better future. At the same time, ILPS Argentina and environmental organization MAREA Roja were present, talking about different environmental problems in a region heavily impacted by the extractivist model, where monopolies take the wealth generated by the country and make millions in profit, leaving behind damage that take years to recover from.

Large mining operations, deforestation, pollution by the burning of sugar cane are just some of the problems that were discussed, emphasizing the child labor of kids under 14 in the tobacco plantations of Jujuy, where children are forced to work entire shifts spring poison without protection while earning poverty wages, demonstrating that it is young people in these sectors who suffer the most at the hands of the system. In the context of a Latin America shaken by the response of the people to the plunder of the IMF and imperialism, and in Argentina after 4 years of a government that dedicated itself to impoverish the country while benefiting the rich, the challenge is to continue on the

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same path of resistance that other people have started across the continent. For the new government taking power, we reaffirm that the situation requires the militant commitment of each young person, who are also part of a conscious youthforce, to participate in the necessary battles to defeat the imperialist enemy and the governments that benefit from it, hard as they may be. For a dignified future worth living, the task is to follow the new revolutionary wave that is spreading through Latin America and the world, and to work to expand this revolutionary struggle. ***** Se realiz� el campamento de la JR�CHE en el Noroeste Argentino. En una de las regiones m�s empobrecidas de nuestro pa�s, d�nde la desocupaci�n y la pobreza, junto a otras problem�ticas sociales urgentes llegan a niveles alarmantes. En el campamento se abordaron las problem�ticas que atraviesa la juventud. Con participaci�n de las

provincias de Santiago del Estero, Salta y Jujuy que llegaron, se realiz� en tucum�n el campamento junto a compa�eros del lugar. El eje central fue la construcci�n de una fuerza consiente y militante, predispuesta y preparada para los desaf�os que tenemos las y los j�venes por delante en la lucha por un futuro mejor. A su vez se cont� con la presencia de la ILPS cap�tulo Argentina y de la organizaci�n ambiental MAREA Roja, que se encarg� de hacer un recorrido por las distintas problem�ticas ambientales de una regi�n atravesada fuertemente por un modelo extractivista, d�nde los monopolios se llevan las riquezas del pa�s generando ganancias millonarias para sus bolsillos, dejando atr�s consecuencias que llevar�n a�os recuperar. La megaminer�a, el desmonte, la contaminaci�n por la quema de ca�a de az�car, son algunas de las problem�ticas que fueron enunciadas, destac�ndose el trabajo infantil con menores de 14 a�os en los ingenios tabacaleros de Jujuy, d�nde los ni�os son obligados a trabajar jornadas eternas rociando veneno sin protecci�n y por un pago de miseria, demostrando que

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somos las y los j�venes de los sectores que sufrimos m�s fuertemente las miserias de este sistema. En un contexto de una Latinoam�rica convulsionada por la respuesta de los pueblos al modelo de ajuste y saqueo del Fondo Monetario Internacional y del imperialismo. Y en Argentina despu�s de 4 a�os de un gobierno macrista que se dedic� a empobrecer a nuestro pa�s beneficiando siempre a los m�s ricos, el desaf�o es seguir en el mismo camino que los pueblos que se levantan a lo largo y ancho de nuestro continente protagonizando un camino de rebeli�n. Ante un nuevo gobierno que asume seguimos reafirmando que la situaci�n requiere del compromiso militante de cada joven, a su vez de una fuerza juvenil consciente, decidida a protagonizar las batallas que sean necesarias por m�s duras que estas fueran, para vencer al enemigo imperialista y los gobiernos que se benefician. Por un futuro digno de ser vivido, la tarea es seguir esta nueva oleada revolucionaria que recorre latinoamerica y el mundo,

organizarse y trabajar para hacerla crecer! JR�CHE Argentina – Juventud Revolucionaria Che

SolidarityactionsandeventsTyranny & Terror: Judy Taguiwalo gives Aotearoa New Zealand an insider’s view of the Duterte administration By Louie Encabo In the spirit of international solidarity, the Auckland-Philippines Solidarity invited former Philippine Cabinet official and lifelong activist Judy Taguiwalo for a speaking tour in Aotearoa New Zealand. Prof Taguiwalo, who is also an academic at the University of the Philippines Diliman, is a staunch leftist activist who was detained twice during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Decades after the dictator’s ouster from power, she is again seeing the tyranny familiar under his regime during the incumbent administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

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Under the theme, “Tyranny & Terror: the Philippines Under Duterte”, Prof Taguiwalo spoke in several fora across Aotearoa to shed light on the human rights situation in the Philippines. Being a former member of Duterte’s Cabinet, who has insider’s knowledge of his government, the visiting academic was in demand by local journalists, activist groups, and every day New Zealanders who were interested to know more about the Philippine political climate. “Manay” Judy – as she is fondly called – shared her experiences during the Marcos’ era, and how she was detained during the martial law period for her activism. She then drew parallels between those dark times with what is slowly unfolding in this present administration – the demonization of activist groups, the persecution of political rivals, the multitude of extrajudicial killings, and the appointment of political cronies into key positions of power. Prof Taguiwalo also lamented that the Duterte administration have gain hold of the key pillars of government: the Supreme Court is

dominated by the President’s appointees, there is a pro-administration supermajority in the Lower House of Congress, and after this year’s mid-term elections the administration also have a majority in the Senate. The visiting academic gave an analogy of this situation by referencing the plot of Marvel’s The Avengers film series: Duterte is Thanos, and the branches of government are the infinity stones he has to collect. The Senate was the final “infinity stone” that the President needed, and now that he has completed them all he has virtually unbridled control over the country. However, Prof Taguiwalo assured the audience that all hope was not lost. International solidarity remains a very powerful weapon against tyranny and through the collective efforts of human rights activists throughout the world, the Duterte regime can be held to account for their injustices. As witnessed in the aftermath of Iceland’s resolution in the United Nations to investigate the spate of killings in the Philippines,

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international pressure can have an effect on Duterte’s decision-making. By winning the hearts and minds of New Zealanders, perhaps there will be another country in the UN that will pressure the Duterte regime. After thirteen days of stay in Aotearoa, Prof Taguiwalo returned to the Philippines knowing she had planted a seed of social justice into this tiny South Pacific nation. Many New Zealanders were astonished by her revelations, and were inspired by her fearless activism that still burns bright today even after several stints in prison already.

Invitation to the International Democratic, Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Youth Camp (IDAAC), Berlin Summer 2020 From 31st of July to 9th of August we will meet in Berlin as young people from all over the world to discuss our hopes, experiences and future. Together we aim to strengthen the public voice against a political system that favours war, rearmament, racism, fascism, environmental destruction, poverty and exploitation.

We are going through a time where attacks on workers’ living standards and the poor are escalating, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing, and millions of people are forced to live without access to basic necessities, including jobs, health care and educational opportunities. The economic and political conflicts among the world powers are deepening, the danger of a new war over the geo-political division of the world is growing every day, and state spending on weapons and militarisation are constantly increasing. In many countries around the world, racist-fascist parties have come to power. Racist movements around the world are being promoted to crush the workers and young people’s struggle for a better future. Democratic rights such as the right to demonstrate and to organise as well as the freedom of thought are being restricted in all countries. The world’s natural environment and resources are being destroyed and exploited by multinational corporations that are irreversibly destroying our living environments for future generations.

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More than 70 million people have become refugees as a result of war waging imperialist countries and their collaborators, and are often also abandoned in the Mediterranean as part of a policy of clamping down on immigration. THIS CANNOT GO ON LIKE THIS! Young people from around the world are standing up against this system, which is destroying the lives of billions of people and destroying the future of the next generation. We believe that a world without oppression, exploitation and war is possible, where people can live equally and in unity. We want the resources allocated to armaments to be redirected to public services, such as education, health and transport. We also want countries with soldiers stationed all over the world to withdraw immediately. Companies that destroy the environment must stop their operation and the costs of environmental destruction must be passed on to owners of capital, not workers. Racist-fascist institutions

and organisations have to be dissolved and all laws restricting democratic rights abolished. We believe that the people of the world are one without distinction between religion, language and origin. We believe that by uniting and building solidarity we can create a world in which everyone can live without fear for the future. And so we invite you to join us at our youth camp, where we will discuss how we can struggle against these issues created by capitalism. Let us strengthen the fraternity and solidarity between young people across the world. For more info: https://en.iyc2020.de/

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Jeunes Socialistes pour le Pouvoir Populaire - JSPP The Young Socialists for People’s Power (YSPP) were founded in March 2019. YSPP defines itself as a broad organization of students and young workers who defend a political approach based on mass

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work. We are active in Canada, more specifically in the province of Quebec (for now!). We are united around two main political documents. The first of these is the Declaration of Founding Principles. It outlines our commitment to the struggle for socialism, to anti-imperialism, to a revolutionary feminism, to the struggle for LGBT+ rights, to the national liberation struggle of oppressed nations & national minorities, to the struggle against fascism, to a revolutionary ecology and to a radical transformation of the way our society handles education. The second is our Manifesto. It outlines issues faced by the youth in Canada today, lays out a short analysis of this country and its fundamental issues, surveys the relationship which exists between the youth and the revolutionary movement, and outlines our preliminary plan of action towards a mass revolutionary movement towards the power of exploited and oppressed sectors of society. Our organization is still very young, and as such we know that we still have much to learn, and that our theoretical and political

understanding of canadian society will have to be overhauled again and again. We believe that such an advance in our theory can only come from practice. What, then, is our practice? Our current work is split among a number of different initiatives. The most visible side of our work has to do with highly visible public actions: we organize red contingents in street demonstrations, our greatest success in that area so far being our participation in the traditional anti-capitalist May Day demonstration in Montreal, and we organize other kinds of on-the-ground actions, such as our recent occupation of the French consulate in Montreal in support to a French revolutionary political prisoner. Our main work is, however, to be found outside such public displays. We work on building our organization, on politically training our members and sympathizers, on building sections in cities and towns around Quebec, and on creating spaces where we can organize the necessary debates for the construction on a revolutionary left in Quebec and Canada, and where we can put forward the necessity of

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a genuine people’s democracy and of a revolutionary socialist transformation of society. The most important of our initiatives, of course, is the construction of our mass work, through initiatives that put us in contact with the popular masses, through organizing around concrete issues and through support to various mass-level initiatives. We also put a significant amount of effort towards building international solidarity, in order that we may learn from the experiences of more advanced movements, and share our own successes and failures with comrades around the world. As such, we are very happy to be working with the ILPS Youth Commission, and we hope to keep building this important initiative. Long live international solidarity!

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CulturalContributionsNotes from orientation

Louis Lin Parisol, Migrante ILPS Seattle

Writing fire with borrowed pen and stolen time I'm a truth seeker, refugee leader behind enemy lines Model minority mutiny, mao and minh on my mind So when i die, i'm tryna become liberated territory. Heart full of the people, stomach full of struggle I walk the mass line with bare feet to reach imperialist muscle I mean those familiar with hustle, The 9-5, but often 5-9, but never the owners of their survival, Bodies and sweat that feed the empire are the same whose collective fists can unseat the overseer Watch a capitalist sweat for the first time he can remember When he sees the oppressed turn the shop floor to the insurgent epicenter. The master's tools will never send a bullet to his head But i'm tryna train the people to turn the

Tools back to the tools he used to martyr your ancestors and take the land out from under you. You understanding what i'm telling you? If you understanding what i'm telling you, then you know our position in our peoples' history is critical. Bear witness, we're in the midst of capital in crisis, It's when the rich eat one another that the best opportunity arises To show your bosses' bosses who the profit margin fucking with. Sharp with the comrade like a bolo in a gabbie's grip Ask the comrade if they have enough time with their kids, And if management would give a shit without the whole account being threatened for it. Let the executive know with absolute clarity That the company owns nothing it didn't steal from the worker's effort. I move on the basis that the worker's sweat is sacred And is currently being wasted on capitalist parasitism. I listen to HR spit contradiction And can only feel pity for those with no sense of cognitive dissonance. I promise, you ever find me trippin so lavishly,

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I give my people permission to bury me alive For i lost sight of the land and made it into my enemy. A militant love for the kasamas i trust To protect me, grow with me, mobilize, organize, and check me Let's form a committee, my request is you remain sharp when you with me, Don't trip when you see me with oolong tea in my left hand and a rifle in the other. The worker has the clearest sense of irony, Writing poetry and strategy on company stationery, Those with empty stomachs who cook food they could never afford Who clean rooms they could never afford Who assemble the bombs that scatter their people around the world Who serve food with empty stomachs to those who were paid for it.

Who has an American face? Katie Juhnke I am a settler on unceded Duwamish, Suquamish, and Coast Salish land on Turtle Island. As a non-Native person, I benefit from the ongoing oppression and colonization of Native peoples. I recognize the need as a non-Native person to decolonize my activism in order to be in true solidarity. With the recent global climate strike and U.S. Indigenous Peoples' Day, many direct actions have taken place in Washington State, the place I consider home. Often at large-scale marches and demonstrations, Native folks have been asked to attend for ceremony and honoring to bless these actions. As Pawnee comedian Howie Echo-Hawk reminds me, "They always want us there for the beginning and end of events, but why not the middle? They don't care about us. They just want us there as a symbol." On the ground, protectors of the Salish Sea, many from the Puyallup tribe, gathered at the St. Chas Nisqually village site, known as the state capital building, demanding Governor Jay Inslee to declare a

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climate emergency. At the border of Netse Mot, known as Blaine, members of the Lummi Nation are protesting using the Salish Sea for transporting fossil fuels. With elected representatives remaining stagnant despite activist's call to action, it remains clear that the only

role of Natives at events and marches has been performative; there is no genuine, vested interest in hearing their demands and no accountability from elected officials. When I was at Echo-Hawk's comedy show, they pointed out a shirt in the crowd that read "No one

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is illegal on stolen land," one that is very popular in the U.S. and attempts to symbolize solidarity with the Indigenous struggle. Echo-Hawk offered a corrective and said "Actually, it's white people. White people are illegal on our land." Native American genocide and colonization stands as one of the earliest examples of imperialism in what became the Belly of the Beast. It is the responsibility of settlers in the U.S. to understand their internalized settler colonialism and reflect on how they show up for the Indigenous struggle. I look forward to continue working with Commission 10 on Indigenous rights and am in solidarity with the water protectors on Turtle Island.