Nowadays, Georgian government does not acquire long-term vision or answer to the question: what kind of higher education and universities do we need in modern society? Their universities do not accumulate modern knowledge; they are not oriented on scientific progress and development. Meantime students are excluded of every decision-making process.

To face this problem, students of different Georgian state universities formed an initiative group named Youth for Educational Reforms. The most important request they are fighting for are:

• New law in which democracy and transparency are guaranteed as long as student participation of the decision-making.
• Reform the current funding model and replace it with a globally acknowledged design called direct and targeted funding
• Creating a working group between students, experts and state departments relevant to the subject to discuss and coming up with solutions on the educational system.

IUSY strongly supports Georgian students in this Educational Reform and encourage them to keep fighting not only for them but also for the generations to come. All over the world students are making history having a fundamental role in changing educational systems that guaranteed quality and accessibility to Higher education.

Let’s make history together!

In the night on the 16 of March, after 15 very peacefull protests, that have been held in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and more than 100 days on the streets all over the country (in more than 100 cities in the country), protesters demonstrating against the autocratic rule of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, entered peacefully into state-run TV headquarters in Belgrade to criticize a broadcaster whose reporting consider highly biased. After the leaders of opposition have asked few minutes on the national television to speak about the protests and share their requests on the national TV.

Special police forces arrived at the scene in the Serbian capital and were trying to take demonstrants out by force and beating, including some opposition leaders, who had entered the downtown building. All media belonging to the progressive party were reporting lies and building invented stories of the event, in order to save their image of a savers of the country, witch they have thought up.

Latter today at noon demonstrants have geatherered in front of the Presidum building at the time President of Serbia was having extraordinary press conference, where we continued to trow lies and populist ideas. Protestants did not want to leave the surrounding of the building until presidents goes out and speaks to citizens, with he did not do. After aresst of many people, and tooking them to jail without judgement protestents are now heading to the main police office in Belgrade.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic warned the protesters to leave the building or be removed as police would “protect all Serbian TV journalists, he warned that patience of police will not last forever.

This was the first major incident after months of peaceful protests against populist leader Vucic. The demonstrators are demanding his resignation, free elections and media, and more democracy.

Thousands of people rallied in Serbia’s capital for 15th week in a row against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government. The protests began after thugs beat up an opposition politician in November. Political instability in Serbia lasts for more than 7 years, since when the ex-nationalist Aleksandra Vucic formed the government. His government is colored by pressure, false media covering, populistic statements and persecution off all who have different opinion. Journalists are under pressure to inform what they have been said, the ones who are criticizing the current situation were or fired, or their TV shows were abandoned,some of them had burned houses and life thretens (examples Olja Bećković, Ivan Ivanović, Draža Petrović, all very famous journalists whose shows were cancelled due to criticism, and many more similar examples). Election process is endangered, by stealing of votes, and punching and persecution of all the ones who were not working for the leading Serbian Progressive Party. Hundreds of thousands of people leave Serbia every year due to the repressive regime and difficult conditions of living.

We condemn any usage of force by police on the protestants, we urge for the fair and decent election conditions, without pressure, we are asking for the media and freedom of speech. We highly condemn arrest of political opponents, members of political parties, organizers of the protest and students in the streets of Belgrade

We ask for the international support in this very sensitive topic, where country in the middle of the European soil is autocrative and with violation of basic human rights.

 

The Italian fascist movement Forza Nuova organised a national demonstration in Prato (Tuscany) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the fascism birth next March 23th.

On 23 March 1919, Mussolini enunciated in Milan, the fundamental principles of the political movement Fasci Italiani di Combattimento.

Adopting the motto “Save Italy”, the demonstration’s organizers decided to evoke the fear of “Bolshevik invasion” from last century and to feed this fear with a new threat: the “strangers invasion”.

Prato is actually identified as an Italian symbol of a multi-ethnic and a multi-cultural community, a model to fight if you want to build fear of others, of foreigners, xenophobia and hate.

We cannot allow fascists groups to celebrate the dictatorship that deprived men and women of their freedom for two decades.

We still need to fight discriminations and hate based on the primacy of the Italians culture.

The Italian Constitution forbids the reorganizing, in any form whatsoever, of the dissolved fascist party. Italian and international laws ban racial hate propaganda and condemn inciting ethnic, racial or religious hatred and discrimination.

The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution on the rise of neo-fascist violence in Europe. The Resolution of 25 October (20182018/2869(RSP)), having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, strongly condemns all violent attacks by neo-fascist groups against politicians and members of political parties as reported in some Member States, acknowledges the worrying trend of neo-fascist and neo-Nazi groups using social media and the internet to organise and strategize across the European Union, deplores the fact that in some Member States public broadcasting has become an example of single political party propaganda, which often excludes opposition and minority groups from society and even incites violence, calls on the Member States to take further measures to prevent, condemn and counter hate speech and hate crime.

In solidarity with Italian people, IUSY share the struggle of Italian friends and comrades and strongly demands that no place in the political representation or in the public space is given to ideas and movements unambiguously supporting fascist history and values.

 

 

It is our pleasure to invite you to this years Balkan Roundtable Committee Leadership Meeting!

The meeting will take place 21-24th of March in beautiful Sofia, Bulgaria in partnership with BSPYU and ELYA! 

The deadline for registrations is on the 14th of February.

You can find the link to the registration form here, and in the invitation.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sofia!

MDC leadership and activists are being targeted. 12 Deaths,  78 gun wound victims, 5 MPs arrested, 9 Councilors arrested, 48 councilors and MPs in hiding and total of 1097 arrested members of the party

MDC Youth Assembly leaders Chairman Happymore Chidziva, his Secretary General Lovemore Chinoputsa and their entire Management Committee have had to seek safety from the wrath of the hit squads.

Many grassroots activists have been picked and tortured. ZANU PF seems to be planning a total annihilation of the MDC by eliminating all its key leaders using state machinery.

In 23/01/19 ZANU PF have stormed the house of our MDC Youth leader searching for him. They beat everyone in the house, children included, and firing bullets! 

On Tuesday 22 January 2019, people were indiscriminately attacked in the central business district, Glen Norah and Ruwa, an artist who released an anti-violence song was also brutalized and left for dead.

Arrests of the innocent people of Zimbabwe continues particularly known MDC activists, Members of Parliament, councilors , brutality is intensifying and individuals who have raised their voices against violence are being targeted.

The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) expresses great concern about recent events in Zembabwe and the continuing violation of human rights against IUSY member organization MDC-T and its mother party MDC.

We, Young socialists of IUSY stand with our Member Organization MDC-T of Zembabwe and its mother Party MDC in their fight against violation and oppression perpetrated by ZANU PF.

IUSY calls for the immediate release of all MDC prisoners who were detained in violation of low.

As young socialists; we call all parties in Zembabwe to sit together and use dialogue instead of confrontation, we aspire, that MDC and ZANU PF can focus into work together for all Zimbabweans. 

It is our pleasure to invite you to the IUSY Mediterranean Committee Leadership Conference 2019 that will take place 14-17 March, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.

This year’s theme of the Committee is “Neo-liberalism and populism in the Mediterranean” and it will be organised in partnership with Socialist Youth of Spain. 

Please register your delegates following the link by 14 February 2019 the latest.

Should you have any questions or doubts do not hesitate to contact us at the Secretariat.

Looking forward to meeting you in beautiful Madrid.

It is our pleasure to invite you to the IUSY BSAC Committee Leadership Conference 2019 that will take place 13-16 April 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

This year’s theme of the Committee is “Decent Work For Youth” and it will be organised in partnership with Georgian Dream Youth and Young Socialists of Georgia. 

Please register your delegates following the link by 14 March 2019 the latest.

Should you have any questions or doubts do not hesitate to contact us at the Secretariat.

Looking forward to meeting you in beautiful Tbilisi in April.

IUSY is alarmed with the Philippine government’s latest plan to make nine to twelve year old children criminally liable. This move adds to the government’s long list of policies that turn on the most vulnerable members of society, including a killing spree that has targeted the poor.

Jailing children never made a community safe. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has pushed for the bill in several of his speeches, claiming that criminal syndicates have used children as pawns in their crimes. IUSY believes that this bill punishes children who are already victimized by poor circumstances. The police even admitted that most children in conflict with the law come from poor families!

The Philippine government is eroding its own credibility in the international community by violating treaties it signed to protect children. Nine or twelve years old children are too young to jail.

The bill, which is widely supported by allies of President Duterte, is being deliberated in the Senate and the House of Representatives making it likely to be passed into law soon. We join youth and children’s organizations in the Philippines in calling for the legislature to reject the bill lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility. We call on the international community to urge the Philippine government to stay true to their international obligations and drop the dangerous bill. #JailNoChildren #Not9Not12