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Youth leaders affirm solidarity with Indian socialist cause

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"Cuba, India stand together in fight against U.S. imperialism"

SEEKING SUPPORT: Dallamy Diaz Munoz, Second Secretary, Cuban Embassy, New Delhi, addressing the international session of the DYFI conference held in Chennai on Thursday. — Photo: S. S. Kumar

CHENNAI: It was a spontaneous expression of solidarity by leaders of various youth movements across the world with their Indian socialist counterparts at the international session of the Eighth all-India conference of the Democratic Youth Federation of India here on Thursday.

"Cuba and India may be different halves of the world but our hearts are together in the crusade against U.S. imperialism. We seek your support and solidarity for this global crusade," said Dallamy Diaz Munoz, Second Secretary at the Cuban embassy in New Delhi. An economic war launched by the U.S. Government had Cuba $84 billion so far. The U.S. also tried to isolate Cuba internationally and create an internal counter-revolution by encouraging terrorist acts that left 3,000 dead and 2,000 handicapped, she said and appealed for international support for the release of the leaders of the Cuban revolution who had been illegally detained by the US.

"We will never forget your support during the 1971 war [for the creation of

Bangladesh]," said B.M. Shahidul Hake, president of the Bangladesh Youth Union.

France had committed acts of military, economic and cultural aggression in several parts of the world, and discrimination on the basis of language, colour and class was widely prevalent, Deniz Ozotrum of the Youth Communist Movement of France, said.

The youth of Nepal had successfully won the crusade for a pro-democratic nation state, despite the loss of thousands of lives, Hasta Pandit of the Democratic National Youth Federation of Nepal, said. The end of the decade-long internal conflict had enabled the Maoist youth to join the political mainstream.

Delegates from Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Portugal and Greece also participated.

Earlier, the conference passed resolutions, demanding strict implementation of reservation for the Dalits and the OBCs in government as well as private sector jobs. Resistance should be built against the UPA Government's policy on special economic zones. An integrated development package should be implemented for the Northeast.

Resolutions condemning the price increase and the `deterioration' of the public distribution system, upholding the rights of women and calling for mobilisation of people's resistance movements against state-sponsored terrorism were also passed.

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