THE YEARS OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL

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SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL PRESS
CORRESPONDENCE, English
Edition, Vol. 9, No. 62,
November 1, 1929,
p. 1345.
TEN YEARS OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Appeal of the E. C. Y. C. I.
Moscow, 21st October 1929.
The Executive Committee of the Young Communist Inter-
national has issued an appeal to the working class and
peasant youth of the whole world in connection with the
tenth anniversary of the existence of the Y.C.I. The
appeal describes the development of the revolutionary
working class youth movement and the formation of the
Young Communist International on the 20th November, 1919,
in Berlin. It deals with the role played by Rosa Luxemburg,
Karl Liebknecht and Lenin in the youth movement and describes
the struggle against the social democratic opportunists and
the development of the socialist youth organizations into
the Y.C.I., the war period in which the revolutionary,
young workers adopted the slogan of Lenin, "Turn the
imperialist war into a civil war for the overthrow of
the bourgeoisie 1", and the slogan of Liebknecht, "Not
Civil Peace but Civil War, Class War for-the proletarian
Revolution Aand the post-war revolutionary period in which
the Communist International was formed and the first
congress of the Y.C.I. took place and drew a sharp dividing
line between the revolutionary young workers and the social
patriots and centrist phrase=mongers.
In the ten years of its existence the Young Communist
-aternational has stood in the front ranks of the struggle
and its members participated in the Central German in-
surrection in 1921, in the Bulgarian September insurrection
in 1923, in.the Hamburg fighting in the same year in
Germany, in the Esthonian insurrection in 1924, in Poland,
in Greece, in Indonesia, in Morocco and in Syria, and on
the barricades in Vienna in 1927 and in Berlin in May 1929.
Tens of thousands of young workers laid down their lives
in the struggle for the Chinese revolution, and the masses
of the members of the Young Communist League in the Soviet
Union have taken a foremost part in the building of socialism.
In its whole activity the Y.C.I. has been the loyal helper
of the Communist International and a ruthless defender of
the Bolshevist Lenifist policy in the international com-
munist movement.
The Leagues played a prominent part in the formation
of many of the Communist Parties and particularly in the
struggle against the renegades Levi, Rossard, Trannael,
Hoeglund, Scheflo, Brandler, Lovestone and Kilboom and
in particular also in the struggle against the Trotzkyists.
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In the ten years of its existence the Y.C.I. has
worked out the first theory of the revolutionary proletarian
youth movement and has embodied it in the programme adopted
by the fifth world congress of the Y.C.I. which was the
document of the working youth in the struggle for the
world dictatorship of the proletariat.
The appeal enumerates the events proving the new
rising wave of the proletarian revolution, analyses the
role of the Second International as agent of the interna-
tional bourgeoisie and the direct organiser of war against
the Soviet Union, and points out that the Socialist Youth
International has pursued its logical development towards
social fascism. It calls for an increased struggle against
fascism, social fascism and the danger of war with new
methods of work in order to win the majority of the working
youth for the proletarian revolution, and conduct in
particular a merciless struggle against the right-wingers
and conciliants within the ranks of the Communist and
Young Communist Internationals. The appeal closes with
the slogans:
Down with Imperialist War l
Long live the Defence of the 'Soviet Union l
Down with Capitalist Rationalisation, with the in-
creased exploitation of the youth and Unemployment1
Down with militarisation and fascism amongst the Youth!
Long live the Anti-militarist Struggle in the Army and
Navy I
Long live the Proletarian Defence Organisations!
Down with the Bourgeois and Social Fascist Organisations'.
Long live the Red Class United Front of the Young
Workers 1
Long live the Victory of the World Dictatorship of the
proletariat under the bolshevist leadership of the Comintern I
Long live the Communist International)
Long live the Young Communist International1
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