Inför och under SKU:s kongress den 2 och 3 augusti 2025 kom flera internationella hälsningar från elva länder. Dessutom hälsades vår kongress i Stockholm utav SKP:s partiordförande Andreas Sörensen samt Myrto Petasi Greklands Kommunistiska Ungdoms centralråd. Alla hälsningar till kongressen publiceras här:
Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (SKP)
Först och främst, tack för att jag fått tillfälle att stå här framför er och framföra en hälsning från Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti.
Er kongress hålls i en turbulent period, det är tydligt för alla att se. De senaste åren har krigen avlöst varandra.
I Ukraina står den ryska borgerligheten öga mot öga inte bara med sin ukrainska motsvarighet, utan också med europeiskt och amerikanskt kapital i en kamp om herravälde i östra Europa. För oss har det aldrig varit fråga om något annat än att det är ett imperialistiskt krig – traktorförare krigar mot traktorförare för kapitalets räkning, som våra ryska kamrater uttryckte det.
I Syrien har tillfälligtvis den euro-atlantiska, turkiska och israeliska imperialismen segrat efter rebellernas blixtoffensiv som fick Assad-regimen på fall. Det resulterade i ett stegrat förtryck mot den kommunistiska rörelsen, som nu agerar i illegalitet i det “befriade” Syrien.
Alldeles i närheten fortsätter den brutala israeliska terrorismen att skörda liv i Gaza, men också på Västbanken. Vad Israel gör nu saknar motstycke och man visar världen tydligt sitt rätta ansikte. Vårt parti har gått in för en tvåstatslösning som en omedelbar åtgärd för att mildra förtrycket, stoppa folkmordet och dämpa nationalismen och vår senaste kongress bekräftade denna politik.
I närområdet fortsätter Israel att spela en destabiliserande roll och man blandar sig i sina konkurrenters angelägenheter på regelbunden basis. Man angriper mål i Libanon, Jemen, Syrien, Iran och Irak utan någon tanke på internationella lagar eller dessa nationers suveränitet, vilket tydligt visar hur motsättningarna skärps i området.
Samtidigt kan vi se ökade motsättningar inom hela systemet i det tullkrig som det amerikanska kapitalet har inlett mot sina konkurrenter över hela världen. Det är till syvende och sist en kamp mellan världens kapital om fördelar i den internationella handeln och för den egna industrin och det reflekterar tydligt de skärpta motsättningarna inom hela det imperialistiska systemet.
Vi kan enkelt positionera oss i dessa frågor och se dem för vad de är, eftersom vi också har ägnat mycket tid åt dem. Vi har studerat imperialismen ingåenden och tillsammans har vi fördjupat oss i frågor som rör olika aspekter av imperialismen. Det har lyft oss som parti och som ungdomsförbund och det har gett oss en bra bas att stå på och bygga våra strukturer på. Här vill jag passa på att lyfta den entusiasm och vilja att djupdyka i frågor som den kommunistiska ungdomen visar, den visar en vilja att lära och förstå på en djupare nivå, vilket är en nödvändig egenskap hos en kommunist.
I vår strävan att förstå världen är vi emellertid knappast färdiga, utan vi står inför ytterligare teoretiska utmaningar, bland annat i fråga om staten och välfärden. Vi måste fördjupa vår förmåga att analysera den borgerliga staten i synnerhet och staten i allmänhet, för att kunna förstå dess roll och göra oss kvitt missuppfattningar och illusioner som härskar inom arbetarnas breda skikt och inom den breda vänstern.
För er, som rekryterar många av era medlemmar på skolor och universitet, blir frågan ännu mer brinnande. Hur ska man förstå studenternas position? Hur ska man förstå skolans och den kapitalistiska utbildningens funktion? Dessa frågor är och förblir centrala, och de blir otroligt viktiga för den organisering ni också med framgång inlett. I detta läge vill jag inte komma med en fullständig analys, men jag vill betona de stora frågor vi står inför, som kommer att behöva tydliggöras för en effektiv organisering och precis som i frågan om imperialismen, så är jag övertygad om att vi måste och att vi kommer att lösa dem tillsammans.
De senaste årens arbete, där den ungkommunistiska verksamheten återupprättats och förstärkts över hela landet, visar styrkan hos ungdomen. Inte bara teoretiska frågor har övervunnits, utan också praktiska och organisatoriska sådana. Som förbund har SKU tagit flera steg framåt och på många sätt är man också en inspiration för vårt parti, som också får njuta frukten av era framgångar och lärdomar.
Ett aktivt och vitalt ungdomsförbund är av utomordentlig vikt för vilket parti som helst. Det innebär en förnyelse av den kommunistiska organiseringen och knyter band över generationerna och säkrar den kommunistiska rörelsens framtid.
Det är därför en ära för mig att stå här framför er å Sveriges Kommunistiska Partis vägnar och framföra denna hälsning. Med detta vill jag önska er kongress all lycka och det är min förhoppning och övertygelse att er kongress kommer att leda till ytterligare steg framåt för hela den kommunistiska rörelsen i Sverige och att den kommer att göra banden mellan SKP och SKU ännu starkare.
Greklands Kommunistiska Ungdom (KNE)
Dear comrades of the Communist Youth of Sweden,
On behalf of the Central Council of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), we convey our warmest greeting to your Congress. We sincerely thank you for the opportunity to be here with you today.
Comrades,
Today, communists are acting under particularly critical conditions. Imperialist competition has long since reached a new level, with the battle for supremacy in the global imperialist system between the USA and China at the forefront. The interests of capital in controlling natural resources, trade and energy routes, market shares, and securing spheres of influence are behind military confrontations and the danger of a generalized imperialist war. These interests render any agreements fragile—as we are clearly witnessing in this period—while they reshuffle the imperialist camps: the Euro-Atlantic (USA-NATO-EU) and the emerging Eurasian (China-Russia, etc.), intensifying the inter-bourgeois contradictions between capitalist states and their unions. The preparation of the economy for war requires intensifying the capitalist exploitation of the working class and launching an all-out attack on the peoples. In both peace and war, the great culprit is capitalist profit!
In our country these days, the anti-labour and anti-people offensive is escalating with an outrageous draft law that introduces a 13-hour workday, and other bills such as those concerning universities aimed at bolstering their competitiveness—including changes to the Penal Code that would allow the expulsion of students for their views and struggles—, reforms to disciplinary law to suppress public sector union activism, and policies on deportations and imprisonments of refugees. This is the real face of the bourgeois state and its war-preparing policy, fully aligned with the war-mongering EU.
The KKE and KNE do not compromise with the system of exploitation, poverty, and wars!
We intervene daily to make the disengagement of Greece from imperialist war and the murderous plans of the USA-NATO-EU a cause of the people and youth of our country. We fight for the closure of NATO bases used as launching pads for war, for an end to the dispatch of military equipment and the participation of Greek armed forces in operations abroad, and to cut all ties with the murderous state of Israel. Through our leading action and mass mobilization of unions, federations, and movement organizations, we succeeded just days ago in blocking the loading of a ship with military cargo from the port of Piraeus destined for the Gaza Strip. This initiative is part of the chain of internationalist solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, which for us means exposing the stance of the Greek bourgeois government, organizing the struggle for Greece’s disengagement from the slaughter, and fighting for the right of Palestinians to live free in their own land. This is a foremost duty for the KKE and KNE today!
We lead the fight so that the Greek people and their children do not bear the “bill” of the imperialist war, which is expected to reach up to 30 billion euros in the next decade. We organize the struggle within the labor and trade union movement, among the popular strata allied with the working class, and in the mass youth movement, with a direction to strengthen the questioning of capitalist power—its state, its governments, and its mechanisms—which prevents people and youth from living according to the real potential that exists today for the satisfaction of modern social needs.
We recognize the unfavorable international balance of forces in which we must act, and we are well aware that the system specifically targets youth—intervening in many ways and through many channels—to convince them that capitalism is eternal and invincible.
But we do not yield! Young communists study the revolutionary worldview of Marxism-Leninism, we learn the history of the communist movement both in our country and internationally. We spread and propagate to the youth the program, positions, and analyses of our Party. We act at the forefront for every need of the youth, we organize their struggle, we lead on every front where they live, learn, and work.
Comrades of the Communist Youth of Sweden,
We fight steadfastly and tirelessly because we are certain—just like you—that the future of humanity is socialism-communism, and nothing can stop the invincible force of the laws of motion of social development.
We wish every success to your Congress!
Kommunistiska ungdomsfronten (FJC)
Comrades of the Communist Youth of Sweden
From the Communist Youth Front, we express our most cordial and combative greetings for the holding of your 41st Congress.
Today, as the contradictions of imperialism sharpen and the bourgeoisie around the world prepares its youth for massacre in the name of profit, your Congress represents a necessary act of proletarian organization. Internationally, this imperialist conflict has intensified for almost three years. The war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, the chaos fueled by plunder in Africa, and NATO’s escalating war preparations are not isolated events, but expressions of a decaying global system that seeks to sustain the rule of capital by shedding the blood of the people.
We salute your slogan ”For a socialist future – Youth, to the struggle!”—a battle cry that must resonate from Stockholm to Mexico, from the classrooms and factories to the street where our working class resists. Their historic commitment to antimilitarism, today more urgent than ever, is not only a legacy to defend, but a weapon we must sharpen to prepare for a revolutionary future, a socialist-communist future.
In Mexico, we also face the advance of militarization under the guise of ”national security,” a hypocritically promoted social democracy. Working youth are criminalized, the countryside is abandoned, and monopolistic interests sink their claws ever deeper. Therefore, we raise high the banner of proletarian internationalism, emphasizing the internationalist character of communist youth and our class. It is our task to reject the false ”peace” of imperialism, forge revolutionary consciousness under the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and tirelessly organize for the overthrow of the bourgeois state.
Comrades, may this Congress serve to deepen your ideological clarity, strengthen the ranks of your youth, and be a fruitful debate about the historical moment in which we find ourselves, enabling us to propose appropriate tactics and strategies. Congratulations! We wish you every success at this 41st Congress.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long live the 41st Congress of the Communist Youth of Sweden!
Until victory, always!
Commission of International Relations
Front of Communist Youth (México)
Revolutionära Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbundet (Bolshevikerna) (RKSM(b))
Dear comrades,
In the name of the Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolsheviks) we send comradely greetings to the 41st Congress of the Communist Youth of Sweden. This is another important mark in your history of struggle for the liberation of working youth and against militarism and imperialism.
In recent years, a deep crisis has shaken the foundations of the capitalist system — a system that feeds on war, poverty, and human misery. While the workers of the world suffer under the weight of repression and displacement, the ruling class has grown ever richer. Capitalism, in its imperialist stage, reveals its true face: one of endless competition, plunder, and violence. Global tensions sharpen as trade wars escalate and open conflict becomes the preferred language of the imperialist powers. From the war in Ukraine to the genocide in Gaza, from the devastated cities of the Middle East to the ravaged lands of Africa — the bloodshed speaks clearly: capitalism cannot and will not resolve its contradictions in peace.
Sweden is by no means shielded from these developments. As Swedish capital prepares itself for deeper integration into the global imperialist order, the country’s working class bears the brunt of austerity and militarisation. While social protections are eroded and everyday life grows more precarious for workers, youth, and families, the political establishment competes to push through massive increases in military spending. Behind this shift lies the ever-expanding ambition of Sweden’s capitalist elite — families like the Wallenbergs — whose pursuit of profit and power brings with it not security, but the threat of deepening inequality, repression, and war.
In conditions like these, it is especially important to continue the communist fight, to raise the banner of the working class and the international proletarian movement even harder. In defiance of capitalism and imperialism, a new future will be built – a classless society, free from oppression and exploitation.
We appreciate the contribution of the Communist Youth of Sweden to the international communist movement, and look forward to marching together for a brighter, peaceful future for all peoples everywhere. We hope that the 41st Congress will only strengthen your movement in the ever-crucial fight against imperialism and for a socialist Sweden.
We wish you a productive congress! Long live proletarian internationalism!
With sincere solidarity,
International Department Central Committee of the RKSM(b)
Palestinas Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbund (PCYU)
Revolutionary militant greetings from occupied Palestine to the 41st Congress of the
Communist Youth of Sweden.
Dear comrades in the Communist Youth of Sweden, Esteemed Central Committee,
We send you our warmest comradely greetings from under the sky of Palestine pierced by the occupation’s aircraft, drenched with the blood of children, besieged by iron, fire, and genocide. We write to you in the name of the Union of Palestinian Communist Youth, carrying with us the voice of the occupied land and the ongoing resistance, in a historical moment where the contradictions of global imperialism are accelerating and its ugliness is being exposed before the eyes of the peoples of the world.
We salute you on the occasion of your 41st Congress, in a time that requires communists around the world to be at the forefront of the struggle against savage capitalism and against the feverish preparation for new wars, in which only the peoples lose. We have attentively read your preparatory document and felt the sincerity of class belonging and the spirit of revolutionary commitment in every word—especially in your rejection of turning youth into fuel for monopolistic wars that serve the profits of the ruling classes.
Comrades in the Communist Youth of Sweden, your congress slogan, “For a socialist future – Youth, to the struggle!” is our shared slogan. Your battle to build class consciousness among Swedish youth in the face of militarization of society and the destruction of rights is an inseparable part of our own struggle in Palestine, where our people today are facing a colonial genocide fully supported by the same imperialist powers that threaten the future of all peoples of the world.
The situation in Palestine is not merely a “conflict” as portrayed by imperialist media, but an ongoing settler-colonial project that has lasted for more than a century, with Zionism acting as the spearhead of imperialism in our region. Today, our people in Gaza are facing a horrific holocaust, while our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem are facing arrests, executions, and systematic displacement. Yet despite the wounds, Palestine has not bowed, and will not bow. We believe that national liberation is inseparable from class struggle, and that Palestine will be liberated by the hands of revolutionary workers, peasants, and toiling masses.
We, in the Union of Palestinian Communist Youth, see your congress as an important station to renew revolutionary Marxist commitment among European youth against NATO, against the governments of war and privatization, and against all forms of repression and class discrimination. We are confident that you will emerge from this congress stronger, more organized, and clearer in vision, in the path toward building a revolutionary socialist alternative worthy of the peoples’ sacrifices.
We affirm to you that your struggle in Sweden is a source of inspiration and support to our struggle in Palestine, and that the unity of communist youth worldwide is the most important weapon in confronting globalized imperialism. Let us together build a socialist, internationalist future. Let the voice of communist youth rise high against war, slavery, and exploitation.
Long live the Communist Youth of Sweden.
Long live the struggle of revolutionary youth around the world.
Glory to the resistance.
Glory to Palestine.
Long live communist internationalism.
Union of Palestinian Communist Youth
Kommunistiska Ungdomsrörelsen (CJB)
Dear comrades,
The Communist Youth Movement of the Netherlands (CJB) extends its warmest revolutionary greetings to the delegates of the 41st Congress of the Swedish Communist Youth (SKU).
At a time when the capitalist system deepens its exploitation and militarism across Europe, your congress represents an important moment of reflection and action for the youth and working class of Sweden. The entry of Sweden into NATO marks a dangerous escalation that intensifies the need for anti-imperialist struggle. As communist youth, we know that NATO is not a force for peace, but an aggressive military alliance serving the interests of monopoly capital. Your renewed resistance to militarism and the imperialist ambitions of Swedish and European capital is not only courageous—it is necessary.
In this spirit, the CJB greatly values the close cooperation between our organizations, including within MECYO, where we have stood together in the struggle against imperialists of all flavors, for peace, socialism, and the rights of youth and workers. Your steadfast commitment strengthens our shared efforts to develop a militant, principled youth movement in Europe.
We have witnessed firsthand the renewed growth and strengthening of the SKU in recent years. Whether through your increased presence in schools and workplaces, your active role in anti-NATO mobilizations, it is clear that the SKU is gaining ground among the youth of Sweden. Your clarity of line, firm connection to the working class, and commitment to Marxism-Leninism are inspiring and give us confidence in the future of the communist movement in your country.
This is important, because it is the youth who will build the socialist future. In every struggle against exploitation, oppression, and imperialist war, it is the new generation that carries forward the flame of resistance and the vision of a just society. Capitalism offers young people only insecurity, war, and environmental destruction, but through organization, study, and struggle, we can forge a different path. The energy, creativity, and determination of working-class youth are powerful forces that, when guided by Marxist-Leninist principles, can transform society. It is through the conscious action of youth—like those gathered at your congress—that the foundations of a socialist future will be laid.
We wish you a successful and militant congress. May your discussions and decisions strengthen the struggle for socialism in Sweden and inspire young people to fight for a future free of war, exploitation, and oppression.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long live the youth!
Long live marxism-leninism!
With comradely greetings,
Communist Youth Movement (CJB)
The Netherlands
Turkiets Kommunistiska Ungdom (TKG)
Dear Comrades of the Communist Youth of Sweden,
On behalf of the Communist Youth of Turkey, we extend our most sincere congratulations and warmest greetings for the occasion of your 41st Congress, taking place at a critical time of escalating imperialist rivalries, wars, genocides, anti-people initiatives and militarisation.
Monopoly capital’s latest push for rearmament, war preparations and renewed militarism, justified under the insidious banner of “security” gives it the chance to finally dismantle the few remaining gains for the working class and youth, ushering in a new phase of military austerity, whilst pushing the whole of mankind further towards the catastrophe of nuclear conflict.
Only through the principled and united struggle of communist and revolutionary youth organisations across the globe under the slogan of peace and friendship between peoples can the working masses stop capital’s push for militarism, suffering and war.
As such, we affirm our total solidarity with the revolutionary youth of Sweden and all of Europe, and once again congratulate you warmly on the occasion of your 41st Congress.
Long live the Communist Youth of Sweden!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long live the friendship between the working youth of Sweden and Turkey!
With revolutionary greetings,
Communist Youth of Turkey
Irländska Arbetarpartiets Ungdom (WPY)
Dear comrades,
We thank you for your invitation to send greetings on the occasion of the 41st congress of the Communist Youth of Sweden.
Your congress takes place at a moment in time when the fate of our class hangs in the balance. The intensification of regional conflicts makes the possibility of a generalised imperialist war more and more likely. At the same the communist movement is confronted by opportunists and reformist elements, which deny the true nature of imperialism and lead the working class towards defeat. As members of the European Communist Action we recognise the necessity of close cooperation amongst the revolutionary parties of the international communist movement. It is in this context of imperialist aggression and war that we recommit ourselves to intensify our debate and ideological exchange, in order to strengthen the political-ideological line of all communist parties and youth organisations identified to be within or adjacent to the revolutionary pole.
The situation surrounding the imperialist war in Ukraine has driven the capitalists to increase the manufacturing and procurement of arms. The loosening of fiscal restrictions within the European Union represent an open transition to the war economy. This war can only end in severe suffering and misery for both the Ukrainian and Russian people. The victory of the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union has given rise to the Russian bourgeoisie which now finance their war with the wealth stolen from the former socialist states.
The genocide in Palestine has laid bare the absolute horrors that the capitalist class will unleash upon the world in the fight to accelerate the redivision of the world and her resources. The Palestinian people are facing extermination by the genocidal Israeli state and its allies. At the same time, the bourgeois governments and parties are attempting to fool the people through symbolic gestures but their words and their actions do not match. The trade of weapons, critical technology, and information continues with the Israeli state. It is truly business as usual, and for some nations, such as China, there is even more profit being realised through trade and cooperation than ever before. The shift in rhetoric, and claims of sympathy for the Palestinian people from the bourgeoisie, is complete subterfuge aimed to distract the people from their actions of solidarity and assuage their disillusionment with the capitalist system. We are not fooled, nor will we allow the people to be fooled.
We will not forgive their complicity, we will not forget their crimes, we will not abandon our struggle.
We note with concern the recent parliamentary vote in Sweden in favour of NATO membership, and note that we are likely facing similar circumstances in Ireland in the coming years. Of course we also know the truth, that there is no such thing as a neutral capitalist nation, however this change represents another seismic shift in favour of the warmongers. We note that you are using the opportunities afforded by your upcoming congress to place emphasis on proposals for new action and principle programs, and we hope that this will be of great assistance to you in your struggle against war and capitalist imperialism.
The Workers Party Youth is in a period of reconstruction and rejuvenation, at a time where the stakes could not be higher. We commit to intensify our struggle, broaden our solidarity, and deepen our learning so that we may also be “sharp and unshakeable”.
Comrades, we wish you the very best for your congress and look forward to hearing about its outcomes. We send our revolutionary greetings to you, and also our appreciation for the opportunity to be a part of your congress in this small way.
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!
Freedom for Palestine!
Long Live The Communist Youth of Sweden!
Central Committee
Workers Party Youth
Kommunistiska Ungdomskollektiven (CJC)
Dear comrades of SKU,
From the Central Council of the Collectives of Communist Youth (CJC) of Spain, we send you our warmest fraternal and internationalist greetings on the occasion of your Congress. For us, gatherings such as this one are a vital part of strengthening the international communist youth movement. They are a concrete expression of our commitment to organisation, to the scientific analysis of reality, and to preparing for the tasks that lie ahead in our shared struggle for socialism.
Your Congress takes place at a particularly complex moment in history. We are witnessing a period of deep structural crisis of capitalism, in which the contradictions between major imperialist powers and blocs are intensifying. The exhaustion of neoliberal globalisation, the disruption of global value chains, and the long-term fall in the rate of profit are pushing monopolies into increasingly aggressive competition for spheres of influence, trade routes, raw materials, and zones of exploitation.
In this context, the global correlation of forces is undergoing a sharp reconfiguration. The United States, facing a gradual decline in its global hegemony, has chosen to pursue economic decoupling from China, restructure its alliances, and reinforce the NATO military apparatus as an instrument of political dominance. Meanwhile, the European Union — still subordinate to Washington — seeks to assert itself as an autonomous imperialist pole, investing in rearmament, defence industry development, and military capabilities.
At the same time, emerging powers like China and Russia aim to improve their position in the imperialist hierarchy. But their actions are not based on anti-capitalist logic — they are driven by the interests of their own monopolies. Both are capitalist powers, fully integrated into the imperialist world system. The confrontation between blocs is not a clash of alternative models, but a struggle between rival factions of capital to defend and expand their control.
In this scenario of militarisation, rearmament, protectionism, and intensifying inter-imperialist tensions, it is the working class — and especially its youth — who are most directly affected. The consequences are already visible in the form of inflation, growing job insecurity, the deterioration of public services, and restrictions on democratic rights. Worse still, we face the looming threat of large-scale war. Alongside this material reality, we see an ideological campaign to normalise militarist language, glorify nationalism, and reintroduce debates about conscription and military interventions abroad.
As in previous historical periods — such as the interwar years and the rise of fascism — communist youth must reclaim our role as a militant force against militarism, denounce all forms of imperialism, and organise the working and popular youth against war and capitalist barbarism. The first communist youth organisations in Europe were born in the fight against imperialist war, hunger, and repression. Today, we must proudly recover and carry forward that legacy.
Comrades of SKU, in the face of pressures to side with one imperialist bloc or another, we reaffirm the class position of the communist youth movement. We reject the false choice between the “democratic West” and the “emerging powers,” as if some form of capital could be less harmful than another. For communist youth, no war between imperialists can offer a path to liberation. Our trench is not with capitalist states, but with the working class and its struggle for power.
That is why we firmly uphold the conviction that only socialist revolution can eliminate the causes of war, exploitation, and misery. And such revolution will only be possible if we build strong communist youth organisations, with clear political orientation, deep ties to working and student youth, and a resolute independence from all bourgeois interests.
We wish you a successful Congress — one that strengthens your political lines, your militancy, and your capacity to face the challenges of our time. You have our full support, respect, and willingness to continue building political cooperation within the international communist youth movement.
Long live the SKU! For socialism and communism in Sweden, Spain, and throughout the world!
Central Council of the Collectives of Communist Youth (CJC)
Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbundet (UJC)
Dear comrades,
The current capitalist crisis demonstrates the inherent inability of capitalism-imperialism to meet the needs of humanity. The race for profits imposed by the capitalist mode of production is plunging us into an unprecedented crisis. From climate change and its millions of refugees to the COVID health crises and other easily treatable diseases, the bourgeoisie is setting the living world ablaze. As more and more offensives are launched against the proletariat and other dominated classes, the price of labour power (wages) is under attack and fascisation is being imposed by the inevitable development of capitalism into imperialism.
On behalf of the Revolutionary Communist Party of France, we congratulate you on holding your congress. In Sweden, as in France and so many other countries, there is still no truly organised Communist Party rooted in the working class and capable of overcoming all the vicissitudes of the struggle. This ‘new type of party’ is, as the Bolsheviks and the glorious October Revolution have shown us, the only tool capable of coordinating the action of the masses for the definitive destruction of capital, poverty, war and exploitation. This construction is impossible without a Party youth, whatever its form, since it has the crucial role of generational renewal, with all that this implies.
However, the construction of this Party is all the more difficult in a context of global counter-revolution, which is a minefield of opportunism and revisionism. The SKP and its youth wing are well aware of the difficulties involved in the struggle to build a vanguard Communist Party, having gone through several splits against opportunism in order to preserve and develop a clear Marxist-Leninist base. The struggle continues: in the ECA, in youth meetings where we are confronted with the opportunist pole, and in your own national context.For this reason, comrades, we reiterate our fraternal class support for the holding of your youth congress, the SKU, which is part of the tireless efforts of the ECA parties to rebuild a strong Leninist pole, which inevitably involves the strategy of building a truly Leninist Communist Party in each country.
More than ever, the working class of Sweden and the world needs a strong vanguard to put an end once and for all to decaying capitalism-imperialism. Guided, as your Party mentions in your 2006 programme, by the experience of the Bolsheviks and the construction of socialism in the USSR, our class will prevail!
Long live socialism-communism, long live internationalism, long live the SKU!
Portugals Kommunistiska Ungdom (JCP)
Dear comrades of SKU,
The Portuguese Communist Youth salutes your 41st Congress – “For a socialist future – Youth, up to struggle” – confident that it will be a moment of great importance for the strengthening of your organization.
In a time marked by a complex international situation – with increasing interference and aggression from imperialism, and rising calls for militarism and war – we consider it vital to continue strengthening the ties between our organizations and deepening our cooperation.
In Portugal, the national situation is also adverse to the interests of the youth. Our right-wing government elected this May, together with a reactionary parliamentary composition, is laying the groundwork for attacks on the rights of young people and the broader population. From schools to workplaces, they are attempting to dismantle gains won through our revolution – including their expressed desire to revise our progressive Constitution.
Yet, alongside these great dangers lie significant potential for revolutionary advances – and the youth are responding to the call. Over the past year, there have been numerous struggles: in high schools, for better conditions, the abolition of national exams, and for sexual education; in universities, for the abolition of tuition fees and for student housing – culminating in a protest on the 24th of March that gathered thousands. In the workplace, young workers continue to fight for better wages and against precarious employment.
These are difficult times, but victory will surely be ours!
Internationalist greetings,
The Secretariat of the National Directorate of JCP.
Kommunistiska Ungdomsfronten (FGC)
Dear comrades of the Communist Youth of Sweden,
The CC of the Front of the Communist Youth (FGC) of Italy warmly greets the 41st Congress of your organization and wishes you a fruitful discussion.
The fraternal relations between our organizations, whose respective parties share a common work in the framework of the European Communist Action, are a virtuous example of the efforts that are necessary today to strengthen cooperation, analysis, and joint action among communists in all countries.
The international situation shows us every day the urgency to rebuild a strong communist party, both in Italy and Sweden. The world has rapidly moved into an arms race that may lead us into an escalation and towards a generalized imperialist war. The bourgeois classes and monopolies of all countries are involved in a harsh imperialist competition to determine who will have hegemony over the capitalist world.
This tough imperialist competition is at the root of the serious developments in the Middle East, where Israel is committing the shameful and outrageous genocide of the Palestinian people, and it’s also at the root of the imperialist war that is taking place in Ukraine, between the Euro-Atlantic alliance, i.e. the USA, NATO and the EU, and capitalist Russia. In this framework, the capitalists ask the peoples to face new sacrifices and the increase of capitalist exploitation in the name of the “war economy”.
In this scenario, we are convinced that our duty as communists towards the working class is to develop a strategy that must be independent from the plans of all capitalist factions.
Comrades,
Today our organization is facing the difficult task of organizing the youth against the nationalist and reactionary Meloni government. This government is promoting the interests and aims of the Italian monopolies and bourgeoisie, while cutting social spending and passing new repressive laws that are explicitly directed against the workers’ and people’s movement, such as the criminalization of occupations and roadblocks made in the context of strikes.
In Italy, we have spent a very intense year mobilizing against the Italian government and the Italian involvement in the genocide of the Palestinian people and the imperialist war in Ukraine; for Italy’s exit from NATO and against the “rearm EU” plan. These mobilizations were linked to those of school students against a new education reform by the Meloni government that strengthened the criminal system of mandatory school internships, which has already killed 3 young students in 2022.
Today, the FGC is conducting a patient and demanding work of education among the younger generation, aiming to be a living and vital force in daily mobilizations, against the illusion of social-democracy and the so called “unity of the left to beat the right wing”, that is being promoted in Europe and Italy under the slogans of “new popular fronts”. There are no shortcuts or real alternatives to the struggle for the overthrow of this system, for people to take the power, for socialism. Today, our forces are committed to support the process of the communist reconstruction, to rebuild a great communist party in our country.
Comrades,
We are confident in the future. The 21st century will be the century of a great new advance of communists, both in Sweden and Italy. To use the words of Antonio Gramsci, may the Communist Youth give to this struggle all their intelligence, all their enthusiasm, all their strength.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long live Marxism-Leninism!
Long live the Communist Youth!