Young people are also leading the fight for job creation. The Young Communist League has been collecting signatures nation-wide in support of President Obama’s “American Jobs Actâ€, and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s “Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Actâ€.
While addressing a gathering of the international communist front World Federation of Democratic Youth, in Lisbon Portugal, November 10, 2011, Young Communist League USA organizer Lisa Bergmann, boasted of communist leadership in the US “Occupy†movement and their desire to harness the movement to the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama.
Lisa Bergmann
Addressing the assembled young comrades, Bergmann made no bones about communist participation in, and initiation of , “Occupy†encampments all over the United States. (Emphasis added)
My name is Lisa Bergmann from the Young Communist League USA. On behalf of our organization I would like to thank WFDY and the Japaneses Communist Party for hosting this inspiring, well-organized event and for ensuring that the YCLUSA could be here with all of you today. The Young Communist League USA stands firmly, as it always has, united with all of you against U.S. imperialism, greed, and war…
Youth in the United States are shouting at the top of their lungs that the U.S. capitalist economic system has failed them… thousands of youth in the United States are taking to the streets to demand a better world.
Inspired by the “Arab Spring†and other youth movements in Europe and Latin America, the Occupy Wall Street Movement began in the heart of the U.S. capitalist system, and has now spread to more than 300 cities in the United States.
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