Impact 6 - Democracy, December 2000
Calling for an end to violence and dictatorship

(Editorial) - China and Rwanda yesterday, Zimbabwe, Fiji, and ex-Yugoslavia today. Where next? Violence imposes its destructive logic on the young in all too many regions of the globe.

Yet, caught up in a hostile and dangerous world, many refuse to become resigned to their fate. "We do not want to live like sheep any more" say Milosevic’s young opponents. "My father has not committed any crime, all he is doing is claiming the Tunisian people’s right to freedom" protests the daughter of the leader of Tunisia’s Communist Workers’ Party.

In this latest issue of Impact report on these protests, these struggles. We learn not only about the political commitment of these young people and the power of their imagination in opposing the regimes who care little for democratic rules, but also about the problems of their daily lives. And there are many. It is not easy to find work or to demand the right to belong to a trade union in the face of a government that silences the media and represses any hint of independence or justice.

Pelle Johansson
Chairman of the ICFTU Youth Committee

More information: http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991212154&Language=EN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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