Organisation

These vast struggles for freedom and a better life are going on all over Asia, ranging from full-scale war, in China. Viet-Nam, and Indonesia, to smaller-scale war in Burma. Malaya. Hyderabad and a few other parts of India, and bitter struggles against repression in the rest of India and in Southern Korea. One couldn't help feeling that while our Association" in VUC sat and talked about whether we would remain affiliated to the WFDY, scoring talking points like a parlour debate, the students and young peasants of Asia were fighting a grim struggle of life and death against prisons and lathis for the elementary right to even form a students' association or a Kisan Saw (Peasants' Union).

In support of the voung people of Asia the WFDY has declared the 21st February a Day of Solidarity with the Youth Fighting Colonialism. All over the world, meetings, exhibitions, articles in the student and youth press, demonstrations, etc.. were held around that day on these questions. This day has already a tradition of struggle for freedom. On February 21st. 1946. there was the national uprising throughout India, led by the Indian Navymen. On February 21st. 1947, occurred the vast demonstrations in Egypt to obtain the withdrawal of British troops from that country. On the same day of 1948 was held the great Conference of the Youth of S.E. Asia which was an historic event in the history of colonial struggles.