Havana, November 24, 2020.- More than two thousand organizations from 162 countries are expected to participate at the International Youth Meeting "Ideas that are banners," which will be in session from this Tuesday until next Thursday virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Called by the Cuban youth and student movement, the social and mass organizations of the Caribbean island, and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the online event will pay tribute to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, to his ideas, legacy, and enduring example, four years after his passing.
The meeting is convene under the banner "Unity for solidarity, anti-imperialism, and anti-neoliberalism: necessary action of transformation in times of COVID." It clearly expresses the purposes of the event, stated Suniel Sosa, head of the Department of International Relations of the National Committee of the Young Communist League (UJC). The event begin today November 25th, 9:00 am time of Cuba.
Sosa said the situation is dramatic; the challenges are enormous, and he expressed the need to turn these days into a tribune and trench for denunciation and combat.
He added that the online forum would become a space for the coordination of unity, solidarity, and action in the face of the global multi-crisis, the disaster of the capitalist system, and its neo-liberal policies, laid bare by the pandemic.
Sosa thanked in advance for the participation of youth leaders and some twenty outstanding personalities who will convey their messages to the world's youth.
The meeting will have free access through accounts on social networks and digital sites that will broadcast the work sessions live, to which those interested in following the debates and enriching them with their comments, proposals, can connect. and messages of solidarity.
#IdeasQueSonBanderas, #FidelPorSiempre and #JovenesDeIzquierda will be the communicative labels to participate, the same in www.ujc.cu, which is the website of the Union of Young Communists, that by @UJCuba, for Facebook and YouTube, and @UJCdeCuba, in the case of Twitter.
EMBACUBA DOMINICA