DYLJ resolves to increase efforts for organizational build-up

Japan Press Weekly

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DYLJ resolves to increase efforts for organizational build-up

The Democratic Youth League of Japan (DYLJ) in its Central Committee meeting held on October 27-29 adopted a resolution entitled, “Let’s assume a role in sharing our feeling of empathy with young people seeking solutions to their problems and give them a broader vision ? let’s work together for a stronger DYLJ!”

DYLJ Chair Tanaka Yu in his report said, “The DYLJ for the past year waged various activities with the aim of emphasizing with young people working for solutions to their problems and of expanding their vision. Such activities worked effectively and produced the energy needed to change the politics.”

He called on DYLJ members to value team activities based on each member’s needs and to increase efforts to attract more young people to the DYLJ through various movements and study circles in collaboration with young people.

In the meeting, 39 delegates from local DYLJ branches reported on their activities which included an activity to discuss urgent demands and establish solidarity with young people, an activity to nourish hope that young people can change the society by studying scientific socialism and the Japanese Communist Party Program, and an activity to experience and spread a sense that politics will be changed if young people launch a struggle urging the government to respond to their needs.

A delegate from Shimane Prefecture said that because DYLJ members found that their team members are struggling to find jobs, they collected signatures from the youth in support of a call for local government measures to address the issue of young people’s difficulties in finding jobs and petitioned the prefectural government. Through this activity, a favorable impression of the DYLJ spread among the youth, and the prefectural DYLJ branch successfully held a youth rally with 70 participants.

From Tokyo, a delegate reported that a university student who previously thought that the reason for his family’s financial difficulty was because of his parents’ fault participated in a DYLJ’s seminar on “Capital” and decided to join the DYLJ.

- Akahata, October 28-30, 2010