page_title: World Federation of Democratic Youth
section_title: Pledge
hierarchical_section_title: World Federation of Democratic Youth / Pledge
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Budapest, II. Weltfestspiele, Eröffnungsrede, Guy de Boisson Weltfestpiele Budapest 1949-Guy de Boisson, Präsident des Weltbundes der Demokratischen Jugend spricht zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung der demokratischen Jugend in Budapest.Aufn:Zentr.Snb Information added by Wikimedia users. English: Guy de Boisson, President of World Federation of Democratic Youth, at the Second World Festival of Youth and Students (Budapest, 1949)
context_page_description: The World Federation of Democratic Youth is an international youth organization, and has historically characterized itself as anti-imperialist and left-wing. WFDY was founded in London in 1945 as a broad international youth movement, organized in the context of the end of World War II with the aim of uniting youth from the Allies behind an anti-fascist platform that was broadly pro-peace, anti-nuclear war, expressing friendship between youth of the capitalist and socialist nations. The WFDY Headquarters are in Budapest, Hungary. The main event of WFDY is the World Festival of Youth and Students. The last festival was held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2017. It was one of the first organizations granted general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
context_section_description: We pledge that we shall remember this unity, forged in this month, November 1945
  Not only today, not only this week, this year, but always
  Until we have built the world we have dreamed of and fought for
  We pledge ourselves to build the unity of youth of the world
  All races, all colors, all nationalities, all beliefs
  To eliminate all traces of fascism from the earth
  To build a deep and sincere international friendship among the peoples of the world
  To keep a just lasting peace
  To eliminate want, frustration and enforced idleness
  
  We have come to confirm the unity of all youth salute our comrades who have died-and pledge our word that skilful hands, keen brains and young enthusiasm shall never more be wasted in war
  — Pledge of the World Federation of Democratic Youth
caption: Guy de Boisson, President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, speaks at the opening of the 2nd World Festival of Youth and Students (Budapest, 1949).
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