In the fall of 1999, activists from the United States and around the world gathered for a week in Seattle to stand up in opposition to the World Trade Organization. Elitist agents of global trade policies that place profits before people found themselves confronted with a new movement for jobs, peace, freedom, and an international commitment to principles of fair trade and economic justice.

Despite the progress made in Seattle, other institutions that are also dangerous to the world economy have not yet been confronted.

As we enter the new century, the struggle continues. In April, in Washington DC, in the very heart of the beast, activists will gather to once again show the leaders of the world that we will not sit idly by as the economic elite make their plans for further domination of the world's dispossessed. This time activists will target the International Monetary Fund, the evil parent of the WTO.

The IMF and World Bank act as a debt-trap to poor countries desperately in need of even the basic necessities, and the youth of those nations inherit the burden of a society with poor social, labor, and environmental standards when resources that could be used to help the disinfranchised are used instead to pay down the debt. We therefore call for an immediate cancellation of all debts owed by countries to the World Bank. We call for an immediate dissolution of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.

The Young People's Socialist League proudly endorses the planned protest at the IMF headquarters on April 16th. We call on all young socialists to make themselves aware of the damage that is being caused to the world's disadvantaged by the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank, an unholy trinity which for the majority of the world's people simply means continued suffering. We encourage Yipsels to attend the protests and to return to their school and communities to hold meetings, teach-ins, and talks about what they have learned. YPSL has a proud tradition of opposing the economic dominance of the few over the many. Just as we have for nearly a century struggled against the economic elite of the United States, we understand that we must extend that struggle to the economic elite of the world. And though this unholy trinity would like to pretend we do not exist, YPSL will be beside our comrades, brothers and sisters, and fellow citizens on April 16th making sure that the voice of reason is heard.