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Fighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp

Collective — 2025-08-12T10:56:09Z

“The last bus awaits in the camp's parking lot. Young people, most of whom didn't know each other a week before, exchange phone numbers, social media, and hugs. Here and there, tears flow, as if to prolong the downpours that punctuated the week.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Youth camp, Belgium, Fourth International

The Fourth International's Youth Camp

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2025-05-14T11:33:47Z

The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!

- News from around the world / Youth camp, Fourth International

Statement on Palestine

Collective — 2024-09-07T09:41:16Z

This solidarity statement was adopted by the 39th edition of the Fourth International youth camp in France in July 2024.

- News from around the world / Youth camp

International youth camp a great success!

Jeunesses Anticapitalistes (JA) — 2024-09-07T07:16:14Z

France hosted the 39th International Youth Camp for the third year running. After a period when the number of participants was falling, the camp is getting a new lease of life! We had 230 young people, compared with 150 last year. We're aiming to beat that number next year!

- IV596-September 2024 / Youth camp

International youth camp

Jonathan Simmel, Marta Autore — 2024-05-07T14:47:00Z

In a context where the winds of war blow more strongly every day and the capitalist societies are starting a huge wave of remilitarization, where the war economy already has started, with big inflation rates and cuts to welfare state, health and education systems, it is of crucial importance for the anticapitalist youth to find moments to meet and coordinate.
It was 1984 when the revolutionary youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International took place for the first time in Europe. (…)

- IV592 - May 2024 / Youth camp, Fourth International

Report from the Fourth International's Revolutionary Youth Camp

Becky Brown — 2023-09-04T08:02:00Z

This summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement.

- IV584 - September 2023 / Youth camp, Fourth International

Being a transgender woman at the International Youth Camp

Sister from Scotland — 2022-09-15T07:15:26Z

“I think it speaks to the way that the Camp functions as a space for a kind of pre-figurative politics, a way of testing out some elements of socialism via collective, co-operative living. ”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Youth camp, Scotland, LGBT

“Total, BP or Shell will not voluntarily give up their profits. We have to become stronger than them...”

Andreas Malm — 2022-09-12T09:12:13Z

“As left-wing activists in the climate movement, we sometimes feel stuck by what can be seen as a lack of strategic perspectives within the movement. How can we radicalize the climate movement and why does the movement need a strategic debate in your opinion?”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Youth camp, Belgium, Sweden, Fourth International, Climate

The experience of the International Youth camp, an essential political moment!

Kalya — 2022-08-07T10:18:11Z

“This political moment is an essential exercise that acts as a catalyst facilitating the sharing of experiences, a festive atmosphere and above all a true spirit of camaraderie.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Youth camp, Fourth International

Solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian resistance to the war

Collective — 2022-08-07T10:01:23Z

“We will stay in solidarity with our Ukrainian comrades and with our Russian comrades to contribute to the defeat of the Russian invasion in any way we can and help rebuild an independent and democratic Ukraine.”

- News from around the world / Youth camp, Russia, Fourth International, Ukraine