A!Y's ideology is centered on six key principles: •
Democracy (the right of every young
Filipino to meaningful participation in political processes; pluralism, equality and empowerment of the marginalized). •
Equity (the right of every Filipino to accessible, quality and relevant
education, decent
employment and adequate
health services;
free association; belief on the strength of the people to end all forms of
exploitation and achieve social change). •
Humanism and
secularism (fullest dignity due to all peoples across and within generations,
ethnicity,
gender, nations, attendant
cultures; relationship with
Mother Earth; and self-expression and self-realization against social alienation). •
Internationalism (end to violent conflicts among nation-states all over the globe; international cooperation towards
peace,
development and
justice; solidarity among the world’s peoples especially the young people, social movements and toilers’ parties; partaking in broad actions to end all forms of
colonial,
imperial adventures and
unilateralism of the most powerful
nation-states). •
Socialist feminism (the
liberation of women through working to end the
economic and
cultural sources of women's
oppression). •
Eco-socialism (protecting the environment and its
common natural resources against
environmental degradation through curbing and dismantling the excesses of
capitalism,
globalism and
imperialism). == References ==