Young Social Democrats Czech Republic

The Young Social Democrats (Mladí sociální demokraté, MSD) is a non-profit organisation which strongly cooperates with the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD). MSD unites young people aged between 15-35 years with similar political orientation. The key aim is to offer alternative side to actual crisis, to communicate with people the vision of prosperous society based on European traditional values, solidarity, individual freedom and dynamic democratic participation of all citizens (especially young ones) on the government. MSD organises public events, for example debates and seminars on different topics. The recently followed topics were for example healthcare, primary education, public transport, immigration and integration, nuclear disarmament etc. They publish the magazine Ventil. Other interesting activity is the mentoring project of 16 MSD members by the political leaders of CSSD. The leaders (mentors) provide them their experiences and support for their development. MSD is member of the IUSY - International union of Socialist Youth (on an international level) and YES - Young European Socialists (on the European level). The organization want to ensure the policy reforms lead to stabilisation of the state finances without lowering the citizens’ standard of living. The main programme is based on key topics such as social politics for secure minimal income, family programme, full employment of young people, equal access and equal opportunity, education and sport, the high quality of public medical and social are, the high quality of public transport and infrastructure, a new asylum policy, ecological sustainability and public-sector digitization etc.