Saturday, March 28, 2020

Communist & Workers Parties Immediate measures to protect the health and rights of the peoples

Communist & Workers Parties
Immediate measures to protect the health and rights of the peoples

The Communist and Workers' Parties are positioned with responsibility before our peoples. We are here! We are present at the forefront of the struggle to immediately take all necessary measures to protect the health and safeguard the rights of the working class and the popular strata everywhere! 
We extend our heartfelt thanks to the doctors, nurses, the hospital and health units personnel that are fighting this battle facing great difficulties. 
We express our solidarity with those affected by the CoVID-19 pandemic and wish them speedy recovery from the disease. 
We salute the countries that develep solidarity actions with the most affected countries, such as the sending of protective materials and health professionals from countries such as China, Cuba and Russia, actions that are in stark contast to the absence of the European Union. 
The CoVID-19 pandemic tragically proves the huge shortages of health systems in all capitalist countries that were known before the outbreak of the coronavirus. These shortages did not occur accidentally, they are the result of the anti-people's policy pursued by governments in the service of the big capital to commercialize and privatize health, to support the profitability of monopoly groups. This policy undermines the great scientific and technological capabilities available today to meet all prevention and healthcare needs of the people. 
Today's experience reveals the anti-social and parasitic nature of capitalism and highlights the superiority and timeliness of socialism and central scientific planning based on popular needs, which can secure primary healthcare and prevention, hospitals, medical and nursing staff, medicine, laboratories, medical exams and everything else needed to meet the constant as well as any emergency health needs of the people. 
The pre-existing slowdown in world economy is now being furtherly reinforced by the spread of the coronavirus and increasing the risk of a new crisis in the coming period. In spite of the propaganda about "unity", governments in the service of the big capital  focus their financial measures on the support of monopoly groups and will once again seek to throw the burden of the crisis on the workers and the other popular strata. The workers and the peoples cannot and must not pay again! 
"Individual responsibility" cannot be used as a pretext to cover state and government responsibility. Today, taking the necessary measures also requires the struggle of the peoples against the policy of supporting the monopoly groups, which sacrifices the satisfaction of the needs and the health of the peoples at the altar of capitalist profitability. 
The Communist and Workers' parties demand that all necessary measures be taken immediately to address the epidemic, including the following:

  • Immediate strengthening of public health systems by state funding, recruitment of full-time medical and nursing staff with full labor rights. Meeting all the needs of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and the infrastructure needed for the full functioning of public healthcare and research services.
  • Immediate provision of all necessary means of protection (masks, gloves, antiseptics, etc.) by the state to the people free of charge and fight against profiteering. Provision of all protection measures to all healthcare personnel  giving this battle at the hospitals with sacrifices and at their own cost.
  • Protection of the income and rights of the working-popular strata. To put a brake on the unaccountability of the capital that under the guise of the CoVID-19 epidemic proceeds to massive redundancies and tries to furtherly trample over wage rights, working time, leave from work, and other labor rights. Immediate action to protect workers in the workplace.
  • No to any curtailment of the democratic rights of the peoples under the pretext of the coronavirus.
  • End all sanctions and measures of economic exclusion, which in this situation are even more unjust and criminal and make the life of the peoples in the countries they turn against to even more dificult. To take all necessary measures to protect the health and life of the peoples.
  • We say no to imperialist interventions and military exercises, such as those of NATO, and demand that public resources be redirected to support the needs of the peoples, such as the financing of public health and social security systems.

SolidNet List Parties
  1. Communist Party of Albania
  2. Communist Party of Argentina
  3. Communist Party of Armenia
  4. Communist Party of Australia
  5. Party of Labour of Austria
  6. Communist Party of Azerbaidjan
  7. Communist Party  of Bangladesh
  8. Communist Party of Belgium
  9. Brazilian Communist Party
  10. Communist Party of Britain
  11. New Communist Party of Britain
  12. Party of the Bulgarian Communists  
  13. Communist Party of Canada
  14. Communist Party of Chile
  15. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia
  16. AKEL, Cyprus
  17. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
  18. Communist Party  in Denmark
  19. Egyptian Communist Party
  20. Communist Party of Finland
  21. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
  22. German Communist Party
  23. Communist Party of Greece
  24. Hungarian Workers Party
  25. Communist Party of India
  26. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  27. Tudeh Party of Iran
  28. Workers Party of Ireland
  29. Communist Party of Ireland
  30. Communist Party of Israel
  31. Communist Party (Italy)
  32. Jordanian Communist Party
  33. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
  34. Workers Party of Korea
  35. Lebanese Communist Party
  36. Socialist Party (Lithuania)
  37. Communist Party of Malta
  38. Communist Party of Mexico
  39. Popular Socialist Party - National Political Association, Mexico
  40. Nepal Communist Party
  41. Communist Party of Norway
  42. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
  43. Communist Party of Pakistan
  44. Palestinian People’s Party
  45. Palestinian Communist Party
  46. Paraguayan Communist Party
  47. Communist Party of Poland
  48. Portuguese Communist Party
  49. Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]
  50. Romanian Socialist Party
  51. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
  52. Russian Communist Workers Party
  53. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  54. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
  55. Communists of Serbia
  56. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
  57. Communists of Catalonia
  58. Communist Party of Swaziland
  59. Communist Party of Sweden
  60. Syrian Communist Party
  61. Communist Party of Turkey
  62. Communist Party of Ukraine
  63. Union of Communists of Ukraine
  64. Communist Party of Venezuela
Other Parties
  1.  Union of Communists in Bulgaria
  2. Pole of Communist Revival in France
 The statement is open for further endorsments

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Statement of the ECI Secretariat on the International Women's Day






Today, not only social discrimination in EU's state-members at the expense of women are maintained, but also deepened as a result of capitalist exploitation and a consequence of the all-rounded attack of the capital with harsh measures against women's of the working class, salaried scientists, self-employed, farmers, pensioners. It is demonstrated again that lack of stable daily and weekly working hours, in conditions where women bear almost the exclusive responsibility for caring for the family, the generalized insecurity of the working woman, are not a result of some so-called  "wrong" political choices of the EU and its governments. 

The EU and its governments in a unitary way defend the fundamental axis of the EU strategy for intensifying the exploitation and oppression of salaried women, as a means for improvement of the competitiveness of the business groups. By invoking "gender equality", "equal treatment", "equal opportunities", "balancing professional and personal life", they abolish the last of the rights such as restricting night-shifts for women, maternity leaves, positive difference in the retirement age etc. 

The ECI calls for the strengthening of the struggle for permanent defense of the contemporary rights of women in work, social protection of maternity and family. 
Only with the economic and political power in the hands of the working class can women's work and use of free-time  take on a creative content; this is the way for equality and emancipation of women to be built upon solid foundations.