!Long live International Workers' Day

STATEMENT OF THE INITIATIVE´S SECRETARIAT  

We extend warm class greetings to all the workers of the world, to the young men and women of the working class. We pay tribute to all the dead of our class.                                                                                

    May 1st is a day - a symbol for workers around the world, a symbol of the struggle of the peoples against capitalist exploitation and barbarism, against the imperialist war. Especially this year amid a pandemic, workers will celebrate Labor Day in every possible way. Even wearing a mask, the working class can be loudly heard.                                                          In this year’s May1st we must stand up and struggle, raise our fists and demand measures to protect workers' lives and rights! We denounce the lack of precautionary measures in the workplaces and the tragic shortages of permanent staff and infrastructure in public hospitals. We devote our efforts to strengthen workers' struggle, in order not to pay the burdens of the new crisis of the capitalist system once again. We call on the working class and the peoples to struggle against the aggressive plans of the USA, NATO, and the EU, against the imperialist wars caused by imperialist contradictions and competitions.                                           

Under the pretext of the pandemic, governments seek to deal a new harsh blow on the remaining labor rights by supporting employers' unaccountability in the workplace. Along with "Marshall plans", huge subsidies, tax exemptions, and very cheap loans, they provocatively support business groups, while making the workers pay the bill of the crisis, along with passing new anti-labor measures, reactionary mechanisms, and measures to limit trade union action.                          We are inspired by the heroes of the bloody Chicago strike on May 1, 1886, aiming to establish the 8-hour day. The working class rose and with its heroic struggles managed to impose the 8-hour day as a starting point for a series of gains in the 20th century, which today are taken away one by one. Against the sermons about “national unity” and the calls on the workers to align themselves with the interests of the capitalists that exploit the pandemic and the forthcoming capitalist crisis, we declare that we will not take a step back from our rights and our demands to meet the contemporary needs of the working class and the other popular strata!                                                                                                

The pandemic has proved that the barbarity of capitalism, which is a rotten, exploitative, and outdated system that only causes crises, suffering, wars and refugees are incurable.                                 

The superiority of the new world, that is socialism, where the working class will have the power and will be able to enjoy all the wealth it produces, emerges more necessary and timely than ever.                    

Long live Labor Day

Joint Statement of Communist and Workers' Parties on the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin

We honor the great revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin, we are committed to continuing his work! 

The Communist and Workers' Parties, which co-sign this Joint Statement, would like also in this way to honor a great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, as April 22 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. Especially in the current conditions, and while the pandemic of CoVID-19 is spreading, tragically demonstrating the great shortages of health systems in capitalist countries as well as the anti-social and parasitic nature of the capitalist system, in the face of the new crisis, the burdens of which will be again put on the workers' shoulders, the aggressive nature of capitalism and the escalation of imperialist competitions, which pose new dangers to peace and peoples, we feel an even greater need to refer to the historical physiognomy of V.I. Lenin. A personality that dedicated his life to the cause of the working class and other popular strata, to the struggle for the abolition of exploitation and the construction of the socialist society. We honor V.I. Lenin as the founder of the contemporary working-class party, the "party of a new type", which was firmly separated from the opportunism and apostasy of the old social-democratic parties. Such was the Bolshevik Party, which was at the forefront of the class struggle of the proletariat and the other oppressed strata of Russia. Lenin's party led Russia's working class to victory by overthrowing the exploiting classes and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, the workers' and peasants' government, in the service of the interests of the many, the exploited and the oppressed. V.I. Lenin defined and substantiated the leading role of the Communist Party, not only in establishing workers' power but also in constructing socialism. We honor V.I. Lenin as the theorist who, taking into account the particular reality, further developed the constituent parts of Marxism, i.e. philosophy, political economy, and scientific communism. As an opponent of any opportunistic and revisionist distortion of revolutionary theory and practice, dogmatism, sectarianism, and parliamentary illusions, without denying the intervention through the parliament. His works, such as "What the friends of the people are and how they fight the SocialDemocrats", "The Development of Capitalism in Russia", "What Is to Be Done", "Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution", "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism", "Marxism and Revisionism", "The Collapse of the Second International", "Socialism and War", "On the Slogan for the United States of Europe", "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of 2 Capitalism", "The State and Revolution", "The April Theses", "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder", "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government", and "The Great Initiative" are milestones in the propagation and development of Marxism and revolutionary struggle. Lenin's valuable theoretical work is still timely and serves as a beacon for the ideological-political education and action of every new generation of revolutionaries. We honor V.I. Lenin as the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which about a century ago shook the world. The victorious revolution illuminated the power of the class struggle, the power of the exploited and the oppressed -when they take the case of their interests into their own hands and turn the wheel of history forward- in the direction of social liberation. The October flame led and accelerated the establishment of a number of Communist and revolutionary Workers' parties. Lenin had an insightful strategic ability and skillfully handled alliances, abilities that he devoted to the cause of the socialist revolution. We honor V.I. Lenin as the leader of the world's first socialist state, which for the first time established workers' power based on new revolutionary institutions, such as the Soviets, sought the economic functioning of society on a new basis, the basis of the satisfaction of contemporary people's needs and the multi-faceted free development of all people, not the profitability of the few. The USSR, the first socialist state in the world, which was realized with the special contribution of V.I. Lenin, brought to the fore new unprecedented economic, social, political, and cultural achievements for the working class and the wider popular strata that had a profound effect on historical progressive developments around the world. It was a support to the peoples in the struggle for socialism and peace. We honor V.I. Lenin as the great internationalist, the leader who raised the flag of proletarian internationalism against the treacherous attitude of the Second International during the imperialist World War I, opposed bourgeois nationalism and other bourgeois views such as the cosmopolitanism of the capital, and led the establishment of the Third Communist International, which made a major contribution to the international labor and communist movement and today is a basic source for drawing useful lessons from the experience it accumulated through its action. Lenin's positions on colonialism led the Communists to understand the issue of colonies and inspired them to lead the anti-colonial struggles, both in colonial countries and colonies. We honor V.I. Lenin as the tireless and consistent opponent of the imperialist war, the defender of peoples' struggle for national and social liberation, social justice, peace, and socialism. The counter-revolution and capitalist restoration cannot conceal the achievements of Socialism. The disasters and injustice we are experiencing, the acute problems and the suffering of the working class, the small-middle strata, the peasantry and the peoples overall caused by capitalist exploitation and oppression, emphasize the necessity and timeliness of socialism all over the world. The Communist and Workers' Parties denounce the wave of silence as well as the reactionary and anti-communist distortion that has been unleashed around the world by the political forces that serve the interests of the capital against V.I. Lenin to the workers 3 and the youth. We struggle for the continuation of his work, we are committed to continue defending and propagating his legacy and we call on the workers and the people to learn from it.

22/04/2020 

Solid Net Parties signing the Joint Statement

 1. Communist Party of Albania
 2. PADS, Algeria
 3. Communist Party of Argentina
 4. Communist Party of Armenia
 5. Communist Party of Australia
 6. Party of Labour of Austria
 7. Communist Party of Azerbaijan
 8. Democratic Progressive Tribune of Bahrain
 9. Communist Party of Bangladesh
 10. Communist Party of Belarus
 11. Communist Party of Belgium
 12. Brazilian Communist Party
 13. Communist Party of Britain
 14. New Communist Party of Britain
 15. Communist Party of Bulgaria
 16. Party of Bulgarian Communists
 17. Communist Party of Canada
 18. Communist Party of Chile
 19. Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
 20. AKEL, Cyprus
 21. Communist Party of Bohemia-Moravia
 22. Communist Party of Denmark
 23. Communist Party in Denmark
 24. Force of the Revolution, Dominican Republic
 25. Communist Party Ecuador
 26. Communist Party of El Salvador
 27. Communist Party of Finland
 28. United Communist Party of Georgia
 29. German Communist Party
 30. Communist Party of Greece
 31. Hungarian Workers Party
 32. Communist Party of India
 33. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
 34. Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq
 35. Tudeh Party of Iran
 36. Workers' Party of Ireland 
 37. Communist Party of Ireland
 38. Communist Party of Israel
 39. Communist Party, Italy
 40. Italian Communist Party
 41. Jordanian Communist Party
 42. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
 43. Workers' Party of Korea
 44. Party of the Communists of Kyrgyzstan
 45. Lebanese Communist Party
 46. Socialist Party of Latvia
 47. Socialist Party, Lithuania
 48. Communist Party of Luxembourg
 49. Communist Party of Malta
 50. Communist Party of Mexico
 51. Communist Party of Norway
 52. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
 53. Communist Party of Pakistan
 54. Palestinian Communist Party
 55. Palestinian People's Party
 56. Paraguayan Communist Party
 57. Peruan Communist Party
 58. Communist Party of Poland
 59. Portuguese Communist Party
 60. Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930)
 61. Communist Party of Ukraine
 62. Union of Communists of Ukraine
 63. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
 64. Communist Workers' Party of Russia
 65. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 66. Union of Communist Parties - CPSU
 67. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
 68. Communists of Serbia
 69. Communist Party of Slovakia
 70. South African Communist Party
 71. Communist Party of Spain
 72. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
 73. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
 74. Communists of Catalonia
 75. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
 76. Communist Party of Swaziland
 77. Communist Party of Sweden
 78. Sudanese Communist Party
 79. Syrian Communist Party
 80. Communist Party of Turkey
 81. Communist Party of Venezuela

 Other Parties signing the Joint Statement

 1. Union of Communists in Bulgaria
 2. Communist Revolutionary Party of France
 3. Pole of Communist Revival in France
 4. Shiso-Undo, Japan
 5. Communist Party of Puerto Rico
 6. Galizan People's Union
 7. Communist Party, Switzerland
 8. Party of Communists, USA 

CP of Greece, Joint Statement of 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

Communist Party of Albania

Communist Party of Argentina

Communist Party of Armenia

Communist Party of Australia

Party of Labour of Austria

Communist Party of Azerbaidjan

Communist Party  of Bangladesh

Communist Party of Belgium

Brazilian Communist Party

Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain

Party of the Bulgarian Communists 

Communist Party of Canada

Communist Party of Chile

Socialist Workers Party of Croatia

Communist Party of Cuba

AKEL, Cyprus

Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia

Communist Party  of Denmark

Communist Party  in Denmark

Egyptian Communist Party

Communist Party of El Salvador

Communist Party of Finland

Unified Communist Party of Georgia

German Communist Party

Communist Party of Greece

Hungarian Workers Party

Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Tudeh Party of Iran

Workers Party of Ireland

Communist Party of Ireland

Communist Party of Israel

Italian Communist Party

Communist Party (Italy)

Jordanian Communist Party

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan

Workers Party of Korea

Party of Communists of Kyrygyzstan

Socialist Party of Latvia

Socialist Party (Lithuania)

Communist Party of Luxembourg

Communist Party of Malta

Communist Party of Mexico

Popular Socialist Party - National Political Association, Mexico

Nepal Communist Party

Communist Party of Macedonia

Communist Party of Norway

New Communist Party of the Netherlands

Communist Party of Pakistan

Palestinian People’s Party

Palestinian Communist Party

Paraguayan Communist Party

Peruan Communist Party

Communist Party of Poland

Portuguese Communist Party

Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]

Romanian Socialist Party

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Russian Communist Workers Party

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Communists of Serbia

Communist Party of Slovakia

South African Communist Party

Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain

Communists of Catalonia

Communist Party of Swaziland

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Communist Party of Sweden

Sudanese Communist Party

Syrian Communist Party

Syrian Communist Party - Unified

Communist Party of Turkey

Communist Party of Ukraine

Union of Communists of Ukraine

Communist Party USA

Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties

1.  Union of Communists in Bulgaria
2. Communist Revolutionary Party of France
3. Pole of Communist Revival in France
4. Communist Party of Puerto Rico
5. Galizan People's Union
6. Communist Party, Switzerland                       
7.  The statement is open for further endorsments

AKEL, Joint Declaration of Communist and Workers' Parties: SOLIDARITY YES - BLOCKADE NO. WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE LIFTING OF THE CRIMINAL US BLOCKADE ON CUBA

SOLIDARITY YES - BLOCKADE NO

WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE LIFTING OF THE CRIMINAL US BLOCKADE ON CUBA

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread over the whole planet causing enormous human pain and loses, it tragically confirms the existence of two different approaches: one insisting to put profits and imposition of global control above public health and the wellbeing of their own people , and a different one putting people, their health and wellbeing, above all other interests.

Amidst Covid-19 pandemic, in different continentspeople become witnesses of the internationalism and solidarity exhibited by Cuba as it responds to calls for assistance by dispatching medical teams to tenths of countries. This humanitarian response is a continuation of decades of disinterested practice when Cuban doctors and nurses came to the help of countries stricken by natural disasters or epidemics.

Whilst the word “Solidarity” is echoed from different corners as the necessary approach for the whole planet to face the pandemic, the US choose to further harden the illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba. At these critical times, when human lives are at stake, the US, by imposing the extraterritoriality clause of the Helms-Burton Law, obstruct personal protective equipment, ventilators, and test kits to be acquired or reach Cuba. This is the most gruesome manifestation of the criminal 60-year-long blockade and its consequences for the life and economic development of Cuba and its people.

Under these conditions we the undersigned Communist and Workers' Parties:

denounce the criminal US economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba

demand the immediate lifting of the illegal US blockade on Cuba

express our gratitude for Cuba's solidarity extended to peoples in need through its medical teams

reiterate our solidarity with the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban Government and People in their struggle to defend the socialist path of development

Solidarity YES - Blockade NO

 The Joint Declaration is open for signatures
 1. Communist Party of Argentina
 2. Communist Party of Armenia
 3. Communist Party of Australia
 4. Party of Labour of Austria 
 5. Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
 6. Communist Party of Bangladesh
 7. Workers’ Party of Belgium
 8. Communist Party of Belgium
 9. Communist Party of Brazil
 10.Brazilian Communist Party
 11.Communist Party of Britain
 12.New Communist Party of Britain
 13.Communist Party of Canada
 14.Communist Party of Chile
 15.Communist Party of Colombia
 16.Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia
 17.Communist Party of Cuba
 18.AKEL – CYPRUS
 19.Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
 20.Communist Party in Denmark
 21.Workers’ Party of Korea
 22.Communist Party of Ecuador
 23.Egyptian Communist Party
 24.Communist Party of Finland
 25.French Communist Party
 26.DKP-German Communist Party
 27.Communist Party of Greece
 28.Hungarian Workers’ Party
 29.Communist Party of India (Marxist)
 30.Tudeh Party of Iran
 31.Iraqi Communist Party
 32.Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
 33.Communist Party of Ireland
 34.Workers’ Party of Ireland
 35.Communist Party of Israel
 36.Communist Refoundation Party - Italy
 37.Italian Communist Party -PCI
 38.Communist Party –Italy
 39.Jordanian Communist Party
 40.Communist Party of Luxembourg
 41.Communist Party of Malta
 42.Communist Party of Mexico
 43.New Communist Party of Netherlands
 44.Communist Party of Norway
 45.Communist Party of Pakistan
 46.Palestinian People’s Party
 47.Palestinian Communist Party
 48.Paraguayan Communist Party
 49.PKP-1930, the Philippine Communist Party
 50.Communist Party of Poland
 51.Portuguese Communist Party
 52.New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
 53.Romanian Socialist Party
 54.Communist Party of the Russian Federation
 55.Russian Communist Workers’ Party
 56.South African Communist Party
 57.Communist Party of Spain
 58.Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain –PCPE
 59.Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
 60.Communists of Catalonia
 61.Communist Party of Sri Lanka
 62.Sudanese Communist Party
 63.Communist Party of Swaziland
 64.Communist Party of Turkey
 65.Communist Party of Ukraine
 66.Communist Party USA
 67.Communist Party of Venezuela