Monday, May 11, 2020
Joint Statement of the Parties of the European Communist Initiative
On May 10, 2020, a teleconference of the parties of the European Communist Initiative was held at the initiative of the KKE, under the theme: "The struggle of the communist and workers' parties in the conditions of the pandemic and the new capitalist crisis".
The introductory speech at the teleconference was given by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the KKE. The teleconference was attended by 24 communist and workers' parties from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey.
The teleconference took place a few days after the celebration of Labor Day and May 9 - the 75th anniversary of the Antifascist Victory, which this year were honored by the parties under special circumstances. The parties of the European Communist Initiative honored the countless dead of the workers' struggle and the anti-fascist victory of the peoples, led by the Red Army, the Soviet people, and the Bolshevik Party.
During the teleconference, the communist and workers' parties that participated exchanged information regarding the health systems and labor rights in the European countries, the measures of the bourgeois governments, the EU, and the attack of the capital.
During the discussion, it was proved that the CoVID-19 pandemic revealed the huge problems of the public health systems in capitalist countries. These problems are caused by the long-lasting anti-popular policy of underfunding, under-staffing, and degradation of public health infrastructure, in favor of the commercialization and privatization of health, to support the profitability of the monopolies. The situation in the health sector, which has been formed for the benefit of capitalist profitability, on the one hand leads to the intensification of doctors and nurses' work, and on the other hand is unable to substantially meet the contemporary needs of prevention and healthcare of the people, confirming that capitalism is the real "virus".
In addition, the current situation has highlighted the contradictions between capitalist countries and the monopolies for the patent of the new vaccine, the treatments, and the necessary medical supplies.
The parties of the European Communist Initiative have conveyed their experience from the consequences of the new capitalist crisis that followed the slowdown in the economy that took place in the previous period and is taking on great proportions in the conditions of the pandemic. They denounced the attack of the capital manifested on all fronts and the antilabor measures of the bourgeois governments, which at the same time provide huge amounts of money to support monopoly groups.
It was proved that there is a general trend towards rising unemployment, flexible forms of employment, new anti-labor measures, and a suspension of trade union rights. It is becoming clear that once again the working class and other popular strata will pay for the capitalist crisis. Under these circumstances, the representatives of the communist and workers' parties of the European Communist Initiative (ECI) discussed the positions of the parties and their actions to protect people's health and workers' rights against the impasses of capitalism.
First of all, during the teleconference, the parties expressed their warm thanks to the doctors and nurses, the hospitals and health units' staff who gave the battle and are still fighting against the pandemic, facing great difficulties.
The ECI parties also expressed solidarity with those affected by the CoVID-19 pandemic and wished them a speedy recovery.
Moreover, they saluted Cuba's solidarity action with the most affected countries.
The parties agreed to reinforce the struggle for:
Immediate strengthening of public health systems, recruitment of permanent medical and nursing staff with full rights, the meeting of all needs in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and infrastructure required for the full operation of public health care and research services.
Immediate provision of all the necessary means of protection (masks, gloves, disinfectants, etc.) to the people by the state free of charge and fight against profiteering. Immediate provision of all protection measures to the healthcare personnel that gives this battle.
The communist and workers' parties in Europe noted that they will lead the struggle against the attack of the capital, which in the face of the new crisis proceeds to widespread layoffs and tries to further crush wages, working hours, leaves, and other labor rights. They expressed their solidarity with the class-oriented trade unions that struggle in order for the workers not to pay the consequences of the capitalist crisis.
They spoke out against the imperialist plans of the USA, NATO, and the EU, as well as against sanctions and economic exclusion measures that are criminal and make people's lives difficult.
The parties that attended the teleconference noted that the current situation shows the deep impasses of the capitalist mode of production (crisis, unemployment, the impoverishment of the working class, the commercialization of social needs such as health, imperialist wars, etc.).
Under these circumstances, the slogan "Socialism or barbarity" is more timely than ever
Monday, May 4, 2020
COMMUNIST PARTY GERMAN (DKP) – COMMUNIST PARTY OF PEOPLES OF SPAIN (CPPS) – COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA (CPV)
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GENERAL APPEAL REGARDING THE HEALTH INTERNATIONAL
EMERGENCY –Covid 19
WORKERS AND COMMUNIST PARTIES AGAINST BLOKCADES
AND IMPERIALIST WARS
The Communist
and Workers' parties that
suscribe the present APPEAL declare:
1. The serious international situation
which has come from the unstoppable global capitalist crisis - now expressed as
a health emergency that spreads throughout so many countries - requires strong
and decisive social and political action that puts the needs of the working
class, of the different people's of the world and of human kind above
everything else.
2. The insufficient scientific resources,
as well as the robbery of public health services, carried out by the capitalist
countries under neo-liberal adjustment policies in the interest of the world's
large monopolistic capital, which are imposed by the EU, the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank, etc, bring with them greater difficulties
concerning the urgent and much needed measures which should be taken
immediately to defend both the health and the lives of the working class and
the people.
3. The degradation suffered by the
capitalist societies, which are based on individual self-interest, consumerism
and social Darwinism, adds even greater difficulties to efforts to deal with
this health crisis, that requires values of solidarity, sharing and social
justice: the values present in all of our revolutionary political projects aimed
at socialism-communism.
4. Currently, capitalism takes advantage
of the current health crisis as a perfect alibi to unleash a new attack against
both the working class and all peoples, strengthening financial capital and
monopolies and adding new cuts to salaries and to the rights of the working
class. The inter-imperialist conflicts contribute to the spiraling rise of
violence and social predation that, at the end, will be paid for by people and
workers alike.
5. The international working class, along
with the people, must react to this situation – today under the control of
world oligarchies – for the health emergency will bring short time terrible
consequences. It is necessary to show further evidence of the present
historical wreckage of capitalism at its imperialist stage, as well as the
urgent need for socialist construction in order to face the beginning of a new
historical stage so much claimed by the current and extraordinary development
of the productive forces.
6. That is why we send out a massive
appeal in order to start as many actions as possible so that the peoples and
the working class raise their flags of struggle.
a. For
the complete stop of imperialist blockades imposed against Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran,
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua.
b. For
the immediate end of imperialist military aggressions in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Mali, Iraq, Libya.
c. For
the immediate end of occupations and for the recovery of the national
sovereignty of the Arabic Republic of
Sahara, Palestine, Puerto Rico.
d. For
the immediate end to the repression of social movements in Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras.
e. For
the right of the working class and the working people both from the cities and
rural areas, to fully exercise their freedom and union organization, to collective bargaining, to strike, job
stability, and sufficient wages to live with dignity.
f. For the socialization of the large and strategic means of production,
financial and essential services for society, under workers, peasants and
popular control.
7. Finally, we make an APPEAL to advance in the coordination
of all the workers', peasants and
popular anti-imperialist struggles and forces in a Global Front, capable of
organizing political and social mobilization for the defense of people´s
sovereignty, against imperialist war, and against all blockades; for an
international social order for the benefit of social majorities – for the whole
of mankind - , under the conditions given by the current development of productive
forces, able, as it is well known today, to cover all social demands.
The organizations hearby signed up to this
APPEAL will work together to add up
our strength to, and to go further, in the above mentioned aims.
FOR THE WHOLE OF THE HUMAN KIND
FOR THE WORKING CLASS
FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
FOR SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM!!!
FIRST SIGNATURES:
NUMBER
|
COUNTRY
|
PARTY
|
|
|
|
1
|
AUSTRALIA
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA
|
2
|
BAHRAIN
|
DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE TRIBUNE
|
3
|
BANGLADESH
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BANGLADESH
|
4
|
BELGIUM
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BELGIUM
|
5
|
BRAZIL
|
BRAZILIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
6
|
BRITAIN
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN
|
7
|
BRITAIN
|
NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN
|
8
|
CROATIA
|
SOCIALIST WORKER'S PARTY OF CROATIA
|
9
|
CUBA
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA
|
10
|
CZECH REPUBLIC
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA
|
11
|
DENMARK
|
COMMUNIST PARTY IN DENMARK
|
12
|
ECUADOR
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF ECUADOR
|
13
|
EGYPT
|
EGYPTIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
14
|
FINLAND
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF FINLAND
|
15
|
GEORGIA
|
UNIFIED COMMUNIST PARTY OF GEORGIA
|
16
|
GERMANY
|
GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
17
|
HUNGARY
|
HUNGARIAN WORKER'S PARTY
|
18
|
IRAN
|
TUDEH PARTY OF IRAN
|
19
|
IRELAND
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND
|
20
|
ITALY
|
ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
21
|
JORDAN
|
JORDANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
22
|
MALTA
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF MALTA
|
23
|
MEXICO
|
POPULAR SOCIALIST PARTY - NATIONAL POLITICAL
ASSOCIATION
|
24
|
NETHERLANDS
|
NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE NETHERLANDS
|
25
|
PAKISTAN
|
COMMUNIST
PARTY OF PAKISTAN
|
26
|
PALESTINE
|
PALESTINIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
27
|
PERU
|
PERUVIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
|
28
|
PHILIPPINES
|
PHILIPPINE COMMUNIST PARTY (PKP-1930)
|
29
|
ROMANIA
|
SOCIALIST ALLIANCE PARTY
|
30
|
SPAIN
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PEOPLES OF SPAIN
|
31
|
SYRIA
|
SYRIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (UNIFIED)
|
32
|
USA
|
COMMUNIST PARTY USA
|
33
|
UKRAINE
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE
|
34
|
UKRAINE
|
UNION OF COMMUNISTS OF UKRAINE
|
35
|
VENEZUELA
|
COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA
|
Sunday, May 3, 2020
75th. Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-fascism
In the name of freedom, peace and truth
— Against fascism and war
The victory over
Nazi-fascism in the Second World War is a major event in History, the memory of
which must be preserved and defended in the face of repeated attempts at
historical falsification aimed at making us forget the decisive role played by
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by the communists and by anti-fascists
from around the world.
Generated by
capitalism, Nazi-fascism was the most violent and terroristic manifestation of
monopoly capital. It was
responsible for the outbreak of this war of aggression and plunder that caused
close to 75 million deaths, of which approximately 27 million were Soviet
citizens, and for the immeasurable suffering and horror of the Nazi
concentration camps. The peoples can also not forget dark pages, such as the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA, without any military
justification, which represented a display of power and of their world-wide
hegemonistic ambitions.
The Second World
War (1939-1945) was the result of increasingly acute inter-imperialist
contradictions and, at the same time, of the intention to destroy the first
Socialist State, the USSR, which was namely expressed in the support and
connivance of the United Kingdom, France and the United States with the
rearmament and expansionist ambition of Nazi Germany.
In commemorating
the 75th anniversary of the historic Victory on
May 9, 1945, the undersigned communist and workers' parties, certain in
the knowledge that they portray the feelings and aspirations of workers and
peoples from all over the world:
- Pay tribute to
all those who gave their lives on the battlefields against the Nazi-fascist
hordes and in particular to the heroism of the resistance movements and
anti-fascist fighters and to the heroic Soviet people and Red Army, led by the
Communist Party, whose contribution, written in heroic pages such as the
battles of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, was decisive for the Victory over
barbarism;
- Consider that
the Victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in the Anti-Comintern Pact was
achieved thanks to the decisive contribution of the USSR, to the class nature
of the Soviet power with the participation of the masses of the people, to the
leading role of the Communist Party, to the superiority which was displayed by
the Socialist system. That victory is an enormous historical legacy of the
revolutionary movement;
- Value the
outstanding advances in the social and national emancipation of the workers and
peoples that the Victory and the resulting advancement of the forces of social
progress and peace made possible, extending the sphere of socialism within the
countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America, creating the conditions for the
advance of the labour movement in capitalist countries, the sweeping
development of the national liberation movement and the resulting liquidation
of colonial empires;
- Denounce and
condemn the campaigns that aim to belittle, distort and even deny, the role of
the USSR and of the communists in the defeat of Nazi-fascism and also to unjustly and falsely blame the Soviet Union for
starting the Second World War, to expunge the responsibilities of big capital
and the governments at its service in the promotion and rise of fascism and in
unleashing the war, and whitewash and rehabilitate fascism, while destroying
the monuments and memory of the liberating Soviet army, promoting
anti-communism and criminalizing communists and other anti-fascists;
- Denounce and
condemn the EU’s anti-communist resolutions and the slanderous historical
falsification which attempts to equate socialism with the fascist monster;
- Warn that the
most reactionary and aggressive sectors of imperialism are increasingly
viewing fascism and war as a “way out”
of the deepening crisis of the capitalist system, whose inhuman character
becomes particularly obvious when, even in the face of the very serious
epidemic outbreak of Covid-19, imperialism, the USA, NATO, the EU and its
allies capitalist powers, continue a criminal policy of blockades and
aggressions against countries and peoples;
- Consider that the struggle for peace, social
progress and socialism are inseparable; and make a commitment to seek a stronger common action of the
working class, of the workers and peoples of the world, of the political forces
engaged in blocking the path to fascism and in the struggle against
imperialism, imperialist aggressions and a new war of tragic proportions.
The situation with
which the workers and peoples of the world are confronted underlines the
importance of strengthening the struggle against imperialism, for the
sovereignty of the peoples and the independence of States, for the rights of
the workers and peoples, as leading forward to the revolutionary overcoming of
the capitalist system, a system which breeds fascism, war, the injustices,
dangers and contradictions of the present. As it was 75 years ago, it is today
the struggle of the communists and all those facing capitalist exploitation and
oppression that will open the way for the future for Humanity.
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 Belarus
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Britain
New Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Chile
Colombian Communist Party
Socialist Worker’s Party of Croatia
Communist Party of Cuba
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
The Progressive Party of the Working People - AKEL
Communist Party in Denmark
Egyptian Communist Party
Communist Party of Finland
French Communist Party
Pole of Communist Revival in France
Communist Revolutionary Party of France
Unified Communist Party of Georgia
German Communist Party
Communist Party of Greece
Hungarian Worker’s Party
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Tudeh Party of Iran
Iraqi Communist Party
Kurdistan Communist Party - Iraq
Communist Party of Ireland
Workers’ Party of Ireland
Communist Party of Israel
Italian Communist Party
Party of the Communist Refoundation – European Left (Italy)
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Workers’ Party of Korea
Socialist Party (Lithuania)
Communist Party of Luxembourg
Communist Party of Malta
Popular Socialist Party – National Political Association (México)
Communist Party of Mexico
Party of the Communists (Mexico)
New Communist Party of the Netherlands
New Communist Party of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Communist Party of Macedonia
Communist Party of Norway
Communist Party of Pakistan
Palestinian Communist Party
Paraguayan Communist Party
Peruan Communist Party
Philippine Communist Party (PKP - 1930)
Portuguese Communist Party
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Union of Communist Parties - CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Communist of Serbia
Communist Party of Slovakia
South African Communist Party
Communist Party of Spain
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Communists of Catalonia
Galizan People's Union
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
Galician Nationalist Bloc
Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Sudanese Communist Party
Communist Party of Swaziland
Communist Party (Switzerland)
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
Communist Party of Armenia
Communist Party of Australia
Party of Labour of Austria
Communist Party of Azerbaidjan
Communist Party of Bangladesh
Communist Party of Belarus
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Britain
New Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Chile
Colombian Communist Party
Socialist Worker’s Party of Croatia
Communist Party of Cuba
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
The Progressive Party of the Working People - AKEL
Communist Party in Denmark
Egyptian Communist Party
Communist Party of Finland
French Communist Party
Pole of Communist Revival in France
Communist Revolutionary Party of France
Unified Communist Party of Georgia
German Communist Party
Communist Party of Greece
Hungarian Worker’s Party
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Tudeh Party of Iran
Iraqi Communist Party
Kurdistan Communist Party - Iraq
Communist Party of Ireland
Workers’ Party of Ireland
Communist Party of Israel
Italian Communist Party
Party of the Communist Refoundation – European Left (Italy)
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Workers’ Party of Korea
Socialist Party (Lithuania)
Communist Party of Luxembourg
Communist Party of Malta
Popular Socialist Party – National Political Association (México)
Communist Party of Mexico
Party of the Communists (Mexico)
New Communist Party of the Netherlands
New Communist Party of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Communist Party of Macedonia
Communist Party of Norway
Communist Party of Pakistan
Palestinian Communist Party
Paraguayan Communist Party
Peruan Communist Party
Philippine Communist Party (PKP - 1930)
Portuguese Communist Party
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Union of Communist Parties - CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Communist of Serbia
Communist Party of Slovakia
South African Communist Party
Communist Party of Spain
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
Communists of Catalonia
Galizan People's Union
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
Galician Nationalist Bloc
Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Sudanese Communist Party
Communist Party of Swaziland
Communist Party (Switzerland)
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
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