The Communist Party of Malta commemorates the 31st Anniversary of Freedom Day when the Labour Party administration under the leadership of Dominic Mintoff succeeding in ridding Malta of Nato Military Bases on the 31st of March 1979. This led Malta on the path of becoming a Neutral State which was later enshrined in Malta’s Republican Constitution.
Various attempts were made to nullify Malta’s Neutrality under the excuse that the two super power system, today no longer exist. Recently we have seen attempts by the US Embassy in Malta to influence Malta’s legislative Assembly to remove the Neutrality clause in Malta’s Constitution.
“Malta joining NATO’s Partnership for peace is a ploy to nullify Malta’s Neutrality.”
The Communist Party of Malta appeals to the Labour Party Members of Parliament to continue to defend Malta’s Neutrality and not to succumb to pressure from Right wing schemes to turn the clock back to the days when Malta was affiliated politically with imperialism.
The Communist Party of Malta acknowledges that the Cyprus problem was the direct result of Nato loosing military bases in Malta. To ensure military bases in the Mediterranean Region imperialism caused a right wing coup which led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, thus divided the island into two parts, but also led to the fall of the fascist military dictatorship in Greece.
The situation in Cyprus today has made great improvements and a solution to this problem seem to be near. All this is due to the present AKEL Communist Administration and to the fact that the present Islamic Administration in Turkey wants to be accepted as EU member.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Communist Party of Malta condemns European Parliament Resolution on Cuba
The Communist Party of Malta condemns the resolution passed recently in the European Parliament condemning the Government of Cuba over the unfortunate incident where a normal prisoner died after a prolonged hunger strike.
The Communist Party of Malta supports the stance taken by the United Left Group opposing the approval of the anti-Cuban resolution where several of its members, amongst them the Portuguese Ilda Figueiredo, described the position adopted by the European Parliament as hypocritical, since it questioned Cuba and did not do the same with regards to the military coup d’etat in Honduras and the starvation of people in Haiti under a right wing oligarchs supported by US Administrations.
The United Left Block reminded also that EU Parliament had been perhaps the only parliament in the world that did not condemn the coup, its assassinations and tortures. They also challenged the European Union to put an end to the “Common Position” while calling for an end to the blockade, and condemned the unjust imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorists in the United States.
The Communist Party of Malta supports the Cuban revolution where during these last 50 years Cuba was the victim of terrorist acts such as the downing of a Cuban airliner in Caracas in 1976 with Cuban people on board where the perpetuator is still receiving shelter by US Government
The Communist Party of Malta supports the stance taken by the United Left Group opposing the approval of the anti-Cuban resolution where several of its members, amongst them the Portuguese Ilda Figueiredo, described the position adopted by the European Parliament as hypocritical, since it questioned Cuba and did not do the same with regards to the military coup d’etat in Honduras and the starvation of people in Haiti under a right wing oligarchs supported by US Administrations.
The United Left Block reminded also that EU Parliament had been perhaps the only parliament in the world that did not condemn the coup, its assassinations and tortures. They also challenged the European Union to put an end to the “Common Position” while calling for an end to the blockade, and condemned the unjust imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorists in the United States.
The Communist Party of Malta supports the Cuban revolution where during these last 50 years Cuba was the victim of terrorist acts such as the downing of a Cuban airliner in Caracas in 1976 with Cuban people on board where the perpetuator is still receiving shelter by US Government
Monday, March 15, 2010
Communist Party of Malta Press Release 14th March 2010
Communist Party of Malta reaction to the situation in Greece.
The Communist Party fully supports the struggles of the working people of Greece against the onslaught launched by the Social Democratic Administration of PASOK, which is being supported by the other capitalist parties the Liberal ND and the extreme right LAOS to install severe anti social measures instigated by the big capitalist countries in EU and International Monetary Fund.
“The measures announced by PASOK are a frontal attack at workers livelihood which serves only the interests of the ruling class that greedily looks only at profits, and would trample on worker’s rights to ensure it.”
“The Working Class in Greece has reacted courageously and is fighting back under the guidance of PAME and KKE who are in the frontline defending the worker’s rights and standard of living of the workers and their families”.
The Communist Party of Malta fully understands this struggle because similar situation has arisen in Malta under the present Centre Right Government whereby the workers are facing anti social policies and the dismantling of the worker’s rights.
The Nationalist Government increased the basic energy utilities to an exorbitant level with the excuse of higher international prices of oil and gas, while at the same time prices of energy in other EU countries has gone down, such as Cyprus and Italy. The Maltese workers as the Greek and other workers elsewhere are being made to pay for the failure of neo liberal policies. Poverty in Malta is rearing its head again and around 2000 families had their electricity and water supply cut down as they could not afford to pay the bills, while 17% of the population is in risks of falling below poverty line.
The Communist Party of Malta fully supports Trade Unions of all countries and the working class in their struggle to fight against neo liberal policies, privatization of public services and the attack on the working conditions and the right for the collective bargaining.
The Communist Party fully supports the struggles of the working people of Greece against the onslaught launched by the Social Democratic Administration of PASOK, which is being supported by the other capitalist parties the Liberal ND and the extreme right LAOS to install severe anti social measures instigated by the big capitalist countries in EU and International Monetary Fund.
“The measures announced by PASOK are a frontal attack at workers livelihood which serves only the interests of the ruling class that greedily looks only at profits, and would trample on worker’s rights to ensure it.”
“The Working Class in Greece has reacted courageously and is fighting back under the guidance of PAME and KKE who are in the frontline defending the worker’s rights and standard of living of the workers and their families”.
The Communist Party of Malta fully understands this struggle because similar situation has arisen in Malta under the present Centre Right Government whereby the workers are facing anti social policies and the dismantling of the worker’s rights.
The Nationalist Government increased the basic energy utilities to an exorbitant level with the excuse of higher international prices of oil and gas, while at the same time prices of energy in other EU countries has gone down, such as Cyprus and Italy. The Maltese workers as the Greek and other workers elsewhere are being made to pay for the failure of neo liberal policies. Poverty in Malta is rearing its head again and around 2000 families had their electricity and water supply cut down as they could not afford to pay the bills, while 17% of the population is in risks of falling below poverty line.
The Communist Party of Malta fully supports Trade Unions of all countries and the working class in their struggle to fight against neo liberal policies, privatization of public services and the attack on the working conditions and the right for the collective bargaining.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Message of condolances
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malta sends its sympathies and its solidarity in this moment of grief to the Government, the Communist party, and the people of Cuba, at the loss of Comrade Juan Almeida Bosque, a revolutionary commander and veteran of the Cuban Revolutionary war.
Comrade Almeida a heroic figure in the fight against the US sponsored Dictator Fulgencio Battista had fought alongside Comrade Fidel Castro in the assault of the Moncada Barracks and was amongst those who participated in the Granma expedition and subsequently fought in the Sierra Maestra for the liberation of the Cuban people from the US imposed dictator and domination of Cuba.
Comrade Almeida had served the people of Cuba in various capacities.
Lastly being that of Vice President. Comrade Almeida served for a long time as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Please convey the condolences of the Communist Party of Malta to the Government and the people of Cuba, and also to his near relatives.
The Communist party of Malta expresses its solidarity to the Communist Party of Cuba in this hour grief.
Comrade Almeida a heroic figure in the fight against the US sponsored Dictator Fulgencio Battista had fought alongside Comrade Fidel Castro in the assault of the Moncada Barracks and was amongst those who participated in the Granma expedition and subsequently fought in the Sierra Maestra for the liberation of the Cuban people from the US imposed dictator and domination of Cuba.
Comrade Almeida had served the people of Cuba in various capacities.
Lastly being that of Vice President. Comrade Almeida served for a long time as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Please convey the condolences of the Communist Party of Malta to the Government and the people of Cuba, and also to his near relatives.
The Communist party of Malta expresses its solidarity to the Communist Party of Cuba in this hour grief.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Message to PKP 1930
The Communist Party of Malta sends warm greetings on the occassion of the the 79th Anniversary of the Partido Komunista NG Pillipinas (PKP 1930). The CPM is sure that the Communist Party of the Phillipines (PKP 1930)
will continue its struggles against imperialism and monoply capitalism in the best interest of the working class of the Phillipines. The CPM augers success in all the struggles undertaken by the PKP 1930 to bring about the revolutionary changes that are of prime importance in today's Society where capitalist oppressions and exploitation are the order of the day.
The Communist Party if Malta will support the Partido Komunista NG Pillipinas (PKP 1930).in its effort to continue to carry forward the struggle under the banner of Marxism Leninism.
will continue its struggles against imperialism and monoply capitalism in the best interest of the working class of the Phillipines. The CPM augers success in all the struggles undertaken by the PKP 1930 to bring about the revolutionary changes that are of prime importance in today's Society where capitalist oppressions and exploitation are the order of the day.
The Communist Party if Malta will support the Partido Komunista NG Pillipinas (PKP 1930).in its effort to continue to carry forward the struggle under the banner of Marxism Leninism.
PARTIDO KOMUNISTA NG PILIPINAS ( PKP-1930 )
On August 26, 1930, on the second day of a convention attended by 60 delegates, our Party was founded at the Templo del Trabajo in the working class district of Tondo, Manila. The founding of our Party in that year of the severe crisis of the capitalist system, signaled the determination of the Filipino working peoples not only to wrest national liberation from US colonialism, but also to attain a better social system which would be free of the anarchy and crises of capitalism.
Our Party grew out of the working classes, was based on a worker-peasant alliance, and was established by the most advanced working class leaders of that time. The delegates to the convention which founded our Party were representatives of progressive trade unions and peasant associations which were then affiliated with the most progressive federation of that period --- the Katlpunan ng mga Anak-Pawis ng Pilipinas (KAP, or the Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines). Among the 35 members of the founding Central Committee of our Party were printers, tobacco industry workers, lumberyard workers, slipper makers, electricians, seamen, cooks, journalists, a railroad worker, a clerk, and peasant leaders. Many of them were intellectualized workers, although there were a few revolutionized intellectuals who accepted as their own the Marxist-Leninist working class ideology.
From the outset, our Party embodied the unity and intertwining of the concepts of patriotism and internationalism. The workers and peasants who organized our Party believed in patriotism as the unifying force to mobilize our people in the struggle for national liberation from US imperialist domination. At the same time, they believed in proletarian internationalism as the unifying force to mobilize the working class in all countries in the common struggle against imperialism and the capitalist ruling class.
Significantly, our Party was organized on August 26, the date then considered as the anniversary of the “Cry of Balintawak” which marked the start of the Philippine revolution against Spanish colonialism in 1896. Also, our Party was publicly launched at a rally at Plaza Moriones, also in Tondo, Manila, on November 7, 1930, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia which ushered in the epoch of the world socialist revolution.
August 26 this year will mark the 79th Anniversary of the founding of our Party. We commemorate this anniversary amidst the deepest crisis of the capitalist world, a crisis which only shows ever more clearly the need for the worldwide revolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism. The systemic character of this crisis shows once again the historical limits of the capitalist system, as well as its chaotic and destructive character. Its basic cause lies in the private ownership of themeans of production, and its contradiction with the increasingly social character of production. While a few capitalists are able to privately appropriate the wealth of surplus value created by the great mass of workers, the wealth-creators in turn ultimately reap only insecurity, deprivation and poverty.
Crises result from the inevitable over-production and saturation of markets as a result of the unplanned and chaotic capitalist production. Since the last few years, over-production became evident in both capital goods and consumer goods. Even in our country, which is not a developed capitalist country, the results of over-production are evident. The production of vehicle parts and electronic items is down, yet the market for vehicles and electronic products is saturated. There is a flood of consumer durables, including second-hand home appliances being dumped from Japan, South Korea and the USA, but the people cannot even afford the electricity needed to run these basic household requirements.
There is a glut in housing projects, but people cannot afford them and continue to squat in slum areas, river banks or under bridges. Supermarket shelves are overstocked with food products, yet many people go hungry. Deprivation and suffering in the midst of plenty --- this is the real face of capitalism, not only in our country but in imperialist countries as well, where hundreds of thousands of workers are losing their jobs and suffer the foreclosure of their houses.
Under socialism, production is planned and is channeled to meeting all the basic needs of the people. However, under capitalism, production is geared towards the capitalist appropriation of the highest amount of profit ; when over-production is reached and the rate of profit would tend to fall, workers are laid-off and the masses of the people are made to bear the brunt of the crisis through the imposition of new taxes and the cutting of government outlays for social services. While the working masses become less able to afford the products that have been over-produced, the more that they suffer graver insecurity, poverty and hunger.
The workers in the imperialist and other major capitalist countries are faced with the task of fighting to overthrow capitalism and to build socialism. In the case of the Philippines, which is far from being a developed capitalist country, the task of the broad patriotic sectors of our people is to struggle for national democracy --- for national freedom from imperialist control and exploitation, and for a democratic system where there is a strong public sector which could ensure that the working people’s rights are safeguarded and their basic needs are met.
The grave impact of the international capitalist crisis on our country should mobilize our people and instill greater hope in the attainment of national democracy in our country and of a broader socialist community throughout the world. It is the task of our Party to help ensure that the masses of our people are correctly enlightened in dealing with the crisis, to keep them inspired by the advances being made by socialist and socialist-oriented countries (particularly by the members of ALBA), and to help expand possibilities for the unity of patriotic and democratic forces in our country.
Our Party will respond, in its ideological and organizational work, to the challenges of the international capitalist crisis. In this connection, we call on each and every member of our Party to do his or her best in contributing to the task of organizing and educating the masses of our people, and in stepping up solidarity with all socialist countries and all anti-imperialist and progressive forces worldwide.
Dear Comrades :
Similar to other political parties, it is a primary aim of the PKP-1930 to win a share of political power. We have so far gained some experience in local governance, with some cadres of our Party having been elected to local government positions under the banner of several local electoral parties. This is not enough, and we are not contented with this present situation.
Next year’s general elections will be a major test for our Party. This early, we therefore call on all members of our Party to do everything, to the best of their abilities, to help in launching and sustaining our electoral campaign to ensure the victory of our Party cadres and close supporters who will be running not only for local government positions, but also for seats in the House of Representatives.
Let our celebration of the 79th Anniversary of the founding of our Party be an occasion for each and every member of our Party to pledge greater resolve in launching and sustaining a vigorous and principled electoral campaign in order to bring our Party a growing share of political power.
CDE. ANTONIO E. PARIS
General Secretary, PKP-1930
Our Party grew out of the working classes, was based on a worker-peasant alliance, and was established by the most advanced working class leaders of that time. The delegates to the convention which founded our Party were representatives of progressive trade unions and peasant associations which were then affiliated with the most progressive federation of that period --- the Katlpunan ng mga Anak-Pawis ng Pilipinas (KAP, or the Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines). Among the 35 members of the founding Central Committee of our Party were printers, tobacco industry workers, lumberyard workers, slipper makers, electricians, seamen, cooks, journalists, a railroad worker, a clerk, and peasant leaders. Many of them were intellectualized workers, although there were a few revolutionized intellectuals who accepted as their own the Marxist-Leninist working class ideology.
From the outset, our Party embodied the unity and intertwining of the concepts of patriotism and internationalism. The workers and peasants who organized our Party believed in patriotism as the unifying force to mobilize our people in the struggle for national liberation from US imperialist domination. At the same time, they believed in proletarian internationalism as the unifying force to mobilize the working class in all countries in the common struggle against imperialism and the capitalist ruling class.
Significantly, our Party was organized on August 26, the date then considered as the anniversary of the “Cry of Balintawak” which marked the start of the Philippine revolution against Spanish colonialism in 1896. Also, our Party was publicly launched at a rally at Plaza Moriones, also in Tondo, Manila, on November 7, 1930, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia which ushered in the epoch of the world socialist revolution.
August 26 this year will mark the 79th Anniversary of the founding of our Party. We commemorate this anniversary amidst the deepest crisis of the capitalist world, a crisis which only shows ever more clearly the need for the worldwide revolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism. The systemic character of this crisis shows once again the historical limits of the capitalist system, as well as its chaotic and destructive character. Its basic cause lies in the private ownership of themeans of production, and its contradiction with the increasingly social character of production. While a few capitalists are able to privately appropriate the wealth of surplus value created by the great mass of workers, the wealth-creators in turn ultimately reap only insecurity, deprivation and poverty.
Crises result from the inevitable over-production and saturation of markets as a result of the unplanned and chaotic capitalist production. Since the last few years, over-production became evident in both capital goods and consumer goods. Even in our country, which is not a developed capitalist country, the results of over-production are evident. The production of vehicle parts and electronic items is down, yet the market for vehicles and electronic products is saturated. There is a flood of consumer durables, including second-hand home appliances being dumped from Japan, South Korea and the USA, but the people cannot even afford the electricity needed to run these basic household requirements.
There is a glut in housing projects, but people cannot afford them and continue to squat in slum areas, river banks or under bridges. Supermarket shelves are overstocked with food products, yet many people go hungry. Deprivation and suffering in the midst of plenty --- this is the real face of capitalism, not only in our country but in imperialist countries as well, where hundreds of thousands of workers are losing their jobs and suffer the foreclosure of their houses.
Under socialism, production is planned and is channeled to meeting all the basic needs of the people. However, under capitalism, production is geared towards the capitalist appropriation of the highest amount of profit ; when over-production is reached and the rate of profit would tend to fall, workers are laid-off and the masses of the people are made to bear the brunt of the crisis through the imposition of new taxes and the cutting of government outlays for social services. While the working masses become less able to afford the products that have been over-produced, the more that they suffer graver insecurity, poverty and hunger.
The workers in the imperialist and other major capitalist countries are faced with the task of fighting to overthrow capitalism and to build socialism. In the case of the Philippines, which is far from being a developed capitalist country, the task of the broad patriotic sectors of our people is to struggle for national democracy --- for national freedom from imperialist control and exploitation, and for a democratic system where there is a strong public sector which could ensure that the working people’s rights are safeguarded and their basic needs are met.
The grave impact of the international capitalist crisis on our country should mobilize our people and instill greater hope in the attainment of national democracy in our country and of a broader socialist community throughout the world. It is the task of our Party to help ensure that the masses of our people are correctly enlightened in dealing with the crisis, to keep them inspired by the advances being made by socialist and socialist-oriented countries (particularly by the members of ALBA), and to help expand possibilities for the unity of patriotic and democratic forces in our country.
Our Party will respond, in its ideological and organizational work, to the challenges of the international capitalist crisis. In this connection, we call on each and every member of our Party to do his or her best in contributing to the task of organizing and educating the masses of our people, and in stepping up solidarity with all socialist countries and all anti-imperialist and progressive forces worldwide.
Dear Comrades :
Similar to other political parties, it is a primary aim of the PKP-1930 to win a share of political power. We have so far gained some experience in local governance, with some cadres of our Party having been elected to local government positions under the banner of several local electoral parties. This is not enough, and we are not contented with this present situation.
Next year’s general elections will be a major test for our Party. This early, we therefore call on all members of our Party to do everything, to the best of their abilities, to help in launching and sustaining our electoral campaign to ensure the victory of our Party cadres and close supporters who will be running not only for local government positions, but also for seats in the House of Representatives.
Let our celebration of the 79th Anniversary of the founding of our Party be an occasion for each and every member of our Party to pledge greater resolve in launching and sustaining a vigorous and principled electoral campaign in order to bring our Party a growing share of political power.
CDE. ANTONIO E. PARIS
General Secretary, PKP-1930
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Fight Back Massively and Resolutely Against Anticommunism and all its Expressions
We, cadres, members, friends and supporters of Communist and Workers’ Parties elected to parliaments, local authorities, directions of trade unions and mass organizations denounce the attempt to equate the Nazism with Communism through the efforts to proclaim the 23rd of August of “day of remembrance of their victims”.
This history-distorting effort has the support of political forces serving the capital and is manifested with various ways over the last years, including resolutions of bodies of various interstate bodies and parliamentary institutions.
Having at first renamed the 9th of May from day of the peoples’ victory into “Day of Europe” in order to write off the picture of the Red Flag waving in Reichstag, they now pursue to identify the victim with the victimized adducing the day that the Molotov–Ribbentrop non aggression pact was signed.
They aim at concealing the imperialist, class character of Nazism-Fascism
They want to withhold the fact that the Victory of the People bears the indelible seal of the Soviet Union, of the Red Army and the partisan movements, in which the communists had been at the forefront all over the world.
They pursue to whitewash imperialism, that had bred the fascism and today, 20 years after the counterrevolution, unchecked slaughters the people around the world.
In this way, they aspire to hit politically and ideologically all those that continue to struggle against the class exploitation and injustice, that resist the barbarous attack on every social, labor and democratic rights of the people unleashed in conditions of global economic crisis of the capitalism.
Workers, peasants, women, young people.
Pensioners, veterans and fighters of the antifascist fight.
Mobilize vigorously against the re-writing and the falsification of history
Give resolute response, and cancel any attempt to organize anti-communist events on 23 of August.
Disseminate the historical truth
Defend intransigently the struggle against imperialism, for an other society, without wars, unemployment, poverty and exploitation. For Socialism
This history-distorting effort has the support of political forces serving the capital and is manifested with various ways over the last years, including resolutions of bodies of various interstate bodies and parliamentary institutions.
Having at first renamed the 9th of May from day of the peoples’ victory into “Day of Europe” in order to write off the picture of the Red Flag waving in Reichstag, they now pursue to identify the victim with the victimized adducing the day that the Molotov–Ribbentrop non aggression pact was signed.
They aim at concealing the imperialist, class character of Nazism-Fascism
They want to withhold the fact that the Victory of the People bears the indelible seal of the Soviet Union, of the Red Army and the partisan movements, in which the communists had been at the forefront all over the world.
They pursue to whitewash imperialism, that had bred the fascism and today, 20 years after the counterrevolution, unchecked slaughters the people around the world.
In this way, they aspire to hit politically and ideologically all those that continue to struggle against the class exploitation and injustice, that resist the barbarous attack on every social, labor and democratic rights of the people unleashed in conditions of global economic crisis of the capitalism.
Workers, peasants, women, young people.
Pensioners, veterans and fighters of the antifascist fight.
Mobilize vigorously against the re-writing and the falsification of history
Give resolute response, and cancel any attempt to organize anti-communist events on 23 of August.
Disseminate the historical truth
Defend intransigently the struggle against imperialism, for an other society, without wars, unemployment, poverty and exploitation. For Socialism
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