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
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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
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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.
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
