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JOINT STATEMENT of Communist and Workers’ Parties

No to the imperialist war in Ukraine!

An independent struggle is needed against monopolies and bourgeois classes, for the overthrow of capitalism, for the strengthening of the class struggle against imperialist war, for socialism!

 

1. The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing this Joint Statement are opposed to the imperialist conflict in Ukraine, which constitutes one of the consequences of the tragic situation for the peoples shaped after the overthrow of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Both the bourgeois and the opportunist forces, which for years have fought against the USSR and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its dissolution, silencing the fact that the restoration of capitalism meant the dismantling of historic workers’ and people’s achievements and brought the peoples of the USSR back to the era of class exploitation and imperialist wars, are completely exposed.

2. The developments in Ukraine, which are taking place in the framework of monopoly capitalism, are linked to the US, NATO, and EU plans and their intervention in the region in the context of their fierce competition with capitalist Russia for the control of the markets, raw materials, and transport networks of the country. These pursuits are concealed by imperialist powers, which are in conflict promoting their own pretexts such as “defending democracy”, “self-defence”, and one’s right to “choose their alliances”, the compliance with the UN or OSCE principles, or supposedly “fascism”, while deliberately detaching fascism from the capitalist system that gives rise to and utilizes it.

3. We denounce the activity of fascist and nationalist forces in Ukraine, anti-communism and the persecution of communists, the discrimination against the Russian-speaking population, the armed attacks of the Ukrainian government against the people in Donbas. We condemn the utilization of reactionary political forces of Ukraine, including fascist groups, by the Euro-Atlantic powers for the implementation of their plans. In addition, the anti-communist rhetoric against Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Soviet Union  to which the Russian leadership resorts to justify its own strategic plans in the region, is unacceptable. However, nothing can tarnish the enormous contribution of socialism in the Soviet Union, which was a multinational union of equal Socialist Republics.

4. The decision of the Russian Federation to initially recognize the “independence” of the so-called “Peoples’ Republics” in Donbas and then to proceed to a Russian military intervention, which is taking place under the pretext of Russia’s “self-defence”, the “demilitarization” and “defascistization” of Ukraine, was not made to protect the people of the region or peace but to promote the interests of Russian monopolies in Ukrainian territory and their fierce competition with Western monopolies. We express our solidarity with the communists and the peoples of Russia and Ukraine and we stand on their side to strengthen the struggle against nationalism, which is fostered by each bourgeoisie. The peoples of both countries, who lived in peace and jointly thrived in the framework of the USSR, as well as all other peoples have no interest in siding with one or another imperialist or alliance that serves the interests of the monopolies.

5. We highlight that the illusions fostered by bourgeois forces claiming that there could be a “better security architecture” in Europe by EU intervention, NATO “without military plans and aggressive weapon systems in its territory”, a “pro-peace EU”, or a “peaceful multipolar world”, etc are highly dangerous. All these assumptions have nothing to do with reality and are misleading for the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle, seeking to cultivate the perception that “peaceful imperialism” may exist. However, the truth is that NATO and the EU, like any capitalist transnational union, are predatory alliances with a deeply reactionary nature that cannot become pro-people and will continue to act against workers’ and people’s rights and the peoples; that capitalism goes hand in hand with imperialist wars.

6. We call on the peoples of the countries whose governments are involved in the developments, especially through NATO and the EU but also Russia, to struggle against the propaganda of the bourgeois forces that lure the people to the meat grinder of imperialist war using various spurious pretexts. To demand the closure of military bases, the return home of troops from missions abroad, to strengthen the struggle for the disengagement of the countries from imperialist plans and alliances such as NATO and the EU.

7. The interest of the working class and the popular strata requires us to strengthen the class criterion for analyzing the developments, to chart our own independent path against monopolies and  bourgeois classes, for the overthrow of capitalism, for the strengthening of the class struggle against imperialist war, for socialism, which remains as timely and necessary as ever.

 

 

Communist and Workers Parties signing the Joint Statement

  1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
  2. Communist Party of Azerbaijan
  3. Party of Labour of Austria
  4. Communist Party of Bangladesh
  5. Communist Party of Belgium
  6. Movement "Che Guevara" (Union of Communists in Bulgaria)
  7. Communist Party of Canada
  8. The Road of Independence - Turkchypriot party/Cyprus
  9. Communist Party in Denmark
  10. Communis Party of Denmark
  11. Communist Party of El Salvador
  12. Communist Party of Finland
  13. Communist Workers' Party - For Peace and Socialism, Finland
  14. Communist Revolutionary Party of France (PCRF)
  15. Communistes, France
  16. Communist Party of Greece
  17. Tudeh Party of Iran
  18. Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
  19. Workers Party of Ireland
  20. Communist Front (Italy)
  21. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
  22. Socialist Party of Latvia
  23. Communist Party of Malta
  24. Communist Party of Mexico
  25. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
  26. Communist Party of Norway
  27. Palestinian Communist Party
  28. Communist Party of Pakistan
  29. Paraguayan Communist Party
  30. Peruvian Communist Party
  31. Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]
  32. Communist Party of Poland
  33. Romanian Socialist Party
  34. South African Communist Party
  35. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
  36. People's Liberation Front (JVP)-Srilanka
  37. Sudanese Communist Party
  38. Communist Party of Swaziland
  39. Communist Party of Sweden
  40. Swiss Communist Party
  41. Syrian Communist Party
  42. Communist Party of Turkey
  43. Union of Communists of Ukraine
  44. Communist Party of Venezuela

 

Communist Youth Organisations signing the Joint Statement

  1. Youth Section of the Party of Labour of Austria
  2. Bangladesh Youth Union
  3. Young Communists of Belgium
  4. Communist Youth of Bolivia
  5. Communist Youth Union, Czech Republic
  6. Communist Youth of Denmark
  7. Communist Youth of the Communist Workers' Party, Finland
  8. Union of Communist Youth, France
  9. Communist Youth of Greece
  10. Communist Youth of Guatemala
  11. Conolly Youth Movement, Ireland
  12. Workers Party Youth, Ireland
  13. Front of the Communist Youth, Italy
  14. Front of the Communist Youth, Mexico
  15. All Nepal National Free Students Union
  16. Communist Youth Movement, Netherlands
  17. Democratic Students Federation, Pakistan
  18. Democratic Youth Front, Pakistan
  19. Palestinian Communist Youth
  20. Paraguayan Communist Youth
  21. Union of Socialist Youth, Romania
  22. Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolsheviks), Russia
  23. Collectives of Young Communists, Spain
  24. Socialist Students Union, Sri Lanka
  25. Socialist Youth Union, Sri Lanka
  26. Communist Youth of Sweden
  27. Leninist Communist Youth Union of Tajikistan
  28. Communist Youth of Turkey
  29. League of Young Communists USA
  30. Communist Youth of Venezuela

 

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 24.02.2022