Solidarity with KSM

To: KSM
CC: CP of Bohemia and Moravia
Prague



Dear Comrades,

KNE protest at the Czech Embassy

We express our strongest condemnation of the outrageous decision by the Czech government to ban the KSM . It is a decision that violates openly elementary democratic rights and fundamental freedoms. We would like to voice our firm solidarity and commitment to step up our struggle until this unacceptable action is being revoked. What is even more outrageous is the argument raised for this unacceptable and undemocratic action. The Czech government by setting illegal any demand that questions the private ownership over the means of production not only consecrates the capitalist ownership and exploitation but even outlaws socialism as political aim and ideology. It is once more proven that the only “human right” that capitalism secures is the “right” for big business to commercialize everything for profit and to exploit the working class. We note that this action is being taken just before the local and senate elections, casting serious doubts over the legality of the electoral procedure itself.

It is also interesting that this action coincides with the increasing pressure for the establishment of an US base in the Czech Republic. It is well known that KSM has played a pivotal role in all-European anti-NATO and has collected thousands of signatures against the establishment of US bases in your country.

Perhaps it is not accidental that the inadmissible illegalization of KSM was followed next day by the statements of the Czech prime minister that they are planning to ban access to NATO and EU documents to everybody except 5 (!) people in the country. This is the “democracy” of the European Union, of the “transition” and of the imperialist new world order.

The CC of KKE has issued a statement condemning the measures. The issue is also very high at the news published by Rizospastis and the radio and TV station of the party.

We would like to inform you that there are already first reactions in our country. Yesterday morning KNE organized a protest at the Czech embassy and has called for a mass demonstration on October 26 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. KKE and KNE have called upon the trade unions, the students associations and all the organizations of the mass movement of react and demand the revocation of the banning. Only yesterday more than 250 people from all continents endorsed the online petition and expressed their solidarity.

Under the initiative of the MEPs of KKE the GUE/NGL already issued a protest statement.

We are sure that this anticommunist attempt will fail, as so many attempts in the past. No banning, no military dictatorship, no fascist or arbitrary measures have ever managed to silence the voice of the communists that is the voice of justice and truth.

With fraternal greetings

The International Section of KKE