Joint statement of 78 communist and workers’ parties on the anticommunist resolution of OSCE

We strongly condemn the adoption on 3 July, 2009 at the regular Parliamentary Assembly session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vilnius (Lithuania) of a new anti-communist resolution titled «Divided Europe Reunited» which contains a gross distortion of history and denies the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over fascism. The resolution equates communism and fascism. Those who do so fail to remember that it was the Soviet Union that made the largest contribution to the liberation of Europe from fascism. The authors of the resolution -those falsifiers of history- pretend to have forgotten who gave away Czechoslovakia in 1938 in Munich which led to the elimination of the state independence of the country and to the fascist enslavement of the Czech and Slovak peoples.

Those who voted for the adoption of this resolution actually justify and encourage “a witch-hunt” against communists in several countries of the OSCE where communists are persecuted, their youth organisations prohibited and the parties prosecuted for the use of their traditional symbols.

Furthermore, the resolution offers great opportunities for the prosecution of communist ideology and the adoption of measures against communist parties.

At the same time, we witness the actual rehabilitation of the Nazis in a number of countries, including the country that hosted this session of the OSCE PA.

We cannot allow anyone to insult the memory of anti-fascists, participants in the Resistance movement, who lost their lives in the fight against Nazism.

The aggravation of anti-communism in Europe is not a transient phenomenon. It shows the fear of the ruling class over the exacerbation of the capitalist crisis and of the urgency of the demand to abolish capitalist exploitation and the need for fundamental society change acquire.

The working class, all workers, regardless of the extent of agreement or disagreement with the communists, must repulse decisively anti-communism bearers, as history has proven that anti-communist attacks foretell the onset of a general offensive against the social and democratic rights of the people.

Let us reply to the provocateurs and anti-communists through our joint struggle for workers' rights, for socialism.

The Parties

• PADS, Algeria
• Communist Party of Argentina
• Communist Party of Armenia
• Communist Party of Australia
• Communist Party of Bangladesh
• Communist Party of Belarus
• Workers' Party of Belgium
• Communist Party of Bolivia
• Brazilian Communist Party
• Communist Party of Brazil
• Communist Party of Britain
• New Communist Party of Britain
• Communist Party of Bulgaria
• Party of the Bulgarian Communists
• Communist Party of Canada
• Communist Party of Chile
• Socialist Worker`s Party of Croatia
• Communist Party of Cuba
• AKEL, Cyprus
• Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
• Communist Party in Denmark
• Communist Party of Denmark
• Communist Party of Estonia
• Communist Party of Finland
• Communist Party of Macedonia
• Unified Communist Party of Georgia
• German Communist Party
• Communist Party of Greece
• Hungarian Communist Workers' Party
• Communist Party of India
• Communist Party of India [Marxist]
• Tudeh Party of Iran
• Iraqi Communist Party
• Communist Party of Ireland
• The Workers' Party of Ireland
• Party of the Communist Refoundation
• Party of the Italian Communists
• Jordanian Communist Party
• Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• Party of the Communists of Kirgizia
• Socialist Party of Latvia
• Lebanese Communist Party
• Socialist Party of Lithuania
• Communist Party of Luxembourg
• AKFM, Madagascar
• Communist Party of Malta
• Party of the Communists, Mexico
• Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
• Party of the Communists of Republic of Moldavia
• New Communist Party of the Netherlands
• Communist Party of Norway
• Communist Party of Pakistan
• Palestinian People's Party
• Peruan Communist Party
• Philippine Communist Party -PKP 1930
• Communist Party of Poland
• Portuguese Communist Party
• Romanian Communist Party
• Communist Party of Soviet Union
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation
• Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
• New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
• Party of the Communists of Serbia
• Communist Party of Slovakia
• South African Communist Party
• Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
• Communist Party of Spain
• Party of the Communists of Catalonia
• Communist Party of Sri-Lanka
• Communist Party of Sweden
• Syrian Communist Party
• Communist Party of Tadjikistan
• Communist Party of Turkey
• Communist Party of Ukraine
• Union of Communists of Ukraine
• Communist Party of Uruguay
• Communist Party, USA
• Communist Party of Venezuela

Other parties that also support the joint statement:

• Pole of Communist Renaissance in France
• Union do Povo Galego (UPG)
• Party for Socialism and Liberation (U.S.)

With comradely greetings

The International Relations section of the CC of CPRF
The International Relations section of the CC of KKE