European Communist Meeting 2011: Joint Statement
Joint Statement
The communist and workers
parties which participated in the European Communist Meeting in Brussels,
11-12 April, exchanged their views on the ongoing deep crisis of the
capitalist system and denounce the imperialist aggression against Libya.
This war, in the conditions of the capitalist crisis, is a continuation
of the barbaric assault which capital has unleashed at the expense of
the working class and the popular strata of our countries through savage
anti-people measures. The imperialist intervention of the USA, NATO,
and the EU in Libya is yet another crime of the imperialists at the
expense of the peoples. The false pretexts which the imperialists use
cannot conceal the truth that the inter-imperialist competition for
the control of natural resources in Africa, the Middle East, the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Caspian is intensifying. We demand the cessation
of the imperialist war, that the bases be closed and every kind of assistance
for the implementation of the imperialist plans be stopped. Also in
the case of Libya we consider that the people must have the right to
choose its path of development on its own, without foreign interventions.
At the same time in
the name of “competitiveness” with other imperialist powers, the
bourgeois class of the countries of Europe generalises the anti-worker
measures. They reduce wages and pensions in the name of the crisis in
order to ensure the profitability of capital. In many countries savage
reductions of labour and trade union rights are being promoted, unemployment
is on the rise, the right to strike and other trade union freedoms are
being undermined, xenophobia is strengthening while the poor farmers
are being wiped out in favour of the big farmers and monopoly groups.
The historical limits of capitalism are being demonstrated objectively,
as it cannot solve the basic problems of the peoples.
The bourgeois class
is very well aware of the fact that the main enemies of their strategy,
the main opponents of the capitalist system are the communist and workers’
parties. For that reason in many countries they intensify the anticommunist
threats, persecutions and bans.
However, there is only
one way for the peoples. Only through the struggles of the workers for
the working class- people’s problems, for the political power of the
working class, we can pave the way for social progress, for socialism.
The communist and workers’
parties of Europe are against the membership of new countries in NATO,
struggle for the withdrawal of their countries from NATO having as a
goal the dismantlement of NATO.
We salute the massive
struggles of the class-oriented movement that are taking place in many
European countries. The peoples are benefited by the growth of the current
that challenges the anti-people political line, the imperialist organisations,
and the capitalist path of development itself.
The communist and workers’
parties which participated in the meeting decided to further intensify
their activity and coordination.
Parties
- Communist Party of Styria [Austria]
- Communist Party of Belarus
- Workers' Party of Belgium
- New Communist Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Britain
- Party of the Bulgarian Communists
- AKEL-Cyprus
- Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
- Communist Party in Denmark
- Communist Party of Denmark
- Communist Party of Estonia
- Finland Communist Workers’ Party for Peace and Socialism
- Pole of Rebirth of Communistes in France
- Union of Revolutionary Communistes of France URCF
- German Communist Party(DKP)
- Communist Party of Greece
- Hungarian Workers' Communist Party
- The Workers' Party of Ireland
- Communist Party of Ireland
- Communist Peoples' Left, Italy
- Socialist Party of Latvia
- Communist Party of Luxembourg
- Movement of People's Resistance, Moldavia
- New Communist Party of the Netherlands
- Communist Party of Norway
- Communist Party of Poland
- Communist Party of Russian Federation
- Communist Workers' Party of Russia - Revolutionary Party of Communists
- Communist Party of Soviet Union
- New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
- Communist Party of Slovakia
- Communist Party of Peoples of Spain
- Communist Party of Sweden
- Party of Labour, Switzerland
- Communist Party of Turkey
- (EMEP), Turkey
- Union of Communists of Ukraine
e-mail:cpg@int.kke.gr