Joint Statement of the Communist and Workers’ Parties on the 95th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

The Great October of 1917 and the subsequent historical events have borne out the correctness of Marxist-Leninist theory regarding the inevitability of the revolutionary overthrow of the dictatorship of the bourgeois class and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, regarding its victory in the class struggle against capital, and the successful construction and development of socialism, as the first phase of communism, with the aim of further completely eradicating the division of society into classes, the safeguarding of complete prosperity and the free multifaceted development of all the members of society. The struggle for social reforms within the framework of capitalism and the parliamentary struggle are subordinate forms of the class struggle for the revolutionary establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and on their own will not lead to the change of the socio-economic system.

The road to socialism, which the Paris Commune was the first to follow is a pioneering road. The theory of scientific communism and the practice of the construction and development of socialism in the 20^th century persuasively demonstrated that the power, which is established after the victory of the socialist revolution cannot be in essence anything other than the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the working class. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the essence of the socialist state. Its form, as the experience of the construction, development and temporary defeat of socialism in the USSR, showed is not parliamentary democracy but Soviet democracy, where the basic electoral units are not geographical areas but the factories, mills. This safeguards the close ties of the state with the working masses, the ease and the practical implementation of recall of state employees, who did not live up to expectations, by the workers.

Workers’ or socialist power, irrespective of what the organs of power are called, is formed by workers’ collectives and not on a geographical basis, it is the organizational form of the dictatorship of the proletariat. As the Soviets in the USSR the future forms of the organisation of the workers’ power will express the dictatorship of the proletariat because their formation and work will be based on the objective reality, on the organization of the workers in the process of social production. These organs of power, which are elected by workers’ collectives, run through society as a unified network and ensure the character of the state as a state of the working class, the control for the maintenance of this class character on behalf of the working class, of the workers. The formation of organs of socialist power outside of the workers’ collectives, irrespective of their name, results to temporary and unstable forms as the very experience of the Soviet Unions showed which in the middle of 1930s proceeded to the election of organs on a geographical basis.

The experience of the USSR proved the irreplaceable role of the revolutionary vanguard of the party of the working class as a leading force in the construction and the development of the new society. The Leninist theory regarding the party maintains its significance intact. Experience confirmed the Leninist position that there cannot be any revolutionary movement without a revolutionary party. Such a party was the party of the Bolsheviks, the party of Lenin. Many fundamental, particularly serious problems, which no capitalist country can solve in essence, were solved in the USSR under its leadership. This was confirmed by the experience of the fraternal parties in the countries of the socialist community. In particular they solved the problem of full employment; they guaranteed free education, healthcare, the utilization of the achievements of science and culture. In USSR housing, public utilities, transportation etc. were almost free. They did not satisfy merely the basic material and mental needs of all the members of society but they also created the conditions for the multi-faceted development and the perfection of the human personality. No capitalist country provides security to the people as the socialist Soviet Union did.

In addition, the experience of the USSR demonstrated convincingly that the economic basis of the realization, the strengthening and the development of the soviet power as the organizational form of the dictatorship of the proletariat is the social ownership over the means of production, the planned, organized direct social production, the production of use values with the aim of ensuring the full prosperity and the free multi-faceted development of all the members of society.

The goal of the socialist production is not to increase value of itself, neither surplus value but to guarantee prosperity and the multifaceted development of all the members of society. The renunciation of this goal, the market orientation, leads to the dissolution of socialism since, according to principles, the commodity-based market economy cannot serve as the economic basis of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The universal commodity-based economy is capitalism, the basis of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

The need of the working class for a state is determined by the need to oppress its class enemies and organise the new relations of production. The socialist state, according to Lenin, is already a semi-state which has to struggle against the petty-bourgeois attitude of the other forces and the traditions of the bourgeois society. The state of the working class will wither away only when the final goals of the communists are achieved: with the complete eradication of the classes in the course of socialism’s development, with the development of socialism into full communism, with the eradication of the threat of aggression by capitalism not from inside the country but also from abroad.

The ideological and political mutation of the higher bodies of the party and state mechanism led to the revision of Marxism-leninism at the 20^th and afterwards at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU which renounced the fundamental element of Marxism, the dictatorship of the proletariat and proclaimed “all people’s state” which evolved into the so called concept of developed socialism and the policy of “perestroika”. The apostasy, namely the apostasy from the basic principles of communism in theory and in practice led to counterrevolution and, with the support of international imperialism, to the overthrow of socialism in Soviet Union, to its dissolution and to the restoration of capitalism in the states which were formed on its territory.

Nevertheless the course of history might be reversed in one or the other country but it cannot stop. The social character of production which is constantly deepening and strengthening is in sharp contradiction with the private capitalist appropriation. As a result of this contradiction all the economic and political contradiction of capitalism are being sharpening. For that reason the communists state in a substantiated way: the revolution cannot stop! Counterrevolution will be followed by the revolution!

Imperialist aggressiveness is being strengthened given the sharpening of the imperialist contradictions for the control of the natural resources and the energy transport routes. The bourgeoisie in each country seeks to reinforces its position and intensifies the attack against the working class and the poor popular strata. Their ideological weapons are the neo-liberal and social-democratic theories of social partnership, class collaboration, social peace and the exhaustion of the possibilities for the realization of the revolution. This arsenal is supplemented by revisionism and opportunism within the international communist movement.

But humanity cannot develop and make progress on the basis of production which is based on private ownership. The lives and the development of the people cannot be restricted by the scale of the ownership or the desire of one group of people to be dominant, making the others their servants. The communists state the following to the whole world in response to the bourgeois slogan about “global democracy”: Only the struggle against imperialism with the prospect of the construction of socialism and its full development into communism, only the course which was started by the Great Socialist October Revolution is the avenue which will lead humanity to the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, to the satisfaction of the contemporary people’s needs.

The reorganization of the international communist movement, the exit from today’s situation of crisis and retreat, the formation of a unified strategy on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, proletarian internationalism is an immediate task, the resolution of which is a requirement of the current conditions of the struggle against the global union of capital. The international anti-imperialist anti-war struggle is of importance for the communist movement today. At the same time, one of the basic tasks is the unrelenting struggle against opportunism and revisionism in all their forms, which constitute the basic danger for the communist movement.

The revolutions have no boundaries, they are not carried out according to the will of the leaders and parties, but they expressed the unsurpassed tendency of every progressive class, the oppressed and exploited peoples to benefit from the products of their toil, for the development of the productive forces of society, the creation of intellectual and material values for all.

The great ideas and work of Great October must live on for centuries!

Workers and exploited oppressed peoples rise up and fight!

Long live the Soviet Socialist Revolution!

Proletarians of all countries unite!

Signed by the following parties

Communist Party of Azerbaijan

Belarusian Communist workers party

Communist workers' party of Finland

Union of Revolutionary Communists of France (URCF)

Communist Party of Greece

Hungarian Communist Workers' Party

Communists People's Left - Communist Party (Italy)

Socialist Party of Latvia

Communist Party of Mexico

"People's resistance" of the Republic of Moldova

Communist Workers Party of Russia - Revolution Party of Communists (RKRP-RPC)

Communist Party of Soviet Union

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Syrian Communist Party

Communist Party of Tadzhikistan

Union of Communists of Ukraine