Communique
The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations
January2006
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will take up in plenary session, starting January 25, a draft resolution titled "The need for an international condemnation of the crimes of the totalitarian communist regimes."
This draft, drawn up by an ultra-reactionary group in the European Parliament, is a new attempt to criminalize communism. It is not the first. In May of 2005 the European Commissioner Fantini tried to prohibit "communist symbols." Now it is a matter of the communist past and of the peoples of the USSR and the essential contribution of the communist parties to the victorious struggle against Nazi-fascism.
But the text goes still further; it tries to prevent the workers from relating to the communist ideal; it seeks to prohibit the parties and organizations that call themselves communists. They want to erase the concept of the "class struggle," which is the same as also criminalizing the trade union and workers movement. And as it states and emphasizes, the text is aimed particularly at the youth.
This is a new ideological offensive that is part of the framework of attacks in all spheres, in all the countries of Europe, and even more, by capital, the monopolies, the imperialists, against the social, political, and democratic gains won by the workers and peoples, particularly those that the world imperialist system was forced to concede after the victory over Nazi-fascism.
This offensive is arising at a time when imperialism is being denounced throughout the world, as the system responsible for famines, misery and war; at a time when the working class, the working people of town and country, the youths and peoples, are looking for an alternative to break with that system. The bourgeoisie fears that they are leaning towards socialism, toward the parties and organizations that defend it.
We, the Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations of Europe, members of the Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, denounce energetically and indignantly, that reactionary and revanchist draft; we call on honest persons and those with common sense, on the democratic and progressive organizations, to show their repudiation of this new attack.
January 2006
Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil (PCR)
Communist Party of Chile (Proletarian Action) (PC-AP)
Communist Party of Colombia Marxist-Leninist (PCdeC-ML)
Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK)
Communist Party of Labor, Dominican Republic (PCT)
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE)
Communist Party of the Workers of France (PCOF)
Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast (RCPIC)
Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist) (PCM (m-l))
Marxist-Leninist Organization Revolution of Norway
National Committee of Communist Organizations of Spain (CEOC) -
composed of the Communist Organization of Catalonia,
Communist Organization October,
September 27 Communist Collective – Castile and Leon –
and Communist Organization of the Valencia Country)
Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia (PCOT)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta (PCRV)
This resolution is supported by
Euskal Herriko Komunistak (EHK) – Basque Communist Movement
Boltxe Kolektiboa (Euskal Herria) - Basque Country
Communist Party of Benin (PCB)
Arbeit – Zukunft (Organisation for the construction of a communist workers' party in Germany)
Magazine Revolutionary Democracy (India)
Magazine Teoria y Practica (Italy)
Pakistan Mazdoor Mahaaz – (Workers Front of Pakistan)
Refundación Comunista Puerto Rico
"Regülta" Cantabria (Spain)
Action du Tchad pour l'Unité et le Socialisme (ACTUS, Tchad)
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