by New Worker correspondent
EUROPEAN communists met in Belgium last week to co-ordinate their campaigns against Nato and the European Union in the struggle for peace and socialism across the continent. Nineteen parties including the New Communist Party of Britain took part in the meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties of Europe Initiative at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Giorgos Marinos,
a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), made the introductory
speech to the plenum of the European Communist Initiative, opening a debate
that concluded with the formation of an action plan for the strengthening of
the people’s struggle against the EU and Nato and countering the bourgeois
offensive against the working class throughout Europe.
The Communist Initiative conference was, he
said, a serious step forward for the regrouping of the communist movement in
Europe, which is a precondition for the strengthening of the people’s struggle
against capitalism and the imperialist wars and for the strengthening of the
struggle for socialism in Europe.
The Communist
Initiative is supported by most, but not all of Europe’s communist and workers
parties. But virtually all of them took
part in the annual European communist conference that was held at the same
venue on the previous day. Opened by Greek communist leader Dimitrios
Koutsoumpas, delegates from 31 parties reported on their work over the past
year and their stand on the problems facing the world communist movement today.
On the first day
NCP leader Andy Brooks delivered a report which included an analysis of the
Scottish independence referendum. At the Communist Initiative meeting he
intervened during the discussion on Ukraine to call for greater solidarity with
the anti-fascist struggle and for full support to the people’s republics of
Novorossiya in the east of the country.
The NCP is a founder
member of the Communist Initiative (CI) which was established last year to
co-ordinate workers’ opposition to the European Union and to counter the
European Left Party, a left social-democrat and revisionist bloc that included
the French Communist Party and Syriza in Greece.
The CI has 29
member parties from 26 countries who elected a Secretariat last year. The
Communist Initiative is not a unified political party, nor is it a “European
Party”, such as those established by the European Union. All the member parties have the same rights
and obligations, while political decisions are taken according to the principle
of unanimity.
EUROPEAN COMMUNIST MEETING OCTOBER 2014
JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS PARTIES
The Communist and Workers’ parties of Europe, which met at the European Communist Meeting 2014, held in Brussels on the 2nd October, examined the developments in Europe, international
developments and exchanged views and experiences from their activity.
Today, the workers and the other popular
strata of Europe are coming face to face with the deadlock of the
capitalist development path, such as unemployment which afflicts
millions of workers and in particular strikes against young people and
women. The flexible forms of employment are becoming widespread,
collective labour agreements as well as social and social-security
rights are being abolished, poverty is increasing.
The inter-imperialist contradictions,
the aggressiveness of the imperialist unions, above all of the EU and
NATO, lead to new breeding grounds for wars, which break out in Africa,
the Middle East and the wider region, as well as in Europe, as the
developments in Ukraine demonstrate. Nationalist, racist, and even
openly fascist forces are being strengthened, with the support of the
bourgeois class, in many European countries.
Our common assessment is that in these
conditions the working class, the popular strata and youth must
strengthen their mass struggle against the EU and NATO, against
capitalism which gives rise to economic crises and war.
Capitalism is a rotten exploitative
system that cannot be repaired, it cannot provide solutions for the
people’s problems, it has reached its historical limits. The struggle of
the working class, the peoples, will become more effective to the
extent that it is directed against it. Workers must decisively denounce
imperialist wars, the policy of repression, anti-communism and the
criminal activity of the fascist organizations.
Our parties devote, and will devote,
their energies in the future in order to reinforce the people’s
struggle, to develop working class solidarity. They will continue the
work of organizing the working class, in constructing the social,
people’s alliance to render more effective the struggle for the
overthrow of capitalist exploitation so that workers can enjoy the
wealth they produce.
Socialism is timely and necessary
Communist Party of Albania
New Communist Party of Britain
Party of the Bulgarian Communists
Communist Party in Denmark
Communist Party of Denmark
German Communist Party
Unified Communist Party of Georgia
Communist Party of Greece
Hungarian Workers' Party
Workers' Party of Ireland
Socialist Party of Latvia
Socialist People's Front, Lithuania
Communist Party of Luxembourg
Communist Party of Norway
New Communist Party of the Netherlands
Communist Party of Poland
Romanian Communist Party
Communist Workers' Party of Russia
Communist Party of Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Communist Party of Peoples of Spain
Communist Party of Sweden
Communist Party, Turkey
Union of Communists of Ukraine
Other Parties
The Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF)
Union of Revolutionary Communists of France
Communist Party, Italy
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