We denounce the new attacks against the Communist Party of Ukraine

JOINT STATEMENT

The undersigned Parties condemn the outrageous and unprecedented attack of the Ukrainian authorities against the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) and its Leader on 8th May, 2018. The search of the CPU offices followed the violent entry and search of the authorities in the house of the CPU Leader, Petro Simonenko.
It is not by chance that these attacks have taken place on the eve of the 9^th of May, the Day of the Antifascist Victory of the Peoples to which the Ukrainians had a significant and heroic contribution.
These developments in Ukraine are the outrageous escalation of continuous intense attacks and persecution of the Ukrainian communists that started right after the coup d’etat over the democratically elected government in 2014 that also led to the rise of neo-nazi and ultra-nationalist groups at all levels of the political and social spectrum of the country.
At this difficult moment, we express our solidarity with the members and leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine and will use all fora to denounce these acts.

The undersigned Parties:


SolidNet Parties

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Communist Party of Australia
3. Party of Labour of Austria
4. Communist Party of Bangladesh
5. Workers' Party of Belgium
6. Brazilian Communist Party
7. New Communist Party of Britain
8. Communist Party of Canada
9. AKEL, Cyprus
10. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Rep)
11. Communist Party in Denmark
12. Communist Party of Finland
13. French Communist Party
14. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
15. German Communist Party
16. Communist Party of Greece
17. Hungarian Workers' Party
18. Communist Party of India
19. Communist Party of India (M)
20. Tudeh Party of Iran
21. Communist Party of Ireland
22. Communist Party of Israel
23. Communist Party of Luxembourg
24. Communist Party of Malta
25. Communist Party of Mexico
26. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
27. Communist Party of Norway
28. Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930)
29. Communist Party of Poland
30. Portuguese Communist Party
31. Romanian Socialist Party
32. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
33. Union of Communist Parties-CPSU
34. Communists of Serbia
35. South African Communist Party
36. Communist Party of Spain
37. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
38. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
39. Communist Party of Sweden
40. Communist Party of Turkey
41. Communist Party of USA
42. Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties

1. Socialist People's Front (m), Lithuania
2. Communist Party, Switzerland