75th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-fascism

In the name of freedom, peace and truth

Against fascism and war

The victory over Nazi-fascism in the Second World War is a major event in History, the memory of which must be preserved and defended in the face of repeated attempts at historical falsification aimed at making us forget the decisive role played by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by the communists and by anti-fascists from around the world.

Generated by capitalism, Nazi-fascism was the most violent and terroristic manifestation of monopoly capital. It was responsible for the outbreak of this war of aggression and plunder that caused close to 75 million deaths, of which approximately 27 million were Soviet citizens, and for the immeasurable suffering and horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The peoples can also not forget dark pages, such as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA, without any military justification, which represented a display of power and of their world-wide hegemonistic ambitions.

The Second World War (1939-1945) was the result of increasingly acute inter-imperialist contradictions and, at the same time, of the intention to destroy the first Socialist State, the USSR, which was namely expressed in the support and connivance of the United Kingdom, France and the United States with the rearmament and expansionist ambition of Nazi Germany.

In commemorating the 75th anniversary of the historic Victory on  May 9, 1945, the undersigned communist and workers' parties, certain in the knowledge that they portray the feelings and aspirations of workers and peoples from all over the world:

- Pay tribute to all those who gave their lives on the battlefields against the Nazi-fascist hordes and in particular to the heroism of the resistance movements and anti-fascist fighters and to the heroic Soviet people and Red Army, led by the Communist Party, whose contribution, written in heroic pages such as the battles of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, was decisive for the Victory over barbarism;

- Consider that the Victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in the Anti-Comintern Pact was achieved thanks to the decisive contribution of the USSR, to the class nature of the Soviet power with the participation of the masses of the people, to the leading role of the Communist Party, to the superiority which was displayed by the Socialist system. That victory is an enormous historical legacy of the revolutionary movement;

- Value the outstanding advances in the social and national emancipation of the workers and peoples that the Victory and the resulting advancement of the forces of social progress and peace made possible, extending the sphere of socialism within the countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America, creating the conditions for the advance of the labour movement in capitalist countries, the sweeping development of the national liberation movement and the resulting liquidation of colonial empires;

- Denounce and condemn the campaigns that aim to belittle, distort and even deny, the role of the USSR and of the communists in the defeat of Nazi-fascism and also to unjustly and falsely blame the Soviet Union for starting the Second World War, to expunge the responsibilities of big capital and the governments at its service in the promotion and rise of fascism and in unleashing the war, and whitewash and rehabilitate fascism, while destroying the monuments and memory of the liberating Soviet army, promoting anti-communism and criminalizing communists and other anti-fascists;

- Denounce and condemn the EU’s anti-communist resolutions and the slanderous historical falsification which attempts to equate socialism with the fascist monster;

- Warn that the most reactionary and aggressive sectors of imperialism are increasingly viewing  fascism and war as a “way out” of the deepening crisis of the capitalist system, whose inhuman character becomes particularly obvious when, even in the face of the very serious epidemic outbreak of Covid-19, imperialism, the USA, NATO, the EU and its allies capitalist powers, continue a criminal policy of blockades and aggressions against countries and peoples;

-  Consider that the struggle for peace, social progress and socialism are inseparable; and make a commitment  to seek a stronger common action of the working class, of the workers and peoples of the world, of the political forces engaged in blocking the path to fascism and in the struggle against imperialism, imperialist aggressions and a new war of tragic proportions.

The situation with which the workers and peoples of the world are confronted underlines the importance of strengthening the struggle against imperialism, for the sovereignty of the peoples and the independence of States, for the rights of the workers and peoples, as leading forward to the revolutionary overcoming of the capitalist system, a system which breeds fascism, war, the injustices, dangers and contradictions of the present. As it was 75 years ago, it is today the struggle of the communists and all those facing capitalist exploitation and oppression that will open the way for the future for Humanity.

Communist Party of Armenia

Communist Party of Australia

Party of Labour of Austria

Communist Party of Bangladesh

Communist Party of Belarus

Communist Party of Belgium

Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain

Communist Party of Canada

Communist Party of Chile

Colombian Communist Party

Socialist Worker’s Party of Croatia

The Progressive Party of the Working People – AKEL

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party in Denmark

Egyptian Communist Party

Communist Party of Finland

French Communist Party

Pole of Communist Revival in France

Unified Communist Party of Georgia

German Communist Party

Communist Party of Greece

Hungarian Worker’s Party

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India

Tudeh Party of Iran

Iraqi Communist Party

Communist Party of Ireland

Workers’ Party of Ireland

Communist Party of Israel

Italian Communist Party

Party of the Communist Refoundation

Workers’ Party of Korea

Communist Party of Luxembourg

Popular Socialist Party – National Political Association (PPS-APNPS) México

Communist Party of Mexico

New Communist Party of the Netherlands

New Communist Party of Aotearoa

Communist Party of Norway

Communist Party of Pakistan

Palestinian Communist Party

Paraguayan Communist Party

Peruan Communist Party

Philippine Communist Party (PKP – 1930)

Portuguese Communist Party

Communist Party of The Russian Federation

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Communist of Serbia

South African Communist Party

Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communists of Catalonia

Galizan People's Union

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain

Galician Nationalist Bloc

Sudanese Communist Party
Communist Party of Swaziland

Communist Party (Switzerland)

Syrian Communist Party

Communist Party of Turkey

Communist Party of Ukraine

Communist Party USA

Communist Party of Venezuela