The Communist and Workers’ parties participating in the 21st IMCWP, held in Izmir, Turkey, considering the recent approval of an anti-communist motion in the European Parliament, express the following:

This resolution is unacceptable for several reasons. First of all, because of its equation of communism with fascism under the common and false term of  “totalitarianism.”

It is not possible to equalise the ideology of liberation of the working class and the whole mankind with the ideology that most clearly defends capitalist exploitation.

We cannot accept such equation because it was the communists who were the key force in the defeat of Nazi fascist forces in the Second World War. Communism still remains the main force opposing Nazi-fascist rise today.

This motion is one of the many attempts to rewrite history and slander the role of the communists and particularly the Soviet Union, mainly with the objective to impact on the consciousness of the young people.

This motion is unacceptable because it defends the repression of communists in European countries who are suffering legal persecution, a ban on their activities and criminalisation.

We do not accept any bans or persecutions against communist and workers’ parties in any country.

We express our full support for the communists in countries, where their activity is illegal or under the threat of illegalisation, like the Communist Party of Poland, which has been facing an unacceptable legal persecution for years.

Signatories:

1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
2. Communist Party of  Australia
3. Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
4. Communist Party of Bangladesh 
5. Communist Party of Belgium
6. Brazilian Communist Party
7. Communist Party of  Britain
8. Communist Party of Canada
9. Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
10. Communist Party of Cuba
11. AKEL, Cyprus
12. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
13. Communist Party in Denmark
14. Communist Party of Denmark
15. Communist Party of El Salvador
16. Communist Party of Finland
17. French Communist Party
18. United Communist Party of Georgia
19. German Communist Party
20. Communist Party of Greece
21. Communist Party of Finland
22. Hungarian Workers' Party
23. Communist Party of India
24. Tudeh Party of Iran
25. Iraqi Communist Party
26. Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
27. Workers' Party of Ireland
28. Communist Party of Israel
29. Italian Communist Party
30. Communist Party, Italy
31. Workers' Party of Korea
32. Lebanese Communist Party
33. Socialist Party, Lithuania
34. Communist Party of Luxembourg
35. Communist Party of Mexico
36. Nepal Communist Party
37. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
38. Communist Party of Macedonia, Northern Macedonia
39. Communist Party of Norway
40. Communist Party of Pakistan
41. Palestinian Communist Party
42. Palestinian Peoples' Party
43. Paraguayan Communist Party
44. Portuguese Communist Party
45. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
46. Communist Party of Soviet Union
47. New Communist Party of  Yugoslavia
48. Party of the Communists of Serbia
49. South African Communist Party
50. Communist Party of Spain
51. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
52. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
53. Communists of Catalonia
54. Communist Party of  Sri Lanka
55. Communist Party of Ukraine
56. Union of Communists of Ukraine
57. Communist Party of Uruguay
58. Communist Party USA
59. Communist Party of  Venezuela