Dear Comrades,

The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia sends comradely greetings to the Communist Parties of European country who participate in elections for EU parliament.

The EU did not result in the integration of various nations as the powerful official EU bureaucracy insists. Rather, it has unified capital against the people. The EU and all its institutions and instruments are fully subservient to the aggressive interests of the international financial capital.  

Control over the EU economies was assumed by financial oligarchs who converted parliaments into mere executive organs for their plans and goals. The decisions of narrow interest groups, taken behind closed doors, are implemented without a murmur and the victim of this process is, of course, the people, which must pay for the consequences of these political machinations.

The European Union is an imperialist formation which has committed numerous war crimes since its inception. We all experienced the prelude to these things over the last 20 years, with a long series of wars and military interventions of NATO, USA, EU in  Yugoslavia and Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, Syria and the Central African Republic, in Ukraine.

The populations of Europe are brain washed to believe that working class struggle is a thing of the distant past, a topic mentioned only by “neo-bolsheviks,” while in reality that remains the only true solution and the sole alternative. Eurobarometer surveys show that the nations reject this kind of Europe and that the system has, therefore, lost its democratic legitimacy. Some might argue that in theory the European project can still be brought back to the correct path if the collective consciousness of the disenfranchised masses throughout the continent were awakened. This assumes that the capitalists would be willing to renounce the power they now possess in favor of the popular masses. But it has never happened in history that the exploiting class voluntarily gave up its power and privileges.

As far as the “social state” is concerned, the official EU ideology, as well as the various socialist, social-democratic and some so-called communist parties, claim that it is the result of a “compromise” between the bourgeoisie and the working class. Indeed, the “social state” is one of the forms of class domination of the bourgeoisie over the workers. It lacks a humanistic inspiration and constitutes the political response of the bourgeoisie to the deepening crisis of capitalism and the revolutionary potential of the workers’ movement in the most developed capitalist states. Its purpose is to establish conditions of “tolerable exploitation” of workers by capitalists, which means an amelioration of their existential condition, thus preempting the class struggle of the workers and ensuring the stable development of capitalism. In essence, the “social state” is a legal foem of plunder of workers who, by means of the tax system imposed by the capitalist state, are obliged to finance themselves the “social contributions” designed to help them survive capitalism’s existential crisis without protest. At the same time, the “social state” is a means of undermining the class consciousness of workers and their involvement, by means of consumerism, in the value system of the “middle class”, which is one of the pillars of capitalism. In the end, the “social state” enables the survival of capitalism.

Despite immense obstacles, we believe in the strength of unity of the workers class and keep the trust in the ability to fight for a new, free world – the world of the socialism.

True changes without daily and class-orientated fight cannot be possible. It is only the unity of the working class and working people against the unity of the capital! With solidarity and the unity to the fight! As Engels spoke: „Great changes do not happen with some transient triumph, but the permanent action of huge masses, complete classes.“

A new socialistic Europe of people will replace an old Europe of the bourgeoisie. This is the fight between freedom and against the slavery, the fight of the social equity against old privileges, and the victory of new ideas over the old order.

Hard developments in EU countries oblige the communist and workers’ parties of Europe to show a strong and convincing left program of saving people from the devastating consequences of capitalist crisis and building up a new Europe.

The Europe of socialism, peace and social justice, for which we are struggling, objectively requires the strengthening of the workers’-people’s struggle at a national level. This is because the strengthening of the struggle at a national level is a precondition for the empowerment of the struggle at a regional and European level, for the change of the correlation of forces, in order to break “the link in the chain” of the power of the monopolies and the imperialist “shackles” of the EU and NATO, through disengagement from them, something which in today’s conditions can only be guaranteed by workers’ -people’s power.

The communist and workers’ parties of Europe must intensify their endeavours, activity, their coordination and with a line for overthrowing the system in order to contribute to strengthening the European front against NATO and the EU.

With communist greetings,

The International Relations Section of the CC of the NKPJ