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.



*SolidNet Parties*



 1. Communist Party of Argentina
 2. Communist Party of Armenia
 3. Communist Party of Australia
 4. Party of Labour of Austria
 5. Communist Party of Azerbaidjan
 6. Communist Party of Bangladesh
 7. Communist Party of Belarus
 8. Communist Party of Belgium
 9. Communist Party of Brazil
10. Communist Party of Britain
11. New Communist Party of Britain
12. Communist Party of Canada
13. Communist Party of Chile
14. Colombian Communist Party
15. Socialist Worker’s Party of Croatia
16. Communist Party of Cuba
17. The Progressive Party of the Working People - AKEL
18. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
19. Communist Party in Denmark
20. Egyptian Communist Party
21. Communist Party of Finland
22. French Communist Party
23. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
24. German Communist Party
25. Communist Party of Greece
26. Hungarian Worker’s Party
27. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28. Communist Party of India
29. Tudeh Party of Iran
30. Iraqi Communist Party
31. Kurdistan Communist Party - Iraq
32. Communist Party of Ireland
33. Workers Party of Ireland
34. Communist Party of Israel
35. Italian Communist Party
36. Party of the Communist Refoundation – European Left (Italy)
37. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
38. Workers’ Party of Korea
39. Socialist Party (Lithuania)
40. Communist Party of Luxembourg
41. Communist Party of Malta
42. Popular Socialist Party - National Political Association (México)
43. Communist Party of Mexico
44. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
45. Communist Party of Macedonia
46. Communist Party of Norway
47. Communist Party of Pakistan
48. Palestinian Communist Party
49. Paraguayan Communist Party
50. Peruan Communist Party
51. Philippine Communist Party (PKP - 1930)
52. Portuguese Communist Party
53. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
54. Union of Communist Parties-CPSU
55. Russian Communist Workers Party
56. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
57. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
58. Communist of Serbia
59. Communist Party of Slovakia
60. South African Communist Party
61. Communist Party of Spain
62. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
63. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
64. Communists of Catalonia
65. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
66. Sudanese Communist Party
67. Communist Party of Swaziland
68. Syrian Communist Party
69. Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
70. Communist Party of Turkey
71. Communist Party of Ukraine
72. Union of Communists of Ukraine
73. Communist Party USA
74. Communist Party of Venezuela



*Other Parties*

 1. Pole of Communist Revival in France
 2. Communist Revolutionary Party of France
 3. New Communist Party of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
 4. Party of the Communists (Mexico)
 5. Galizan People's Union
 6. Galician Nationalist Bloc
 7. Communist Party (Switzerland) 

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