Meeting of 10 Communist Workers Parties of Balkan countries

On the 22^nd of January in Thessaloniki, on the initiative of the KKE, a Meeting of 10 Communist Workers Parties from 8Balkan countries was held – from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, FYROM, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.

This meeting contributed to the exchange of views concerning the situation which has developed in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, under the conditions of the international capitalist economic crisis, the intensification of imperialist aggression and inter-imperialist contradictions.

The communist and workers parties of the Balkans assess that the real cause of the crisis is to be found in the sharpening of the central contradiction of capitalism, the contradiction between the social character of production and the capitalist appropriation of its results. The people’s problems as a whole are also sharpening, poverty is on the increase, and both relative and absolute destitution embrace a large percentage of the population in the Balkan countries.

The discovery of new energy sources in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, and the intensity of their exploitation by capital, will not only not bring peace and stability to our region as is claimed by the imperialists and their governments but on the contrary will foster new sharper rivalries. At the same time, the peoples will pay much more for electricity, petrol, natural gas because the rich energy deposits in our region are not the property of the people, but are overrun by the monopolies and by both domestic and foreign business consortia.

The communist and workers parties of the Balkans in these conditions salute the struggles which have been waged in Greece, Romania and elsewhere so that the plutocracy and not the people pay for the capitalist crisis. They also salute the struggles against imperialism, in the defence of working class and popular rights and gains, against nationalism and racism, for the rights of immigrants, which have taken place during the recent period in our region. The Communist and Workers Parties are called upon to be in the front line organizing all these struggles.

The participants in this meeting also stated their readiness to confront and fight against the large-scale propaganda and blackmail of both NATO and the EU. The aim of this propaganda and blackmail is the full accession and complete assimilation of the Balkan countries to the imperialist plans, on the basis of the so-called new “NATO’s New Strategic Concept”, which was recently approved in Lisbon.

Alongside NATO and the EU, the bourgeois classes of the candidate member-states, the NGOs, and the opportunist forces, such as the so-called Party of the European Left, play a leading role in this propaganda aimed at creating illusions.

The accession of the Balkan countries to the EU and NATO, the widening of these two imperialist organization into the Balkans not only will not benefit the peoples or bring them peace and prosperity but quite the opposite. Besides, the peoples of the Balkan and other European countries which are already members have acquired much negative experience and can bear witness that assimilation to NATO and the EU brings the working class and the people poverty and other problems. Of course, at the same time, it ensures even greater profitability and privileges for big capital

The so-called dream of EU and NATO accession which is promoted by the bourgeois classes cannot erase the memory and nostalgia of the Balkan peoples for the socialism which they knew. Indeed, they have irrefutable experience that the people’s problems and needs can be resolved through another form of state-power, without the exploitation of man by man, socialism-despite its weaknesses.

The common desire was expressed at the meeting to strengthen and to increase the joint activities and the coordination of our Parties, as well as the promotion of broader anti-imperialist activity, in the following direction:

• Solidarity to the class-oriented labour struggles, the development of the struggle for the rights of the workers, the youth, women, which have broken out in the Balkans
• The strengthening and broadening of the pro-peace, anti-NATO, anti-imperialist movement in the Balkans.
• The strengthening of the peoples’ condemnation of anti-communism and the anti-historical identification of communism with fascism, which is promoted by the EU and the bourgeois classes.
• The development of solidarity with the peoples in struggle, such as the Palestinian people. And for the liberation of the 5 Cuban revolutionaries from the American prisons and for the abolition of the economic blockade of Cuba.

So that the popular struggle against the imperialist military presence in Balkans be strengthened, against the so-called anti-missile shield, against the foreign bases and armies, against the participation of military forces from the Balkan countries in NATO and EU missions in other countries. So that our countries disentangle themselves from the imperialist plans and organizations.

We demand:

That our countries have no involvement in the new imperialist wars, in the Middle East, in Africa, in the Caucasus and in the threats which are issued against the peoples which struggle against and call into question the imperialist “world order”.

PARTIES WHICH PARTICIPATED:

COMMUNIST PARTY OF ALBANIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF BULGARIA

PARTY OF BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS

COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY OF CROATIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF MACEDONIA (FYROM)

COMMUNIST PARTY OF ROMANIA

NEW COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY

LABOUR PARTY (EMEP) TURKEY

Call of the 13th February Red Brigade: 8th Left Front Government

 Moment it is to bash the TMC-Maoist nexus out; moment it is to show them the strength of the Red Brigade; moment it is to reconcile the success of people’s struggle for over 34 years in West Bengal; moment it is to save thousands of lives from violent political extremism; moment it is to swear in reaching the job for all; 100% literacy rate; a total balanced growth between agriculture and industry to retain the historic success of land reforming and agriculture.

People of West Bengal will prove the real strength of not only the Left Front unity but the greatest progressive alliance with the common mass on all round development of human capital. The call of the hour is therefore to create a history of people’s upsurge in Brigade Parade Ground on 13^th February, 2011. The huge mass would start the campaign for formation of the 8^th Left Front government

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Districts are already in full swing of their preparation for 13^th Brigade. Flags, festoons, banners from Darjeeling to Jangal Mahal have started propagating the call of the 13^th.

 

Resist TMC-Maoist Violence in Jangal Mahal

The backdrop of such a rally is clear; the danger is imminent; the loss of lives is very expensive. The TMC-Maoist nexus started fresh killing and political atrocity in the whole South Bengal centering Nandigram and adjacent areas. From ‘Nandigram to Netai’ Maoists and Trinamool Congress are reciprocating each other by giving negotiated space to spread a reign of terror. ‘A central minister directly involved in the alliance with rightwing extremist forces and Maoists,’ said Prakash Karat. He added that ‘to decimate the Communist-led popular movements in Bengal, over 365 comrades were martyred since the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 249 Left activists killed alone in Maoist-dominated Jangal Mahal comprising three districts.’

 

False ‘Stone’ Promises and bankrupt Railway

The Ministry of Railway has been sought to be used by Mamata Banerjee as a political instrument to hoodwink people of West Bengal. The projects have been announced in numbers although most of them have remained as declarations only.

 

Massive price hike accelerates food inflation:

UPA-II in the last seven months has increased price of oil seven times which further gives rise to all essential commodities. General Price hike has already gone far over the limit what common people could have tolerated. The government has totally been perplexed over the price rise issue that has resulted in some mere hollow assurances made by the Finance Minister. The government is now taking some make-shift arrangements, which would further endanger common people.

 

Red Brigade on 13^th February to reaffirm the sustainable developmental process

Red Brigade on 13^th February would call for the continuance of the development of economic and social progress in the state. It will call for consolidation of democratic rights of the people which has been achieved through arduous struggle.