Stop anticommunism!
21.04.2010 - 10:16
(updated: 06.06.2016 - 13:48)
At the same time when neo-liberalism and capitalism have led to a worsening of unemployment, a weakening of basic security, to environmental problems and wars, right-wing extremism and anti-communism are alarmingly raising their head.
An ad hoc Committee of the upper house of the Czech parliament is proposing to the legal authorities to ban the country's third largest party, the Communist Party (KSCM) as "unconstitutional". Turkey has banned the country's fourth largest party, the DTP, and several of its 22 MPs and of its 99 mayors have been arrested, because they have defended the rights of the Kurdish minority. Poland and Hungary have banned the use of Communist symbols. In many other countries too, Communists face discrimination.
In order to justify these anti-Communist measures, attempts have been made to put Communist thinking and fascism on equal footing. Such a distortion of history deliberately assimilates the victims and opponents of fascism to their fascist murderers, hiding the contribution of Communists to democracy, social reform and peace. At the same time such attempt aims at depriving people of any hope for a better future and of their right to struggle to put an end to capitalist exploitation.
The political Bureau of the Communist Party of Finland condemns the growing campaigns of hate against Communists in the Czech Republic, in Poland, in Hungary and several other countries. All countries must ensure that Communists enjoy freedom of opinion and expression, as well as political and other democratic rights. We also call upon Finnish representatives in the European Council and in the European Parliament to act in order to put an end to all undemocratic actions directed against Communists and other leftists. We shall also refer this matter to the ambassadors of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.
An ad hoc Committee of the upper house of the Czech parliament is proposing to the legal authorities to ban the country's third largest party, the Communist Party (KSCM) as "unconstitutional". Turkey has banned the country's fourth largest party, the DTP, and several of its 22 MPs and of its 99 mayors have been arrested, because they have defended the rights of the Kurdish minority. Poland and Hungary have banned the use of Communist symbols. In many other countries too, Communists face discrimination.
In order to justify these anti-Communist measures, attempts have been made to put Communist thinking and fascism on equal footing. Such a distortion of history deliberately assimilates the victims and opponents of fascism to their fascist murderers, hiding the contribution of Communists to democracy, social reform and peace. At the same time such attempt aims at depriving people of any hope for a better future and of their right to struggle to put an end to capitalist exploitation.
The political Bureau of the Communist Party of Finland condemns the growing campaigns of hate against Communists in the Czech Republic, in Poland, in Hungary and several other countries. All countries must ensure that Communists enjoy freedom of opinion and expression, as well as political and other democratic rights. We also call upon Finnish representatives in the European Council and in the European Parliament to act in order to put an end to all undemocratic actions directed against Communists and other leftists. We shall also refer this matter to the ambassadors of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.
Political Bureau of the CPF (Communist Party of Finland) 12.1.2010
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The Communist Party of Finland (SKP) has nominated 65 candidates in the upcoming 2023 Parliamentary elections held on sunday 2nd of April. The party's campaign slogan is Money for welfare, not weapons!
Ongoing militarization is affecting, and will affect in the future, to young people's feel of security. Militaries and right-wing media are aggressively feeding the non-critical thinking for youth, said SKP´s vice chairperson Jiri Mäntysalo in European Left Congress in Vienna.
We live in a time of rapid change, exceptionally strong threats and crucial choices. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity threaten the future of all humanity. The risk of war, even nuclear war, has increased. Finland and the world are prosperous and rich, but at the same time there is poverty, unemployment and inequality.