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Working Group of International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties

January 30-31, 2015

On the occasion of the meeting of the Working Group of the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties, in Istanbul on January 31-February 1, 2015, the participant parties signed the following statement:

Following a coup d’état in February 2014, state power in Ukraine was seized by openly fascist and bourgeois nationalistic forces, which kindled a civil conflict that turned into a bloody civil war. A war which results in the death of civilians including women, the elderly, and children. A war which led to a human catastrophe in Donbass. Thousands are dead, tens of thousands are wounded, more than a million are seeking asylum. Schools and kindergartens are destroyed.

The ruling oligarchic regime which relies on the financial and political support of the United States, the European Union and NATO, has unleashed a social genocide of the Ukrainian people.

The ruling regime in the Ukraine has established a severe censorship of the media, restricting access to objective information, propagating blatant lies and disinformation by the government structures at all levels.

The Communist Party of Ukraine harshly criticizes the oligarchic fascists which seized power in Ukraine, and demands an immediate ceasing of the fratricidal war. Because of this principled position, the Communist Party of Ukraine is being prosecuted and repressed.

The government is using all its might to destroy the Communist Party, to suppress the people’s will, to ban the Communist ideology as such – an attribute of all fascist and dictatorial regimes.

We call upon all Communist and workers’ parties to help and support the Communists and the working people of Ukraine in their fight against fascism and the oligarchy, in the struggle against international reaction and the regime in Kiev which does nothing to stop the fratricidal war and does not even follow the relevant international treaties which it signed.

Only the combined efforts of all progressive forces can prevent the horrors of war which the US and its allies have unleashed on the territory of Ukraine.

Workers’ Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)
Communist Party of Cuba
The Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL)
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of India
Tudeh Party of Iran
Lebanese Communist Party
Portuguese Communist Party
Communist Party of Russian Federation
Russian Workers’ Communist Party
Communist Party, Turkey
Communist Party of Ukraine