56 Kommunistische und Arbeiterparteien gegen antikommunistische OSZE-Resolution
Bisher 56 Kommunistische und Arbeiterparteien haben eine gemeinsame Erklärung unterzeichnet, worin sie die antikommunistische Resolution zurückweisen, welche die Parlamentarische Versammlung der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE) am 3. Juli 2009 in Vilnius verabschiedet hatte. Wir publizieren die Gemeinsame Erklärung vorerst in englischer Fassung. (15.7.2009)
Zusammenfassung/Auszüge aus dem Joint Statement in deutsch siehe Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek: Das Andenken der Antifaschisten darf nicht beschmutzt werden (16.7.2009)
Joint Statement of communist and workers’ parties on Anticommunist Resolution of OSCE
We strongly condemn the adoption on 3 July, 2009 at the regular Parliamentary Assembly session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vilnius (Lithuania) of a new anti-communist resolution titled «Divided Europe Reunited» which contains a gross distortion of history and denies the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over fascism. The resolution equates communism and fascism. Those who do so fail to remember that it was the Soviet Union that made the largest contribution to the liberation of Europe from fascism. The authors of the resolution – those falsifiers of history – pretend to have forgotten who gave away Czechoslovakia in 1938 in Munich which led to the elimination of the state independence of the country and to the fascist enslavement of the Czech and Slovak peoples.
Those who voted for the adoption of this resolution actually justify and encourage “a witch-hunt” against communists in several countries of the OSCE where communists are persecuted, their youth organisations prohibited and the parties prosecuted for the use of their traditional symbols.
Furthermore, the resolution offers great opportunities for the prosecution of communist ideology and the adoption of measures against communist parties.
At the same time, we witness the actual rehabilitation of the Nazis in a number of countries, including the country that hosted this session of the OSCE PA.
We cannot allow anyone to insult the memory of anti-fascists, participants in the Resistance movement, who lost their lives in the fight against Nazism.
The aggravation of anti-communism in Europe is not a transient phenomenon. It shows the fear of the ruling class over the exacerbation of the capitalist crisis and of the urgency of the demand to abolish capitalist exploitation and the need for fundamental society change acquire.
The working class, all workers, regardless of the extent of agreement or disagreement with the communists, must repulse decisively anti-communism bearers, as history has proven that anti-communist attacks foretell the onset of a general offensive against the social and democratic rights of the people.
Let us reply to the provocateurs and anti-communists through our joint struggle for workers’ rights, for socialism.
1. Communist Party of Argentina
2. Communist Party of Armenia
3. Communist Party of Bangladesh
4. Communist Party of Belarus
5. Workers’ Party of Belgium
6. Communist Party of Brazil
7. Communist Party of Britain
8. New Communist Party of Britain
9. Communist Party of Bulgaria
10. Party of the Bulgarian Communists
11. Communist Party of Canada
12. Communist Party in Denmark
13. Communist Party of Denmark
14. Communist Party of Finland
15. German Communist Party
16. Communist Party of Greece
17. Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party
18. Communist Party of India [Marxist]
19. Tudeh Party of Iran
20. Communist Party of Ireland
21. The Workers’ Party of Ireland
22. Party of the Italian Communists
23. Party of the Communist Refoundation
24. Jordanian Communist Party
25. Socialist Party of Latvia
26. Lebanese Communist Party
27. Socialist Party of Lithuania
28. Communist Party of Luxembourg
29. Communist Party of Macedonia
30. AKFM, Madagascar
31. Communist Party of Malta
32. Party of the Communists, Mexico
33. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
34. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
35. Communist Party of Norway
36. Peruan Communist Party
37. Philippine Communist Party -PKP 1930
38. Communist Party of Poland
39. Portuguese Communist Party
40. Romanian Communist Party
41. Communist Party of Soviet Union
42. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
43. Russian Communist Workers’ Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
44. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
45. Party of the Communists of Serbia
46. Communist Party of Slovakia
47. South African Communist Party
48. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
49. Communist Party of Spain
50. Communist Party of Sri-Lanka
51. Communist Party of Sweden
52. Syrian Communist Party
53. Communist Party of Turkey
54. Communist Party of Ukraine
55. Union of Communists of Ukraine
56. Communist Party of Venezuela
Quelle: Solidnet.org (Mail 15.7.09)
Die antikommunistische Resolution der OSZE vom 3. Juli 2009 hat folgenden englischen Wortlaut:
DIVIDED EUROPE REUNITED: PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE OSCE REGION IN THE 21st CENTURY
1. Recalling the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Helsinki Final
Act and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights,
2. Taking into account the developments that have taken place in the OSCE area in the
20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain,
3. Noting that in the twentieth century European countries experienced two major
totalitarian regimes, Nazi and Stalinist, which brought about genocide, violations of
human rights and freedoms, war crimes and crimes against humanity,
4. Acknowledging the uniqueness of the Holocaust, reminding participating States of its
impact and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE
region, and strongly encouraging the vigorous implementation of the resolutions on anti-
Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly since the
2002 Annual Session in Berlin,
5. Reminding the OSCE participating States of their commitment “to clearly and
unequivocally condemn totalitarianism” (1990 Copenhagen Document),
6. Recalling that awareness of history helps to prevent the recurrence of similar crimes in
the future, and that an honest and thorough debate on history will facilitate reconciliation
based on truth and remembrance,
7. Aware that the transition from communist dictatorships to democracy cannot take place in
one day, and that it also has to take into account the historical and cultural backgrounds
of the countries concerned,
8. Emphasising, however, that it is the obligation of governments and all sectors of society
to strive tirelessly towards achieving a truly democratic system that fully respects human
rights, without making differences in political culture and tradition a pretext for the non-
implementation of commitments,
9. Deploring that in many countries, including some with long-standing democratic
traditions, civil liberties are in renewed danger, often because of measures taken to
counter so-called “new threats”,
10. Recalling the initiative of the European Parliament to proclaim 23 August, when the
Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact was signed 70 years ago, as a Europe-wide Day of
Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, in order to preserve the memory of
the victims of mass deportations and exterminations,
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly:
11. Reconfirms its united stand against all totalitarian rule from whatever ideological
background;
12. Calls on participating States to honour and implement all commitments undertaken in
good faith;
13. Urges the participating States:
a. to continue research into and raise public awareness of the totalitarian legacy;
b. to develop and improve educational tools, programmes and activities, most notably
for younger generations, on totalitarian history, human dignity, human rights and
fundamental freedoms, pluralism, democracy and tolerance;
c. to promote and support activities of NGOs which are engaged in areas of research and
raising public awareness about crimes committed by totalitarian regimes;
14. Requests governments and parliaments of participating States to ensure that any
governmental structures and patterns of behaviour that resist full democratisation or
perpetuate, or embellish, or seek a return to, or extend into the future, totalitarian rule are
fully dismantled;
15. Further requests governments and parliaments of participating States to fully dismantle
all structures and patterns of behaviour that have their roots in abusing human rights;
16. Reiterates its call upon all participating States to open their historical and political
archives;
17. Expresses deep concern at the glorification of the totalitarian regimes, including the
holding of public demonstrations glorifying the Nazi or Stalinist past, as well as the
possible spread and strengthening of various extremist movements and groups, including
neo-Nazis and skinheads;
18. Calls upon participating States to pursue policies against xenophobia and aggressive
nationalism and take more effective measures to combat these phenomena;
19. Asks for a greater respect in all participating States for human rights and civil liberties,
even in difficult times of terrorist threats, economic crisis, ecological disasters and mass
migration.
Quelle: OSCE Parlamentary Assembly: Final Vilnius Declaration 2009 (S. 48f.)