SolidNet Joint Statement: Hands off the Communist Party of Venezuela. No to the plans to attack and ban the Communist Party of Venezuela!

For many months now, communists all over the world have been following a slanderous and anti-communist campaign against the CP of Venezuela launched by the leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). All signs indicate that this process will escalate in the coming months.

While the CP of Venezuela is participating in and promoting the struggles for the improvement of wages, the people’s income and the rights of working people in general, the Venezuelan government chooses the slippery slope of criminalizing struggles and persecuting communists. It cannot subjugate the CP of Venezuela and turn it into an instrument in the service of the anti-popular policy that has condemned the Venezuelan people to the escalating deterioration of their living conditions; thus it aims to create a mockery of the Communist Party, comprised of mercenaries, PSUV members and government officials, so that it can then justify the attack and judicial intervention against the CP of Venezuela.

The Communist and Workers’ Parties unequivocally condemn and reject any attempt to prosecute and criminalize the CP of Venezuela as well as any judicial machination that may not recognize its elected leadership in the recent 16^th Congress. We are well aware that the CP of Venezuela has many years of militant experience and unbreakable ties with the working class and the people and that it will not bow before blackmail and persecution.

We express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people who are the victims of both the imperialist sanctions and attacks and the anti-popular policies that are being implemented. We particularly express our solidarity with the Communist Party and the Communist Youth of Venezuela, with the workers’–people’s movement in Venezuela as a whole and its legitimate right to struggle to defend its demands and interests.

No to the intervention in and ban on the Communist Party of Venezuela! 

No to the criminalization of the workers’ struggles and the Communist Party of Venezuela!

SolidNet Parties

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Democratic Progressive Tribune – Bahrain
4. Communist Party of Belgium
5. Brazilian Communist Party
6. Communist Party of Britain
7. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
8. Communist Party of El Salvador
9. German Communist Party
10. Communist Party of Greece
11. Tudeh Party of Iran
12. Iraqi Communist Party
13. Communist Party Kurdistan-Iraq
14. Communist Party of Ireland
15. Workers Party of Ireland
16. Communist Party of Israel
17. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
18. Communist Party of Luxembourg
19. Communist Party of Malta
20. Communist Party of Mexico
21. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
22. Communist Party of Norway
23. Communist Party of Pakistan
24. Palestinian Communist Party
25. Palestinian Peoples Party
26. Paraguayan Communist Party
27. Peruvian Communist Party
28. Philippine Communist Party [PKP-1930]
29. Russian Communist Workers Party
30. Communist of Serbia
31. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
32. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
33. Communist Party of Sweden
34. Syrian Communist Party
35. Swiss Communist Party
36. Communist Party of Turkey
37. Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties

1. Argentinian Communist Party
2. Pole of Communist Revival in France
3. Communist Organisation, Germany
4. Communist Front (Italy
5. American Council of Bolsheviks
6. Communist Workers’ Platform of the USA
7. Party of Communists USA
8. JVP Sri Lanka