Dear Comrades,
We, like many communist parties, have been attentively following the course of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Paty of Greece and the resolutions it has been passing.
We recognize the services of the CPG as a combative party which has a glorious record of anti-fascist struggle. We also remember and value the contribution of the CPG to the organization of the international communist movement during the period of reaction in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union. We hoped that the decisions of the Congress would strengthen the ranks of Greek communists and contribute to the cohesion of the international communist movement. But this did not happen.
Acquainting ourselves with the materials of the Greek comrades published on Solidnet site, we do not challenge their right to have their own point of view and their own assessment of the international situation as well as the positions of specific parties. It is not our intention to brush aside right away their assessments and criticize their position although we radically disagree with it. But we categorically reject the remarks and assessments contained in the report of the CC to our common movement, the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP). The comrades claim that these meetings, initiated by the CPG, have gradually exhausted their potential and lost the initial meaning of their existence, turning into an arena ofacrimonious and fruitless discussions and aggravating the protracted crisis of the communist movement.
To put it briefly and plainly, having what we consider to be a profoundly mistaken position on the current war in Ukraine and other regions, the comrades cannot withstand scientific arguments and leave, almost run away from, the theoretical battlefield. The comrades started by introducing censorship of the materials on Solidnet site, and now maintain that the IMCWP has lost it reason for being. In other words, the CPG comes out for dissolution of the community. We see the already familiar tactic of dodging theoretical struggle. This is how the CPG comrades behaved with regard to the European Communist Initiative and the Communist Review journal. They willfully shut down the project, pushed out all those who disagree with their dubious pyramid theories and denial of the historical practice of the communist movement, including the heritage of the Comintern, and together with the parties who take the cue from them, have set up their own community which distorts the Leninist teaching on imperialism. It has to be noted that the comrades are not only taking advantage of the position of the party running the Solidnet site, but are practically initiating and backing the splitting activities of various anti-party groups within the other parties.
The comrades aver that the CPG, loyal to the principle of proletarian internationalism, and considering the international character of class struggle and the need for a common strategy of the communist movement, is seeking the formation of a Marxist-Leninist pole and revolutionary reorganization of the international communist movement. In reality the actions of the CPG narrow the front of the struggle against imperialism and by their misguided policy wittingly or unwittingly help the main imperialist aggressor to shift part of the responsibility on the rival forces, Russia, China and so on. The comrades stubbornly turn a blind eye to the fact that it is one and the same pack of imperialist predators that organizes the genocide of the Palestinian people, pursues aggression against Russia with the hands of the nazis in Ukraine, exerts pressure on Venezuela and Cuba, Iran and the DPRK and the like. And, downright indecently, the CPG openly shies away from the struggle against living nazis in Ukraine. The war has been going on since 2014, whereas they condemn what they claim to be unjustified interference of Russia in February 2022 even as more than 15,000 people have already died. With absolutely no justification the CPG condemns and besmirches the holding of “anti-fascist forums” and events of the World Anti-Imperialist Forum, primarily because they are critical of the CPG’s position. In their words, “… an anti-CPG mission is being performed.”
Our parties are firmly convinced that the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) and the Solidnet site must continue to function. But we maintain that it would be wrong to avoid the discussion of pressing and common root problems of the movement and that it is necessary to secure the opportunity of free exchange of opinions and the pursuit of scientific theoretical struggle. We do not want to see a split over the mistaken views of the Greek comrades. We come out for the preservation of Solidnet and for the parties speaking their minds and for scientific methods of debate. Only those who are unsure of themselves are afraid of theoretical struggle. Our parties are confident in themselves and in the validity of the Marxist-Leninist theory.
The task today is to form a united anti-imperialist, anti-fascist front. We propose this to be the theme of the 24th International Meeting of Communist Parties in Cuba in 2026.
The Russian Communist Workers’ Party
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Union of Communist Parties – the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union