Saturday, December 3, 2011

13th International Meeting of Communist Parties : An event of major importance

More than 100 foreign delegates that represent 83 communist and workers’ parties from 64 countries of the world, from all continents  are expected to take part in the procedures of the 13th international Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties which will be hosted by the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) in Athens on 9-11 December 2011.




The International Meetings of the CPs were initiated by the KKE 13 years ago, and met a big and positive response from dozens of CPs which understand the necessity for the communists to exchange views, to discuss the developments and the duties they face, to exchange experience but also to coordinate their joint activity.




These annual international meetings, which started in Athens, have been established as an important international event for the communist movement. They are no longer organized by a single Communist Party but by a Working Group of Communist Parties. Besides Athens, where they took place for 7 consecutive years they continued in Lisbon (Portugal),Minsk (Belarus), Sao Paolo (Brazil), New Delhi (India), Tshwane (South Africa). This year after a “trip” to 5 countries and 4 continents (Europe, America, Asia, Africa) they return to Athens (for this year).




The recognition of the significance of the workers’ and people’s struggles which have been developed over the recent years by the KKE , the All Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) and the other people’s rallies has played an important role in this decision. The slogan of the KKE in Acropolis in May 2010 which called on the people to rise up has become a symbol for the struggles that followed and continue up to now in Greece and in other countries and give hope and inspiration to the communists and the peoples who struggle.




The theme of the meeting this year is:




“Socialism is the future! The international situation and the experience of the communists 20 years after the counterrevolution in the USSR. The tasks for the development of the class struggle in conditions of capitalist crisis, imperialist wars, of the current popular struggles and uprisings, for working class-popular rights, the strengthening of proletarian internationalism and the anti-imperialist front, for the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of socialism”.


20 years after the overthrow of socialism in the USSR and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe the largest meeting in terms of participation is expected to take place in Athens.




The list of the parties that take part in the meeting:



Country Party
Azerbaijan Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Albania Communist Party of Albania
Algeria Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
Armenia Communist Party of Armenia
Australia Communist Party of Australia
Bangladesh Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

Communist Party of Bangladesh
Bahrain Democratic Progressive Tribune Bahrain
Belgium Workers’ Party of Belgium
Brazil Communist Party of Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party
Britain Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain
Bulgaria Communist Party of Bulgaria

Party of the Bulgarian Communists
Canada Communist Party of Canada
Colombia Colombian Communist Party
Croatia Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia
Cuba Communist Party of Cuba
Cyprus AKEL
Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia Moravia
Denmark Communist Party in Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark
Egypt Communist Party of Egypt
Finland Communist Party of Finland
FYROM Communist Party of Macedonia
France French Communist Party
Germany German Communist Party
Georgia United Communist Party of Georgia
Greece Communist Party of Greece
Hungary Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party
India Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Iran Tudeh Party of Iran
Iraq Iraqi Communist Party
Ireland Communist Party of Ireland

Workers’ Party of Ireland
Israel Communist Party of Israel
Italy Party of the Italian Communists
Jordan Jordanian Communist Party
People’s Democratic Republic of Korea Workers’ Party of Korea
Laos People’s Revolutionary Party of Laos
Latvia Socialist Party of Latvia
Lebanon Lebanese Communist Party
Lithuania Socialist People’s Front Lithuania
Luxemburg Communist Party of Luxemburg
Malta Communist Party of Malta
Mexico Communist Party of Mexico

Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
Netherlands New Communist Party of Netherlands
Norway Communist Party of Norway
Palestine Palestinian People’s Party

Palestinian Communist Party
Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan
Paraguay Paraguayan Communist Party
Peru Peruvian Communist Party

Communist Party of Peru (Patria Roja)
Poland Communist Party of Poland
Portugal Portuguese Communist Party
Romania Romanian Communist Party
Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Workers' Party of Russia - Revolutionary Party of Communists

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Serbia New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Party of Communists of Serbia
Sri Lanka Communist Party of Sri Lanka
South Africa South African Communist Party
Spain Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of the People’s of Spain

Party of the Communists of Catalonia
Sudan Sudanese Communist Party
Sweden Communist Party of Sweden
Syria Syrian Communist Party

Syrian Communist Party (United)
Turkey Communist Party of Turkey

Labour Party (ΕΜΕΡ), Turkey
USA Communist Party USA
Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine

Union of Communists of Ukraine
Venezuela Communist Party of Venezuela
Vietnam Communist Party Vietnam

CPI-M demands judicial inquiry into Bengal police firing



The Communist Party of India-Marxist West Bengal State Committee demanded a judicial inquiry into the police firing in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas - which claimed two lives - and asked for a "stable job" for family members of those killed. Leader of Opposition in Assembly Surya Kanta Mishra said: “The Government has to be blamed for it.” Speaking to reporters at a press conference Mishra said a six-member team they sent to the spot found the administration responsible for the deaths.

A woman and a 14-year-old girl died and several were injured in the police firing. Several cops were also injured in the mob fury.

"A stable job should be given to the family members of those killed in this unfortunate incident. Various police officers have given different accounts of the incident. Only through a judicial inquiry the truth can be revealed," former state minister and CPI-M leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah said. He, along with several other lawmakers from the party, will meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to give their account of the incident. "We are slated to meet the chief minister Dec 9 and there we will give our account of the incident," added Mollah. The CPI-M had also called for a 12-hour shutdown in South 24 Parganas to protest against "police excesses", said Mollah. Two people were killed and 22 others, including 16 policemen, injured as clashes between a mob and security forces over illegal electric connections in Magrahat in Thursday led to police opening fire. Mollah and other leaders also criticised Banerjee for blaming the CPI-M for the incident. "She already has started to blame us. But she must know that we are neither at the government nor at the panchayat or block level. Then how can we get the police to fire. It is they (Trinamool Congress) who are the culprits," said Mollah.