We denounce the new attacks against the Communist Party of Ukraine
The undersigned Parties condemn the outrageous and unprecedented attack of the Ukrainian authorities against the Communist Party of Ukraine and its Leader on 8 May, 2018. Thesearch of the CPU offices followed the violent entry and search of the authorities in the house of the CPU Leader, Petro Simonenko.
It is not by chance that these attacks have taken placeon the eve of the 9th of May, the Day of the Antifascist Victory of the peoples to which the Ukrainians had a significant and heroic contribution.
These developments in Ukraine are the outrageous escalation of continuous intense attacks and persecution of the Ukrainian communists that started right after the coup d’ etat over the democratically elected government in 2014 that also led to the rise of neo-nazi and ultra-nationalist groups at all levels of the political and social spectrum of the country.
At this difficult moment, we express our solidarity with the members and leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine and will use all fora to denounce these acts.
The undersigned Parties:
- Communist Party of Albania
- Communist Party of Australia
- Party of Labour of Austria
- Communist Party of Bangladesh
- Workers’ Party of Belgium
- AKEL, Cyprus
- Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia , Czech Rep.
- Communist Party in Denmark
- Communist Party of Finland
- French Communist Party
- Unified Communist Party of Georgia
- German Communist Party
- Communist Party of Greece
- Hungarian Workers’ Party
- Communist Party of India
- Communist Party of India (M)
- Tudeh Party of Iran
- Communist Party of Ireland
- Communist Party of Israel
- Communist Party of Luxemburg
- Communist Party of Malta
- Communist Party of Mexico
- Communist Party of Norway
- Communist Party of Poland
- Portuguese Communist Party
- Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Communists of Serbia
- South African Communist Party
- Communist Party of Spain
- Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
- Communist Party of Turkey
- Communist Party of USA
- Communist Party of Venezuela