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.

PADS, Algeria

Communist Party of Argentina

Communist Party of Armenia

Communist Party of Bangladesh

Communist Party of Belarus

Workers' Party of Belgium

Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain

Communist Party of Bulgaria

Party of the Bulgarian Communists

Communist Party of Canada

Socialist Worker`s Party of Croatia

AKEL, Cyprus

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party in Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Estonia

Communist Party of Finland

Unified Communist Party of Georgia

German Communist Party

Communist Party of Greece

Hungarian Communist Workers' Party

Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India [Marxist]

Tudeh Party of Iran

Iraqi Communist Party

Communist Party of Ireland

The Workers' Party of Ireland

Party of the Italian Communists

Party of the Communist Refoundation

Jordanian Communist Party

Socialist Party of Latvia

Lebanese Communist Party

Socialist Party of Lithuania

Communist Party of Luxembourg

Party of the Communists of Kirgizia

Communist Party of Macedonia

AKFM, Madagascar

Communist Party of Malta

Party of the Communists, Mexico

Popular Socialist Party of Mexico

New Communist Party of the Netherlands

Communist Party of Norway

Communist Party of Pakistan

Peruan Communist Party

Philippine Communist Party -PKP 1930

Communist Party of Poland

Portuguese Communist Party

Romanian Communist Party

Communist Party of Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Party of the Communists of Serbia

Communist Party of Slovakia

South African Communist Party

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of Spain

Party of the Communists of Catalonia

Communist Party of Sri-Lanka

Communist Party of Sweden

Syrian Communist Party

Communist Party of Turkey

Communist Party of Ukraine

Union of Communists of Ukraine

Communist Party of Uruguay

Communist Party, USA

Communist Party of Venezuela

Other parties that also support the joint statement:

Pole of Communist Renaissance in France

Union do Povo Galego (UPG)