Communist Party of Ukraine appeals for solidarity against banning
Appeal from the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine
Dear comrades!
The current government of Ukraine is carrying out a policy to create intolerable conditions for the existence of the Communist Party of Ukraine, as well as pressing towards banning its activity.
We want to inform you that Ukrainian secret service is actively collecting materials about the activity of the Communist Party, falsifying CPU documents, creating activist databases, destroying property and real estate with the help of controlled radicals [ie, spies], banning electioneering work with voters, and organising moral pressure and physical attacks on communist members of the Ukrainian parliament and on heads of regional party committees.
Today it is officially admitted that the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine expects contributions from the secret service and is going to ask the Supreme Court of Ukraine to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine. Top officials of Ukraine are responsible for such activity. Among them are the head of national security and the defence council Andriy Parubiy, the head of the security service Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, the head of parliament and Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchinov, etc.
This reinforces the harsh treatment of all Ukrainian communists, who are the only political force that has always pursued a policy of defending the interests of ordinary people. The Communist Party of Ukraine now represents a real threat to the current government, given its integrity and unity. The Communist party of Ukraine is one link for millions of people dissatisfied with the actions of the authorities and their allies – the ultra-radical forces.
Putting the question of violence over the objectionable political force, the current government reiterates its anti-people, anti-state and divisive policy that uses double standards – and, under the guise of fighting for ‘European’ values, actually contradicts itself, transforming Ukraine into a country with a fascist dictatorship.
Accusing its opponents of disloyalty and demanding that they renounce their beliefs, the current government of Ukraine are proving that they no longer recognise democracy, freedom of speech, or the supremacy of law.
However, as one can never attain peace by inciting hatred and xenophobia, the current government of Ukraine are provoking social conflict and creating the conditions for a civil war.
We appeal to you, dear comrades, to show solidarity with 120,000 Ukrainian communists, and by a united front to condemn the system’s actions of the Ukrainian authorities to ban the Communist party of Ukraine.
Sincerely,
Petro Symonenko
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the head of the parliamentary faction of Communists in the Ukrainian Parliament
13. May 2014 at 6:51 pm :
“…under the guise of fighting for ‘European’ values, actually contradicts itself, transforming Ukraine into a country with a fascist dictatorship”. Since when are the ‘European values’ of EU-imperialism “democratic” and how does the present fascist government of Ukraine contradict itself? Do we have an, if only subconscious, admiration of the EU and its “values” here? Immediately after the subversion of the USSR, the EU – alongside the USA – moved to resurrect the ghost of Hitler: It abolished May 9 as the day of “Anti-fascist Victory” and replaced it by the ridiculous “Day of Europe”, that the peoples of Europe may forget about the critical contribution of the USSR to the defeat of Nazi Germany. It equated socialism with Nazism and Stalin with Hitler! It openly supported the most reactionary regimes in the Baltic countries which hail the Nazi Wehrmacht as “liberators”, glorify as “heroes” the traitors who collaborated with the Nazi occupying forces against their own people and attack the colossal contribution of the USSR as well as the communists and the Russian minorities. It armed, financed and brutally installed to power the blood-stained Nazis of the “Right Sector” and the “Svoboda”-party who, in turn, instantly engaged in pogroms against the communists and the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
Rather than declaring itself as “the only political force that has always pursued a policy of defending the interests of ordinary people” the Communist Party of Ukraine would do well to expose, explain and attack the conditions which have rendered the workers and the people of Kiev so ideologically confused, disoriented and misguided, as to remain apathetic to the onslaught of the present fascist regime.