No to the falsification of history in Europe!

(29.11.2011)

In Romania, for example, an organisation cannot call itself „communist“, as it would subsequently be considered as a „threat for national security“. In this very moment a law is debated upon regarding the „organisation of public meetings“. It stipulates that those public meetings are forbidden which have „the propagation of totalitarian ideas, such as fascist, communist, racist and chauvinist ideas“ as their goal.

In the Czech Republic, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia risks suspension or prohibition for reasons which are absolutely illegitimate as well.

The EL deems it as unacceptable to compare the struggles being fought by communists – defender of the solidarity of and with the people – with those that have been caused by the worst chauvinist downturns and setbacks of civilization on our continent.

It is scandalous – in a moment when populisms are growing again in Europe and when the extreme right has entered into the Greek government with the blessing of the European Union – that the governments thus falsify the history, with the goal of discrediting all forms of alternative thinking against ultraliberalism, the dictatorship of the markets, capitalism and NATO imperialism.

The EL supports the organisations concerned by these attacks and will rise up against each and every attempt aimed at criminalising, demonising and treating the European left the same as the extreme right.

Party of the European Left

28 November 2011