The session of the European Ministers of Justice together with an event that took place, under the Estonian Presidency of the European Council, recorded once again, the anti-communist rage of the European Union.
Such efforts, coming from the Estonian government and the European Union are not surprising. There are numerous recent examples of heightened anti-communist propaganda and policies. In Moldavia in 2010, those who cooperated with the Nazis were decorated, the symbols of communism were banned along with the word “communism” and all its derivatives. In the Czechian parliament, a bill calling for the official recognition of the so-called “anti-communist rebel movement” was filed. It is the same country that banned the functioning of the Czechian Communist Union of Youth (KSM) in 2008. In Poland, in 2010, a law outlawing the communist symbols, equating them with the fascist ones, was applied. In Latvia, the Parliament granted privileges to those who participated in the units of SS, while in the Baltics, laws prohibiting the communist ideology and the functioning of communist parties have passed, communists were imprisoned and denied participation in the election process. In Ukraine, following 2014’s coup, the neo-fascists are in power with the full support of the European Union.
It is within this framework that the 23rd of August was declared as the “European commemoration day against Stalinism and Nazism”, while the 9th of May, the Day of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of Peoples against fascism, was renamed to “Europe Day”.
These incidents are part of the formal European Policy line and “the theory of the two extremes”, which targets the forgery of history, the equalisation of communism with fascism and the deification of the crimes of fascism. This policy is currently intensified in an attempt to repress the reactions of the working people against the dead-ends that capitalism creates, especially under crisis conditions.
As EDON, we condemn anti-communism and propose the path of organised struggle and the forging of a reaction front against any reactive, obsessive fascist power. We stand for the struggles of the peoples and the youth for the establishment of sustainable peace, against imperialism, war and fascism. We stand in solidarity with the communist parties and organisations that are under persecution.
Intertnational Relations Bureau
C.C. EDON
24.08.2017