With this Resolution, on the occasion of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana from 7 to 9 August 2026, we express our solidarity with Cuba and its people, we honour the memory and historic contribution of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Communist Party of Cuba and of the Cuban Revolution, on the centenary of his birth commemorated this year. We express our solidarity and stand by the sides of the peoples of Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, and with all peoples who face the barbarity of capitalism, class exploitation, anti-democratic bans and restrictions on trade union and political activity, and, in particular, imperialist interventions and wars.
The war that has been waged for five years on the territory of Ukraine, shedding the blood of two peoples who have lived and thrived together for decades building the new socialist society and who, with their guns in their hands, fought and defeated fascism —that the capitalist system gives rise to—, is based on the overthrow of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
It is a war waged in the framework of capitalism for raw materials, energy, transport routes for commodities, means of production, geopolitical footing, etc.
It is a war waged by bourgeois classes, the bourgeoisie of Ukraine with the support of the US-NATO-EU on the one hand and the bourgeoisie of Russia, with the involvement of China etc. on the other.
It is a war utilized by the bourgeois classes to distort history and to attack the communist and labour movement and repress it, both in Ukraine and Russia, as well as in other countries.
It is an imperialist war, which may be generalized and lead other countries to bloodshed and the world to disaster due to nuclear weapons.
Workers must not place their trust in a “multipolar world” that will supposedly stop this or any other imperialist war and lead to a peaceful world without the overthrow of the capitalist system.
The communists struggle against the disorientation of the peoples and expose the pretexts used by both sides of the conflict to make the people choose sides.
The real question today is not whether the US and EU monopolies, backed by NATO, or those of Russia and China will prevail. The real question is the choice between the peoples on the one hand and the monopolies on the other; between socialism and barbarity. The workers’-people’s struggle will grow stronger with an independent line, away from all bourgeois and imperialist plans.
We call for an escalation of the struggle against the imperialist war.
We struggle against both old imperialist unions, such as NATO and the EU, whose decisions add fuel to the fire of war, and against new imperialist alliances that have emerged in recent years.
We struggle against foreign military bases, first and foremost of the USA, which have flooded the world, as well as against the sending of troops and weapons and the involvement of our countries in the imperialist conflict.
We reject the curtailment of social and labour rights in the name of war preparations and we oppose the increase in military spending and the rise of militarism.
We support the struggle of the peoples against the monopolies, the bourgeois classes and the imperialist unions, for the overthrow of capitalism and the building of the new socialist-communist society, which will also mean the end of exploitation and wars.
Workers of all lands, unite!
Communist and Workers Parties signing the Solidarity Statement
- Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
- Argentinian Communist Party
- New Communist Party of Australia
- Party of Labour, Austria
- Revolutionary Communist Party of France
- Revolutionary Party Communists, France
- Communist Party (Germany)
- Communist Party of Greece
- Workers Party of Ireland
- Communist Front (Italy)
- Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
- Communist Party of Mexico
- New Communist Party of Netherlands
- Palestinian Communist Party
- Paraguayan Communist Party
- Communist Party of Poland
- Organisation of Communists (Russia)
- Communist Party of Soviet Union
- Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
- Communist Party of Sweden
- Swiss Communist Party
- Syrian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Turkey
- Union of Communist of Ukraine
- Communist Workers' Platform USA
- Communist Party of Venezuela
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