Dear comrades,

On 11 June 2025, SolidNet received an “Appeal” from Parties attempting yet another slanderous attack, initiated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RCWP), regarding an article by the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE entitled “On the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow”. This article was published in the daily newspaper “Rizospastis”, the organ of the CC of the KKE, and was subsequently translated and published on the KKE’s international websites, as well as on the SolidNet website (http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-On-the-International-Anti-Fascist-Forum-in-Moscow/).

The “Appeal” that was published on SolidNet repeats the mud-slinging by the CPRF and the RCWP, which claim that the KKE actually accuses “the organizers and participants of the Second International Anti-Fascist Forum of ‘...siding with the imperialist goals of the Russian bourgeoisie”.

This is an unsubstantiated accusation, as we will explain below: the KKE has never identified the participants of this Forum with its organizers. This is because we are well aware that a number of parties may have responded to the CPRF’s invitation in order to gain a better understanding of its positions and those of other parties, to express their opinion on developments or for other reasons.

Moreover, this particular section of the article of the KKE refers to the address of the President of Russia, V. Putin, to the Forum, which, according to our assessment, shows that the organizers of this particular Forum are fully aligned with the bourgeois power in Russia and its imperialist objectives, which are covered behind a lot of anti-fascist veneer. The relevant paragraph in the KKE article reads as follows:

“The President of Russia, V. Putin, who these days is exchanging pleasantries and dividing up Ukraine with the supposed ‘fascists’ of the US government, warmly welcomed the proceedings of this Forum, signalling the alignment of the IAF organizers behind the imperialist aims of the Russian bourgeoisie, dispelling any final doubts one might have about the real aims of the IAF in the name of the anti-fascist struggle”.

The “Appeal” claims that the article “is an attempt of the Greek comrades to confront our joint struggle against fascism actually belittling the importance of combating the threat of the revival of fascism at the present stage”.

It is going too far from parties such as:

-          The CPRF, which has not organized a single mass demonstration in Moscow against the Russian government’s decision to name the Higher School of Politics atthe Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow after the fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin;

-          The RCWP, which has even held a joint meeting in its offices with the ‘Other Russia’ party, which is a nationalist and fascist force, previously known as the ‘National-Bolshevik Party’ (after ‘National Socialist’) and has the slogan ‘Russia is everything, everything else is nothing!’;

to level this accusation against the KKE.

It is impertinent of these parties to accuse the KKE of underestimating the struggle against fascism in order to hide the fact that they have become apologists for bourgeois power and, under the pretext of anti-fascism, support a war waged by bourgeois forces and imperialist alliances for interests that arealien to those of the people. This war is spilling the blood of two peoples, the Russians and the Ukrainians, who prospered together during the years of socialism and are now killing each other under capitalism over which monopolies will gain control of rare earths, mineral wealth, energy, transport routes, and over how the capitalists will divide up market shares and geopolitical mainstays.

We were surprised to see the “Appeal” signed by parties that have renounced all political action and accepted the decision of the bourgeois court to dissolve them, such as the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, which has had no public activity since 2015. It has now been “resurrected” by the authors of the “Appeal” to sign a dirty and slanderous text against the KKE.

The “Appeal” against the KKE is also signed by the Communist Party of Ukraine, despite the fact that the KKE supported it when its members were facing political persecution. The KKE sent its MPs to the court where the CP of Ukraine was on trial, and sent representatives to Kyiv on 1 May 2015, in response to a call by the CP of Ukraine to prevent the authorities and armed fascist groupsfrom disrupting and attacking the May Day event. It seems that the CP of Ukraine has forgotten that it was the KKE that raised the issue of the persecution of communists in Ukraine in the national and European parliaments, as well as the fact that it had publicly expressed its gratitude to the KKE many times. This is a totally ungrateful and uncomradely stance.

The “Appeal” rehashes the issue of the non-publication on SolidNet of a despicable article by the RCWP that contains slander and insults against the KKE. In doing so, the “Appeal” attempts to cast doubt on the website that was established as a result of the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWPs), which – let us not forget – were initiated by the KKE and embraced by dozens of communist parties. This is despite the fact that, in its many years of operation, SolidNet has stated that only one party on its list (namely the RCWP) has resorted to the unacceptable practice of sending abusive articles. In 2025, only one article by the RCWP was not published, as it contained a number of slanderous allegations against a party on the SolidNet list. Between 1 January 2025 and 31 May 2025, SolidNet published a total of 587 articles from various parties. Nine of these were written by the RCWP. We consider it unacceptable for the signatories of the “Appeal” to target and undermine SolidNet’s reputation as a reliable source of information on the positions of the Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in the IMCWPs, as well as its role in facilitating the expression of internationalist solidarity.

Furthermore, the dirty attack disputing who is in effect representing the KKE, which is also included in the “Appeal”, as well as other false accusations against the KKE for allegedly underestimating the anti-fascist struggle, expose the slanderers themselves. These accusations provoke the working class, the Greek people and every reasonable person, since the KKE’s historical path, the hard battles it has fought and the sacrifices it has made in the struggle against the fascists, i.e. the henchmen of capitalism, are well known. The KKE is a principled party based on its revolutionary programme and the relevant Resolutions of its congresses. These can be found translated into many languages on its international website, whereone can also be informed about the statement of the CC of the KKE on the imperialist war in Ukraine, about our party’s struggles against the war and Greece’s participation in it, and about our opposition toaligning with either imperialist camp. Furthermore,one can learn about the struggles against the USA, NATO and the EU, about the trials of Greek communists who blocked the transport of war material to the Ukrainian front and, of course, about the struggles of the KKE and KNE against the fascists, including those from “Golden Dawn”, the “Azov Battalion” and other fascist gangs. The KKE fights daily against the fascists, as well as against the capitalist system that gives birth to them and utilizes them.

Finally, the drafting of “regulations” by the Working Group, which, as the “Appeal” hypocritically claims, “will ensure free discussion and the preservation of friendly relations”, is completely at odds with the deliberate lies and slander against the KKE. The KKE fights hard every day on all fronts, showing its full support for the peoples, such as the Palestinian people, through constant mobilizations, and standing by communist parties that are dealing with anti-communism.

Comradely,

International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE