Statements of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People
Toronto, Canada, September 23, 2001

Resolution # 1

The International Council For Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People condemns, without reservation, the September 11^th attack in New York City. No human, political, economic or other positive purpose has been served. We join with the millions who are mourning, in extending our deepest condolences to the bereaved and in extending our salutes to those who have innocently lost their lives.

Ten days following the tragic event, we are deeply aware that the head of the U.S. Government, President George Bush and his immediate cabinet members and supporters have declared a new war. Massive actions of revenge are announced, and are said to be directed against "international terrorism." These actions might hit not only Afghanistan and Iraq, but in fact any country or movement that resists the domination of US imperialism.

For over 50 years, the US has been financing Israel in its aggression against the Palestinian people. When in 1951 the Government of Iran nationalized its oil resources, the CIA engineered the coup in Iran to overthrow the Government of Mossadegh. In 1979 National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CIA intervened to wage undeclared war to overthrow the progressive government in Afghanistan that took power in 1979.

For 50 years, the secret services of the United States have been supporting – as Bin Laden – all fascist, fundamentalist and chauvinist currents, including reactionary Arab regimes, to divide the peoples in order to protect the interests of the US transnational corporations and to fight communism and the national liberation movements. They have been recruiting, arming and training the most fascist and fundamentalist elements of several countries to become high-level terrorists. Osama bin Laden was considered, just a few years back, a "freedom fighter," a helping hand of US imperialism in its fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Since then his forces have appeared with and fought with US-interested parties in NATO's war against Yugoslavia, in Kosovo, Chechnya, Algeria and elsewhere.

The continuing occupation of Saudi Arabia and the war against Iraq, since the end of George Bush (sr.) Desert Storm, is creating the conditions for not only devastating the whole region, exploiting its resources, but also growing resistance and anger.

For more than 50 years, the US government and the US transnational corporations have been imposing their will on the entire world, destroying local economies, expropriating peasants, overthrowing popular governments and putting Pinochets, Marcoses and Mobutus in power, people subordinate to the US, who would not hesitate to massacre their own people. By doing so, they have aroused the hatred and the revolt of all the peoples that had become victims.

Today, in the period of the so-called "new world order," imperialist aggressions are in all forms directed against people defending their national interests and independence, or are fighting for liberation. Therefore US-imperialism is actively involved in the naked Zionist aggression of the state of Israel against the Palestinian people, is preparing an open military intervention in Colombia and financing the genocide against the population in the east of Democratic Congo, planning to install a puppet regime in Kinshasa. In the Philippines, US-imperialism is actively involved in the "low-intensity warfare" against the popular uprising of the Philippine people.

Another element of this so-called "new world order," heated up by the recent terrorist attack, are the growing dangers of racism, fascization and liquidation of democratic and social rights.

Furthermore, there is a danger of a nuclear war, because US-imperialism might use all means in defending its dominance. As long as the Soviet Union existed, no nuclear war could be launched by the US, since the Soviet Union acted as a peace factor on a global scale. Therefore, the struggle for the rebuilding of the Soviet Union is also an inherent part of the struggle for peace.

The International Council For Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People appeals to all peace-loving forces in the world to organize large-scale actions of protest and resistance against the preparation of war by US-imperialism, in defending democratic rights and assisting the justified liberation struggles of the peoples.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of bourgeois nationalist states on the territory of the union republics, a new wave of unlimited repression by these regimes against their citizens has begun. The victims are citizens who fought German fascism and other kinds of world fascism during the Second World War to defend the socialist state of the Soviet Union, namely Vasili Kononov, Michail Farbtukh and others. Revolutionaries who wage a political fight against the bourgeois regimes for the restoration of socialism are also criminalized.

Police also harass those who organize pickets in support of these comrades.

Amongst those repressed for their political activity within the last two years are Nadezhda Raks, Tatiana Sokolova, Andrei Sokolov, Larissa Romanova, Alexander Biriukov, Alexander Danilov, M. Burokaievitchus, J. Yermolavitchus, V. Bulachov and others.

These people have been falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activities. Cases were forged against them, where police officers allegedly found guns, weapons and explosives in their possession.

All of them have consistently been denying all these false charges against them, since they are against individual terror. In prison their rights are brutally violated: Raks saw her lawyer only two months after her arrest, Romanova had a baby of only seven months locked up in the cell with her, often they are not allowed to send letters, or they do not receive the necessary medicines. Sokolov was beaten on many occasions by the officers who arrested him, as well as by prison officials. We demand that these violations be stopped.

There is an attempt to deal with the fighters against the German fascism and its servants, whilst at the same time they attempt to rehabilitate local fascists who have been committing murders against the peaceful population during the Second World War. The powers have been trying to scare the fighters against the bourgeois regime, thereby making themselves look innocent in their annihilation of their own people.

This is connected with the triumph of the bourgeois-criminal system in all the republics of the former USSR.

The International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People supports the "Committee to Defend Political Prisoners Fighting for Socialism," which is fulfilling its sacred duty of defending those innocent people, who are criminalized and persecuted.

We denounce the attempts to portray the wartime heroes and partisans, and the fighters against bourgeois regimes, as criminals.

We demand that the heads of states, governments, the supreme courts in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other republics, immediately stop their witch-hunt and liberate these prisoners and accused. It is imperative that they are rehabilitated and that in the future we will see no similar actions taken against other fighters against fascism or against the bourgeois regimes.

The international Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People also supports the cause of all other progressive, democratic and revolutionary political prisoners, all over the world, in the jails of fascism and imperialism. We support the resistance that is still going on in Turkish prisons, and condemn the fascist dictatorship in Turkey, which implements the F-cell type of prison, which aims at maximum isolation. We denounce the brutal violation of the rights of the secretary and members of the Spanish PCE(r), who have been arrested and unjustly isolated in prison cells in France. We condemn firmly the kidnapping of the former president of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevich, and the creation of a so-called International Court in The Hague, which is in flagrant contradiction with the Charter of the United Nations. Ana Lucia Gelabert, a progressive Cuban American political prisoner, has already served seventeen years in Texas, longer than even the most hardened criminal.

We demand immediate and unconditional freedom for all democratic, progressive and revolutionary prisoners!

Send letters to the prisoners and a copy to the committee address:

"Committee to Defend Political Prisoners Fighting for Socialism"
125167 Moscow
Ul. Planetnaya, dom 26, corpse 3, kv. 70

Send letters to the authorities of the concerned former USSR-republics

Send letters to protest to president Putin, and to the Chief Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.

The role of the young communists has always been vital at all stages of the socialist revolution.

There is no wonder that the traitors and revisionists have paid much attention to corrupting and destroying the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League, as well as the CPSU. Unfortunately, despite tremendous efforts of the soviet communist parties, a well-structured youth organisation has not been re-established yet. The World Congress affirms that it is necessary to build a reborn young communist league and wishes success to all enthusiasts in accomplishing this task.

If a united communist league is built across the Soviet Union, it will set an example for the unity of the whole communist movement and will expedite a resurrection of the USSR.

Ever since the victory of the Soviet people and their allies in 1945, the veterans of the great motherland war have been playing an extremely important role in bringing up the new generations of Soviet people. Their stories are invaluable in keeping up the memories of the courage of the Soviet people, when they fought for socialism, for the homeland, for Stalin.

The bourgeois power has done everything it could to isolate the youth from the veterans. Veterans are subjected to humiliation, poverty and extermination. Everyday the number of them falls by 200. The World Congress condemns this process of accelerated extermination of the veterans, conducted by the anti-popular murderous regimes of Yeltsin and Putin. We call upon the Soviet people, who are involved in bringing up the new generation and who care about their history, to relate their ideological activity and educational work to these living examples of heroism, these fighters who liberated humanity from fascist terror.

For three years the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatened with disintegration under the pressure of imperialism, against the will of the Congolese people, which is resisting the aggressive war that was started on August 2, 1998.

We know that in spite of the resolutions of the United Nations, that demand the withdrawal from the Congolese territory of the aggressive troops from Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, and in spite of the Charter of the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity, concerning the respect of the sovereignty of States and the inviolability of the national frontiers, the United States has imposed the so-called agreements of Lusaka, aiming at imposing the factual division of the country, against the will of the people, where the number of victims is estimated today at more than 3,000,000.

The International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People denounces the attempt of imperialism to destabilize the Democratic Republic of Congo and the whole of Africa, and demands that the Congolese people be freely allowed to determine their destination, enjoy full sovereignty and respect for their rights and liberties, which are granted to all peoples of the world.

The International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, held from the 21st to 23^rd of September in 2001 in Toronto, Canada, expresses its warmest revolutionary and internationalist solidarity with and support for the just, heroic struggle of the Palestinian people against the ongoing criminal Zionist onslaught of the state of Israel, fully supported by U.S. imperialism. We continue to support the just demands of the Palestinian people for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in all occupied Arab-Palestinian territories with Jerusalem as its capital! We also call on all progressive, democratic and peace-loving people to intensify their solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people!

We furthermore strongly demand the immediate and unconditional lifting of all embargos against Iraq and the Iraqi people. We support the Communist Party of Iraq. We call on all peace-loving people to launch massive actions of solidarity with the Iraqi people against the ongoing imperialist Zionist war against the Iraqi people. It is the right of only the Iraqi people to decide about the regime and government of their country.

The entities, participating in the World Congress aiming at the creation of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, held in Toronto, Canada, on the 21^st, 22^nd and 23^rd of September 2001, manifest their support and solidarity to the Colombian people and especially to the Communist Party of Columbia and to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC, repudiating the "Colombian plan" currently being carried out on the initiative and under the control of agents of US imperialism against that country.

The participants of the First International Congress of Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, meeting in Toronto, Canada on September 21-22-23, 2001, having been informed of the detention in Paris, France on November 9, 2000, of Manuel Perez Martinez, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (reconstituted) and other communist militants and Spanish anti-fascists, demonstrate our most energetic rejection towards the French government, and demand their immediate freedom. We denounce the conditions of isolation in which they find themselves in the French prisons, the seizure of their correspondence, the lack of medical assistance and the detention of some of their family members who have tried to visit them.

Manuel Perez and the other Spanish comrades were in Paris organizing the revolutionary struggle of the Spanish workers and other popular sectors against the criminal fascist government in Spain; therefore the attitude of the French government shows its open collaboration and complicity which takes from the communists their most elementary rights.

Therefore we express our protest and we reiterate our demand that Manuel Perez and the other Spanish communists and anti-fascists be freed immediately without any type of charges against them.

The communist organizations, individuals, youth and women, as well as means of communication and people participating in the First International Congress of Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, meeting in Toronto, Canada on September 21-22-23, 2001, having been informed about the massacre committed by the Turkish army on December 29, 2000 in the assault on the prisons in which were communists and revolutionaries on hunger strike, conscious of the seriousness of the attempt to shut off these comrades in new extermination prisons called "Type F" under conditions of isolation, express our most energetic condemnation of the plans of the Turkish fascist oligarchy towards our imprisoned comrades. We further denounce the killing of 65 of them in the hunger strike, which is continuing both inside and outside the prison, and the criminal complicity of the imperialist powers which have financed with many millions of dollars the Turkish fascist criminal oligarchy.

We would also like to send our most sincere condolences to the families of the 65 comrades killed in the hunger strike, as well as to the various communist organizations of which they were members, as they constitute for us an example of struggle and revolutionary heroism.

Today the sharpest developments of imperialist contradictions are in the Balkans, the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Caspian Basin areas. Rivalries of the imperialist countries in these areas are much more severe and extensive than rivalry in other areas. Imperialist rivalry in this region is of concern to the working class and toilers in this region. Local unification of all the revolutionaries, anti-imperialists, communists and anti-fascists in this region must aim at imperialist rivalry in this area and this unification must be widened gradually.

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