Guest Editorial

Statement by the RCWP-RPC

"Fascism begins with anti-communism"- these words were recently heard in the Russian Duma from the Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alferov. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and a Deputy. Alferov warned the people of the dangerous symptoms of the present brown politics in the actions of the pro-government (Putin) faction, who have been inciting an anti-Communist hysteria in the Russian parliament. Today we can perceive these symptoms practiced politically by the Russian State organs.

On May 16^th, the Ministry of Justice rejected the registration application from the Russian Communist Workers Party-the Revolutionary Party of Communists.

Ministry officials were frightened by the statement of the RCWP-RPC Charter, according to which the principal aims of the RCWP-RPC were for form public opinion in the spirit of scientific communism, advocating the necessity of a revolutionary (i.e. fundamental) transformation of the social order with the view to establish the dominance of public property of the means of production and, thereby to provide an all-round, free development and well-being of all the individuals.

The free development of all members of society left the Justice Department unhappy, and they found that a "Revolutionary Party’ aims at a violent change of the constitutional order, compromises the integrity of the Russian Federation."

Setting up such parties is unlawful, said the zealous Russian Justice officials, referring to the term where revolutions is defined merely as a violent, forcible overthrow.

The Ministry of Justice officials declined the explanations that the term revolution in the broad sense, means a fundamental change, a qualitative leap to a more progressive system. In their desire to serve the propertied strata, they are fully prepared to declare a scientific and technological revolution as an anti-constitutional process.

This way, we can once again see the confirmation that the bourgeois jurisprudence is by the will of the ruling class made into law. The legal guarantees to the proprietors are above all.

Our party was registered by the Ministry of Justice more than 10 years ago and has been acting in accordance with the Charter and Program, whose positions and principles are equivalent to those presented to the Ministry now. It took part in the parliamentary elections, where it received support from millions of citizens and came out as the leading political foe within the extra-parliamentary opposition.

The RCWP-RPC and its Central Committee states that the Ministry of Justice is overtly using the procedure as a pretext to "clean-up" the left wing and to force the true Communist opposition out of the political life.

This is but a direct manifestation of fascism. Usually what follows is the ban on the Communist ideology itself and then the book-burning. This had already happened in the past, and how the ban imposers and burners were to end up is also widely known.

RCWP CC states that the party will not move away from its path and dedication and will fight for the workers rights against creeping fascism!

We shall not tremble at traversing the road we have chosen!

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