On 8 May 1945, German Hitler-fascism capitulated. The 2nd World War had wreaked havoc on all continents for six years and claimed over 60 million lives, and still years after the end of World War II it left immeasurable misery and death. However, the result of the heroic struggle and victory over fascism was that the peoples in the countries under capitalist rule stepped up their struggle for national liberation against imperialism and in the countries of people's democracies intensified the struggle for building up socialism. So one-third of humanity was liberated from imperialism and capitalism and people's democracies and socialism were constructed!

 

For anti-communist reasons, the capitalist Western Allies had hesitated for a long time to enter this war against Hitler because they wanted the aggressive German imperialism to fight against and defeat the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and its allies among the workers and broad masses all over the world. They had not succeeded in this with the War of Intervention from 1918 to 1920 supporting the White Terror. Again they had not reckoned with the working class and the broad masses in the Soviet Union. They struggled and defeated Hitler together with the heroic resistance of the communists and partisans of the European countries in the firm conviction of constructing socialism in their own country.

 

Fascism is the deadly enemy of the working class and the peoples of the world, of  socialism and communism and their organizations. Imperialism and colonialism are the womb out of which fascism always emerges anew. In the lee of the present Corona crisis, too, the fascist and proto-fascist governments, as in Hungary, Brazil, Israel, India and Turkey, are attempting to organize the transition to fascism or have built up a fascist system. In further imperialist countries like the USA, Germany, France or Great Britain the rightward development of the governments is also continuing to develop and has attained acceptance for proto-fascist ideas among certain parts of the population. At the head of this development is US imperialism.

 

In different parts of the world fascism has increased under the cover of the Corona crisis.

 

May 8/9, August 6 (Hiroshima) and September 1 (beginning of World War II) are the international day of struggle against fascism and war for the ICOR.

 

"Every nation can celebrate this day in its own way. But the essence remains the same: Down with fascism! Down with capitalist wars!" (from a call by KSRD Ukraine)

As revolutionary world organization, the ICOR promotes the socialist revolution and the construction of socialism, democracy and freedom in the entire world. Celebrating 75 years of the victory over fascism and learning from this today means putting all our efforts into strengthening the revolutionary movement in the world, as is stated in the Founding Resolution: “The desire and search for a society liberated from exploitation and oppression has to become a force for changing society which overcomes the basic evil of the imperialist world system.“

 

Signatories (as of 07 May 2020, further signatories possible):
1. PCPCI   Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire
2. ORC   Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. UPC-Manidem   Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy), Cameroon
4. MMLPL   Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line
5. CPSA (ML)   Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
6. PCT   Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo), Togo
7. PPDS   Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
8. CPI (ML) Red Star   Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
9. Ranjbaran   Hezb-e Ranjbaran-e Iran (Proletarian Party of Iran)
10. PPRF   Patriotic Peoples Republican Front of Nepal
11. БКП   Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)
12. PR-ByH   Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bosnia and Herzegovina
13. MLPD   Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
14. UCLyon   Unité Communiste Lyon (Communist United Lyon), France
15. UPML   Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
16. KOL   Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
17. MIKSZ   Magyar Ifjúság Közösségi Szervezete (Organisation of Hungarian Youth Community), Hungary
18. RM   Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
19. MLGS   Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
20. VZDOR   VZDOR - strana práce (Resistance - labour party), Slovakia
21. MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)
22. KSRD   Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
23. PCC-M   Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia - Maoist)
24. PCP (independiente)   Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan  Communist Party (independent))
25. PPP   Partido Proletario del Perú (Proletarian Party of Peru)
26. PC (ML)   Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic
27. PCR-U   Partido Comunista Revolucionario del Uruguay (Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay)
28.           CPA (M-L)  Communist Party of  Australia (Marxist-Leninist)