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>Subject: [New-Worker-News] International Meeting of Communist and Workers
>Parties in Athens
>
>�Communists' Experience With Alliances and Cooperation�
>
>Athens 23-26 June 2000
>
>Press Release
>issued by the CPG
>
>In the three - day meeting, hosted in Athens by the CPG, on the
>topic
>Communists' Experience With Alliances and Cooperation, 60 Communist
>and Workers' Parties from 47 countries took part. A number of
>parties,
>although having expressed the wish to participate, were not able to
>attend, for reasons independent of their will, concerning the
>situation in their countries.
>
>During the three - day proceedings, there was a rich debate and an
>exchange of views on the topics of the meeting.
>
>There was also a general consensus as far as the usefulness and the
>necessity of such meetings among Communist and Workers' Parties.
>
>Many speakers referred to the need for continuing and intensifying
>such meetings, showing that, in spite of the existing difficult
>international and local conditions, the Communist and Workers'
>Parties
>continue to struggle, to meet and exchange their experiences and to
>constitute a real active force in all continents.
>
>It was also stressed that the alliance policies of each party are
>inseparably linked with the day - to - day struggles on national
>level
>but also link the national and international aspects of the struggle.
>Many of the participants also referred to the need for initiatives
>for
>convening international meetings with specific topics as well as
>regional meetings (America, Africa, Asia, Europe), while developing
>the ones that took place.
>
>It was also noted that, in spite of the varying views that naturally
>exist among the parties, in these meetings, including the present
>one,
>do emerge common views among the parties in the struggle against
>imperialism, its aggressiveness and its methods of international
>exploitation of the working people.
>
>It was noticed that the gap between the so-called North and South
>continually broadens at the expense of the peoples of the South, that
>constitute the majority of the world population, a fact that has
>turned the South into an important field of confrontation with
>imperialism.
>
>It was also stressed that the manifestations in Seattle, Davos,
>Washington, Bangkok as well as the manifestations organized during
>every EU Summit Meeting (as the recent ones in Portugal) constitute a
>new element of communists' experience. They are manifestations
>against the policies of international trade and financial
>institutions
>influenced by imperialism like WTO, IMF and WB that have led many
>countries and peoples to dependence and subjugation through huge
>indebtedness. The new possibilities offered by these manifestations
>and the need for a more active and coordinated participation of the
>communists were also mentioned.
>
>A number of speakers referred to the new order that imperialism is
>trying to impose with the new NATO strategy, the bombings in
>Yugoslavia and the creation of a new international law based on the
>dominance of the strongest. The importance of mass reactions directed
>against imperialist hegemonic policies of the USA, NATO and the EU
>leading quarters, against the Rapid Deployment Forces in the making
>and the forces of crises management, Europe's militarization and the
>new US anti-ballistic missile system, against nuclear weapons,
>imperialist interventions and military occupation, against the change
>of borders, and the economic blockage was also stressed.
>
>In their speeches the participants pointed out the particular
>importance of coordination of the struggle of trade union movements
>and organizations focusing on capitalist restructuring and the attack
>against labour rights and gains. The struggle against TNCs and their
>attack against labour, as well as the coordination of this struggle
>in all their subsidiaries and branches located in various countries
>were also noted. Many speakers stressed the need for international
>coordination of such struggles and of the particular contribution of
>communists.
>
>The participants underlined serious concern for the growing bans,
>persecutions and discriminations against communist parties,
>communists
>and, generally, against those resisting capitalist barbarity and
>imperialist interventions.
>
>In the meeting, the first issue of the �Information Bulletin�,
>in
>which each Communist and Workers' Party can publish its documents,
>was
>made available. At the same time, the first positive results from the
>operation of the Rapid Information Centre through Internet, under the
>name of SOLIDNET.ORG were presented.
>
>We believe that the ideas developed by the representatives of the
>Communist and Workers' Parties in this meeting will contribute to the
>efforts of the Parties to respond to the increasing requirements of
>the existing situation, to coordinate and to confront the mounting
>imperialist aggressiveness and to respond to the need of humanity for
>a socialist solution.
>
>In the sessions held over the three days, the participants had the
>opportunity to develop their bilateral relations, to contact other
>parties, to exchange views.
>
> We believe that the international meeting, in spite of difficulties
>and different approaches on a number of issues, will contribute to
>the
>coordination and common action of the Communist and Workers' Parties.
>
>
>Athens 25th June 2000
>
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