We, the undersigned parties note with deep concern that a state court is threatening to imprison the entire leadership of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party (HCWP) for having committed "libel in a public place".
Our conviction is that putting political leaders on trial and banning their parties is the work of dictatorships, not democracies. The action of the Hungarian authorities violates all democratic norms.
We strongly condemn the political persecution directed by the judicial authorities against the HCWP, as a part of the anticommunist witch-hunt against communists in Europe and against all those who fight against mass privatisation of hospitals, schools, cutting down of social expenditures and other forms of neoliberal policy.
We consider this clear manoeuvre of the Hungarian authorities as a vengeful assault against the Hungarian Communists, and call on for international solidarity in defence of the legal and political rights of the HWCP.
We demand immediate stop of the judicial process against the leaders of the Hungarian communists.
We call upon Prime Minister Gyurcsany and the government of Hungary to step back from the abyss and keep its promises of political freedom, by cancelling all charges against the leadership of the HCWP.
The Parties
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Progressive Tribune Bahrein
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Communist Party of Belarus
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Communist Party of Brazil [PCdoB]
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Workers’ Party of Belgium
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Communist Party of Britain
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Communist Party of Bolivia
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Workers Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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New Communist Party of Britain
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Communist Party of Canada
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Communist Party of Cuba
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Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech Republic
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AKEL, Cyprus
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Communist Party of finland
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French Communist Party
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German Communist Party
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Communist Party of Greece
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Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party
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Communist Party of India [Marxist]
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Tudeh Party, Iran
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Iraqi Communist Party
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Communist Party of Ireland
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Communist Party of Israel
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Party of the Italian Communists, PdCI
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Jordanian Communist Party
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Socialist Party of Latvia
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Socialist Party of Lithuania
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Lebanese Communist Party
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Communist Party of Luxembourg
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Party of the Communists, Mexico
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New Communist Party of the Netherlands
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Communist Party of Norway
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Communist Party of Sri Lanka
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Peruan Communist Party
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Communist Party of Poland
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Portuguese Communist Party
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PKP-1930, the Philippine Communist Party
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Socialist Alliance Party, Romania
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Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Serbia
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Communist Party of Slovakia
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Party of the Communists of Cataluna, Spain
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Communist Party of Peoples of Spain
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Sudanese Communist Party
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South African Communist Party
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Communist Party of Sweden
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Syrian Communist Party
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Communist Party of Turkey
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Party of Labour, Turkey [EMEP]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007