International Coordination Of Revolutionary Parties And Organizations (ICOR)
May 6, 2025
This year, on May 8 in Europe and August 6 in Asia, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Hitlerite fascism. On this day in 1945, millions of people around the world celebrated the end of what was up until then the most terrible of all wars, World War II. On May 9, 1945, Stalin announced: “Fascist Germany, forced to its knees by the Red Army and the troops of our allies, has admitted defeat and has announced her unconditional surrender.”
At that time the Soviet Union was the leading socialist country and the main force behind the defeat of Hitlerite fascism, ultimately in conjunction with the anti-Hitler coalition. The surrender of Hitlerite fascism also demonstrated the victory and superiority of socialism over imperialist capitalism. In partisan warfare, anti-fascist alliances resisted and contributed to victory in many countries around the world. Communist forces were at their core and often their main force. In the fascist labor camp “Buchenwald” in Germany, the prisoners, led by communists and an International Camp Committee, managed to liberate themselves. The power of the socialist Soviet Union inspired the revolutionary spirit of the workers and peoples of the world. In Eastern and Southern Europe they fought for people’s democratic revolutions and embarked on the road to socialism. Revolutionary movements grew stronger in Asia, including in China, Vietnam, and Korea. National liberation movements in colonies and dependent countries gained momentum.
Revolutionaries and all peace-loving people of the world must carry on this torch of socialism, of the revolutionary world movement, and of the masses fighting against fascism!
Today, the danger of a nuclear Third World War has intensified. This fact is still largely underestimated: “There are already wars everywhere.” A nuclear world war would have a different dimension. Entire regions would be uninhabitable for thousands of years and millions of people would die a cruel death.
Already today, one in eight people in the world is exposed to violence and destruction through wars and conflicts. 305 million people are dependent on humanitarian aid, and over 120 million people are fleeing their homes. US President Donald Trump demands that NATO members spend 5% of their gross domestic product on the military. This would mean additional trillions of dollars being redistributed from the bottom to the top at the expense of the people. Over 50,000 people have been murdered in the Gaza war alone. The Israeli government’s barbaric warfare has rigorously broken the ceasefire, stopped all supplies to the masses, and plans the complete annexation of Gaza with the expulsion or destruction of the Palestinian people. Gaza is today a global hot spot of resistance and liberation struggle, and we support it with the utmost priority, determination, and solidarity. We have committed ourselves to expressing this resolutely on May 15, Nakba Day, around the world.
The causes of the genocide in Gaza, Sudan, and Congo, and the destruction in Ukraine, all have the same root: intensified competition between imperialist powers for market shares and raw materials. The fight against imperialist war must also be a fight against government budgets, massive social cuts, and above all against our own rulers. They demagogically try to portray their imperialist interests as the defense of all our interests.
Let us not allow ourselves to be led to our deaths on the battlefields of the world for the interests of the imperialists! The main enemy is in our own country. Fascism and war are once again proving to be two sides of the same coin. Lasting peace can only be achieved through the worldwide victory of socialism and communism.
The division of the working class was a major reason why the fascists succeeded in gaining influence over large masses of people. Today there is an acute fascist danger in many countries around the world, including Trump in the US, Meloni in Italy, Le Pen in France, Modi in India, Erdoğan in Turkey, Marcos in the Philippines, and Netanyahu in Israel. In particular the connection between imperialist wars and fascism makes it clear that the working class must be the leading force in this struggle, but it must unite with the broadest masses of the people and national liberation struggles and represent and anchor the socialist perspective.
“They can cut the all flowers, but they can’t stop the spring”, said Pablo Neruda.
All over the world, from Oslo to Cape Town and Portugal to Tokyo, the masses are rising up against the fascist threat and unjust wars. In Turkey, the masses are courageously taking to the streets. In Italy, dockworkers blocked the ports under the slogan: “Let’s lower the weapons, let’s raise the wages! Let’s block the logistics of war!”
Georgi Dimitrov aptly defined fascism as “the terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.” Karl Liebknecht already said, “Not a penny and not a man for this system.”
Workers do not shoot workers!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Fight fascism!
Worldwide mass resistance can prevent a world war—only socialism and communism can secure peace!
Strengthen ICOR!
Further signing possible.
1. PCPCI Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d’Ivoire (Proletarian Communist Party of Ivory Coast)
2. 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)
3. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
4. PCT Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)
5. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
6. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
7. БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)
8. PR-ByH Partija Rada – ByH (Party of Labor – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
9. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
10. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
11. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
12. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
13. UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)
14. RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)
15. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
16. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
17. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
18. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic
19. SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)
20. Chinese Communists (MLM) Chinese Communists (Marxist Leninist Maoist)
Source : https://www.icor.info/en/2025/they-can-cut-all-the-flowers-but-they-cant-stop-the-spring