Unite in struggle against capitalist exploitation, armaments, and war

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Contribution of the Communist Party of Luxembourg at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Worker’s Parties in Havana

Dear comrades

On behalf of the Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL), I wish to transmit the greetings and best wishes to the participants of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Worker’s Parties in Havana.

Our special greetings are directed to the heroic people, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba. Since the very beginning of the uprising under the leadership of Comandante Fidel Castro, our party stands in full solidarity with our Cuban friends and comrades on their way of the construction of a socialist society on the American continent, just 90 miles away from the United States of America. Together with all progressive and peace loving people in the world, we condemn the aggressive policy of the Washington governments and demand an end of the blockade and all hostile activities against Cuba.

Our party, which was founded in 1921, is fully aware of the danger, the world of today is facing. 81 years after the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies of the Anti Hitler Coalition, 81 years after the criminal dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are living in a situation in which the very existence of humanity is threatened by the danger of a new world war, which could also be fought using nuclear weapons.

Today, the nuclear-armed states possess more than 12,100 nuclear weapons. In 2025 alone, they spent more than 102 billion euros on their nuclear arsenals – 3,200 euros per second. The investment made in a single day could ensure that two million people no longer have to worry about their next meal. With the funds from the last three years alone, world hunger could be ended.

Regardless of the dangers of military deployment and without regard for the urgently needed funds to eliminate world hunger, to protect the climate and the environment, and to provide better education, health care, housing and social security, ever-increasing sums in the billions continue to be invested in the possibility of plunging the entire world into a nuclear inferno.

In light of this danger, our party regards the struggle for peace, for disarmament, and for the prohibition of all nuclear weapons as the most important task of a communist party today. For this struggle, it is urgently necessary to unite all social forces that sincerely advocate for peace into a large and powerful peace movement.

We consider it urgently necessary for the communist and workers’ parties throughout the world to set aside existing differences in their assessment of the situation as well as regarding the paths and methods of struggle, and to focus on the common ground in our struggle. We have a common enemy: capitalism, which, in its imperialist stage of development, constantly devises new methods to intensify the exploitation of man by man; whose competitive struggles are increasingly waged at the expense of working people; which, in its greed for profit, shows no regard for human life, for the environment, or the climate, and which, when faced with the prospect of high profit margins, tramples all human laws underfoot and for which there is no crime it will not risk, even at the risk of its own downfall.

It is in this spirit, that the European Union, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for no apparent reason, is increasingly developing into an alliance of hostility between nations, merciless competition, hostile sanctions, unrestrained armament and the support and preparation of wars.

Increasing poverty, rampant price rises, massive job losses, cuts to almost all important social services, an ailing education system and a sick health service, an increasingly uncertain future for young people and growing poverty in old age – none of this is mentioned in the plans and speeches of EU leaders. At the same time, the friction between the EU states, the confrontation with Russia and China and the competition with the USA are intensifying.

The confrontations in Europe and in the world are intensifying. None of the Western countries is taking any effective steps to end the war in Ukraine, the aggression of the USA and Israel against Iran as well as Israel's war of aggression against the people of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.

In order to end the war in Ukraine, it is urgently necessary to find a way to start negotiations and to find a solution to all the problems at stake on the basis of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations Organization, taking into account the security interests of all sides involved, and to create a new security architecture based on the principle of the Conference on European Security and Cooperation (CSCE).

The supply of more and more weapons, ammunition and money to Ukraine has above all a negative impact on the economic situation of the donor countries. Our call for negotiations has nothing to do with a call for capitulation by one side or the other.

The CC of the KPL strongly opposes the 800 billion Euro program of the EU for further armament, and opposes the increasing the military budget by the Luxembourg government to levels not seen in the worst days of the Cold War.

Our party launched a campaign against rearmament, war and military service. We are using our daily newspaper, posters and stickers and we are targeting young people in our country with leaflets. We take every opportunity to make it clear to the people in our country that the militarization of the EU and the war policy of NATO also have a direct impact on the social situation in our own country.

Communists all over the world have always been the first and very often the only ones to actively oppose wars and armament.

We call on all communist and workers’ parties: Let us join hands and unite our struggle against capitalist exploitation, armaments, and war, and for peace, disarmament, and social security.

Ali Ruckert

President of the Communist Party of Luxembourg