“The activity of the Communist and Workers’ Parties under the conditions of the pandemic and the capitalist crisis, for safeguarding the health and the rights of the popular strata, in the struggle to change society, for socialism. ”
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Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
Dear Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Solidnet network,
At present, our world is confronting with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID- 19), posing a serious threat to the life and property of humankind, and unprecedentedly causing direct impacts on big and small, developed and developing countries ever seen in decades. COVID-19 was and continues Committee for External Relations of the to be a tremendous challenge to the world’s stability and socio¬economic development as many counParty Central Committee tries have recently witnessed the second wave of the pandemic and an increase in the COVID-19 infected cases, especially in countries in the American and European continents as well as in some Asian countries. Assessing how different governments coping with the COVID-19, we note that on one hand, the outbreak tends to be controlled and calmed down in those countries, whose governments hold the people’s interests at the core and seriously take strict anti-pandemic measures and control. On the other hand, the number of victims of the COVID-19 tends to increasingly rise in the countries, whose governments exploit the outbreak for political gains to engage in the blame game, to the detriment of the people’s lives, in particular the elder population, thus causing social unrest reflecting the underlying problems and fundamental antagonistic elements in some capitalist countries, which have not yet to be resolved and need to be profoundly addressed. In 2020, although the communist and workers’ parties have not been able to directly mobilize their forces as used to do due to the spread of the COVID-19, they actively carried out the activities in various and appropriate ways, for instance the organizing of small gatherings and photos exhibitions and the issuing of joint statements and reports including contributions by communist and workers’ parties to this special report of the IMCWP to be published in the Solidnet website. All this constitutes as important and meaningful undertakings, contributing to the strengthening of solidarity among and the pursuing of common cause of the communist and workers’ parties, the left and progressive movements in the world. The communist and workers’ parties, especially in countries, where they are the ruling ones, have gained achievements in various areas, in particular in prevention, containment and control of the spread of the COVID-19 at the national level as well as provision of medical support and assistance, offered to each other at the regional and international levels, hence reflecting the solidarity and the fine spirit of proletarian internationalism of our communist and workers’ IB Special Edition
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