We condemn the entire criminal prosecution process and the decisions of the courts of the Slovak Republic directed against the political actions of communists.
This is not the first time that such developments have occurred in Slovakia. Under similar conditions—whether during periods of capitalist crisis marked by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, or under the Slovak nationalist state during World War II (the Communist Party’s activities were suspended on September 10, 1938)—communists have been subjected to comparable forms of persecution by the ruling capitalist class and its political representatives. Číst dál