Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
To celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party of China, Contemporary China Publishing House published a nearly 900,000-word "Witnessing the Centennial Party- A Narrative of 100 Foreign Communists" (hereinafter referred to as "Joint Witness"). The project was coordinated by the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Center for World Socialism Research, and the Bureau of International Cooperation, and interviewed more than 100 communists from more than 40 countries and more than 50 communist party organizations on six continents, witnessing from their perspective the vicissitudes of Chinese society in the past century under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Victor Cote, general secretary of the Argentine Communist Party, said: "In 1921, the Communist Party of China was founded. This is another important historical event witnessed by world communism and all mankind after the victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Looking back at the history of the Communist Party of China over the past hundred years, such events have aroused people's admiration for China again and again and inspired those of us comrades who are fighting for the cause of socialism and the cause of human liberation. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China has undergone earth-shaking changes and won the respect of the whole world. ”
Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said: "At the end of the 20th century, in the difficult years of the international communist movement, socialist China stood firm ... Today, thanks to the chinese economy, the economies of the rest of the world have not collapsed thanks to the continued fermentation of the institutional crisis of capitalism, which has saved hundreds of millions of people on all continents from poverty and hunger... It is no exaggeration to say that today, on a world scale, the achievements of socialism depend to a large extent on the achievements of the Communist Party of China. ”
Egon Krrenz, former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the United Socialist Party of the GDR, said: "Ernst Thärmann, chairman of the German Communist Party, wrote on April 13, 1927 in the Red Flag, the newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany: 'The eyes of all mankind are on China. He praised the Chinese Communist Party for "breaking the shackles of imperialism with the oldest culture on earth." As a Communist in the homeland of Marx and Engels, I am pleased when looking back on history: the Chinese Communists not only broke this shackle, not only defeated colonialism, war and counter-revolution, not only completed the Long March, but also built the People's Republic of China into a stable people's democratic state and a beacon before all socialists who truly aspired to socialism. ”
Sarah Flandres, executive member of the Central Committee of the American Workers' World Party, said: "The U.S. war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria over the past 20 years has proved that the 'dream' of US imperialism trying to recolonize the world is an absolute disaster. U.S. imperialism is trying to maintain its faltering control of world domination and to prevent the rise of the People's Republic of China — because China offers the people of the world an alternative world order under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party based on multilateralism, mutually beneficial relations, and non-interference in internal affairs. The American Workers' World Party pays tribute to the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China! US imperialism, don't interfere with China!"
Today, the century-old party is flourishing, and the great cause of the thousand autumns is showing a bright future. José Centella Gomez, chairman of the Communist Party of Spain, said: "One of the greatest contributions of the Communist Party of China to the world is the concept of a 'community with a shared future for mankind' put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, which is very necessary for the future development of the earth." It transcends the differences in human society, points out the greater benefits that all mankind can achieve, lays an important foundational concept for peaceful development and the construction of a harmonious world, and represents a change in the way international relations are understood. The global emergency caused by the large-scale spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the validity of the initiative of the 'Community of Shared Future for Mankind'. Some countries must put an end to cold-war mentality and policies, bury trade wars once and for all, put an end to the imperialist model of globalization and give way to an economic, social and institutional internationalism of a united nature. We must be aware that the achievement of this goal requires the joint cooperation of many parties. ”