p The Communist Party of Denmark brings warm greetings to all fraternal Parties represented here and wishes them every success in our great common cause.

p I wish to convey special greetings to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which has done so much to provide optimal conditions for the preparation of this Meeting. The CPSU, the Party founded by Lenin, has thus rendered one more service to the international workers’ movement and has reaffirmed anew its exceptionally important role in that movement. I would also like to express our gratitude to the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and our appreciation of its immense contribution to the preparations for this International Meeting.

p The very fact that so many fraternal Parties, united by common aims, are assembled here is a clear demonstration that the communist movement is the decisive political reality in the world of today. No other movement could bring together representatives of so many countries and possessing such vast experience in the struggle for the workers’ cause. That alone makes this Meeting an event of outstanding importance, and it is being keenly followed by both friend and foe.

p The question we are here discussing—the struggle against modern imperialism and all its manifestations—is of crucial importance for world development, for the destinies of mankind.

p We must jointly formulate an indictment of imperialism, a social system whose crimes against humanity are unparalleled for their enormity and brutality. And that indictment must be couched in terms, and propagated with such consistency, that will cut through the propaganda screen and ideological fog behind which imperialism seeks to hide its true essence.

p We should jointly work to bring home to the people an understanding of the very substance of the imperialist System and its support base, and show where the blow must be dealt to halt its crimes and put an end to its man-hating propensities.

p We must jointly formulate aims around which all the anti-imperialist forces can be rallied. We must take joint initiatives to bring into this struggle the 193 overwhelming majority of mankind, whose interests demand an end to imperialism’s designs and plans.

We are firmly persuaded that this Meeting—all of whose participants are aware of the responsibility that devolves on us—will accomplish these tasks.