Joint Statement: On the criminal attack of the USA in Middle East

The Communist and Workers’ Parties denounce the new criminal military attack of the USA on the ground of a foreign country in the international airport of Iraq, under Trump’s command, which resulted in victims, with officials of Iraq and an Iranian General among them. This constituted a flagrant violation of international law and the sovereignty of Iraq.

We denounce the appeals of the US towards the further involvement of NATO in Middle East, along with the sanctions against Iran which reinforce the dangers of a general conflagration in the wider region.

The fierce competition, which is unfolded for the control of markets, energy sources and their transportation routes, is very dangerous for the peoples.

The pretexts used by the US, NATO and the EU, in order to to “whitewash” the new imperialist attack, have been also used in the imperialist wars, against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, and they constitute a provocation against the peoples. We reiterate our solidarity with the peoples of Iran and Iraq, condemn the inhumane sanctions against the Iranian people and any foreign interference within the two countries.

We support the right of the peoples of Iran and Iraq to fight and claim their demands against the antipopular policy, we condemn the repression measures and demand that they be stopped immediately.

We express our sorrow for the tragic human loss due to the downing of the Ukrainian plane.

We express our warm solidarity with the peoples who face the imperialist attacks. We call upon the peoples of our countries in all over the world to condemn decisively the new imperialist crime, to demand from the governments of their countries no support of, no involvement in imperialist plans, to shut down all the bases-launching pads for this kind of attacks of the US, NATO, in all the countries.

Solidnet parties signing:

1. Communist Party of Argentina
2. Communist Party of Armenia
3. Communist Party of Australia
4. Party of Labour of Austria
5. Communist Party of Bangladesh
6. Communist Party of Belgium (PCB-CPB )
7. Brazilian Communist Party
8. Communist Party of Britain
9. New Communist Party of Britain
10. Communist Party of Bulgaria
11. Communist Party of Canada
12. Communist Party of Chile
13. Socialist Workers Party of Croatia
14. AKEL, Cyprus
15. Communist Party in Denmark
16. Communist Party of Ecuador
17. Egyptian Communist Party
18. Communist Party of Finland
19. Communist Party of Greece
20. Communist Party of India [Marxist]
21. Communist Party of India
22. Tudeh Party of Iran
23. Workers Party of Ireland
24. Communist Party of Ireland
25. Communist Party of Israel
26. Communist Party (Italy)
27. Hungarian Workers Party
28. Jordanian Communist Party
29. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
30. Lebanese Communist Party
31. Socialist Party (Lithuania)
32. Communist Party of Malta
33. Communist Party of Mexico
34. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
35. Communist Party of Norway
36. Communist Party of Pakistan
37. Palestinian Communist Party
38. Palestinian Peoples Party
39. Paraguayan Communist Party
40. Philippine Communist Party [PKP 1930]
41. Communist Party of Poland
42. Romanian Socialist Party
43. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
44. Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
45. Russian Communist Workers Party
46. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
47. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
48. Communists of Serbia
49. South African Communist Party
50. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
51. Communists of Catalonia
52. Sudanese Communist Party
53. Communist Party of Swaziland
54. Communist Party of Sweden
55. Syrian Communist Party
56. Communist Party of Turkey
57. Communist Party of Ukraine
58. Union of Communists of Ukraine
59. Communist Party USA

Other Parties signing:

1. Party of Communists USA

Solidarity with the peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans and the Middle East

We condemn the imperialist wars and interventions

in the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans

We express our solidarity with the peoples of the region

The Communist and Workers' Parties participating in the 19th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties and who sign this resolution:

Note that the intra-imperialist contradictions and antagonisms for the control of gas, oil, energy pipelines, and more generally, resources and markets, are the basis of imperialist wars and are directed against the peoples.

We condemn the imperialist wars and interventions that have marked the developments in the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, under the responsibility of the US, NATO and the EU, in the context of intra-imperialist rivalries, as witnessed by the many years of warfare against Syria, Iraq, Libya, the presence of NATO forces in the Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea, and in the wider Balkan region.

We express our internationalist solidarity with the people of Syria, Iraq, Libya and the other peoples of the region.

We demand a just solution to the Cyprus issue, which remains unresolved 43 years after the invasion – occupation by the Turkish bourgeois state.

We support the just struggle of the Palestinian people to end the Israeli occupation.

We stand by the side of refugees and immigrants and at the same time we struggle against the causes that give rise to this phenomenon.

We condemn the involvement of the Greek government of SYRIZA-ANEL, as well as all other NATO and EU governments, which provide troops, bases and other military facilities as a base for imperialist designs in the region.

We call on the peoples to strengthen their struggle against imperialist wars, to eradicate the causes that give rise to them, to escalate the struggle against NATO and the EU, against imperialist alliances.

No involvement of our countries in imperialist plans, no involvement of our country's military forces in imperialist missions. We demand the removal of American-NATO and other foreign military bases from each country. NATO out of the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Balkans, from every region of the globe.

Neither land nor water to the murderers of the peoples

Signed by:

1. PADS (Algeria)
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Communist Party of Bangladesh
4. Communist Party of Belarus
5. New Communist Party of Britain
6. Communist Party of Bulgaria
7. Party of Bulgarian Communists
8. Communist Party of Canada
9. Communist Party in Denmark
10. Communist Party of Denmark
11. Communist Party of Ecuador
12. Communist Party of Esthonia
13. Communist Party of Finland
14. Communist Party of Greece
15. Hungarian Workers Party
16. Communist Party of India
17. Communist Party of India [Marxist]
18. Workers Party of Ireland
19. Communist Party (Italy)
20. Communist Party of Jordan
21. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
22. Socialist Party of Latvia
23. Communist Party of Mexico
24. Communist Party of Norway
25. Palestinian Communist Party
26. Communist Party of Pakistan
27. Paraguayan Communist Party
28. Communist Party of Poland
29. Philippine Communist Party [PKP 1930]
30. Romanian Communist Party
31. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
32. Russian Communist Workers Party
33. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
34. Communists of Serbia
35. Communist Party of Slovakia
36. South African Communist Party
37. Communist Party of the People of Spain
38. Communist Party of Sweden
39. Syrian Communist Party
40. Communist Party of Turkey
41. Communist Party of Ukraine
42. Union of Communists of Ukraine
43. Communist Party of Venezuela

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