Communists in Pakistan and Britain stand in solidarity with Iranian people

Communist Party of Pakistan, Solidarity Message

The Communist Party of Pakistan declares its solidarity with the working class, poor peasants, students, women, oppressed nations of Iran, and the fraternal Tudeh Party of Iran who are confronting exploitation, repression, and deepening Capitalist crises. The present upheaval is the product of acute class contradictions under a clerical-capitalist state that rules through coercion, capitalist-plunder, and ideological obscurantism. Inflation, unemployment, and political terror are not aberrations but the normal functioning of a state that serves a parasitic ruling bloc against the interests of the masses. The Iranian people are justified in resisting a system that denies them bread, dignity, and democratic space.

The CPP condemns the brutal repression carried out by the Iranian state, while at the same time issuing a scathing denunciation of global imperialism above all US imperialism which along with Zionist/Imperialist Israel has drenched entire regions in blood under the banner of “democracy” and “human rights.” The criminal sanctions imposed on Iran are a form of imperialist economic warfare and collective punishment aimed at strangling the working class. Imperialism has no moral authority to posture as a saviour of the Iranian people, it bombed Yugoslavia into ruins in 1999, reducing cities to rubble; it occupied Iraq on the basis of lies of WMD, murdering millions and destroying an entire society, it invaded and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, leaving behind devastation, poverty, and reaction.

These are not historical accidents but the consistent methods of imperialist bombs, occupations, sanctions, and wars to crush working people and plunder resources.

From a Marxist-Leninist perspective of our party, the Iranian masses face two enemies, domestic bourgeois-reaction and international imperialism, which feed off one another. Neither clerical tyranny nor imperialist intervention can bring true liberation to the oppressed masses. Only the independent, organised, and revolutionary struggle of the working class leading all oppressed strata can break this vicious cycle. We salute the Tudeh Party of Iran that is struggling simultaneously against imperialism, its Zionist Israeli regime, and the reactionary theocratic dictatorial regime in Iran. We wish the Tudeh Comrades every success. The CPP stands in solidarity with all the Left, democratic and anti-Imperialist forces worldwide to relentlessly expose imperialist hypocrisy, oppose sanctions and interventions, and stand in principled proletarian solidarity with the Iranian working class and its people. The road forward lies in smashing the reactionary bourgeois state apparatus, defeating global imperialist domination, and establishing a workers and peasants power as part of the global struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

Central Committee,

Communist Party of Pakistan

With our fraternal greetings,

The Communist Party of Pakistan

Communist Party of Britain, Solidarity with the people of Iran

Communist Party of Britain’s Communist Party stands in solidarity with the people of Iran in their opposition and struggle against the ruling theocratic dictatorship.

The demonstrations that began on 28th December as mass protests against the collapse of the national currency and deep‑rooted structural corruption, stemming from more than three decades of neoliberal economic policies, compounded by the devastating effects of US sanctions.

Our party condemns the brutal and bloody suppression of the recent demonstrations in Tehran and cities and towns across Iran where many 100s of protesters were murdered, by the Islamic Republic of Iran. We stand in solidarity with the Iranian people in their struggle for democracy, social justice, peace, and national sovereignty.

Britain’s Communist Party, at the same time, condemns the direct interference by Israel and the United States administration in attempting to divert the recent nonviolent protests by infiltrating the protests to create the necessary conditions for Trump’s threat of direct military involvement.

We also strongly oppose the attempts by the British government and the mainstream media in Britain to promote so‑called “humanitarian” military involvement by imperialist countries. The gratuitous action of the British government to close its Teheran embassy at a time when BBC was hosting the war monger John Bolton and well known advocates of regime change in Iran as guests of main news bulletins can only be interpreted as UK support for regime change in Iran. This is openly in contravention of the internal law.

We stand in firm solidarity with the Tudeh Party of Iran and the country’s left and progressive forces, affirming that the Iranian people alone have the right to determine their own future, free from foreign interference or military threats and policies of subversion.

Britain’s Communist Party stands with the Tudeh Party of Iran in its call to build a united national front capable of confronting both the ruling dictatorship and the imperialist interference led by Trump, as well as the military threats directed against Iran.

Executive Committee, Communist Party of Britain