Joint statement of Communist Parties: Occupation is Terror; Annexation is Apartheid

On the initiative of the Palestinian People’s Party and the Communist Party of Israel, communist and workers’ parties from across the world signed the following joint statement.

On June 5^th 2020 it is the 53^rd anniversary of the 1967 aggressive war, where Israel had occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza strip, the Syrian Golan and Sinai peninsula.

This anniversary comes in the shadow of the Israeli government’s declared intention to annex the Occupied Palestinian Lands supported by the US Administration, as part of the disastrous “Deal of the Century”. Meaning, perpetuating the occupation, deepening the settlements and creating an official Apartheid regime, while clearing the Palestinian people’s right of self-determination, and preventing the end of occupation, settlements and the establishment of a Palestinian independent state on the borders of June 4^th 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital and the right of return for refugeesaccording to international resolutions.

Netanyahu’s government and Trump’s administration are pulling the region to the edge as well as they both are perpetuating the conflict in the service of hegemony projects, they then are betting on the silence of the international community on these crimes – war crimes- especially as the world is preoccupied with COVID-19 implications on health, society and economy.

We, the undersigned workers’ and communist parties of the world, call upon the progressive anti-imperialist forces around the world to continue the struggle against this criminal Israeli policy and the impudent support of imperialism in liquidating the rights of the Palestinian People and exterminating any chance to exercise international law, and reach security and stability in the region. 

Down with the Occupation!

Forward the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination!

SolidNet Parties

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
3. Communist Party of Armenia
4. Party of Labour of Austria
5. Communist Party of Australia
6. Progressive Tribune of Bahrain
7. Communist Party of Belgium
8. Workers’ Party of Belgium
9. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
10. Communist Party of Brazil
11. Brazilian Communist Party
12. New Communist Party of Britain
13. Communist Party of Britain
14. Communist Party of Canada
15. Communists of Catalonia
16. Communist Party of Chile
17. Communist Party of Cuba
18. AKEL – Cyprus
19. Communist Party in Denmark
20. Communist Party of Finland
21. French Communist Party
22. German Communist Party
23. Communist Party of Greece
24. Communist Party of India (Marxist) 
25. Tudeh Party of Iran
26. Communist Party of Kurdistan Iraq
27. Workers’ Party of Ireland
28. Iraqi Communist Party
29. Communist Party of Israel
30. Communist Party of Italy
31. Italian Communist Party
32. Jordanian Communist Party
33. Communist Party of Mexico
34. Popular Socialist Party – National Political Association, Mexico
35. Communist Party of Norway
36. Palestinian People’s Party
37. Paraguayan Communist Party
38. Peruvian Communist Party
39. PKP-1930, the Philippine Communist Party
40. Communist Party of Poland
41. Portuguese Communist Party
42. Union of Communist Parties – CPSU
43. Communists of Serbia
44. Communist Party of Spain
45. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain – PCTE
46. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
47. Sudanese Communist Party
48. South African CP
49. Communist Party of Swaziland
50. Communist Party of Turkey
51. Communist Party of Ukraine
52. Communist Party of USA
53. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Other Parties

1. New Communist Party of Aotearoa