Palestinian Communist Party: Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties – Stop the “Genocide” in Gaza! (24.5.2025)

I Will Keep An Eye on the Ideological Direction of the Palestinian Communist Party!

Translator’s Note: Broad alliances, or United Fronts, are usually Shakey affairs, The USSR, for instance, during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, insisted that the KMT (Nationalists) and the Chinese Communist Movement continue to co-operate (at least on the surface) if both wanted to continue to receive Soviet support and aid whilst opposing Western encroachment and Imperial Japanese invasion. This policy was adhered to even after the KMT massacred thousands of Communists in 1928. The idea was that the Chinese people were stronger together (solidarity) when facing external or internal threats. This alliance held in theory – until its inherent contradictions quite rightly tore it apart – with the Soviet-backed Communists prevailing over the US-backed KMT. Today, Communist China stands alone whilst the US-backed KMT continues to hold-out on the island of Taiwan. Having said this, the “list” included below does NOT include all the Communist Parties in the world but only those linked to a post-1991 Greek convention that seeks to draw the various splinter groups together. Hard-line Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Stalinists, and Maoists are excluded from this group of revisionists.

The USSR is long gone – but modern (capitalist) Russia has taken its place (a kind of neo-Czarism) which sees a limited (but thoroughly bourgeois) Russian nationalism take the place of Marxist-Leninist “Internationalism”. Note that in the list of mainly “revisionist” Communist Parties below (most are Trotskyite adjacent to varying degrees), the Communist Parties of Russia, Donetsk, and Lugansk are missing (whilst a number of Ukrainian groups are present). Why is this? Well, those splintered and dying off-shoots of the pre-1991 Communist Parties linked historically to the USSR below, do not support Russia’s fight against Neo-Nazi Ukraine. The dominant (dialectically distorted) Trotskyite view is that the “capitalist” nature of modern Russia supersedes the “Neo-Nazi” nature of modern (Catholic) Ukraine. This is because Leon Trotsky supported fascism and the Catholic Church (in 1938 he openly called upon his followers to support Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito in any far-right attack upon the USSR) – with Trotskyite fighters opposing the Socialist (USSR-supported) side during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), etc. Personally, I think it is morally repugnant that Ukrainians are included on this list – but Russians excluded (either exclude both or include both – do not favour one over the other – although Russia does have precedence due to its anti-fascist war). I think that in the future I will seriously reconsider whether I will share anything from the Communist Party of Palestine if this is its guiding ideology.

Therefore, the supposed Communist Parties below, although they oppose Israel’s war against Zionism, do not support Russia’s war against Neo-Nazi Ukraine (with the odd exception). The problem is that the odd exception, if given more dialectical weight than it deserves, permits the over-all “revisionist” attitude of the others to prevail unquestioned. This is NOT working class “Internationalism” – but Trotskyite “Entryism” (racist nationalism). The working class is being chopped-up into ever smaller and weaker competing power-blocs pursuing political dead-ends and contradictory agendas (in one of the first CPB Croydon meetings I attended around 2010 – the question tabled in a debate asked “Was it correct for the USSR to have fought Nazi Germany during WWII?” – I was astonished – even more so when the Trotskyite-line adopted was a distortion of Marx’s “question everything” – incorrectly used as an excuse to placate fascism).

George Galloway’s made-up “Workers’ Party” is conspicuous by its absence (it possesses NO Communist history and has grown out of Labour’s bourgeois ideology) – this is because Galloway supports Palestine – but pursues an openly fascist (in fact, “National Socialist”) agenda that falsely views these Communist Parties below as actually being “Communist”! Another “missing link” as it where, at least in the UK, in the CPB-ML which broke-away from the original CPGB in the late 1960s and originally was supportive of Maoist China. Today, it pursues the Trotskyite agenda of viewing all foreign workers as a danger to British workers – whilst ignoring the fact that ALL workers are equally the victims of predatory capitalism (presumably Palestine workers are a “threat” to British workers). The NCP originally (late 1970s) supported the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist line – but soon diverted away toward a one-sided support for the DPRK – as if the Juche model suitable for North Korean dialectical and historical conditions is suitable for those conditions prevailing in England.

When my family was racially abused for being “Chinese” by Corbyn Labour Party supporters, TUC members, SWP members and the odd Polish migrant – at a 2019 Anti-Fascist March in London (you couldn’t make it up) – we marched next to NCP the members of which saw what was happening but said and did nothing. Meanwhile, the CPB never turned-up (we were then the only representatives). When I wrote articles for both the “New Worker” (NCP) and “Morning Star” (CPB) newspapers explaining what had happened – both were ignored. The NCP explained (truthfully) that three of its members carried the DPRK for Comrade Kim Jong Un – whilst the CPB concocted an article claiming that at least “20-30” of is members marched and there was an impressive sea of red flags! In fact, ample photographs of the event were taken and we can be clearly seen carrying the Soviet red flag (I always refused to carry the revisionist CPB flag) marching on our own with a gap of about ten-feet all around us as the crowd made their feelings clear. We (the four of us) were the “sea of red” the Morning Star tried to spin into being a platoon. Always think for yourself and observe the contradictions in a detached and sombre manner. We will not mention the absence of the Communist Parties of Israel, USA, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea, etc. ACW ((24.5.2025)

We, the Communist and Workers’ Parties, condemn the new crime committed against the Palestinian people, which is being perpetrated before the eyes of all humanity and is the result of the escalating barbaric military aggression and the criminal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The genocide perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip, with thousands of civilian deaths, including children and the elderly, and the deprivation of millions of people from food, water, electricity, and medical supplies, with the complete destruction of hospitals and displacement, is being carried out with the support of the United States, NATO, the European Union, and all those bourgeois regimes that support Israel or remain silent about this inhuman crime.

We express our full solidarity with the Palestinian people and defend their right to a free homeland and to be masters of their own land. We condemn the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and the killings, imprisonment, persecution, and settlement activities.

We demand an end to the Israeli occupation, the establishment and recognition of an independent Palestinian state, a halt to settlement activity and the dismantling of illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories, the release of prisoners from Israeli prisons, and the return of refugees in accordance with UN Resolution 194.

We salute the broad international solidarity with the Palestinian people, demonstrated in many countries, and we call on workers, peoples, and youth in all countries to strengthen it!

To stop the massacre in the Gaza Strip, end the occupation of Palestine by Israel, and express decisive solidarity with the just struggle of the Palestinian people.

All to the streets of struggle!

Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS)

Communist Party of Australia

Party of Labor of Austria

Brazilian Communist Party

Communist Party of Britain

New Communist Party of Britain

Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of El Salvador

German Communist Party

Communist Party of Greece

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Iraqi Communist Party

Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq

Tudeh Party of Iran

Workers Party of Ireland

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan

Lebanese Communist Party

Communist Party of Mexico

New Communist Party of the Netherlands

Communist Party of Pakistan

Palestinian Peoples Party

Palestinian Communist Party

Philippine Communist Party [PKP 1930]

Romanian Socialist Party

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain

Communists of Catalonia

Sudanese Communist Party

Communist Party of Sweden

Communist Party (Switzerland)

Swiss Communist Party

Syrian Communist Party

Communist Party of Turkey

Communist Party of Ukraine

Union of Communists of Ukraine

Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties signing the Joint Statement

Argentinian Communist Party

Communist Front (Italy)

Communist Revolutionary Party of France (PCRF)

Communist Workers’ Platform USA (CWPUSA)

5/21/2025

Arabic Language Text:

https://t.me/comradPcp/264

بيان مشترك للأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية

فلنوقف الإبادة الجماعية لشعب فلسطين

ندينُ نحن الأحزاب الشيوعية والعمالية الجريمة الجديدة المرتكبة بحق الشعب الفلسطيني، والتي ترتكب أمام أعين البشرية جمعاء والتي جاءت نتيجة العدوان العسكري البربري المتزايد والحصار الإسرائيلي الإجرامي لقطاع غزة.

إن الإبادة الجماعية التي ترتكبها إسرائيل في قطاع غزة، مع آلاف القتلى من المدنيين والأطفال وكبار السن، مع حرمان الملايين من البشر من الغذاء والماء والكهرباء والإمدادات الطبية، مع التدمير الكامل للمستشفيات وتشريدهم، تجري بدعم من الولايات المتحدة وحلف شمال الأطلسي والاتحاد الأوروبي وكل تلك الأنظمة البرجوازية التي تدعم إسرائيل أو تلزمُ الصمت بشأن هذه الجريمة اللاإنسانية.

إننا نُعرب عن تضامننا الكامل مع الشعب الفلسطيني وندافع عن حقه في وطن حر، وأن يكون سيداً على أرضه. و نُدين الاحتلال الإسرائيلي المستمر للأراضي الفلسطينية، وعمليات القتل والسجن والاضطهاد والاستيطان.

نطالب بإنهاء الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، وإنشاء دولة فلسطينية مستقلة والاعتراف بها، و بإيقاف الاستيطان و تفكيك المستوطنات غير الشرعية في الأراضي الفلسطينية، وإطلاق سراح السجناء من السجون الإسرائيلية، وعودة اللاجئين وفقا لقرار الأمم المتحدة 194.

و نحيي التضامن الأممي الواسع مع الشعب الفلسطيني، والذي تجلى في العديد من البلدان، وندعو العمال والشعوب والشباب في جميع البلدان إلى تعزيزه!

من أجل وقف المذبحة في قطاع غزة وإنهاء احتلال فلسطين من قبل إسرائيل، و اﻹعراب الحاسم عن التضامن مع النضال العادل للشعب الفلسطيني.

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