Joint Statement: We stand in solidarity with the Tudeh Party of Iran inchampioning peace and progress in Iran!

We, the undersigned communist and workers' parties, express our full and active solidarity with the Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI) as it marks the 40^th anniversary of the second wave of the attack by the theocratic regime that rounded up 10,000 of itsmembers, including key cadres, on 27 April 1983.  100s of those arrested were killed under torture or subsequently executed.

In the 5^th article of the Action Plan of the 22^nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’Parties in Havana, Cuba in October 2022, that was unanimously approved, WE ALLcommitted to express solidarity with the communists who face persecution and prohibitions on the free exercise of their political rights; to stand against dictatorial regimes, repression, and discrimination in terms of democratic rights and freedoms.

The theocratic regime in Iran arrested the General Secretary andall key leaders and some cadres of theTPI on 6^th February 1983 in the first onslaught, subjected them to months of inhumane torture, killing and maiming them in the process, and declared the Party illegal.

The attack on the TPI was undertaken in coordination and cooperation with the security agencies of the imperialist countries - especially the CIA, MI6 of Britain and Mossad of Israel, as well as the security forces of Pakistan and Turkey. 

The regime’s real reason for itsall-out attack on the TPI was because the Party had opposed the Islamists’ attempt to divert the direction and reverse the course of the 1979 national democratic revolution and abandon its social, economic, and political ideals.  The TPI had become a mass party of the working class and was hugely popular and effective in mobilising public opinion.  The regime feared the TPI influence, especially amongst the working class, which could become a truly popular alternative, advocating peace and progress. 

The TPI was also opposed to the Islamic regime’s policy of continuing the fratricidal Iran- Iraq war after the Iraqi forces were defeated and forced out of Iran’s borders in summer 1982.  The TPI believed that the continuation of the war would weaken the two important Middle Eastern nations, and this would only benefit the imperialist countries.

In effect, the TPI was subjected to the most barbaric onslaught only because it supported the key slogans of the 1979 revolution, was against war, andsupported peace and socialism.

Today Iran is ruled by a discredited theocratic dictatorship, the country’s economy is ruined, and none of the achievements of the 1979 revolution have survived.  The country is engulfed in a multi-dimensional economic, social, and cultural crisis. The ruling dictatorship,representing the big mercantile and bureaucratic bourgeois classes, blocks development of any genuine progressive alternative through brute force and repression.

We support the legitimate struggle of the Iranian people for peace, human and democratic rights, sovereignty, and social justice. We also strongly reject any interference by imperialism and reactionary regimes in the Middle East in Iran's internal affairs.  The future direction of political developments in Iran is a decision solely for the people of Iran themselves.

Signed by:

SolidNet Parties

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Communist Party of Australia
3. Communist Party of Austria
4. Party of Labour of Austria
5. Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
6. Communist Party of Bangladesh
7. Communist Party of Belgium
8. Workers Party of Belgium
9. Communist Party of Britain
10. Communist Party of Canada
11. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
12. The Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
13. AKEL (Cyprus)
14. Communist Party in Denmark
15. Communist Party of Denmark
16. Communist Party of Egypt
17. Communist Party of Finland
18. French Communist Party
19. German Communist Party (DKP)
20. Communist Party of Greece
21. Communist Party of India
22. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
23. Tudeh Party of Iran
24. Iraqi Communist Party
25. Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
26. Communist Party of Ireland
27. Workers Party of Ireland
28. Workers Party of Ireland Official
29. Communist Party of Israel
30. Communist Refoundation Party, Italy
31. Jordanian Communist Party
32. Communist Party of Malta
33. Communist Party of Mexico
34. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
35. Communist Party of Norway
36. Palestinian Peoples Party
37. Communist Party of Pakistan

38. Communist Party of Philippine [PKP- 1930]

39. Communists of Serbia
40. South African Communist Party
41. Communist Party of Spain
42. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
43. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
44. Communists of Catalonia
45. Sudanese Communist Party
46. Communist Party of Swaziland
47. Communist Party of Sweden
48. Communist Party of USA (CPUSA)
49. Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties

1. JVP Sri Lanka

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