Tudeh Party of Iran – KKE, Joint Statement of 43 Communist and Workers’ Parties on developments in Iran

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We have followed with concern the important developments in Iran over the recent months. We express our solidarity with the communists, the members and the friends of Tudeh Party of Iran, the working people who struggle for the people’s social and democratic rights, for democracy and social progress.

Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel

January 15^th 2010

MK Muhammad Barakeh, the Chairperson of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (DFPE) and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), will take part later this month, with the blessings of the CPI and DFPE leaderships, in the Israeli parliamentary delegation to commemorate the International Day of the Auschwitz Death Camp Liberation by the Red Army. His participation is a clear expression of the ideological and political line, put forward by the CPI and DFPE for many years:

One thousand Israeli peace activists and communists, Jews and Arabs, protest today (Friday, January 22) in East Jerusalem Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against Jewish settlement there. Twenty people, among them members of the Communist Party of Israel, were arrested by the Israeli police and the Frontier Guard (Mishmar HaGvul).

Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) Chairman MK Mohammad Barakeh received a threatening letter to his office Monday (January 18, 2010) following his decision to participate in a delegation to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland to commemorates the liberation of the camp by the Red Army soldiers.

Israel police arrested today (Friday, January 15, 2010) 15 peace protestors in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, among them the CEO of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Hagai Elad and Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) activists.