We communist and workers’ parties from around the world strongly condemn the repeated murderous air strikes by the Israeli air force on Gaza which resulted in the killing of more than 400 Palestinians. By these brutal attacks and other crimes, the government of Israel is trying to achieve what was impossible by imposing the wall, the siege and blockade: to break the resistance of the Palestinian people.

 

The policy of genocide and state terrorism by the Israeli government – supported and endorsed by the powerful imperialist forces in the USA and EU and accepted by some Arab reactionary governments – is a new provocation against the peoples and the worldwide solidarity movement. We call on the workers, women, youth and other sectors, all anti-imperialist and peace loving forces to mobilize against the criminal attacks and policy by the Israeli government, and to demand an immediate halt and for the imposition of sanctions against Israel.

 

Our parties express firm solidarity with the resistance against this aggression, with the progressive, anti-imperialist and communist forces in Palestine and Israel, and with all those fighting to end the occupation and for the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian State, based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Support the struggle for a free and independent Palestine!

 

[Drafted by the Working Group of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) and supported by over 70 parties around the world, including the Communist Party of Canada – December 30, 2008]