The Communist Party of Pakistan declares its solidarity with the working class, poor peasants, students, women, oppressed nations of Iran, and the fraternal Tudeh  Party of Iran who are confronting exploitation, repression, and deepening Capitalist crises. The present upheaval is the product of acute class contradictions under a clerical-capitalist state that rules through coercion, capitalist-plunder, and ideological obscurantism. Inflation, unemployment, and political terror are not aberrations but the normal functioning of a state that serves a parasitic ruling bloc against the interests of the masses. The Iranian people are justified in resisting a system that denies them bread, dignity, and democratic space.

The CPP condemns the brutal repression carried out by the Iranian state, while at the same time issuing a scathing denunciation of global imperialism above all US imperialism which along with Zionist/Imperialist Israel has drenched entire regions in blood under the banner of “democracy” and “human rights.” The criminal sanctions imposed on Iran are a form of imperialist economic warfare and collective punishment aimed at strangling the working class. Imperialism has no moral authority to posture as a saviour of the Iranian people, it bombed Yugoslavia into ruins in 1999, reducing cities to rubble; it occupied Iraq on the basis of lies of WMD, murdering millions and destroying an entire society, it invaded and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, leaving behind devastation, poverty, and reaction. 

These are not historical accidents but the consistent methods of imperialist bombs, occupations, sanctions, and wars to crush working people and plunder resources.

From a Marxist-Leninist perspective of our party, the Iranian masses face two enemies, domestic bourgeois-reaction and international imperialism, which feed off one another. Neither clerical tyranny nor imperialist intervention can bring true liberation to the oppressed masses. Only the independent, organised, and revolutionary struggle of the working class leading all oppressed strata can break this vicious cycle. We salute the Tudeh Party of Iran that is struggling simultaneously against imperialism, its Zionist Israeli regime, and the reactionary theocratic dictatorial regime in Iran. We wish the Tudeh Comrades every success. The CPP stands in solidarity with all the Left, democratic and anti-Imperialist forces worldwide to relentlessly expose imperialist hypocrisy, oppose sanctions and interventions, and stand in principled proletarian solidarity with the Iranian working class and its people. The road forward lies in smashing the reactionary bourgeois state apparatus, defeating global imperialist domination, and establishing a workers and peasants power as part of the global struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

Central Committee,

Communist Party of Pakistan

With our fraternal greetings,

The Communist Party of Pakistan