A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
We stand in solidarity with the Tudeh Party of Iran in championing peace and progress in Iran
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
WE, the undersigned communist and workers’ parties, express our full and active solidarity with the Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI) as it marks the 40th anniversary of the second wave of the attack by the theocratic regime that rounded up 10,000 of its members, including key cadres, on April 27 1983.
Hundreds of those arrested were killed under torture or subsequently executed.
In the 5th article of the Action Plan of the 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’Parties in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022, that was unanimously approved, we all committed 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.
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