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COMMUNISTS from a number of countries gathered in London at the weekend to discuss the future for Kurdish national rights.
Six parties — the Tudeh Party of Iran, the Communist Party of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Communist Party of Iraq, the Syrian Communist Party, the Communist Party of Syria Unified and the Communist Party of Turkey — submitted policy statements at a seminar in the Marx Memorial Library.
They placed their submissions on Kurdish national rights in the context of imperialist designs and interventions in the region and the ongoing struggle of the people in the Middle East for democracy, justice and peace.
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MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare