Introduction Main Coordinator: In order to further strengthen the Palestinian liberation struggle we publish here a statement of the ICOR on the strategy discussion in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. This statement is based on the initiative of the International Coordination Committee (ICC) of the ICOR. We are looking forward to further approvals, contributions, also critical comments, and especially practical initiatives in the spirit of this declaration. Monika Gaertner-Engel

Since its founding the ICOR promotes the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. Since the brutal war of annihilation of Zionist Israel against the Palestinian masses, mainly in Gaza, it has been actively participating in the worldwide solidarity movement. The goal the ICOR set itself is to strengthen the democratic and socialist forces and their cross-border cooperation all over the world. “No struggle must stand alone” is the central guideline of its proletarian internationalism. In this spirit the ICOR especially promotes strengthening the revolutionary, progressive and democratic secular forces and the debate over the societal perspective of the struggle. ICOR promotes an international strategy discussion about the perspectives of the Palestinian liberation struggle, also as a broad discussion about socialism as goal to eliminate the causes of imperialist wars, exploitation and oppression and Zionist racism!

ICOR commits itself to a fundamental support of the Palestinian resistance despite existing criticism of the political and ideological alternatives of the Islamist forces. We spread slogans like “Don’t give anticommunism, fascism, racism, anti-Semitism and Zionism a chance!” Workers of all countries and all oppressed, unite! Workers of all countries and all oppressed, unite! Let us strengthen ICOR and the United Front.

In this spirit: Joint struggle shoulder to shoulder and steadfast solidarity with all democratic forces and the working-class movement in the entire region!

Concentration of forces in the struggle against the imperialist-Zionist Israeli state in unity with consciousness-raising work.

For this purpose ICOR presents the following proposal in agreement and after consultation with representatives/organizations of the Palestinian resistance or organizations in the region for discussion and implementation in the international movement:

1. For an immediate stop to Israel’s war in Gaza and urgent comprehensive supply of the masses with medicine, food, water, fuel etc.!

2. Release of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, exchange of hostages and prisoners.

3. Internationally coordinated relief efforts to reconstruct the infrastructure – with dwellings, streets, hospitals, schools, etc. according to the principle that those causing the destruction pay!

4. Immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops and secret services from Gaza, and of all settlers from the West Bank! Complete self-determination of the Palestinian people!

Creation of the prerequisite for a sovereign Palestinian state, including complete control of the state borders, sovereignty in the handling of resources, access to Arab markets and to the Israeli economy and job market, Palestinian armed forces for full control over Palestinian territory.

5. Promotion of the self-organization of the masses in Gaza and the equality of women.

6. Struggle for Israel’s punishment at the International Court of Human Rights.

7. ICOR stands for the unity of word and deed: We commit ourselves to give special attention to Nakba Day on 15 May, to the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine on 29 November, etc., as international days of protest and struggle. We pursue the plan to send international solidarity brigades for the reconstruction of Gaza. We strive to build a hospital.

Signatories (as of 25 March 2024, further signatories possible):

1. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

2. UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)

3. MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

4. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

5. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

6. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

7. RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal

8. БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

9. PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

10. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

11. Symp.PFLP Sympathisanten der PFLP (Sympathisers of the PFLP), Germany

12. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

13. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

14. UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

15. RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)

16. MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

17. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

18. UMU Union of Maoists of the Urals (Union of Maoists of the Urals), Russia

19. UoC Union of Cypriots, Cyprus

20. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))

21. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

22. APR Ação Popular Revolucionária (People’s Revolutionary Action), Brazil

23. PPP Partido Proletario del Perú (Proletarian Party of Peru)

24. OAPCM Organización Apoyante del Partido Comunista de México (Supporting Organization of the Communist Party of Mexico)

25. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

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