The International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) is an annual conference attended by communist and workers’ parties from several countries. It originated in 1998 when the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) invited communist and workers’ parties to participate in an annual conference where parties could gather to share their experiences and issue a joint declaration. The most recent and 23rd meeting of the IMCWP is being held in October 2023 in Izmir and hosted by the Communist Party of Turkey (modern).
Organization
The Working Group (WG) of International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) is composed of Communist Parties throughout the world. The task of the working group is to prepare and organize the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWPs).
The meetings are held annually, with participants from all around the globe. Additionally, there are occasionally extraordinary meetings such as the meeting in Damascus in September 2009 on “Solidarity with the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people and the other people in Middle East”. In December 2009, the communist and workers’ parties agreed to the creation of the International Communist Review, which is published annually in English and Spanish and has a website.
The 23rd International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties
The 23rd International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP) begins today in Izmir, Turkey, hosted by the country’s Communist Party (TKP).
The Meeting is held between 20-22 October, under the following subject: “The political and ideological battles to confront capitalists and imperialism. The tasks of communists to inform and mobilize the working class, youth, women, and intellectuals in the struggle against exploitation, oppression, imperialist lies and historical revisionism; for the social and democratic rights of workers and peoples; against militarism and war, for peace and socialism.”
The contributions from the Communist and Workers’ Parties:
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how do you even respond to people who are like “israel is bad but hamas is a terrorist group” “hamas is killing innocent civilians” etc? it’s just like such a thought terminating line of thinking meant to force you into a corner and bend to their warped sense of reality like i genuinely don’t even know how to answer it
If Hamas is a terrorist group, Israel is a terrorist state with crimes of a degree at least 25 times as severe as Hamas’. Take a leaf from Norman Finkelstein’s book.
Violence. It’s the only language these fools understand.
Seriously, though, there is no answer. They’re not asking for any kind of serious response. Like you said; It’s a thought terminating cliche. They’re demanding you swear allegiance to the narrative. It’s a bad faith statement. “Terrorist group” means that they consider Hamas violence illegitimate, not because of the degree of violence or the damage it causes, but because of an arbitrary designation of Hamas as the bad guys. That Israel engages in actual crimes against humanity, slaughters children medics and journalists, maims and murderers unarmed people, engages in collective punishment, and uses literal terror weapons like willy pete matter not at all. Hamas is illegitimate, therefor anything it does is illegitimate. And what they’re really saying is that Palestinians have no right to resist their extermination. Any Palestinian who raises their hand to defend themselves would be condemned equally as a terrorist.
Notice how they never ask you to condemn the PFLP? They don’t know the PFLP exists. To them all armed resistance is Hamas, and Hamas are terrorists, and that’s the end of it.
I would suggest, seriously, losing your entire shit and just screaming at them a detailed, grotesque description of what white phosphorous does to human bodies. Do battle. Break them. Make them cry and shit themselves. Hurt them however you can. They’re not comrades discussing theory and politics, they’re the enemy and should be crushed.
“I judge people by their actions. If defending your homeland against and occupying army is terrorism than the armed forces of Ukraine are terrorists. If living on land and in homes that were taken at the barrel of a gun makes settlers civilians then home invaders aren’t criminals they are just settler civilians.”
israel has killed 1700 children so far