Lebanese Communist Party
Dear comrades,
On this 80th anniversary of the great victory over Nazism, we pay tribute to the millions of martyrs who fell to crush this fascist barbarism. We bow to the heroism of the Soviet people, whose colossal sacrifice was decisive in the defeat of the Third Reich, and to the communist and anti-fascist fighters throughout Europe who resisted to the end. We will always remember these sacrifices and be forever grateful to them, for they gave us all our freedom. Today, Nazism is taking on new forms: 1. NATO, an aggressive imperialist alliance, is extending its sway, threatening and bombing sovereign nations and imposing its law by force. 2. Zionism, a tool of colonial domination in Palestine, is perpetuating oppression and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, financed by the Western powers and certain Arab regimes.
Dear comrades,
is happening today in the Middle East is merely the continuation of a colonial and imperialist process that began over a century ago. The fall of the Ottoman Empire marked the beginning of Western domination, in which the colonial powers betrayed the peoples of the region by promising them independence in exchange for their support against the Ottomans. Once victory had been won, these same powers divided up the region between themselves. Still, in 1917, the British state promised to create an artificial Zionist state in Palestine, to the detriment of its indigenous people, to perpetuate their colonial stranglehold on this strategic region rich in raw materials. Since then, Palestine has been occupied, its people massacred, expelled, and imprisoned. What is happening today in Gaza and the West Bank is not a war, but a genocide, an ethnic cleansing financed by Western imperialism. It’s a settlement colonialism.
1. The occupation of Palestine
As early as 1948, during the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were massacred and expelled from their land. Since then, the Zionist entity has pursued a policy of extermination against the Palestinian people:
– Accelerated colonization and permanent oppression in the West Bank.
– Suffocating blockade on Gaza since 2006.
– Repeated massacres (1987-1993, 2000-2005, 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, 2023…).
Since October 7, 2023, the Zionist entity has intensified this terror:
– Bombings of civilians all over Gaza in residential buildings, tents, hospitals, schools, UN sites.
– A famine imposed on Gaza by blocking humanitarian aid.
– Massacres, massive destruction of homes and expulsion of hundreds of Palestinian families from the West Bank. Latest reports estimate that almost 20% of Gazans have been killed, injured or disappeared, with 40% of victims being children. With 90% of its infrastructure destroyed, Gaza has become an open-air concentration camp, where survivors wander under the bombs, without water, food or medicine. Zionist entity uses mass imprisonment as a weapon of domination:
– More than 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners (today in 2025), including 500 children, 79 women, and 4,000 administrative detainees, without trial or charge.
– They are systematically tortured, raped, mutilated, deprived of medical care and humiliated. Dozens of prisoners have died under torture.
2. Zionist aggression against Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iran
The colonial project of the Zionist entity and the imperialist powers goes far beyond Palestine.
– Since its creation, this Zionist entity has repeatedly attacked Lebanon (in 1968, 1973, 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, 2006, and most recently since October 2023). Since 1968, it has occupied 7 villages in Lebanon. In 1982, it invaded Lebanon as far as Beirut, laid siege to the capital for 80 days and committed the despicable massacres of Sabra and Chatila, where 3,500 Palestinians and Lebanese were slaughtered.
Under pressure from the Lebanese resistance, the Zionist entity withdrew from 80% of the land occupied in 1986 and completely withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, remaining in the 7 villages occupied in 1968. In 2006, the Zionist entity unleashed a 33-day war on Lebanon, killing at least 1,191 civilians, wounding 4,400 and displacing 900,000. At the end of this war, the Zionist army was forced to withdraw under the blows of the Lebanese resistance. But this did not please the imperialist powers and their armed wing in the region at all, and they prepared to take revenge.
– Since October 2023, the Zionist entity has been attacking Lebanon every day with bombings and air raids, and occupying new villages in Lebanon. According to official figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, more than 4,047 people have been martyred (including 320 children and 800 women) and 16,638 wounded (5,412 serious cases with permanent disabilities). 127 villages partially or totally destroyed. 48 health establishments directly targeted.
The Zionist entity is not content with Palestine and Lebanon: it is also threatening and attacking Yemen, Syria and Iran. Tensions are rising in the region, and everyone is becoming even more militarized. The prime minister of the Zionist entity claims to be facing an existential threat. On April 21, 2025, he declared that the war he was waging was a war of rebirth that would change the face of the Middle East. Clearly, the Zionist entity will do anything to achieve its goal, even if it means a 3rd world war.
3. Western funding of the Zionist entity and NATO
In addition, the USA, the EU and other satellite countries provide unwavering military and diplomatic support to the Zionist entity, not wanting to lose their tool of domination in the region.
On the other hand, Euro-American imperialism continues to expand NATO eastwards without limit, imposing a unipolar American world by force. The Atlantic alliance gives itself the right to establish itself anywhere in the world without any other country having a say. It threatens Russia, China, Iran and any other country that doesn’t fall in line with its authority and domination. It has destroyed and destabilized many countries in the Middle East and around the world, including Cuba, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine, Mali, Congo and many others.
4. Resistance as the only hope of liberation
In the face of continuing imperialist violence, our duty is clear: peoples’ resistance must continue. Our party, the Lebanese Communist Party, launched and actively participated in the resistance against the Zionist occupation of Lebanon and Palestine from the very beginning until 2000, alongside other political forces.
One of the first martyred comrades fell in 1936 against the colonization of Palestine by the Zionist Haganah militia. Other Lebanese forces then took up the baton of resistance. But today, more than ever, we unwaveringly support the resilience and resistance of the Lebanese people against Zionist aggression.
We bow to the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people against ethnic cleansing, despite the modest means at their disposal. We salute their immense sacrifices and their rootedness in their land.
Despite the support of imperialist governments for the Zionist entity, popular opposition was strong, as we have all seen:
– Historic mobilizations (millions of demonstrators marched around the world against the genocide in Palestine).
– Massive boycotts of complicit companies (McDonald’s, Carrefour, Amazon, Starbucks, KFC, Siemens, Coca Cola…).
– Student strikes and university occupations
We also express our solidarity with all peoples in struggle, from Yemen to Latin America, from Africa to Asia, against imperialism and colonialism, for their right to self-determination and independence. We salute the revolt of African and South American countries against imperialism and colonialism.
Conclusion
Finally, we appeal to all the free people of the world, to all those who refuse injustice, to all the revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces of the world―let’s unite! Let’s converge, let’s organize, let’s strengthen popular resistance. In the face of capitalist and imperialist barbarity, there is only one response: struggle to victory. As history has shown, no empire is eternal. unity and determination, we will win.
Long live the people’s resistance!
Long live the anti-imperialist struggle!
Until victory, always!
