Regional meeting of the communist and workers’ parties

[Delenda Carthago]

For the right of the peoples to choose the development path of their countries, Against imperialist war and capitalist exploitation.

Athens 20 June 2013

Joint Statement of the Regional Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties (http://inter.kke.gr/News/news2013/2013-06-28-koino-anakoinothen-regional-meeting)
Speech of the GS of the CC of the KKE at the meeting (http://inter.kke.gr/News/news2013/2013-06-21-kke-region-speech/)

[Tim Cornelis]

We, the communist and workers’ parties condemn decisively the imperialist intervention of the USA, the EU and their partners in the region at the expense of Syria and its sovereign rights.

Here again we see the re-affirmation of the bourgeois socialist nature of these so-called "communist parties". National sovereignty is a concept exclusive to the nation-state and, in essence, means the right of a national-based elite to use and abuse a country as they please. To affirm to "sovereign rights" of a country is to affirm the capitalist nation-state. Opposition of imperialism ought to be based on anti-capitalism, not bourgeois rights. It's not Syria we should care about, nor its sovereign rights.
The role of Russia is also conspicuously absent in this declaration.