YEREVAN.- Armenian communists hold a march in Yerevan downtown on the occasion of May 1, the International Workers’ Day.

The demonstrators are carrying posters and flags of the Soviet Union and Soviet Armenia.

The Communist Party of Armenia is running for the parliament jointly with the Progressive United Communist Party.

In the period of Armenia’s independence the party was presented in the parliament in 1991-2003. Ruben Tovmasyan is first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. The party’s mottos are ‘Nation wins if Communists win’ and ‘Socialism, homeland, victory.’

The party’s proportional list includes 75 names.

Photos by  Sona Barseghyan