Where Is the So-Called “Success” of Capitalism?

By Nikos Mottas

There was a time when capitalism could plausibly present itself as progress.

In the era of the great bourgeois revolutions—of the French Revolution and the American Revolution—and throughout the upheavals of 1848, the rising bourgeoisie shattered feudal bonds, dissolved hereditary privilege, and dismantled archaic hierarchies that had long obstructed productive development. Against feudal particularism and static social relations, capitalism was historically revolutionary. It unified national markets, accelerated scientific discovery, expanded industry, and proclaimed equality before the law—however limited and formal that equality ultimately proved to be.

European Communist Action teleconference: "Their war destroys everything that their peace left standing"

The parties of the European Communist Action (ECA) met via teleconference hosted by the New Communist Party of the Netherlands on the 15th of February 2026 under the slogan: "Their war destroys everything that their peace left standing. Developments on the battlefields and the communists’ stance on the alternation between imperialist war and peace at gunpoint".

 

The Relentless Expansion of the U.S. Military Budget as a Pillar of Imperialist Aggression

By Nathan Richardson* 

There are moments in the history of capitalist decay when the contradictions of imperialism reveal themselves in stark, unavoidable clarity. Today, as the U.S. military budget surges toward the trillion-dollar threshold in fiscal year 2026, we witness precisely such a revelation: a parasitic apparatus that devours the surplus value produced by the working class, redirecting it toward endless wars of plunder and domination while the masses at home endure poverty, homelessness, and crumbling social infrastructure.

British communists on Andrew's arrest: "The Monarchy is rotten to the core"

Commenting on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) stresses out:

"The arrest of the brother of the UK’s unelected head of state (and eighth in line of succession), and his interview under criminal caution on allegations of misconduct in public office is the most dramatic sign of the deepening crisis in the British state.

Communist Party of Israel concludes 29th Congress, reaffirms Arab-Jewish unity and support for Palestinian statehood

The Communist Party of Israel (Maki) concluded its 29th Congress, held February 12–14, 2026, in the northern city of Shefa-Amr, adopting a broad set of political resolutions and organizational decisions. 

 

The congress reaffirmed the party’s Marxist-Leninist foundations and outlined its positions on the Palestinian question, the status of Arab citizens of Israel, social and economic justice, democratic freedoms, and global geopolitical developments.

 

Venezuela-Iran: On the unhistorical positions of representatives of the European "Left" and the so-called "World Anti-imperialist Platform"

Ideological Confusion Amid the Tempests of Imperialist Wars

By Eliseos Vagenas* 

Recent developments in Venezuela and Iran reflect an escalation of US imperialist aggression in the wider regions of Latin America–Caribbean and the Persian Gulf, warnings that the KKE issued to the peoples in a timely manner.

Communist and Anti-imperialist Youth Organizations: Solidarity with the Cuban people! Hands off Cuba!

At the initiative of KNE (Communist Youth of Greece), Communist and Anti-imperialist Youth Organizations from around the world have signed a joint statement condemning the escalating threats by the US and its allies against Cuba and expressing their solidarity with the Cuban people, the Communist Party of Cuba, and the Union of Young Communists of Cuba.

 

The full statement reads: 

 

Communist Party of Turkey: "Capitalism is a repulsive social system and the source of all evils"

A 15-point statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) on the most important problems facing working people in Turkey — and the path forward: parting ways with the Turkish bourgeois class: 

"Poverty, the cost of living, unemployment; workplace murders, mobbing and injustice; gambling, drugs, harassment, abuse, violence, femicides, corruption—in short, a society in full decay, and a country shaken by earthquakes and fires. The list goes on.

KKE: The photographs depicting the last moments of the 200 of Kaisariani reveal the moral greatness of the communists

Eighty-two years after the mass execution of 200 Greek communist fighters by the Nazis at the Athens' Kaisariani Shooting Range, photographs said to depict the victims’ final moments have surfaced for the first time. The images were discovered in an album listed in an online eBay auction by a seller based in Belgium. 

 

According to available information, the album appears to have belonged to a German officer who served in a unit stationed in Malakasa, in the outskirts of Athens, during the Occupation.

 

Renato Rabelo, former leader of the Communist Party of Brazil, dies at 83

Renato Rabelo, a prominent and historical leader of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), passed away on Sunday, February 15, 2026, at 83. Rabelo had been battling cancer for several years, with his health deteriorating recently. His six decades of militant service profoundly shaped the PCdoB and played a crucial role in Brazil’s democratic transition.

A physician by training, Rabelo was committed to social justice and democratic ideals, navigating intense political repression and advocating for workers’ rights.

 

Communist forces triumph in Athens Labor Center elections

In a significant political breakthrough for the class-struggle movement in Greece, the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) — led by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) — has been confirmed as the dominant force in the elections of the Athens Labor Center, the largest and most influential workers’ organization in the country. 

The results of the 33rd Congress elections, concluded on Sunday, showed a clear strengthening of the DAS (Democratic Workers’ Movement) list, the PAME-aligned slate of rank-and-file workers’ representatives.

Seventy years since the 20th CPSU Congress: When revisionism became doctrine

 By Nikos Mottas 

Seventy years after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (14-25 February 1956), the time for euphemisms has long passed. What occurred in February 1956 was not a minor rectification within the socialist project, nor a supposedly neutral “de-Stalinization” necessary for renewal. It was a decisive political reorientation that reshaped the trajectory of the international communist movement and altered the balance within the socialist camp. The Congress did not overthrow socialism, but it changed the theoretical and strategic line of the Soviet state in ways that strengthened revisionism, legitimized opportunism, and weakened the dictatorship of the proletariat from within.

India on strike: 300 million workers mobilize against Modi’s policies

On Thursday, February 12, an estimated 300 million workers, peasants, students, and professionals from diverse sectors mobilized across India, staging one of the largest coordinated actions in recent years. The nationwide upsurge was organized to defend labor and social rights and to protest the policies of the country’s far-right government.

The strike call was issued by the Central Trade Unions (CTUs), a joint platform bringing together India’s major labor federations, including the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), among others. 

 

KKE on Mitsotakis–Erdoğan meeting: Dangerous complacency amid imperialist settlements

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the meeting and the joint remarks by Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, within the framework of the Greece–Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following:

 

Dangerous Complacency at a Time When “Settlements” Are Being Advanced at the Expense of the Peoples

 

Cuba Sends Doctors. The USA Sends Bombs

By Nikos Mottas 

There are moments when history reduces itself to a single, unavoidable contrast. Today is one of them. As renewed threats and economic aggression once again emanate from Washington under Donald Trump, an old truth regains its sharpness: 

Cuba sends doctors. The United States sends bombs.

This is not a slogan invented for effect. It is a reflection of two opposing social systems, two different priorities, two irreconcilable visions of what a society should produce—and for whom.

More than 100 Communist and Workers' Parties say: Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!

In a joint statement published in SolidNet, more than 100 Communist and Workers' Parties and Organizations demand an immediate end to the imperialist aggression of the U.S government against Cuba. More specifically, the statement, which is open for further signatures, points out:

«Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!» 

"We firmly condemn US imperialism’s new escalation of aggression against the sovereignty and independence of Cuba and against the rights of the Cuban people. 

Cuba Is Not Alone! PAME internationalist delegation to visit the Island of the Revolution

Cuba Is Not Alone! PAME internationalist delegation to the Island of the Revolution

An internationalist delegation of the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) will visit the Island of the Revolution, Cuba, from February 20 to 23, as part of the development and strengthening of internationalist bonds of solidarity among the workers of our countries. This visit is part of PAME’s internationalist initiatives and follows the recent visit to heroic Palestine.

 

KKE calls on Mitsotakis government to reject Trump’s “Peace Council” invitation

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the invitation extended by Trump to the Greek government to participate in the so-called “Board of Peace” the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE stresses the following:

“The Greek government must, without hesitation, reject Trump’s invitation to the upcoming meeting of the so-called “Board of Peace”, whose aim is to implement the plan to turn Gaza into a US–Israeli protectorate and an “El Dorado”  for investments, in which there will be no place for the homeland of the long-suffering Palestinian people.

Report of the CC of the KKE to the 22nd Congress: On the International Communist Movement

The International Communist Movement is facing a chronic and profound ideological, political, and organizational crisis. A significant number of Communist Parties that resisted ideological mutation and remained steadfast during the counter-revolution and faithful to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, have been unable to draw conclusions regarding the programmatic causes of the counter-revolutionary overthrows, to study both their history and the history of the communist movement, or to formulate their strategy accordingly — a strategy that reflects the contemporary needs of the class struggle, the struggle for socialist revolution, the overthrow of capitalism, and the construction of socialism–communism.  

There Is One Marxism: Against “Western”, “Eastern” and “Third-World” Marxism

On False “Anti-Imperialism,” Campism, and the Abandonment of Class Analysis 

By Nikos Mottas

The recurrent attempt to divide Marxism into “Western,” “Eastern,” “Third-World,” or other geographically marked variants reflects a deeper theoretical retreat from Marxism as a scientific worldview and a revolutionary method. Such distinctions implicitly transform Marxism from a universal theory of capitalist society and class struggle into a set of culturally conditioned perspectives, shaped primarily by geography rather than by objective social relations. From a Marxist-Leninist standpoint, this approach is fundamentally mistaken. Marxism is one, not because it ignores historical and national specificity, but because it rests on objective laws of social development that operate globally wherever capitalism exists.

Communist Parties from across the world condemn U.S aggression and threats against Cuba

Communist and Worker's Parties from all over the world strongly condemn and denounce the shameful threats of the Trump administration towards Cuba as well as the tightening of the U.S. inhumane and genocidal blockade against the Island of the Revolution. Cuba Is Not Alone! Cuba No Está Sola!

Read below statements by various Communist and Workers' Parties:

Karl Marx statue unveiled in Chennai, India

On 6 February 2026, a life-size statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in Chennai, at the Connemara Public Library–State Museum complex, by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin. The inauguration, organised by the state government, was accompanied by an exhibition on Marx’s life and ideas, underlining the explicitly ideological character of the event. 

The erection of Marx’s statue in a major Indian metropolis is more than a ceremonial gesture. 

 

Hands Off the Communists of Pakistan!

In a statement, the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) has denounced the attempt by police to disrupt “Conference of Democratic Forces” at Karachi Press Club:

A “Conference of Democratic Forces,” organized by the Popular Left Alliance (PLA) was held at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Monday amid heavy police presence, harassment and targeted arrests aimed at disrupting the event. The conference was convened to defend democratic political culture and oppose growing undemocratic interference in politics by the ruling military establishment, as well as anti-people policies and projects. 

KKE: The new crime with 15 dead migrants bears the stamp of the EU and the bourgeois governments of Greece and Turkey

15 dead migrants: A crime bearing the stamp of the EU and the bourgeois governments of Greece and Turkey

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the KKE,  speaking on 4 February 2026 in the plenary session of the Greek Parliament during the debate on the bill of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the “promotion of legal migration”, demanded that responsibility be assigned, those guilty be punished and a full investigation be carried out into the real circumstances of the tragedy in Chios.