Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Communist Party of Sweden's 39th Congress to be held on 30-31 May in Stockholm

The International Section of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) has announced that the Party Congress will take place on 30-31 May 2025 in Stockholm:

The 39th Congress of the Communist Party of Sweden will be held in Stockholm on the dates of 30-31 May under the slogan "We Strengthen Our Party in the Struggle for Peace and Socialism”.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Marx, Engels and Lenin against Individual Terrorism

By Nikos Mottas

Is the murder of a capitalist an "act of revolution"? Does the workers' movement, the working class in general, gain anything if someone places a bomb in the headquarters of a multinational company? Practically speaking, who benefits from individual acts of terrorism?

The so-called "left-wing terrorism," that is, individual terrorism with a "leftist," "revolutionary" ideological and political guise, has its roots in various anarchist trends of the 19th century. 

Friday, April 18, 2025

World Federation of Trade Unions on May Day 2025: NO to war economies, YES to the class struggles

Statement by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) on the occasion of this year's International Workers Day on 1 May 2025: 
 
Read in English & Español

The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886.  

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

155th birth anniversary of V.I. Lenin: Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties

Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties

on the 155th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin

The Communist and Workers’ Parties, which co-sign this Joint Statement, would like also in this way to honour a great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, as  22 April marks the 155th anniversary of his birth. 

Monday, April 14, 2025

TKP: Letter to the 35 richest capitalists from Turkey

Letter by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) to the 35 capitalists from Turkey listed among the world’s billionaires: 

Your names have appeared in a recent list published by an international financial magazine. The Turkish edition ran the list under the headline: “Billionaire Turks”, noting that “The total wealth of the 35 Turks on the billionaires list stands at $79.5 billion. This is a record.”

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Reflections on the US Communist Movement: William Z. Foster’s History of the CPUSA

A highly interesting and informative article published in "New Worker", the official publication of the Communist Workers’ Platform of the USA (CWPUSA):

Introduction

The communist movement in the US is in a dire state. The working class in the US finds itself without a genuine Communist Party, as the historical Party has mutated into, at best, a social-democratic mass organization. 

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Partisans for Peace: On the 80th anniversary of Italy's liberation - Against rearmament and imperialist war

On April 25th, 1945, the National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy (CLNAI) declared a general uprising in all territories still occupied by fascist forces. The partisan troops, with the communists at the forefront, liberated the main cities of Northern Italy and put an end to more than twenty years of fascist oppression. 

Eighty years after those events, the Communist Front of Italy, with the support of the Front of Communist Youth, is launching a popular mobilization for April 25th, reviving the slogan "Partisans for Peace" against imperialist war and historical revisionism regarding Italy's war of liberation.

Friday, April 11, 2025

40 years since the death of Enver Hoxha

Today, 11th April 2025, marks the 40th death anniversary of communist revolutionary and leader of Socialist Albania, Enver Hoxha. A controversial political figure, Hoxha led Albania from 1944 to 1985.

Enver Halil Hoxha was born on 16 October 1908 in Gjirokastër. He graduated from the lycée in Korçë in 1930 and then studied at the University of Montpellier in France. He was a school teacher at the French lycée in Korcë until the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, whereupon he was dismissed for refusing to join the newly-formed Albanian Fascist Party. Hoxha then opened a tobacco shop in Tiranë, which, in time, became the center for a communist cell.

Trade wars and tariffs are the normality of capitalism

Article originally published in Rizospastis, Organ of the CC of the KKE, on Thursday 10/4/2025. Translated by Nikos Mottas.

The fairy tales about a "peaceful" redistribution of the world, which flared up with Trump's election, the bargaining over Ukraine, and the ceasefire in the Middle East, have collapsed with a blast. Those who try to whitewash the imperialists with such lies and hide their irreconcilable rivalries under the carpet are shamelessly provoking the people.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

SACP: 32 years since the assassination of Chris Hani

The dawn of Thursday, 10 April 2025, marked 32 years since Comrade Chris Hani, our SACP General Secretary, was assassinated in cold blood. Hani, the communist revolutionary, was a husband, a father, an uncle – everything that aligns with our African structures of family and relatives. 

His assassination permanently deprived his wife, Comrade Limpho, of a husband, and their children of a father. It robbed his entire family of a brother and an uncle, and the community and nation of a leader.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Kemal Okuyan: Boycott, Republic and Revolutionary Stance

Article by Kemal Okuyan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), which was published on April 8, 2025, on soL News Portal (Boykot, Cumhuriyet ve devrimci iddia):

It is impossible for the discussions on “”Who’s part of the boycott, why are they included, and who’s in and who’s out of its scope?” not to shift towards “where does the capital start, where it ends”. 

Monday, April 7, 2025

Communist Party of India (Marxist) elects M.A Baby as its new General Secretary

The 24th congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which concluded in Madurai on Sunday, elected M.A. Baby, Polit Bureau member since 2012, as its General Secretary for the next three years.

Mr. Baby, formerly the Education and Culture Minister in Kerala, is the second leader from the Kerala unit to helm the party nationally. He succeeds Sitaram Yechury who passed away on 12 September 2024.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

KKE denounces European Union's new anti-communist initiative for the "European Day of the Righteous"

In a statement, the EU Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) denounces the new initiative of the European Union which equates Communism with the monster of Nazism. 

More specifically, the KKE statement (here in Greek) reads:

"With the EU Commission being the initiator of a debate-parade of anti-communists in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the EU is working on another anti-communist and unhistorical 'day of remembrance' under the name of 'European Day of Righteous'.

World Federation of Trade Unions suspends operation of its Middle East regional office in Syria

The Secretariat of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), in an extraordinary Meeting held on March 27, 2025, examined the recent public statements issued in the name of the WFTU Middle East Regional Office, as well as the statements made by the GFTU of Syria

These statements support the jihadist regime, which is the result of the interventions of the imperialist powers that want to seize the wealth of the region.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Enver Hoxha: Revolutionary communists expect China to come out openly against Khrushchevite revisionism

On April 3, 1962, the leader of the Party of Labour of Albania, Enver Hoxha, called China to publicly denounce what he refereed to as "Khrushchevite revisionism". It is reminded that Socialist Albania's relations with the Soviet Union had been ruptured since December 1961, following Hoxha's fierce critique against Khrushchev's "revisionism" and "anti-marxism".

Enver Hoxha's 1962 statement was the following:

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

AKEL for the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the anti-colonial struggle in Cyprus

In a statement, the Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL) pays tribute to the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the struggle for the end of the British colonial rule in Cyprus, which began on 1 April 1955.  
 
 The statement of AKEL stresses out:

"AKEL honors the heroism and struggle of the children of Cyprus who fought against the British colonial yoke and gave their lives on the battlefields, in torture and on the scaffold, for the freedom and self-determination of our homeland. 

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain on the coal mine accident in Asturias: Profits Vs workers' lives

Concerning the terrible coal mine accident in Degaña, Asturias region in northern Spain which resulted to the death of five workers, the Asturias Committee of the Communist Workers' Party of Spain (PCTE) issued a statement, stressing out the following:

"From the Asturias Committee of the PCTE, we would like to express our condolences and sorrow to the families, colleagues, and friends of the five miners who died at the Zarréu/Cerredo mine (Degaña), as well as our support and encouragement to the four colleagues who are hospitalized with varying prognoses.

Russia: After 95 years on public display, Lenin's body will be laid to rest in Ulyanovsk

101 years after his death and 95 years on display in the famous Red Square Mausoleum, Vladimir Lenin will share the fate of ordinary people. The decision by the Russian Interior Ministry, made three days ago, is already causing major reactions, both from communists and Russians regardless of ideology.

According to the decision, the Mausoleum will be permanently closed and Lenin's body will be buried in his birthplace, Ulyanovsk, on September 3, 2025, in an official ceremony attended by high-ranking government officials.