As “Rizospastis” daily reported, MSC ALTAIR began its itinerary from Valencia, Spain and was due to reach Israel via Piraeus. According to information the cargo ship was carrying ammunition and other war material destined to be used by the IDF against the Palestinians in the slaughterhouse of Gaza.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Dockworkers in Greece refused to load arms shipment destined for Israel, forced cargo ship to change route
As “Rizospastis” daily reported, MSC ALTAIR began its itinerary from Valencia, Spain and was due to reach Israel via Piraeus. According to information the cargo ship was carrying ammunition and other war material destined to be used by the IDF against the Palestinians in the slaughterhouse of Gaza.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
PCRF: Macron, Le Pen and the role of the revolutionary Communist Party
Same cause, same effects: capitalism and its bourgeois state, are the culprits!
On the evening of June 9, 2024, a verdict fell, with the results of the European ballot: electoral bankruptcy of the Macron/Attal government, with less than 15% of votes cast for the Macronist list (less than 8% of registered voters, taking into account the still strong abstention); new surge of the Rassemblement national, to over 31% (also to be put into perspective, with 16% of registered voters). You can find a fuller analysis on our website.
Justified popular anger, illusions to be dismantled
Friday, June 14, 2024
Greek Communist Youth's anti-imperialist camp to take place on July 4-7 in Chalkidiki
With a tradition of many years, the camp will take place in the popular seaside village of Posidi, in the northern peninsula of Chalkidiki, and will include numerous political, cultural and sports events. Posidi is located approximately 105 km away from Greece's second largest city and major port, Thessaloniki.
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain — PCTE: On the result of the European Elections
Statement of the Political Bureau of the PCTE: After the European Elections
Once the provisional results of the European Elections held on June 9th are known, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain declares the following:
1) The general results at the European level and the particular ones in our country are giving a similar picture. On one side, there is a clear majority of what we call the Europeanist consensus. Although they express different options for capitalist management, all the political forces agreeing with the support to the European Union and the economic and military strategic plans being carried out within it belong to such consensus.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Italy marks 40th death anniversary of Eurocommunist leader Enrico Berlinguer
The 11th June marked the 40th death anniversary of the Eurocommunist leader and Italy's bourgeois leadership praised his merits. Sergio Mattarella, the President of the Republic, pointed out that Berlinguer, who served as General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1972 until his death in 1984, “was an esteemed and popular political personality, capable of taking brave decisions".
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Cyprus: The result of the European elections does not satisfy us, says AKEL leader Stefanos Stefanou
AKEL came second after centre-right DISY, gaining 21.67% of the vote but losing one of its two seats in the European Parliament. The big surprise of the EU elections in Cyprus was an unpolitical YouTube prankster, Fidias Panagiotou, who took a whopping 19.4 per cent as an independent candidate.
Monday, June 10, 2024
European Elections: Significant rise of the KKE sends message of hope throughout Europe
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Electoral rally of the KKE in Athens, 5 June 2024 |
With 9.30% and more than 350,000 votes, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) marks a very significant electoral rise in June 9 European Elections, thus sending a resounding positive message, not only for the country's working class and popular strata, but also throughout Europe.
While far-right, ultra-conservative and racist political forces gain ground in EU countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, etc), the rise of the KKE's electoral influence is a beacon of hope for Europe's peoples.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
The European Elections and the role of Communists
“The United States of Europe, under capitalism, is either impossible or reactionary”, Lenin wrote back in 1915.
The course of history repeatedly proved the correctness of his timeless analysis. Since its formation, the European Union – formerly ECC – has been a transnational economic, political and military alliance of imperialist characteristics, aimed at serving the interests of monopoly groups at the expense of the working class.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
European elections 2024 - Greece: Massive rally by the KKE in Athens sends message of struggle and hope
Secretary Koutsoumbas stressed the KKE's determination to send a resounding, hopeful message of unwavering struggle, by increasing the party's percentages in the upcoming European elections on Sunday 9 June.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Communist Party of India (Marxist): Election results mark a setback for BJP and Modi
The results of the 18th Lok Sabha election are a setback for the BJP. It has lost its majority in the Lok Sabha which it had got in the past two Lok Sabha polls in 2014 and 2019. This is a stinging blow to the image of invincibility built around Narendra Modi, who had boasted about winning 400 seats in this election.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Venezuela: Maduro's social democratic Government steps up machinations against the Communist Party
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has presented the ballot card for the presidential elections of next July 28. The face of Nicolás Maduro appears on 13 different cards, that is, one third of those admitted by the electoral body during a process plagued with irregularities and violations to the Constitution and electoral laws.
European elections 2024 — Greece: The vote for the KKE sends an anti-imperialist and anti-war message
An important difference in the election campaign, which the KKE is conducting to enlighten the workers, is the one concerning international developments, the involvement of the EU and Greece in the imperialist war in Ukraine, as well as in the massacre of the people of Palestine.
All the bourgeois political parties are silencing the developments on the war fronts and hiding the causes of the conflicts, the responsibilities of the EU, as well as of the USA and NATO.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
USSR and the creation of Israel: Remarks by Andrei Gromyko at the UN General Assembly — May 1947
Discussion of the report of the First Committee on the establishment of a special committee on Palestine (documents A/307 and A/307/Corr. 1)
Friday, May 31, 2024
European elections 2024 — KKE: The current disputing the dominant policy needs to be expressed
KKE rallies are taking place all over Greece. Its cadres are visiting workplaces, working-class and popular neighborhoods, and are calling on the people to vote for the Party in the upcoming elections.
Communist Party of Turkey on the 11th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests
11 years ago, a vast segment of society rose up against the AKP government. The anger and resistance of millions turned into a great mass movement. By putting enlightenment, secularism, freedom, and working class patriotism at the center of the resistance, the people managed to draw the line to the AKP government. And through their fury and courage, people reminded AKP of who really owns this country.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Letter of the KKE: Cuba must be removed from the US State Department’s unacceptable list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism"
LETTER OF THE MPs and MEPs of the KKE
Cuba must be removed from the US State Department’s unacceptable list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism"
In a letter to Foreign Minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, the MPs and the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) demand that Cuba be removed from the US Department of State’s unacceptable list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism".
The letter reads as follows:
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
30 years since the death of Erich Honecker
The son of a miner, Honecker was born in Neunkirchen, Germany, in 1912. He joined the German Communist Party and became active in the resistance movement against Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in 1935 and imprisoned until the end of the Second World War.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Dimitris Koutsoumbas: The EU is only getting worse — A strong KKE, no other solution exists
Sunday, May 26, 2024
British Communist Party announces first candidates for 4 July General Election
Candidates so far include former housing and local government worker Lorraine Douglas, who will be challenging ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss in South West Norfolk, and trade union organiser Darren Turner, also an activist in the Toothless in Suffolk campaign. He will be flying the red flag in Bury St Edmunds & Stowmarket.
Friday, May 24, 2024
Communists in Spain and Argentina: Milei and Sanchez are different sides of the same coin
On the situation of Spanish-Argentine relations
Using as an argument the statements that Javier Milei made at a political event in Madrid last Sunday, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has decided to withdraw the Spanish ambassador from Buenos Aires. The confrontation between two capitalist management models that represent different sides of the same coin is thus tinged with a diplomatic crisis.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Multipolaristas’ Dugin maneuvers through BRICS contradiction
Aleksander Dugin, a propagandist for Putin’s great-Russian imperialism, has had to maneuver through one of the contradictions within the BRICS association – the unity and contention between China and Russia.
Supposedly a historian and philosopher, Dugin spews reactionary filth going back to feudal times.
Israeli communists: “ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant signals Israel’s rapid decline into a fascist regime"
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
KKE-backed Panspoudastiki KS triumphs for third year in a row in Greece's university student elections!
The imminent victory of Panspoudastiki KS comes just 18 days before the European Parliament Elections that are due to take place on June 9.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Mexico's social democracy exposed: MORENA fanatics attacked Communist Party members
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SUMA aggressors in action |
According to a statement published in El Machete, PCM's official gazette, the incident took place on May 19, during the last presidential debate (Mexico's presidential elections are due to take place on 2 June 2024). With the purpose of denouncing its political exclusion from the electoral process, a delegation of the Communist Party headed by Marco Vinicio Dávila, communist candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, and Ángel Chávez, candidate for Head of Government, staged a protest.