Do you remember the so-called “Velvet Revolution” back in 1989 in Czechoslovakia? Do you remember the promises of the then leaders of the counterrevolution, like Vaclav Havel, about the supposed coming of “freedom” and “democracy”?
Well, more than 33 years later, it has been proved that the “Velvet Revolution” had nothing to do with revolution but, on the contrary, it was a major setback for the working people of Czechoslovakia.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
“Medieval Inquisition” returns to Europe with anti-communism as a spearhead
Monday, July 10, 2023
KKE: The NATO Summit in Vilnius will add further fuel to the fire of imperialist competition and wars
“The NATO Summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), which is due to be held on 11–12 July 2023, will add further fuel to the fire of imperialist wars and rivalries. These rivalries are currently manifested in the fierce military conflict in Ukraine, as well as in the tension in the Indo-Pacific and other regions, where the struggle over raw materials, energy, the transport routes of the commodities, market shares, i.e. for the division of capital’s profits, is escalating.
Saturday, July 8, 2023
WFTU: NATO Summit in Lithuania is another blatant provocation to the whole peaceful humanity
The peoples all over the globe know we well the bloody mission of this imperialist alliance is to maintain, and expand if possible, the existing favourable correlation of forces for the NATO countries in order to safeguard the profits of their monopolies.
Monday, June 19, 2023
KKE: The Cuban people have the right to determine their own future without any foreign interference
The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) took the floor during the debate on the “Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between Cuba and the EU” at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In his speech, KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos stressed the following:
Saturday, June 17, 2023
New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN): Stop involving the Netherlands in imperialist wars!
"According to NOS (Dutch state media), part of the bourgeois political top in The Hague has known for a year about the heavy suspicions against the Ukrainian government for blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline. The Dutch military intelligence service (MIVD) warned the US intelligence agency (CIA) a year ago that there were plans from Ukraine to blow up the gas pipeline. The consequences of blowing up the Nord Stream have been very detrimental, including for the Dutch working class.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
"Their profits or our lives": Statement of the KKE on the deadly migrant shipwreck off Southern Greece
Furthermore, the Party's General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas made an emergency visit to Kalamata, while members of the KKE and its youth wing, KNE, proceeded to protests in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities. Demonstrations are also scheduled for today throughout the country.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
The KKE will not take part in anti-popular government, says Party Secretary Koutsoumbas
What does the term “left” mean today?
The truth is that it is a term that has been abused by many people over time, both in Greece and internationally.
Friday, March 10, 2023
KKE: Greece’s participation in the imperialist war in Ukraine must stop!
Friday, March 3, 2023
Italy: Workers, students rally against the imperialist war and the transportation of weapons to Ukraine
A strike was declared and organized by USB (Unione Sindacale di Base) trade union, while multiple protests were also held in other cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin and Bologna.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Communist Party of Ireland: On the "Northern Ireland Protocol" between EU and Britain
"The “Northern Ireland Protocol” negotiations are best characterised as part of the inter-imperialist struggle between the EU and Britain with regard to the latter’s future trading relationship and access to markets within that bloc. They are about securing Britain’s future relationship with the EU and are not about the Irish people north or south of the British imposed border.
Friday, February 24, 2023
D. Koutsoumbas: Statement on the one year since the beginning of NATO-Russia war in Ukraine
“After a year of war in Ukraine and the danger of a generalization of the war is more than existing, especially when the conflict between USA and China for the primacy in the imperialist system is clearly projected in the “big picture”.
Friday, January 20, 2023
KKE MEPs: On the “creation of a special tribunal for Russia” - The peoples must judge and condemn the imperialist war
On the “creation of a special tribunal for Russia” - The peoples must judge and condemn the imperialist war
A resolution on the “creation of a special tribunal for Russia” was adopted on 19/1/23 by the People’s Party, the Social Democrats, the Liberals, the Greens and far-right groups in the European Parliament. The 2 KKE MEPs voted against it.
In a statement on the resolution, the MEPs of the KKE stress the following:
Thursday, January 12, 2023
30 years since the Maastricht Treaty: Statement by the European Communist Initiative
This December, 30 years have passed since the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, which marked a closer transnational union at the economic, political, and military level of European capital with the transformation of the European Economic Community (EEC) into the European Union (EU). This meant a new, heavier yoke on the people by the monopolies.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
#QatarGate: KKE MEP Papadakis blasts the EU as "the womb that gives birth to corruption scandals"
Papapakis said that “the womb that gives birth to corruption centered in the European Parliament is the capital's EU itself”, adding that it was on this ground that the financial scandal involving Vice President Eva Kaili and other former and current MEPs took place.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
KKE on Europarliament's corruption scandal: European Union itself is a “nursery” of corruption
This is said to include Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); Niccolò Figà-Talamanc, director of No Peace Without Justice NGO; the former Socialists & Democrats MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri; and parliamentary assistant in the Socialists & Democrats group and Kaili's partner, Francesco Giorgi.
Friday, December 2, 2022
Cuba is not alone: KKE MEP speaks at the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions (VIDEO)
KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos |
More specifically, as 902 portal reported, KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos denounced the criminal US blockade against Cuba, expressed the solidarity of the KKE towards the struggle of the Cuban people against imperialism and exposed the lies and slanders released by the EU and various MEPs, from social democrats to the far-right, concerning supposed “human rights violation” in Cuba.
Friday, November 25, 2022
European Communist Initiative: "On the “green” and war profits of business groups and the energy poverty faced by the peoples"
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the already existing inequalities in our society, deepening the worsening living conditions of the working majority, in conditions of an imminent capitalist crisis following the 2020 crisis, which acted as a catalyst for Covid-19. According to official EU data, one in four inhabitants of the EU (more than 122 million people) is living in poverty.
Monday, November 21, 2022
KKE denounces Turkey's air strikes in Syria, north Iraq
More specifically, the statement reads (here in Greek):
"The KKE denounces Turkey's new unacceptable air strike on the Kurdish areas of Syria and Northern Iraq, which is added to the military operations of the previous period and the maintenance of the Turkish occupation of Syrian lands and military forces on Iraq's territory.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Italian communist and workers' organizations: NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR — NO ALLA GUERRA IMPERIALISTA
The full text reads:
"We, the communist, militant, worker and internationalist organizations, united in the national conference "The war in Ukraine, the economic crisis and the great world chaos. What to do?" held on 16 October in Rome, we call for maximum mobilization against the war and unitedly promote the following theses for collective debate: