Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Paladins: The gathering of fascists in St. Petersburg and the capitalist logic behind them

An article published on 18 October in Rizospastis, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), reports on a meeting of nationalist, fascist, and neo-Nazi organisations held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 12 September. 
 
The gathering, operating under the code name “Paladín,” functioned as the founding congress of an entity calling itself the “International Union of Enemies of Globalization” or the “International Union of Sovereign Nations.”
 

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Where is China and Russia when Palestine needs them?

By Nikos Mottas

Across the left, there are currents — from communist parties to broader progressive forces — that elevate China and Russia as the “anti-imperialist” counterweight to U.S. hegemony. Within the ideological framework of so-called multipolarity, these states are portrayed as the alternative power bloc that will restrain imperialism and give oppressed nations breathing space. 

Yet Palestine exposes this myth. As Gaza burns, Moscow and Beijing issue statements while preserving trade, diplomacy, and investment with Netanyahu Government. Their actions reveal not liberation, but complicity.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Imperialism, Multipolarity and Palestine

By Greg Godels

It is a continuing source of frustration that an important segment of the left holds the view that weakening the United States’ long-established grip on the top rungs of the hierarchical system of imperialism is– in itself– an attack on imperialism.

Many of our friends, including those who claim to aim at a socialist future, mistakenly see an erosion in the US position as the imperialist system’s hegemon as necessarily a step guaranteeing a just future, lasting peace, or a step towards socialism.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Kaja Kallas's rabid Anticommunism and Russophobia

By Nikos Mottas

Recently, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of People's Republic of China's victory against Japan, the EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas proceeded to a new provocative statement. During a speech, she said: “Russia turned to China and said: 'Russia and China fought in World War II, we won World War II, we defeated Nazism' and I thought: 'Okay, that's something new'. If you know history, it raises a lot of questions. Nowadays, people don't read much and don't remember history. It's clear that they buy these narratives”. 

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

KKE: Using the “multi-polar world” to whitewash capitalism

Comment by the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE 

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit meeting was used to foster new illusions among the peoples. Certain forces see imperialism merely as the “empire” of the USA and on this basis they salute the promotion of new emerging capitalist powers in global affairs, such as the emergence of new inter-state unions (BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Collective Security Treaty Organization, ALBA etc.), which are formed by capitalist states, with an economic–political and military content.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

KKE: The imperialist bargaining on Ukraine does not portend anything positive for the peoples

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the negotiations between the US, EU-NATO, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses out:

“The live-streamed bargaining between those responsible for the war massacre in Ukraine does not portend anything positive for the people, nor does it focus on “peacemaking” and the “end of bloodshed”, as it is provocatively presented, but on the division of territories, “security guarantees” - that is, how the political-military relationship between NATO and Russian forces in Ukrainian territories will be settled - the businesses of large monopoly groups and arms packages.

"They have become communist": The 1993 Yeltsin-Supreme Soviet standoff and the dirty role of the US

Following the victory of the counterrevolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian leadership under Boris Yeltsin proceeded to harsh economic reforms (known as “shock therapy”), thus causing, among others, inflation, unemployment, and severe public discontent. 

Within this context, a growing conflict between Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) over economic policy and division of powers began to unravel. The Supreme Soviet resisted capitalist reforms and pushed back against the increasing presidential authority.
 

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Lavrov's sweater and the actual meaning of CCCP

The article below was published on 902.gr, official portal of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on Saturday 16/8 under the title "No matter what they do, CCCP will always mean: Socialism consolidated in battle!". 

Read below the text translated into English:

"In the sidelines of the Trump-Putin meeting, the sweatshirt worn by Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov with the initials of the USSR, namely CCCP (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), was commented on worldwide.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Statement of the KKE on Trump-Putin Summit: The imperialist war in Ukraine continues and escalates

In a statement concerning the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), stresses out the following:

“The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska was part of the imperialist bargaining based not on the interests of the peoples, the Ukrainian and Russian people who are paying the price of the war, but on the interests of the US and Russian monopolies, the expansion of their business activity and the increase in their profitability.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

The attempt to vilify Lenin in capitalist Russia: On the occasion of the reactionary film "The Mummy"

A new “documentary”, "The Mummy," which premiered in Moscow on June 26, has ignited a firestorm of debate surrounding the legacy of Vladimir Lenin and his final resting place.  
 
Produced by the fervently religious Christian channel “Spas” (Saviour), the film argues for the destruction of Lenin's Mausoleum, portraying it as a satanic temple and a bleeding wound on the soul of the Russian nation. The “documentary” presents a fantastical narrative, linking the Bolsheviks and their leader to a range of dark forces, including Egyptian pharaohs, Babylonian ziggurats, and Masonic conspiracies aimed at global domination by Satan. 
 

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

TKP Secretary General Kemal Okuyan: "A lasting peace is impossible without the struggle of the peoples"

In an exclusive interview with l'AntiDiplomatico and Natalya Vinkler, Kemal Okuyan, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), laid out his strategy of fighting for a better future and building international cooperation under capitalism. The interview is the following:

Comrade Okuyan, does Turkey, the Balkans, Central Asia - the Turkic world, which is inextricably linked to the world of Slavic peoples, currently have the opportunity to break out of the established paradigm of subordination to the United States and submission to comprador elites?

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Communist Party of Greece (KKE): On the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow

Article by the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE

On the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow

On 23 April 2025, the International Anti-Fascist Forum (IAF), organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), with the support, as it stated, of the Russian government and Presidency, took place in Moscow.

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Are there good and bad imperialists?

Article by Dimitris Xekalakis*, originally published in Rizospastis, Organ of the CC of the KKE, on Saturday 3/5/2025. Translated by idcommunism.com

Are there good and bad imperialists?

The situation and the developments following Trump's rise to power and the realignment of alliances that is taking place in the camps of imperialism seem to have caused embarrassment and confusion among those who insist on identifying imperialist policy only with the US, cultivating the perception that "capitalist Russia will save us." 

Friday, May 2, 2025

Lenin's popularity hits record high on his 155th birthday

By Nikos Mottas

This April marked the 155th birth anniversary of the leader of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and founder of the first socialist state in the world, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The name of Lenin is identified with two dialectically connected issues. On the one hand, there is his revolutionary activity and practice as the leader of the 20th century's most significant event- the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution. On the other hand, there is his theoretical work which is the development of the revolutionary theory of Marx and Engels in the era of Imperialism. 

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Monument in honor of Joseph Stalin to be installed in the Russian town of Mozhaysk

A new monument dedicated to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin will be installed in Mozhaysk, a town approximately 100 km west of Moscow, local media reported.

The bust of Stalin and the pedestal have been delivered to the city and are being installed at the location agreed upon by the administration, in the Glory Square in the center of Mozhaysk, not far from the Eternal Flame. 

The inauguration of the monument is going to take place on 8 May, at 11 am local time. 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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.
 

Thursday, March 20, 2025

What is "ReArm Europe"? Multi-tool of warfare against the peoples

The EU has announced the “ReArm Europe” program worth 800 billion euros, signalling a rapid increase in its war spending.

It is thus reinforcing the war economy strategy and armaments of the previous period, escalating its involvement in the imperialist war in Ukraine. Its aim is to play a leading role on the Ukrainian front in conditions of heightened Euro-Atlantic antagonisms and US-Russian bargaining.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

KKE on Trump-Putin call: Imperialist peace and arrangements are the other side of imperialist war

In a statement issued on Wednesday 19 March, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) refers to the recent call between U.S President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin concerning the situation in Ukraine. The statement (here in Greek) reads:

“The drumbeats about a ceasefire in the 3-year imperialist war in Ukraine, between the US, NATO, EU and capitalist Russia, cannot overshadow the real facts and the painful reality of the continuation of the war that tortures the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, as well as the dangers for other peoples.

Friday, March 14, 2025

No to the rearmament of Europe: Statement on the imperialist war in Ukraine and the EU’s arms race

Joint statement from the Communist Front Political Bureau and the Front of Communist Youth National Secretariat on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine:

1. Three years after the escalation of the war in Ukraine between the Russian Federation and the US-EU-NATO Euro-Atlantic alliance, the conditions under which peace talks or cease-fire negotiations are presented once again demonstrate that this war has nothing to do with the “defense of European values” and democratic freedoms, nor with the alleged “anti-fascist” values that are instrumentally invoked by both factions. 

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

KKE: Protests for the anti-communist, anti-democratic persecutions in Ukraine and Russia

Press release of the IRS of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE):

On 11 March 2025, the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) held a picket outside the Embassy of Ukraine in Athens, while a delegation of the KKE and KNE affixed a letter of protest to its door.

With this protest, the KKE and KNE condemned the prolonged political persecution, arrest and torture of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, members of the Ukrainian Communist Youth League (Komsomol).