The right-wing People's Party (PP) won the elections with 136 seats, increasing the number by 47 compared to December 2019 elections. The social democratic Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), headed by PM Pedro Sanchez, won 122 seats.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Spanish Elections 2023: PCTE communists emerge strengthened under negative political conditions
The right-wing People's Party (PP) won the elections with 136 seats, increasing the number by 47 compared to December 2019 elections. The social democratic Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), headed by PM Pedro Sanchez, won 122 seats.
Friday, July 14, 2023
Spain: Statement of the PCTE on the July 23rd General Elections — "El poder tiene sus partidos, tú tienes al PCTE"
Retake the Tools
The Power Has its Parties, You Have the PCTE
All the parliamentary parties have set their propaganda machinery in motion because the General Elections have been moved forward. They are aiming to be part of a new government that can have only two possible colors — the two-party system has definitely returned.
Monday, June 12, 2023
Crimes of Francoism, a history of bloody impunity
We have all heard stories of Francoism that continue to shrink our hearts. You left the house, they arrested you and little by little, humiliation by humiliation, they stripped you of all human dignity where you became a simple punching bag. You became a rag doll where the Brigada Político-Social in the 70s, and the Civil Guard and the Army in the post-war period, were practicing all kinds of humiliations and tortures to extract any confession.
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Spain: PCTE communists ready to fight another battle after positive results in local elections
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Spanish communists denounce PSOE-Unidas Podemos government for sending weapons to Ukraine
On the Confirmation of the Delivery of Heavy Weaponry to Ukraine by the Spanish Government
Monday, January 23, 2023
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain: Assessment of the three years of PSOE-UP coalition government
January 14th, 2023
Assessment on the Three Years of the Government of Social Democratic Coalition
On December 30th, 2019 Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias signed the “progressive coalition” agreement that led, in January 2020, to the inauguration of the first Spanish Government of coalition after the Transition with Pedro Sánchez as Prime Minister.
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Ástor García: "To deny the imperialist nature of Russia today is to deny reality"
Comrades,
We are holding this important meeting in an especially difficult moment for class struggle. The imperialist war being waged in Ukraine is the key element that determines all the other issues and, from our viewpoint, it is a turning point in the international scene with important outcomes in the domestic spheres of our countries.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Workers, Peace Activists, Students denounce the 2022 NATO Summit
More specifically, the WPC stresses out:
The biggest war machine in history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is having its Summit on 29-30 June in Madrid, Spain. One more summit where the war hawks of 30 countries and their governments will ratify and develop their imperialist plans as a ’’world sheriff’’.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
PCTE: Sánchez government responsible for the Melilla massacre (English, Español)
Last Friday, 45 immigrants deceased and several more people were injured while trying to enter Melilla. The PCTE makes the Government of social democratic coalition responsible for this serious incident.
This has been the first attempt of mass entry in Melilla since the Spanish Government has changed its policy on Western Sahara in March, thus giving in to blackmail by Morocco.
KKE MEP: The Melilla massacre is an example of EU's criminal policy
Monday, June 27, 2022
Massacre in Melilla: A Barbaric Crime of Europe’s “Progressive” Imperialism
The same forces that for centuries plundered the wealth of African countries and exploited its peoples as slaves, today kill hundreds of uprooted people in live transmission in cold blood.
The EU and the governments that cut the wages of Europe’s workers, impose barbaric anti-peoples’ policies, persecute those who resist and attack democratic and trade union rights within their own countries, also try to target the poor and oppressed of other countries, and cultivate racism to hide their brutal anti-workers’ policies.
OTAN no, bases fuera! Large, militant anti-NATO rally held in Madrid (VIDEO)
The demonstration began with a gathering at Atocha station and later the protesters marched through central streets towards Plaza de Espana.
Members and supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) participated in a militant joint bloc, shouting slogans in both Greek and Spanish, such as “OTAN no, Bases FUERA”, “In Greece and Spain the people demand NATO and bases to go away”, “Viva KKE! Viva PCTE!”, etc. The protesters also expressed their solidarity to the detained young communists, Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich, who remain imprisoned in Ukraine.
Friday, June 24, 2022
PCTE: Spanish government suspends basic rights and freedoms for the NATO Summit
It is reminded that PCTE and its youth wing, the Collectives of Communist Youth (CJC), organize an anti-imperialist protest, against NATO Summit, on Sunday 26 June in Atocha, Madrid.
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Communist Parties held anti-NATO event in Madrid
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Source: PCTE Twitter |
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
PCTE: On the Spanish government's change of stance about Western Sahara
The Spanish Government, via a letter signed by Pedro Sánchez, has modified the official stance on the conflict in Western Sahara, thus supporting the stance held by Morocco all over the years —Sahara would become an autonomous province within the Alawite kingdom.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
PCTE: No to imperialist war! No a la guerra imperialista
Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE): NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR!
The conflict between imperialist powers and blocs has entered a new stage with the start of direct military actions by the Russian Federation against military targets on Ukrainian territory. In these difficult times, when there is a serious risk of the outbreak of a widespread imperialist war, the Political Bureau of the PCTE sends the following reflections to workers and to the ensemble of our people:
Friday, February 11, 2022
Spain: PCTE communists expose government's celebrations over minimum wage increase
The social democratic government of Pedro Sanchez is trying to present this decision as a great success of pro-people policy. However the rise of inflation alone diminishes the increase and the minimum wage remains below the poverty line.
Friday, January 7, 2022
Spain: Communists slam government's Labor Reform
Read the statement below in both English and Spanish:
"The Reform passed by the Government, the trade unions, and the employers' unions, carries out component #23 of the so-called Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan, and it is an essential part of the Government's commitments to the European Commission in return for the NextGenerationEU funds.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Ástor García re-elected General Secretary of the PCTE
Throughout the two days of debates, the delegates debated and unanimously approved the Political and Accountability Report, which analyzed the tasks carried out by the Party since the previous Congress, held in November 2017, the proposal of reform of the Statute of the Party and the Political Resolution which establishes the main tasks of the PCTE until the next Congress. Seven short resolutions on different issues were also approved unanimously.