Since the 1st of December, the new President of Mexico is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the social democrat politician known by the initials AMLO and head of the MORENA coalition. Although López Obrador is promoted by mainstream media as a "left" change in the country's politics, the truth is that he is another alternative choice of Mexico's bourgeois class for the implementation of pro-capitalist, pro-monopolies policy agenda.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Turkish and Cuban communists honored the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
TKP General Secretary Kemal Okuyan (left) with Juan Carlos Aguilera of the Communist Party of Cuba. |
Together with the José Martí Cuba Friendship Association, a member of ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos), the Communist Party of Turkey organized a solidarity week with socialist Cuba and hosted a delegation of five, including representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban Parliament and ICAP.
Responding to the call of TKP, thousands of friends of Cuba gathered in a series of events organized from the 25th of November to the 1st of December in three major cities of Turkey; Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
In Istanbul, under the title "Great Humanity is 60 years old", a large solidarity event was attended by hundreds of people, including representatives from the Communist Parties of Cuba (PCC) and Turkey (TKP).
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
European Communist Initiative: Speech by KKE Politburo member Giorgos Marinos
The plenary meeting of the European Communist Initiative (ECI) was held at the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Athens on Monday 26/11/18.
Within the framework of the meeting an assessment of the rich action of the previous six months was carried out, that highlighted the significant interventions and initiatives that were held by the ECI: against the imperialist Euro-Atlantic plans and the further dangerous militarization of the EU; against the anti-communism of the EU and of the governments particularly against the Communists in Poland, Ukraine and other countries; against the anti-popular measures that are been generalized: the orchestrated restriction of the right to strike, the measures affecting the right to education in the EU Member States and other countries.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Gilets jaunes protests in France: Solidarity with the workers and people of France
Regarding the ongoing protests in France- known as the "Gilets jaunes" protests- it is important to highlight and promote internationalist solidarity towards the French working class and the comrades who are fighting against capitalist exploitation and state violence.
At the same time, the fascist, nationalist elements which might try to politically exploit the justified indignation of the people must be isolated.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Anticommunist persecutions in Poland bear the stamp of the European Union
In a revealing response to the Communist Party of Greece MEP Kostas Papadakis, the EU Commission actually confirmed that the anticommunist campaign in Poland (and in other EU member-states too) bears the stamp of the Union.
Responding to a written question submitted by K. Papadakis the EU Commissioner on Justice Věra Jourová defiantly and hypocritically tried to justify the anticommunist strategy of the Polish government.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Communist Youth of Greece (KNE): "NATO out of the Balkans - Fascists out of schools"
Students demonstrate in Athens demanding better Public Education and schools (archive photo). |
Regarding the effort of various fascist groups, including the neo-Nazi, criminal Golden Dawn party, to sow the poison of nationalism and racism in the country's schools, the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) issued a statement.
The statement points out: "Towards the dangerous developments in our region and the effort of various fascists to sow their fascist-racist poison, the students must continue isolating these forces, as they decisively have done in hundreds of schools throughout the country these days."
Thursday, November 29, 2018
20th IMCWP in Athens: Declaration of 90 Communist and Workers' Parties
The 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) took place on November 23-25, 2018, in Athens, hosted by the KKE, which celebrates 100 years of its historic course.
At the meeting under the theme of: "The contemporary working class and its alliance. The tasks of its political vanguard - the Communist and Workers' Parties, in the struggle against exploitation and imperialist wars, for the rights of the workers and the peoples, for peace, for socialism ", 90 Communist and Workers’ parties from 73 countries took part, representing all the continents.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Crisis and Revolution - A report by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has recently published a report on the 1917 October Revolution anniversary.
The report assesses the economic and political crisis in Turkey and the actuality of a socialist revolution for Turkey.
You can read the full text of the report below:
Peruvian Communist Party leader Flor de María Gonzáles Uriola died
According to statement issued by the Central Committee Peruvian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Peruano), the Party's General Secretary Flor de María Gonzáles Uriola died on 25th November 2018 at Guillermo Almenara hospital in Lima. She was 68 years old.
The "Red Flor", as she was known among her comrades, was a congresswoman for the "Broad Front" coalition (Frente Amplio) in which the Peruvian CP participates.
Monday, November 26, 2018
100 years of KKE: Greece's Communist Party gloriously celebrated a century of struggles
In a magnificent political and cultural event held on Sunday afternoon at the fully-packed Stadium of Peace and Friendship in Piraeus, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) celebrated its 100th anniversary. Enthusiasm, excitement and pride are three words that can describe the atmosphere created by the thousands of KKE members and friends who attended the event.
People of every age, workers, students, pensioners, men and women participated in this celebration in order to honor the foundation and the glorious activity of a historic and unique Party, the thousands of dead communists who sacrificed their own lifes in the struggle for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Two years without Fidel: Cuban people and leadership paid tribute to Comandante
In an event organized at the famous stairway of the University of Havana on Saturday 24 November, thousands of Cubans of every age, mainly young students, paid tribute to Comandante en Jeffe Fidel Castro Ruz, on the second anniversary of his physical dissapearance.
Alongside with the President of the Councils of State and Ministers Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez -as well as other leaders of the Party, the State, the Government, the Union of Young Communists, the formative organisms, the student organizations and the youth movements- hundreds of thousands of university students gathered in order to ratify the path laid out by the undisputed leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Italian communist leader Marco Rizzo blasts Berlinguer's eurocommunist legacy
Marco Rizzo (left), General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party, Italy. Right: Enrico Berlinguer. |
In a very interesting speech delivered at the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, which is taking place in Athens, the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Italy (Partito Comunista) Marco Rizzo strongly criticized the ideological and political legacy of the so-called "Euro-communism".
The intervention of Rizzo marks a break-up with the traditional reformist line of the - once powerful- Italian Communist Party. "We reject with extreme firmness any hypothesis of political alliances between parties, both for electoral purposes, which, even worse, in support of self-styled "left "governments. The Italian labor movement has paid heavily for the lines of collaboration and compromise with the reformist parties" said Rizzo and added:
Friday, November 23, 2018
D. Koutsoumbas: "The working class will rise to the challenge of its historic role"
Photo: Aris Oikonomou/SOOC. |
The beginning of the works of the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, which took place on Friday 23 November in Athens, was marked by a major speech delivered by the General Secretary of CC of the Communist Party of Greece Dimitris Koutsoumbas. Below you can read the full transcript of his speech:
"We welcome you to the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, here in Athens, the city where the International Meetings first began 20 years ago at the initiative of our Party.
We are here today before you, having completed a century of life and action. We feel justifiably proud of the 100 honorable and heroic years of the KKE.
International meeting of Communist Parties kicked off in Athens (Video & Photos)
In a fully packed congress hall at the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece in Athens, the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties began its works earlier today. The meeting is attended by 91 parties from 73 countries.
An introductory speech was delivered by by the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas.
The 20th IMCWP began with a short video showing significant moments from the 100 year-old activity of the KKE and the working class movement in Greece. After the video, members of the Greek Communist Youth (KNE) holding red flags and shouting slogans ("A century of struggle and sacrifice, the KKE in the vanguard") entered the hall.
100 years KKE: Successful events held by the Party organizations in London and Paris
From the event in London (Photo: 902.gr) |
With successful political and cultural events which attracted Greek immigrants as well as local comrades the Party organizations of the KKE in Britain and France honored the 100 years of the Communist Party of Greece.
On Saturday 17th November, the British branch of the KKE organized a successful event for the Party's 100th anniversary in the suburban district of Wood Green in London. The major speaker was Tilemachos Dimoulas, member of the Political Bureau of the CC.
Hands off the DSE memorial in Dziwnów - New anticommunist provocation in Poland
The memorial with the plaque dedicated to the heroes of the DSE in Dziwnowie. |
The latest incident in the series of anticommunist hysteria is taking place in the town of Dziwnów, where there is a monument in honor of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE)*. More specifically, the monument pays tribute to wounded fighters of the Democratic Army of Greece who had been treated in a special military hospital especially founded by the Polish People's Republic. The fighters subsquently succumbed to their wounds and were buried in Dziwnów. The monument was built by polish soldiers during the socialist era.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
100 YEARS OF KKE - We wrote History. We continue. We shall win!
"We wrote History.
We continue. We shall win!"
Source: "Rizospastis",
17-18 November 2018.
"At Hotel 'Piraeus', in the conference room of the union of steamboats engineers, the first socialist congress of Greece commenced yesterday at its first meeting, with the main purpose being the unification of all the existing in Greece socialist groups into a single party, uniformly governed and represented at the International...".
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
20th IMCWP: All the written contributions by the Communist & Workers' Parties (list)
As the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) is due to take place in four days, we present all the up-to-date written contributions by the participating Communist and Workers' Parties.
Monday, November 19, 2018
More than 90 communist parties will be represented at the 20th IMCWP in Athens
91 communist and workers' parties from all over the world have registered to participate at the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, which will be held in Athens between November 23-25.
The 20th IMCWP will be hosted at the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Perissos under the subject "The contemporary working class and its alliance. The tasks of its political vanguard – the Communist and Worker’s Parties – in the struggle against exploitation and imperialist wars, for the rights of the workers and of the peoples, for peace, for socialism”.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
"Peterloo": A very British massacre (Review and Trailer)
Director: Mike
Leigh. Stars: Rory
Kinnear, Maxine
Peake and Neil
Bell.
Waterloo – a field in
Belgium where in 1815
the armies of Britain,
Prussia and other European powers defeated the
armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. St Peters Field
– a square in Manchester
where on 19 August 1819
cavalry charged a crowd
of unarmed protesters
killing around 20 people.
The closeness of the two
events led to the latter
being called the Peterloo
Massacre; an event now
the subject of a feature
film, Peterloo, directed by
Mike Leigh. The events
in the field in Belgium
were made into a film
almost 50 years ago, in
a film entitled Waterloo.
A film about the events
closer to home is long
overdue.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
45 years since the Polytechnic uprising in Greece: Large anti-imperialist rally to the US embassy in Athens
Under the slogan "No to the plans of the government and imperialists. NATO and its bases, out of Greece", thousands of people of every age participated in the large march, organized by the KKE, the KNE, workers and students' unions, in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising.
The march began from Stadiou avenue, passed through Syntagma Square and ended at the U.S. embassy where the demonstrators shouted anti-imperialist slogans, raising their voice for Greece's disengagement from the dangerous NATO-USA-EU imperialist plans.
Despicable anticommunism: MEPs urge Amazon to drop Soviet-themed goods!
A spectre is haunting the imperialist European Union. It's the Soviet Union and the socialist revolutions of the 20th century which paved the way for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
The servants of the capitalist system tremble at the idea of a socialist revolution and make everything in order to "exorcise" such a perspective. They even tremble at the sight of t-shirts that bear the initials CCCP and the sickle and hammer!
Friday, November 16, 2018
Greek soldier: "The bloodstained NATO flag is a disgrace for our Navy"
The advanced involvement of the Greek Armed Forces in NATO's imperialist missions and plans has led to multiple reactions within the ranks of soldiers who have publicly denounced the participation of Greece in NATO's drills.
A month ago, Greek Navy conscripts had publicly protested the participation of Greek ships in NATO's military exercises. This time, Stavros Papadakis, member of the "Navarinon" frigate, officially reported his strong disagreement for the involvement of the frigate in the so-called "Sea Guardian" maritime security operation of NATO in the Mediterranean Sea.
100 years KKE: Moments from a century-old internationalist activity
This year, the KKE completes a century of struggles and sacrifices, remaining the only truly new party in Greece society because it is the only one that struggles for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. Founded in 1918, in an era when the flame of the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 lent impetus to the revolutionary workers' movement, the KKE has a rich history of struggles, sacrificies and internationalist activity.
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