32 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Red Flag will rise again

By Nikos Mottas.

It was thirty-two years ago, on December 26, 1991, when the red flag with the sickle and hammer was lowered from the Kremlin.

It was then, during the cold days of December, when the first socialist state of the world, the homeland of the world's proletariat, bent under the weight of the counterrevolution. Four days before, on December 22nd, the leaderships of three of the largest Soviet republics had decided the dissolution of the USSR, while the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) had been outlawed on summer of the same year.

Joint Statement of the European Communist Action: The class struggle against the EU, governments and the anti-labour directives that impose a working jungle must be intensified

In a joint statement, the Parties that participate in the European Communist Action (ECA) stress out:

"The European Union (EU) aligns with the interests of capital, promoting measures that favour monopolies, capital concentration, and centralization. It is the union of European capital. The EU is an imperialist economic, political, and military bloc, contrary to the interests of the working class and the popular strata. It serves the capitalist system that leads to poverty, unemployment, imperialist wars like the one in Ukraine, atrocities like that of the occupation state of Israel against the Palestinians, waves of refugees.

 

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain: We reject any Spanish participation in imperialist mission in the Red Sea

In a statement, the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) rejects any participation of Spanish Armed Forces in military missions abroad:

As a result of the latest war unleashed by Israel against the Palestinian people, supported by various imperialist powers, the Houthi guerrillas of Yemen are militarily threatening the merchant ships of the main shipping monopolies that circulate between Asia and Europe, as a measure of pressure for Israel to put an end to the genocide it is carrying out against the Palestinian people. 

KKE: The dispatch of a Greek frigate to the Red Sea involves the country even more deeply in the dangerous imperialist plans

In a comment on the dispatch of a Greek frigate to the Red Sea, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following:

“The dispatch of a Greek frigate to the Red Sea, under the pretext of the safety of maritime navigation and protection of merchant ships, involves the country even more deeply in the dangerous imperialist plans, which at this stage are directly linked to the support of the murderous policy of the Israeli state.

Alfred Marder, US communist and long-time peace activist, dies at 102

On 19 December 2023, the US Peace Council announced the death of comrade Alfred Marder, a steadfast internationalist, and anti-imperialist, died last night. Al was exactly one month shy of reaching 102 years old.

In a statement, the World Peace Council (WPC) reads:

The World Peace Council received with deep sadness the information about the demise of our beloved comrade Alfred Marder, veteran leader of the U.S. Peace Council and President of Honor, who passed away in the age of 102 years in his hometown, New Haven, Connecticut.

The KKE votes against Mitsotakis government's anti-popular budget

The 21 MPs of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) voted against the 2024 budget proposed by the New Democracy government, which increases taxation on the popular strata in order to increase the profitability of capital. 

During the debate, the MPs of the KKE lambasted the government’s draft budget, highlighting its anti-labour and class character in favour of businessmen, and demanded increases in wages and pensions and the abolition of anti-popular taxes. 

Antonio Negri, Italian political theorist, dies at 90

Antonio Negri, the prominent Italian political theorist and philosopher, has died in Paris, aged 90. 

Most known for his work on autonomism, Negri  founded the Potere Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of Autonomia Operaia. He published highly influential books urging "revolutionary consciousness". 

He was accused in the late 1970s of various charges including being the mastermind of the left-wing militant organization Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse), involved in the May 1978 kidnapping of Aldo Moro. 

KKE condemns the dismantling of Red Army memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria

In a completely disgraceful decision, Bulgarian authorities on Wednesday began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital, Sofia, for nearly 70 years.

The monument was erected in 1954 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Soviet forces liberating Bulgaria, which had been allied with Nazi Germany in World War II.  

Argentina: Not a minute of truce for the ultraliberal and neo-fascist government of Milei!

"Not a minute of truce for the ultraliberal and neo-fascist government of Milei", proclaims the National Secretariat of the Communist Party of Argentina (Partido Comunista de la Argentina) in a statement published on 10 December 2023. The statement by the Communist Party reads:

"The executive led by La Libertad Avanza, with Vice President Villarruel, of the Military Party, and in alliance with Macrismo, among others, does not hide its cards: its links with investment funds, large multinational companies and their local representatives such as Caputo, Bausili or Tillard, their orientation against social protest, with the repressive apparatus in charge of Bullrich and Petri, their alignment with the United States and Israel, and their roadmap marked by the illegitimate and illegal agreement with the IMF, configuring a neocolonial project that comes from the plundering of the natural resources and common goods of our Homeland.

Israeli police tries to prevent the National Convention of Hadash scheduled for December 16

Israeli Police are trying to prevent a Hadash national convention scheduled for Saturday, December 16, claiming that it would feature “inciting speeches that would endanger the public’s well-being.” 

 

The police threaten facility owner in the city of Shefa-Amr (Shfar’am) in northern Israel where the event was to be held. Hadash Secretary General, Amjad Shbita, says agenda to include planning “for political action against the continuation of the war in Gaza and against political persecution by far-right government.”

Cyprus Communist Initiative launched, aims "to rebuild the workers’ and people’s movement"

With the sickle and hammer as its symbol, the Cyprus Communist Initiative has been formalised into an official body, was announced on Saturday.

Under the full name "Cyprus Communist Initiative, for the rebuilding of the workers’ and people’s movement", the new group “aspires to fill the political vacuum that has existed for years in Cypriot society, and to become a rallying force for the struggles of the working class and the broader popular strata.”

Communist Party of Sweden: Not a single American soldier on Swedish soil!

Recently the Swedish Minister of Defense signed an agreement on expanded military cooperation between Sweden and the USA. 

 

The agreement represents yet another step towards officially incorporating Sweden into the cooperation of Euro-Atlantic imperialism, with the aim to most effectively safeguard the interests of the capitalists of the region against their competitors.

The ultra-patriotic dance of Maduro's government, the right and the business community

Tribuna Popular Editorial

A spectacular and millionaire advertising campaign has been launched to raise the tarnished image of Nicolás Maduro, who so far -with or without his [self-marketed Capitan America-style] superhero costume- has failed miserably in the mission to guarantee decent living conditions to Venezuelans. 

In this latest episode, "Superbigote" [Super-Moustache] tries to recover the Essequibo territory from the clutches of transnational companies that have discovered rich oil and gas deposits. 

The anti-communist character of the so-called "World Anti-imperialist Platform"

By Guillermo Uc*

“The entire history of bourgeois democracy lays bare this illusion: to deceive the people, the bourgeois democrats have launched and always launch all the “slogans” they want. The problem is to verify their sincerity, to compare words with facts , not to be content with idealistic or vain phrases, but to see class reality . Imperialist war does not cease to be imperialist when charlatans or petty bourgeois philistines launch a sweet "slogan", but only when the class that directs the imperialist war and is linked to it with millions of threads (even ropes) of an economic nature, It is actually overthrown and replaced in power by the truly revolutionary class, the proletariat. Otherwise, it is impossible to get rid of an imperialist war, as well as an imperialist, predatory peace . ”

Turkish communists cowardly attacked by fascists in Ankara University — Messages of solidarity

On November 21, students-members of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and the Communist Youth (TKG) became targets of a cowardly attack by fascists, presumably members of "Grey Wolves" far-right group, outside the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University's Cebeci campus. Two Communist Party members were slightly injured.

There was a similar attack attempt by fascists at the same faculty a few days earlier, but it was repelled by TKP members. 

Henry Kissinger, notorious war criminal, is dead

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S Secretary of State who left an indelible mark on U.S. imperialist foreign policy in the 20th century's second half, died on Wednesday at age 100.

Kissinger served as a foreign policy advisor to 12 U.S Presidents - from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden - and Secretary of State in Richard Nixon's administration, linking his name to some of the most extraordinary crimes of U.S. imperialism. 

PCTE: On the formation of the new social democratic coalition government under Pedro Sánchez

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) makes the following considerations on the recent investiture of Pedro Sanchez and the formation of a new social democratic coalition government in our country:

The investiture initiates the third consecutive government led by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, a government that is born in the middle of a context of internal and external tension, and before the horizon of an unstable legislature and of great relevance for the future of Spanish capitalism and its concretion in the power bloc.

New Communist Party of the Netherlands: Statement on the election results and Geert Wilders' victory

In a statement concerning the Dutch General Elections held on 22 November 2023, the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN) stresses out the following:

"The results of the Lower House elections show, on the one hand, the justified discontent and anger among large sections of the working class about the antipopular policies pursued by successive cabinets in recent years. But on the other hand, the results show that there are still many illusions about parties that present themselves in various ways as an ‘alternative’ while essentially serving the same politics. 

European Communist Action's Founding Declaration

The founding meeting of a new regional form of cooperation between the communist and workers’ parties of Europe, called European Communist Action (ECA), took place in Athens on 18/11/23, at the invitation of the KKE.

The founding meeting was attended by delegations from 12 parties in Europe, namely the Party of Labour of Austria, the Communist Workers’ Party – for Peace and Socialism (Finland), the Communist Revolutionary Party of France, the Communist Party of Greece, the Workers Party of Ireland, the Communist Front (Italy), the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain, the Communist Party of Sweden, the Swiss Communist Party, the Communist Party of Türkiye and the Union of Communists of Ukraine.

Dublin: A criminal hate fest orchestrated by rightist and fascist forces — Workers Party of Ireland

Referring to the violent incidents that took place in Dublin on November 23, the website of the Workers Party of Ireland points out:

"Yesterday’s appalling events in Dublin can scarcely come as a surprise. 

People were, of course, shocked at the horrific knife attack on innocent school children and their teachers , but this was not the reason for the orgy of reactionary violence in which workers were attacked, shops looted and public services and their workers, including first responders, targeted and abused.

Seven years without Comandante Fidel Castro

Today, 25 November, marks the 7th anniversary since the death of Comandante en Jefe, Fidel Castro Ruz.

🇨🇺 Seven years without #Fidel, the communist leader who embodied the revolutionary consciousness of a whole nation. His name will live on through the centuries, reminding the world's oppressed that they can break the shackles of exploitation #FidelPorSiempre! — Nikos Mottas pic.twitter.com/LeYaxChx4e

— In Defense of Communism © (@id_communism) November 25, 2023

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations

On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations: A Jewish Voice for Peace and PARCEO Explainer

 

What is antisemitism? 

Antisemitism is grave, serious, and totally incompatible with movements for collective liberation, and we stand against it in any form. 

Antisemitism is discrimination, targeting, violence, and dehumanizing stereotypes directed at Jews because they are Jewish. 

Opening speech of the KKE at the foundation meeting of the European Communist Action

OPENING SPEECH OF THE KKE AT THE MEETING OF COMMUNIST PARTIES FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST ACTION

ATHENS, SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2023

Dear comrades, delegates of the Communist Parties present in Athens today for the foundation of the European Communist Action.

Argentina: "Javier Milei is the worst expression of the Right; The only anti-system alternative is socialism", says Communist Party cadre

Javier Milei is the new president of Argentina. For the first time a far-right candidate comes to power. “We communists have the obligation to put on the table that the only anti-system alternative is socialism,” said Norberto Galiotti, of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Argentina (PCA).  

“What is coming is very hard, but we communists know very well what we are facing,” said Norberto Champa Galiotti, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, after knowing the results of the runoff that highlighted the far-right candidate, Javier Milei, as the new president of the Nation.