Friedrich Engels: 130th death anniversary of the co-founder of Marxism

By Nikos Mottas 

It was 5 August 1895, at 10:30 pm, when the heart of Friedrich Engels, the man who, alongside Karl Marx, co-formed the revolutionary worldview of the working class, stopped beating. He was 75 years old. 

A leading figure of the world's proletariat and a pioneer of the international communist movement, Engels contributed immensely to the foundation of scientific communism, the theory that illuminated that path for the liberation of the working class from the shackles of capitalist oppression and exploitation. 

Hadash leader Ayman Odeh: IDF actions in Gaza are crimes against humanity

Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Protests calling for a Gaza cease-fire, against the far-right government and for hostage release deal took place across Israel on Saturday, August 2, after Hamas released a series of videos showing emaciated Israeli hostages earlier this week. 

The main protest in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square began with a screening of a video showing Israeli hostage Evyatar David. According to the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, 60,000 demonstrators participated in the rally. 

KKE bids farewell to the popular Lebanese communist artist Ziad Rahbani

In a statement (here in Greek) about the death of the prominent Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) points out:

“The KKE bids farewell to the uncompromising Lebanese artist of the people and proletarians Ziad Rahbani, who passed away prematurely on July 26, 2025.

 

France is teaching us a lesson, but what can we truly learn from it?

The following article was published in Rizospastis, the organ of the CC of the KKE, on 26–27 July, 2025: 

First, let’s start with a necessary reminder: A year ago, France held parliamentary elections. Although Le Pen’s “National Rally” received three million more votes (1), the “New Popular Front” (2) won the most seats in the second round. In fact, the New Popular Front lost two million votes between the first and second rounds, by withdrawing its own candidates in many regions and favouring the party of French President E. Macron. Consequently, Macron’s party avoided the resounding defeat predicted by the European election results (3).

KKE blasts Greek government's despicable attempt to suppress popular protests against Israel’s crimes

KKE MP C. Katsotis holding a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza.

The New Democracy government is escalating its attacks on and repression of popular protests denouncing Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. These protests express solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to all support from the Greek government for the murderous state of Israel as well as an end to all relations with it (military, political and economic).

It has even gone so far as to activate the anti-racism law, which confirms the KKE’s warnings that, once voted in Parliament, it would ultimately turn against the people and their movement.

 

Communist Party of Poland condemns the so-called "World Anti-Imperialist Platform"

In a letter addressed to the members of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (SolidNet), the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) informs that it does not participate, nor will it participate, in the so-called "World Anti-Imperialist Platform". 

Furthermore, it notes that the Platform's "actions are provocative and directed against the International Communist Movement”, characterizing its methods as "unacceptable”.

Does China have an internationalist foreign policy?

By Greg Godels

A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC.

Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced concerns about Chinese investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. Kara contends that Chinese are engaged in a brutal competition to acquire a raw material essential to battery manufacturing, participating in the highly exploitative practice of artisanal cobalt mining. 

Chris Smalls, American labor union leader, reportedly tortured by Israeli security forces

Chris Smalls at the KNE-Odigitis Festival in Athens, Greece, 2024

Chris Smalls, an American trade unionist and leader of the Amazon Labor Union, has been subjected to torture by Israeli security forces, reports say. Smalls was aboard of Gaza-bound Handala aid ship which was seized by Israeli forces near the Gaza coast on Saturday night, with 21 unarmed civilians on board, including lawmakers, medics, and volunteers. 

“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said on X.

Group of fascists attacked KKE members in Crete

An anti-fascist banner outside the KKE local offices in Chania

A group of fascists attacked members and supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who were at the party's offices in Chania, Crete, on Saturday afternoon.

According to "Rizospastis", the party's official newspaper, the attack was organized by individuals who shouted anti-communist slogans and declared their support for the Nazi-criminal organization "Golden Dawn". The reaction of the local organizations of the KKE and the Communist Youth (KNE), as well as residents of the area, was decisive and immediate, isolating the fascists and calling on the police to arrest them.

 

Turkey-Iran Relations on the Neo-Ottoman Axis

By Murat Akad

The war triggered by Israel’s attacks on Iran and intensified by Iran’s retaliation lasted for 12 days. Although short-lived, this war marked a significant turning point in world politics. It is essential to analyze this conflict from various angles, including what it means for the relationship between Turkey and Iran.

Turkey and Iran are two of the most powerful countries in the Middle East. A look at history reveals that the relationship between these two countries has experienced many ups and downs. 

Grover Furr's Khrushchev Lied is perhaps one of the most important books of the 21st century

By Nikos Mottas

Khrushchev Lied, first published in 2011, is definitely the most emblematic work of Grover Furr, an American Professor of Medieval English Literature at Montclair State University who has devoted years of research on Stalin-era Soviet Union. 

Before going to the book itself, it is significant to underline that Furr isn't an ordinary historian who relies on the dominant narratives and “sacred truths” of bourgeois historiography. On the contrary, he carefully challenges those narratives and “truths”, applying a dialectical approach on history and seeking for the actual facts one by one, usually using an enormous list of thoroughly-searched, primary and secondary, sources.

Ceaușescu's revenge: 66% of Romanians consider him a good leader, express nostalgia for pre-1989 period

Almost 36 years since the counterrevolutionary events in Romania and the execution of of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, capitalist barbarity has made most Romanians nostalgic of the pre-1989 years. 

A recent INSCOP agency survey reveals that 66% of Romanians consider Ceaușescu a good leader, while only 24% view him negatively. The study, titled Public Perception of Communism: Markers of nostalgia, conducted in July 2025 with a sample of 1,500 respondents. 

Syrian Communist Party: Letter of gratitude to the KKE

In a letter addressed to the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party expresses its gratitude concerning the internationalist devotion and humanitarian care the KKE demonstrated towards the late Ammar Bakdash, during his stay in Greece. 

The letter, published in 902 portal, reads:

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel: "The two-state solution is the only possible solution"

Article by Adel Amer, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), originally published in the Party's newspaper Zo Haderech on 20/7/2025:

 

Promote the two-state solution and the Jewish-Arab partnership

The brutal war of annihilation raging in Gaza raises many questions about the solution to the problem that is the basis for instability and many conflicts in the Middle East – namely, the Palestinian issue. But in light of the results of the war and the systematic destruction of more than 75% of the territory of the Gaza Strip, the path to resolving the conflict has become more difficult and complex. 

Funeral of Ammar Bakdash, long-time leader of the Syrian Communist Party, was held in Athens

On Wednesday 23 July, the political funeral of comrade Ammar Bakdash, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party, took place at the Kaisariani Cemetery in Athens. Comrade Bakdash had come to Athens after being persecuted by the criminal regime of the jihadists in Syria.

A large delegation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, a delegation from the Central Council of the Communist Youth of Greece, and a delegation from the Syrian Communist Party attended the ceremony.

Question by the MEPs of the KKE regarding the new attempt to ban communist ideology in Czech Republic

Question by the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) regarding the new attempt to ban communist ideology in the Czech Republic: 

Backed by the EU, whose official ideology is anti-communism, the Fiala government in the Czech Republic has pushed through despicable changes to the penal code. These changes provocatively criminalize support for communist ideology, equating it with Nazism and making it punishable by up to five years in prison. This paves the way for dangerous developments, such as the banning of the Communist Party and communist activity in the Czech Republic.

VS Achuthanandan, veteran Indian communist leader and former Kerala Chief Minister, dies

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on the death of Comrade VS Achuthanandan - also known with the initials VS - in Thiruvananthapuram today at 3:20 pm, after prolonged illness:

Homage to Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the death of V. S. Achuthanandan, an outstanding leader and veteran of the communist movement. V. S. Achuthanandan was a former member of the Polit Bureau. He was 101 years old.

Capitalism is dying: More than 30% of young Americans view communism positively, survey reveals

A recent survey conducted the by the reactionary Cato Institute and YouGov provides a quite promising perspective for the U.S society. Despite decades of severe anti-communist propaganda in education and media, a significant number of young men and women in the States seem to hold positive views on the concepts of socialism-communism.  

 

According to the Cato/YouGov survey, 62 percent of Americans aged 18–29 say they hold a “favorable view” of socialism, while 34 percent say the same of communism. 

 

Palestinian People's Party: Urgent appeal to stop the Israeli-US war in Gaza and save the Palestinian people

We urgently appeal for your immediate intervention to stop the Israeli-American war and to save our Palestinian people

The Palestinian People’s Party, in the name of our people, political forces, civil actors, and all segments of our society, addresses you—and through you, all those concerned—calling for immediate intervention and the exertion of maximum pressure through all available means to halt the genocidal war being waged against our people, especially in the Gaza Strip, by the fascist Israeli government and occupation forces, with explicit American support and cover, alongside European inaction and disgraceful international silence. 

The KKE condemns the attacks on members of the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash by fascists

In a statement, the International Relations Section of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the recent violent attack against members of the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash in Ness Ziona:

The KKE vehemently condemns the attack on Ayman Odeh, head of the parliamentary group of the Hadash Front, of which the Communist Party of Israel is a member, by a group of fascists shouting ‘Death to the Arabs’ on Saturday 19 July. 

 

Czech Republic: The despicable attempt to criminalize communist ideology shall not pass!

Rally by the KSČM in Prague (Archive Photo)

Based on the shameful and deeply unhistorical "theory of the two extremes", the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel (a former NATO General), signed on Friday 18/7 an amendment to the criminal code that criminalizes the "promotion of communist propaganda", putting it on a similar level to nazism!

The amendment invokes the known, unhistorical and shameful theory of the "two extremes", thus equating communism with the monster of nazism; under the amended criminal law, the public display of the sickle and hammer or the Soviet flag would incur similar penalty as bearing... swastikas or other Third Reich symbols!

KKE: The coordinated workers-people's struggle of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots against imperialist plans is necessary

In a statement concerning the 51th anniversary of the Turkish military invasion in Cyprus, which led to the partition of the island, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), stresses out the following:

"51 years have passed since the crime against the Cypriot people, the Turkish invasion that resulted in thousands of dead, missing and displaced people and the occupation of 37% of Cyprus, which continues to this day.

Israeli fascists attack Hadash leader Ayman Odeh, chant "death to Arabs"

Hadash-Ta'al chairman and Knesset member Ayman Odeh was attacked during a protest in Ness Ziona on Saturday evening when a mob of right-wing extremists surrounded his car, spat at him, and caused significant damage to the vehicle, including cracking the windshield and damaging the fender.

According to the "Jerusalem Post", although police forces were present at the scene, no arrests were made. Eyewitnesses reported that the officers took minimal action, choosing instead to "contain" the situation rather than intervene forcefully.

Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE): On the reactionary anti-migrant hunts in Torre Pacheco

The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) condemns with all its strength the fatal attacks against migrant people and people of migrant descent in Torre Pacheco, Murcia. These facts were not isolated, but inscribed in a dangerous reactionary escalation in our country.

The PCTE denounces that a narrative deliberately associating migration and criminality is being implemented and normalized in the public debate and the general common sense. Such relation has no rigorous statistical support.