"If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off", Garg said during a Zoom call. "The market changed, as you know, and we have to move with it in order to survive, so that hopefully we can continue to thrive and deliver on our mission,” the CEO pointed out. “This isn’t news that you’re going to want to hear. But ultimately it was my decision and I wanted you to hear from me".
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
This is capitalism! Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom after getting $750 million from SoftBank
"If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off", Garg said during a Zoom call. "The market changed, as you know, and we have to move with it in order to survive, so that hopefully we can continue to thrive and deliver on our mission,” the CEO pointed out. “This isn’t news that you’re going to want to hear. But ultimately it was my decision and I wanted you to hear from me".
Monday, December 6, 2021
Has socialism ever existed in the Nordic countries?
We translated and publish an article written by Andreas Sörensen, head of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP), that was published in "Riktpunkt" on 30 November 2021. The article is titled "Has socialism worked in the North?" and provides a response to the arguments made by Sjöstedt and Dragstedt.
By Andreas Sörensen.
Sunday, December 5, 2021
KKE and French communists honored the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune
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Friday, December 3, 2021
KKE leader Koutsoumbas pays tribute to the Paris Commune
Photo: 902.gr |
Later on, the General Secretary and a delegation of the KKE visited the “Communards' Wall” at Père Lachaise cemetery where Koutsoumbas laid a wreath in honor of the 147 fallen combatants of the 1871 Paris Commune. Flowers were also deposed to the graves of the General Secretary of the French Communist Party from 1930 to 1964 Maurice Thorez, communist poet Paul Éluard and communard chansonnier Jean-Baptiste Clement.
Sudanese Communist Party: The struggle for the overthrow of the military regime must continue
The statement reads:
Tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators took the streets of the capital and other major cities expressing their rejection of the political agreement reached and signed by the leader of the coup General Burhan and Prime Minister Hamadok.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Sergei Kirov — An example of Bolshevism
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (real name Sergei Kostrikov) was born on 27 March 1886 in the city of Urzhum, Vyatka province (now Kirov region) in a middle-class family. Sergei lost his parents at an early age and was raised, along his two sisters Anna and Elizabeth, by his grandmother Melania Avdeyevna. He was sent to the "House of Charity for young orphans" and in 1901 he graduated from City College. He later joined the lower Mechanical and Technical School of Kazan.
Greek-American resistance fighter Kostas Lekkas dies
Comrade Lekkas in his 100th birthday. |
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Dimitris Koutsoumbas — The struggle against “green” and “digital” capitalist barbarism
Below you can read the introductory speech delivered by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Dimitris Koutsoumbas:
Joint statement of Communist Parties on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Joint Statement of Communist and Workers parties on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Cuba: "Fidel Castro Ruz" Center inaugurated in Havana
“I am still excited and, I confess one thing, I have cried like everyone here,” said Army General Raul Castro Ruz to the children of the La Colmenita theatre group who, on the evening of November 25, precisely five years after the physical departure of Cuba’s Comandante en Jefe, had the great responsibility of inaugurating the Fidel Castro Ruz Center.
Visite du Secrétaire général du KKE Koutsoumbas à Paris
According to "Rizospastis" Koutsoumbas will pay a visit to Louvre museum on Thursday 2 December, while on Friday he will participate in a guided walk "on the footsteps of the Commune". On the same day he will lay a wreath at the Communards' Wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery where, on May 28, 1871, one-hundred and forty-seven fédérés, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot and thrown in an open trench at the foot of the wall.
Friday, November 26, 2021
Turkish communists lead protests over price rises: "Stand up against expensiveness"
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) is once again on the forefront of the protests, organizing rallies in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other cities.
“Our labor is exploited, our country is plundered. Our lives are being stolen with prices that change every day, with increasing bills. We have to resist for our life, for our future. Now is the time to stand up!”, reads a statement by the TKP which calls the working people to mobilize against the governmental policies.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Communist Parties on the situation in Donbass: "Fascism can’t be healed!"
Left: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff (2014). |
The statement reads:
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
KKE event in Berlin: Only the people can save the people
The speaker at the event was Giorgos Marinos, KKE MP, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Other attendants included KKE MEP and Central Committee member Kostas Papadakis, as well as representatives of the German Communist Party (DKP) and the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).
Monday, November 22, 2021
Austria: Communists slam government's policy on pandemic
The statement reads:
On the 15th of November 2021, the federal government imposed an Austria-wide "lockdown for the unvaccinated". The Party of Labour of Austria cannot agree to this measure and wants to state the following points in this regard:
Sunday, November 21, 2021
European Communist Initiative: "The price rises in basic goods did not fall from the sky"
In the recent period an acute rise in prices of different basic goods, including electricity, fuel, and other essential commodities is being registered. This situation, which is particularly worrying when we are on the threshold of winter season, is affecting the working class and the popular strata of our countries, who have been the victims of the bourgeois governments and their management of the recent crisis against the peoples.
The impact of AUKUS on international developments and the stance of the communists
CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
The tripartite “security” alliance between the US, Australia, and the UK under the name “AUKUS”, announced on 15/09/2021, constitutes a new important development in the structure of imperialist alliances.
What does this development mean and which additional tasks arise for the communist movement?
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.
Poland's communists blast governmental policy on refugees
The KPP stresses out that “it shouldn't be forgotten that Poland, as a NATO member-state, had an instrumental role in the tragic situation affected by war, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan” and adds: “The refugees hope to reach Western European countries through Poland. These people often flee from Islamic fundamentalism, imperialism or the lack of prospects in their home country. Many migrants are Kurds who have become victims of Turkism imperialism in Syria and Iraq. Some have successfully fought against the Islamic State but, now, the U.S. has handed them over to Erdogan's regime which is occupying part of Syria's territory and carries out air strikes in northern Iraq”.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Greece: Massive anti-imperialist rallies in honor of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising
In Athens, the demonstrators marched peacefully through central streets of the Greek capital, shouted anti-imperialist slogans ("Since the Polytechnic, the enemy remains the same: NATO, governments, capitalism") and ended outside the U.S. Embassy where they burned flags of NATO and the United States.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The KKE pays tribute to the 48th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
KKE: Statement for the refugee crisis in Belarus-EU borders
More specifically, the statement (here in Greek) issued by the Press Bureau of the CC of the KKE reads:
Monday, November 15, 2021
Communist Party of Ireland on COP26: "There is no green capitalism possible"
"The future belongs to socialism and to those who fight for it.
The jamboree that was the COP26 closed and a statement issued to the press. Their carefully choreographed opinion pieces, the television news features of how “western democracies” are leading the fight to save the planet and the parcelling of selected nations as villains into neat packages to reassure the gullible that it is not capitalism that is the problem. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Belarus-Poland standoff: The lives of refugees are not a tool in imperialist antagonisms
"The tension on the Belarusian border with Poland is intensifying every day at the expense of thousands of stranded migrants and refugees who are treated like a tennis-ball in the EU – USA – NATO geopolitical confrontation with Belarus and Russia.