Remembering Federico García Lorca, 90 years since his assassination by Franco's fascists

August 18 marked 90 years since the murder of Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish poet and dramatist who was executed by Franco's fascist forces near Granada in 1936, during the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War.

Those who murdered Lorca may have believed that a bullet could silence his voice. History proved otherwise. His poetry, theatre and enduring humanism survived his killers, turning him into one of the most internationally recognised figures of Spanish literature and a lasting symbol of the democratic and anti-fascist Spain that Francoism sought to destroy.

 

Resolution submitted by the KKE to the 24th IMCWP

Resolution submitted by the KKE to the 24th IMCWP

Communist and workers’ parties against imperialist wars: The workers’-people’s struggle will grow stronger with an independent line, away from all bourgeois and imperialist plans. 

With this Resolution, on the occasion of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana from 7 to 9 August 2026,  we express our solidarity with Cuba and its people, we honour the memory and historic contribution of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Communist Party of Cuba and of the Cuban Revolution, on the centenary of his birth commemorated this year. 

Palestinian and Israeli young communists send message of joint struggle from the West Bank

Young Palestinian and Israeli communists came together earlier this month in the occupied West Bank, taking part in the 29th Farkha International Youth Festival — a longstanding initiative combining voluntary work, political discussion and internationalist solidarity.

Held in the Palestinian village of Farkha, the festival brought together young activists from the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Young Communist League of Israel (Banki), Hadash and other progressive forces. Participants worked side by side in voluntary projects and joined political and cultural activities.

 

Rehabilitation of fascist criminals in Ukraine reaches new levels: OUN founder Konovalets honored in Kyiv

The rehabilitation of fascist collaborators in Ukraine reached another disturbing milestone last week, as the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, founder and first leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), were returned from the Netherlands and received in Kyiv with state and military honours.

Konovalets’ remains, exhumed from Rotterdam’s Crooswijk Cemetery 88 years after his assassination, arrived in Ukraine on August 13. 

 

Anti-communist repression intensifies across the Turkic States: Freedom for Aziz Khakimov!

Statement by the Political Council of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan on the intensification of anti-communist persecutions in the Turkic States:

In Uzbekistan, the well known blogger and left wing activist Aziz Khakimov was given a harsh sentence of 4 years and 2 months in prison for speaking out against the rehabilitation of the leaders of the Basmachi movement of 1918-1944. His only “crime” was that he called them murderers and executioners of the people!

Communist Party of Mexico aims for power: “We want to win the Presidency in 2030”

Photo: Gabriel Pano / eluniversal.com.mx

The Communist Party of Mexico (PCM) is stepping up its political and electoral intervention with an ambitious objective: to contest the presidency in 2030 and strengthen an independent communist alternative to both the governing Morena and the traditional parties of capital.

The Mexican daily El Universal spotlighted the Party in a report headlined: “We want to win the presidency in 2030: Communist Party of Mexico is alive and seeks permanent power”. The report highlights the PCM’s determination to expand its national presence and intervene more decisively in Mexico’s political life.

Final declaration of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties

FINAL DECLARATION OF THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' PARTIES

Havana, Cuba, August 7-8, 2026

“Defending and honoring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth and consolidating solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening joint actions and joining forces for peace and against imperialist aggression.”

Communist Initiative of Cyprus: 100 years since the founding of the Communist Party of Cyprus

Statement by the Communist Initiative of Cyprus on the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Cyprus, on 15 August: 

"On this day 100 years ago, the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Cyprus (CPC) was held in Limassol. It was the culmination of a process that had been developing for years, as the first socialist groups in Cyprus had already emerged in the late 1910s. News of the October Revolution reached colonial Cyprus as well, giving fresh impetus to the workers’ struggle against wage exploitation.

Fidel Castro's position on Perestroika and the Counterrevolution in the USSR

Intervention by Eliseos Vagenas, member of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and head of the Party's International Relations Section, at the 1st International Colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future”, which took place in Havana from 10 to 13 August.  Translated from Rizospastis (here in Greek): 

"We thank the organizers for the invitation to participate in the 1st International Symposium “Fidel: Legacy and Future.” From this platform as well, we wish to express the profound solidarity of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and of all communists in Greece, with the heroic people of Cuba, who for decades have been in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism.

65 years since the construction of the Berlin Wall – The GDR and the Cold War

Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected. Bourgeois media and all manner of “experts” are once again using the anniversary as an opportunity to wage their anti-communist propaganda campaign and engage in sweeping historical revisionism. Dictatorship, totalitarianism, an “unjust regime,” evil — there is seemingly no end to the labels attached to the German Democratic Republic. Terror, we are told, was omnipresent, with the Wall and the Stasi presented as its ultimate symbols. 

 

Fidel Castro at 100: History Has Absolved Him!

By Nikos Mottas 

“Socialism is and will be the hope, the only hope, the only path for the peoples, the oppressed, the exploited, the plundered. Socialism is the only alternative"  — Fidel Castro Ruz

A century after the birth of Fidel Castro Ruz, on 13 August 1926, the hatred directed against him has hardly diminished. Nearly ten years after his death, the same vocabulary is repeated with remarkable persistence: “dictator,” “tyrant,” “totalitarian.” Fidel is vilified, the Cuban Revolution is slandered, its achievements are denied or reduced to inconvenient footnotes, while the Cuba that existed before January 1959 is carefully pushed out of sight.

KKE highlights Fidel Castro's revolutionary and internationalist legacy at Havana Colloquium

The First International Colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future” is underway in Havana, bringing together around 1,500 participants from across the world in the run-up to the centenary of the birth of Fidel Castro Ruz on August 13. 

 

The four-day gathering, held from August 10 to 13 at Havana’s Convention Palace, is devoted not simply to commemorating the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, but to examining the continuing relevance of his revolutionary thought and action in the struggles against imperialism, exploitation and capitalist barbarism.

 

KKE Europarliament Group denounces EU and Spanish Government over deadly Ceuta migrant crackdown

The European Parliamentary Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has denounced the responsibility of the European Union and Spain’s social-democratic government for the latest deadly events in Ceuta, where 99 refugees and migrants were reported dead and dozens more missing, accusing the EU of turning repression, pushbacks and the denial of asylum into pillars of its migration policy.

KKE MEP Kostas Papadakis raised the issue in a question submitted to the European Commission, highlighting the responsibility of both the Sánchez government and the EU institutions for yet another tragedy involving people uprooted by imperialist interventions, poverty and exploitation.

 

Miguel Díaz-Canel at the 24th IMCWP: “Socialism remains the only realistic and humane alternative to capitalist barbarism”

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered a forceful closing address to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) in Havana, denouncing the deepening crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of fascism, the U.S. economic war against Cuba and the urgent tasks facing the international communist movement.

Speaking in the context of the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, Díaz-Canel described Cuba as an “island of dignity and historical resistance” against imperialism and fascism, warning that humanity is passing through one of its most uncertain and dangerous periods in decades.

 

The Communist Party of Turkey on the so-called “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement”

Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) following the AKP government's signing of the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement”: 

"The AKP government has signed the so-called “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” and thereby dragged our country into a new and extremely dangerous military adventure. The agreement’s most important declared clause treats an armed attack on any one of the three countries as an attack on all of them.

A political and historical critique of David Uclés’s "The Peninsula of Empty Houses"

The following article - book review was originally published in Rizospastis, Organ of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on 8-9 August 2026, under the title "A Publishing Phenomenon of “Equal Distances". Real below the English translation: 

David Uclés’s novel has become a genuine publishing phenomenon. More than 400,000 copies have been sold in Spain, translations have appeared in dozens of languages, and the book has been embraced by critics and readers alike as a major literary fresco of the Spanish Civil War. Precisely because its influence is so extensive, it deserves to be approached critically—not in terms of its literary technique, but of its political content and the way in which it shapes collective memory of one of the most decisive events of the twentieth century.

KKE: Contribution at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana

The 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) began in Havana on Friday and will conclude on Sunday (7–9 August). This year’s Meeting, hosted by the Communist Party of Cuba, is being held under the theme: “We defend and honor the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth, deepen solidarity with socialist Cuba, strengthen our joint actions and unite our forces for peace and against imperialist aggression".

Communist and Workers' Parties from across the world gather in Havana for the 24th IMCWP

The 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) begins today, 7 August, in Havana, bringing together communist and workers’ parties from around the world at a particularly difficult moment for Cuba and the international communist movement.

Hosted by the Communist Party of Cuba, the meeting will continue through 9 August under the theme: “We defend and honor the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel Castro; we deepen our solidarity with socialist Cuba; we strengthen our joint actions and unite our forces for peace and against imperialist aggression”.

Statement of the European Communist Action on the US Crimes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Statement by the European Communist Action (ECA) on the occasion of the 81st anniversary since the U.S. imperialist atrocity in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 

Eighty-one years ago, the US war machine incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of civilians—workers, women, children, and the elderly—were killed by these acts of mass murder, the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history. 

Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) steps up campaign ahead of September elections

Photo: Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti 

The Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti—SKP) is intensifying its preparations for Sweden’s parliamentary, regional and municipal elections on 13 September 2026, presenting its candidacy as the only consistent alternative to the parties administering capitalism. Early voting begins on 26 August.

The election campaign was formally launched with a nationwide digital meeting on 7 June, attended by party members and sympathisers. 

 

Repression in Zelensky’s Ukraine: Political prisoners announce August 5 hunger strike

A one-day international solidarity hunger strike will be held on 5 August 2026 in support of political prisoners in Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukraine.

The initiative was launched by the Association for the Defence of Political Prisoners and Human Rights, founded by Ukrainian communists Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, together with 15 prisoners at Vinnytsia Correctional Colony No. 86.

 

Spanish communists: The Ceuta migrant crisis is not an "invasion" but the product of capitalist rivalries

Following one of the most serious migration crises at Spain's borders in recent years, the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) has issued a statement, condemning both the exploitation of migrants for geopolitical purposes and the reactionary attempts to fuel racism and xenophobia. 

The statement (read here in Spanish) reads: 

Wildfires in Greece and Spain: KKE and PCTE hold bourgeois governments responsible

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Southern Europe, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) have sharply condemned their respective bourgeois governments, arguing that the repeated destruction is not merely the result of extreme weather conditions but of policies that systematically leave public fire protection services understaffed, underfunded and unprepared. 

 

100th anniversary of the Communist Party of Cyprus -AKEL, 1926–2026: A century of sacrifices and struggles

24^th Congress Declaration marking the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of Cyprus-AKEL, 1926–2026:

A century of sacrifices and struggles

1.The 24th AKEL Congress salutes with deep respect the 100th anniversary of the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Cyprus, held on 15 August 1926. This anniversary marks a milestone, as for the first time in our country’s history, the people of labour and toil had emerged on the arena of political action and asserting its role as a leading force in history.