By Kostas Papadakis
The bourgeois political parties in Greece greeted the election results in Serbia and the victory of the so-called “Student List” in last Sunday's elections with enthusiastic praise. They spoke of a “historic result that overturned the political landscape,” making sure to draw parallels between Greece and Serbia.
According to trade unions involved in the mobilization, workers in 113 ports across 22 countries and five continents participated in strikes, work stoppages, demonstrations and solidarity actions under the common slogan: “We do not work for war!”
In separate statements, the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party (PCBR) stressed the necessity of mass mobilization and independent working-class struggle, while offering distinct assessments of the post-election political situation.
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In light of yet another Cuban resolution at the UN General Assembly calling for the lifting of the criminal U.S. embargo, the Cuban people are currently facing great difficulties, under the threat of a U.S. military invasion and the CIA’s openly declared plans to undermine and overthrow the Cuban government. Since early 2026, they have been facing an energy blockade that amounts to an act of genocide.
France is once again a country of protests, strikes and growing popular anger. Young people are mobilizing against deteriorating schools and an increasingly uncertain future, while workers confront austerity, rising living costs and attacks on public services.
The French state finds enormous resources for military expenditure, yet workers and their families are told that sacrifices are unavoidable.
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| Ambassador Hernández during a KKE rally for Cuba (Archive) |
The Western ruling classes have developed a remarkable ability to distinguish between a “revolution” and a “violent riot". The criteria have little to do with the demands of the demonstrators or the methods of their struggle.
What matters is whose power is threatened, whose interests are served and whether the existing capitalist order is being challenged or strengthened. After all, democracy has never been independent of class interests.
The growing influence of nationalist and far-right forces across Europe is neither accidental nor a development occurring outside the capitalist system. It is closely connected with the needs of capitalist power itself, at a time when imperialist rivalries are intensifying, preparations for war are accelerating and the established bourgeois parties are finding it increasingly difficult to secure popular consent for their policies.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE), meeting at its Fifth Extraordinary Plenary Session, has analysed the political situation arising from the mobilisations for the right to housing, the calling of an early general election for 29 November, and the announcement of a general strike for 11 November.
Their courage remains a point of reference for the struggle of the working class to this day, and their experience also offers valuable political lessons that we must not forget.
Few in the United States would know the true history of relations between our country and the Caribbean nation of Cuba. The United States seized Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. A brief, opportunist war triggered by the U.S. on flimsy pretexts to grab several valuable pieces of the decaying Spanish Empire. In addition to Cuba and the Philippines, the islands Puerto Rico and Guam were quickly subjugated by the U.S. military in the conflict.
