Marx and Engels were already studying the social situation of working women under capitalism. They focused on the exploitation of wage labour but also on additional forms of inequality and oppression, exclusion and discrimination in a number of aspects of social life, such as legislation, family and interpersonal relations.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Capitalism has nothing to offer working women except exploitation, oppression and poverty
Marx and Engels were already studying the social situation of working women under capitalism. They focused on the exploitation of wage labour but also on additional forms of inequality and oppression, exclusion and discrimination in a number of aspects of social life, such as legislation, family and interpersonal relations.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
European Communist Initiative: Statement on the 80th Anniversary of the Heroic Battle of Stalingrad
"This year marks the 80th anniversary of the great Battle of Stalingrad, which was of decisive importance and contribution to the Antifascist Victory of the Peoples, and to the class struggle overall.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
30 years since the Maastricht Treaty: Statement by the European Communist Initiative
This December, 30 years have passed since the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, which marked a closer transnational union at the economic, political, and military level of European capital with the transformation of the European Economic Community (EEC) into the European Union (EU). This meant a new, heavier yoke on the people by the monopolies.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
100th anniversary of the founding of the USSR: Speech by Tibor Zenker, Party of Labour of Austria (PdA)
The founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 30 December 1922 marked the greatest state-political achievement of the revolutionary working class to date. It was the result of the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, the successful struggle of the young Russian Soviet Republic against counterrevolution and interventions, the overcoming of civil war and so-called "war communism".
Saturday, December 10, 2022
100th anniversary of the founding of the USSR: Closing remarks by Giorgos Marinos, KKE Politburo member
Concluding the teleconference of the European Communist Initiative, Giorgos Marinos, among other things, noted the following:
Monday, December 5, 2022
100th anniversary of the founding of the USSR: Speech by the KKE General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas
Dear comrades,
The international and domestic developments in the 100 years since the founding of the USSR confirm the necessity to enrich our programmatic conception of socialism, incorporating all the positive and at the same time negative experience from the very course of socialist construction in the 20th century and drawing useful conclusions from the victory of the counter-revolution, first of all in the USSR.
Friday, November 25, 2022
European Communist Initiative: "On the “green” and war profits of business groups and the energy poverty faced by the peoples"
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the already existing inequalities in our society, deepening the worsening living conditions of the working majority, in conditions of an imminent capitalist crisis following the 2020 crisis, which acted as a catalyst for Covid-19. According to official EU data, one in four inhabitants of the EU (more than 122 million people) is living in poverty.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
The European Communist Initiative on NATO summit
The NATO Summit, which is taking place on 29–30 June in Madrid, is a step towards the further escalation of NATO aggression against the peoples, but also the intensification of imperialist competition, which is currently manifested in the imperialist military conflict in Ukraine.
The NATO Summit seeks to update the NATO doctrine that is dangerous to the people and to strengthen the aggressive strategy “NATO 2030”. In the context of this strategy, NATO’s Rapid Reaction Force is being legitimized and increased tenfold to over 300,000 troops, focusing on the war zone in Eastern Europe.
Thursday, June 9, 2022
The enlargement of NATO is a threat to the peoples — Statement by the European Communist Initiative
"The Secretariat of the European Communist Initiative deplores and condemns the plans of the bourgeois classes and governments of Sweden and Finland to join NATO. This is a move that entangles the peoples of both countries, the whole of Scandinavia, and overall in great dangers and adventures.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
European Communist Initiative: 9th May, a milestone of the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples
We proudly commemorate 9 May, a milestone of the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples. We pay tribute to the millions of people who sacrificed their lives, fought with guns in their hands, and struggled against the fascist imperialist Axis of Germany–Italy–Japan and their allies.
Sunday, May 1, 2022
European Communist Initiative: Statement on the 1st of May, the International Workers' Day
"This year, we highlight the 1st of May in difficult conditions, amidst the severe sharpening of the contradictions within the imperialist system.
The constant escalation between the imperialist blocs of the world has as its inevitable outcome the sharpening of competition; as every monopoly needs to expand it will eventually encounter other monopolies seeking to do the same. The constant struggle for profits drive the policies of the bourgeoisie and its governments, and forces upon the people militarisation and an increase in exploitation. The fault is in the capitalist system itself.
Friday, March 4, 2022
European Communist Initiative on Ukraine war
"Three decades after the dissolution of the USSR and the imperialist war in Yugoslavia, a new war broke out on European territory. The unacceptable Russian military intervention and invasion of Ukraine has been prepared all the previous years through the USA, NATO, and EU intervention, their support for the reactionary government of Kyiv, the paramilitary mechanisms andfascist groups in Ukraine as well as the plan for the economic, political, and military encirclement of Russia.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
European Communist Initiative: "Capitalism is responsible for Covid pandemic casualties"
The Covid-19, which was first detected in late 2019 and declared as a worldwide pandemic in March 2020, has been going on for almost two years. During this period, 271 million people were infected, and more than 5 million people died due to Covid-19. The vast majority of deaths have been in the United States, which has the most market-oriented healthcare system in the world; however, “developed” European countries with big economies also lead the ranking of deaths.
Friday, December 24, 2021
European Communist Initiative: On the establishment of the “European Army” and the dangerous imperialist plans
We denounce the USA–NATO–EU imperialist plans that have been developed in the past period and lead to further sharpening of inter-imperialist competition, putting the peoples at great risk. The confrontation between the USA and China for world supremacy forms dangerous hotbeds in the Indo-Pacific and many other parts of the world.
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:
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.
Sunday, May 9, 2021
The memory of the Antifascist Victory does not fade away — Socialism is the future!
76 years ago, the Red Army raised the Red Flag in the Reichstag, marking the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples and the defeat of Nazism. That was a fierce and bloody struggle, led by the Soviet Union with the decisive contribution of many anti-fascist, partisan movements, with the Communist Parties at the forefront.
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Long live International Workers’ Day! Long live socialism: Statement by the European Communist Initiative
The Parties of the European Communist Initiative send a warm militant salute to the workers of our Continent, to the working class of the world.
We are inspired by the flame of the workers of Chicago, we honor the men and women of our class who fell on the battlefields of the class struggle.
Friday, April 30, 2021
Vladimir Lenin and the timeliness of his work: Contributions by European Communist and Workers' Parties
The teleconference was attended by Communist and Workers' parties from the following countries: Austria, Belarus, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine.
Click here to read the introductory speech of Giorgos Marinos, member of the Political Bureau of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
Monday, April 26, 2021
Lenin's work is timely — Speech by G. Marinos at the online event of the European Communist Initiative
The teleconference was attended by a delegation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) comprised of Giorgos Marinos, member of the PB of the CC of the KKE, Eliseos Vagenas, member of the CC and head of the Section of International Relations of the CC, Kostas Papadakis, member of the CC and MEP, and Aris Evangelidis, member of the Section of International Relations of the CC.