Palestinian communist Amir Badran appointed deputy mayor of Tel Aviv–Jaffa

Attorney Amir Badran, a leading member of the communist-led Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) and chair of its branch in Jaffa (Yafo), was elected Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv–Jaffa on June 22, becoming the first Hadash representative to hold the position.

A Palestinian citizen of Israel, Badran is widely known for his involvement in struggles defending the rights of the Arab population in Jaffa, including campaigns against evictions, housing discrimination, and the displacement of local residents. 

Palestinian Authority and Communist Party of Greece condemn Israel’s deportation of Greek trade unionists

Israeli occupation authorities denied entry to a Greek trade union delegation on Sunday after detaining and interrogating its members for several hours at Tel Aviv Airport, according to statements issued by Palestinian organizations and officials.

The delegation had been invited by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions to participate in a solidarity visit with the Palestinian labor movement. However, despite the official invitation, Israeli authorities prevented the delegation from entering Palestine and ultimately deported its members.

KKE: The EU is complicit in the U.S-Israel's dirty war against Iran and Lebanon

Intervening in the debate on the Middle East held in the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg following the announcement of the preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) European Parliamentary Group delivered a statement condemning the EU's role in the region.

KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos stressed the following:

KKE MEPs to the European Union: Stop covering Israel’s pirate attacks in international waters

The European Parliamentary Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has sent a new letter to the Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, condemning the latest Israeli pirate attack against the solidarity flotilla heading to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.

The letter by the Party’s MEPs, Kostas Papadakis and Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, reads as follows:

On Politics, Ideology and Anti-Zionism

By Nimrod Flaschenberg and Reem Hazan

Israel, with the support of the United States and the West, has used the pretext of the October 7 attacks to prosecute a campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and imperialist expansion for the past three years, reaching a record level of violence not seen since 1948. It has been relentlessly bombing and killing Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, and other civilians throughout the region, dispossessing or razing to the ground entire communities in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

May Day: Jews and Arabs march together in Tel Aviv and Nazareth, send message against war and Netanyahu

Thousands marched today (Saturday) in Nazareth, and yesterday in central Tel Aviv, against the war and against the right-wing government, as part of the May Day demonstrations organized by Hadash, Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Young Communist League of Israel (YCLI). 

In Nazareth, thousands of Jews and Arabs marched from Tawfiq Zayad Street to Mary’s Well Square in the city center, where a rally featuring political speeches was held. 

KKE condemns Israeli assault on Gaza solidarity flotilla

In a statement issued today, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns “the new piratical attack by the terrorist state of Israel against the international solidarity flotilla for Gaza, which placed the lives of hundreds of people in grave danger.”

The KKE notes that “the Greek government must provide specific answers, as the Israeli assault took place off Crete, in international waters and within Greece’s area of responsibility for search and rescue operations.” 

IMCWP Working Group: Statements against US-Israeli imperialist aggression and in solidarity with Cuba

The meeting of the Working Group (WG) of the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP), which was successfully held on 19 April in Istanbul, issued statements for the US-Israeli imperialist war in Iran and Lebanon as well as in solidarity with Cuba. 

Read below the two statements:

Statement on Solidarity with the Peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Palestine

Communist Party of Israel and Hadash condemn the desecration of Jesus statue by IDF soldier in Lebanon

A viral photograph showing an occupation Israeli soldier hitting a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon with a sledgehammer has sparked outrage. In a statement on Monday, April 19, the Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of the image that was widely shared online, garnering more than 5 million views on X. Commenting on social media, Hadash-Ta’al chair MK Ayman Odeh wrote pointedly: “We’ll wait to hear the police spokesperson claim that ‘the soldier felt threatened by Jesus’.” 

 

Holocaust Remembrance Day and the erasure of Jewish communist partisans: The case of Leon Tager

Leon Tager (with the white shirt, center) with his comrades, 1941.

Leon Tager, a Bulgarian communist of Jewish origin, was held in a forced labor camp in his homeland until June 24, 1941. Two days after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Tager did not wait for instructions from his party, which he had joined in 1933. He broke into the camp’s storage facilities, stole a backpack filled with explosives, and escaped.

Six days later, a massive explosion was heard, followed by flames engulfing the fuel depots of the Bulgarian port city of Ruse. 

Tudeh Party of Iran: Statement on the “provisional ceasefire” between Iran and the U.S

Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran

The Announcement of a “Provisional Ceasefire”, A Step Forward Toward Achieving Lasting Peace

In the final moments before the deadline set by the fascist President of the United States, threatening that Iran's “civilization will die tonight,” expired, it was announced that Iran and the United States had agreed on a conditional two-week ceasefire. According to this agreement, the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be kept as free as possible. According to published reports, this agreement was reached through the mediation of the Pakistani government.

KKE: U.S and Israel exploit fragile ceasefire as deadly strikes hit Lebanon

The Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued a statement regarding Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon and the statements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

“Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon—among the most lethal in recent weeks—demonstrate that the United States and Israel are exploiting the fragile ceasefire, which also included Lebanon, in order to recalibrate their attack tactics, at a time when none of the originally declared objectives of their imperialist intervention in Iran have been achieved.

Israeli communist lawmaker: "Netanyahu is a liar and an international pyromaniac"

Hadash lawmaker Cassif on Iran-US ceasefire 

 

About fifteen hours after the US-Iran cease-fire was announced, the far-right Israeli government has still not issued a statement in Hebrew on the deal or addressed Israeli citizens on the matter. In its first official response in English to the cease-fire agreement, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement early Wednesday, April 8, that Israel supports the move but insisted that the deal “does not include Lebanon.”

 

KKE MEPs denounce Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinians, submit question to European Commission

The European Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) denounces the new crime against the heroic Palestinian people—the imposition of the death penalty by the State of Israel — through a question submitted to the European Commission by the Party’s MEPs, Kostas Papadakis and Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos.

In their question, they state:

Communist Party of Israel strongly condemns Knesset law mandating death penalty for Palestinians

Fascist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

The decision of the Knesset to approve legislation imposing the death penalty on Palestinians marks a very dangerous escalation in the institutionalized repression of an entire people—an escalation that has been met with a forceful and uncompromising response from the Communist Party of Israel.

Adopted on the night of March 30, the law stipulates that capital punishment will be imposed on anyone who carries out a deadly attack “with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.” In reality, however, the law is crafted in such a way that it overwhelmingly targets Palestinians. 

50th anniversary of the Land Day: Online event by the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash

Palestinian communist Tawfiq Zayyad speaks at a rally, 1979

On the 50th anniversary of the Land Day, March 30, 1976, the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Hadash invite to an online panel bringing together Palestinian perspectives from different places – Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, protagonists of the Land Day, alongside people in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian diaspora. 

 

The online panel, with translation to English, will be held next Sunday, March 29, 2026, 19:00 – Jerusalem time.

 

Israeli communist MP Aida Touma-Sliman: Why we oppose the imperialist war against Iran

In an interview published this week in Zo Haderech amid the ongoing wars in Iran and Lebanon, Hadash MP Aida Touma-Sliman expressed firm opposition to the war, stressing that opposition to war must be the starting point.

“Two days ago someone asked me why I oppose the war,” she said. “I replied that answers should be demanded from those who start wars, not from those who oppose them. The default must be opposition to war, because wars will never bring security or peace.”

Resolution of the (Expanded) Meeting of the CC of the Tudeh Party of Iran

The Secretarial of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran, The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI) was convened earlier in March 2026, attended by members of the Central Committee, party cadres, and officers. The session commenced with a minute of silence to honour the memory of all victims of the brutal bombardments by U.S. imperialism and the criminal Netanyahu government, as well as those who lost their lives during the January popular protests and the martyrs of the Tudeh movement.

 

KKE's Koutsoumbas warns of “extremely dangerous escalation” as Greece is drawn deeper into Iran war

Amid the intensification of the US–Israel war against Iran and growing pressure on allied states to contribute to military operations—particularly in the strategically crucial Strait of Hormuz—the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, has issued a stark warning about the risks of a wider regional conflagration and Greece’s deepening involvement in it.

 

Political Bureau of the CC of the KKE: No sacrifices for the imperialists’ wars – Greece out of the war

Statement by the Political Bureau of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 

No sacrifices for the imperialists’ wars – Greece out of the war

1. The KKE calls on the working class, the people and the youth to remain vigilant and to take militant action. Let the alarm be sounded everywhere. Let opposition to the imperialist war and to our country’s dangerous involvement in it be expressed and strengthened. Our country must not become a target for reprisals. The people and their children must not be made to bear the consequences of war.