Rinze Visser, veteran Dutch communist, former chairman of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN), now renamed the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), and the country's longest-serving municipal councillor, passed away on October 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on December 18, 1938, Visser grew up in a communist family and worked as a street paver before joining the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) in 1958.
