Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties: Stop the genocide against the Palestinian people

Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The Communist and Workers’ Parties condemn the new crime against the Palestinian people, which is being carried out before the eyes of the whole world and has been brought about by the intensification of the barbaric military aggression and the criminal Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Monument dedicated to Stalin erected in Melitopol

A monument dedicated to Soviet leader and architect of the 1945 Great Antifascist Victory, Joseph Stalin, was erected in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on May 8, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. 

The statue carries a plaque that reads: "To the organizer and inspirer of the victory of the Soviet people over the Nazi invaders, Generalissimo of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, from grateful descendants."

KKE: 80 years since the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples - Its conclusions and significance today

Opening speech by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), at the hybrid meeting of the European Communist Action, held in Berlin on 9 May 2025 under the subject “80 years since the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples.  Its conclusions and significance today”:

Dear comrades,

Joint statement by the KKE, AKEL, PCP and KSČM in the European Parliament against anti-communist initiative

A joint statement by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the Progressive Party of Working People of Cyprus (AKEL), the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) gives a response to the recent despicable, anti-communist proposal by five reactionary MEPs who are members of the European People's Party (EPP). 

The joint statement, initiated by the KKE and addressed to the President of the European Commission and the College of Commissioners, condemns anti-communism and has been also sent to other MEPs for further signatures.

The True Stalin

We republish an interesting opinion article on Joseph Stalin written on May 2, 2025, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Antifascist Victory, by historian and geopolitical analyst Christine Lynn, editor of the americanorthodoxchristian.com. (The views and opinions expressed in the article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect, in their entirety, the views of the present site)

By Christine Lynn 

Communists achieve landslide victory for fourth year in a row in Greek university student elections

The university students in Greece sent a powerful message.

 

For a fourth consecutive year, "Panspoudastiki KS" (All Student Cooperation Movement), backed by KNE - the young wing of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) - emerges first in the nationwide student elections held on Thursday 14 May, throughout the country's universities and technological institutes. 

 

Communist Party of Turkey: NATO Foreign Ministers are unwelcome in Antalya!

Statement of the CC of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) on the occasion of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting in Antalya on May 14-15:

"They are there on behalf of an alliance (!) 

An alliance whose members laugh and joke at each other in luxurious halls, at sumptuous tables, and shower each other with gifts. 

Then… 

Greece: Communist trade unionists convicted due to anti-war activity!

Seven trade unionists, including a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and a member of the Bureau of the Central Council of KNE, were prosecuted for their anti-war actions on 6 April 2022 in the port of Thessaloniki. The prosecution was based on fabricated charges and flimsy evidence.

The Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece made the following statement:

European Parliament: The shameful and unhistorical equation of Communism with Nazism shall not pass!

By Nikos Mottas

A new provocative attempt to equate communism with Nazism and take measures against communist symbols took place in the European Parliament, “Rizospastis” newspaper has reported. Five MEPs of the European People's Party (EPP) asked the Commission to ban the hammer and sickle - which they shamelessly equate with the Nazi swastika (!) - just a few days after the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples, led by the Soviet Union and the Red Army.

Communist Party of Turkey on the dissolution of the Kurdish PKK group

Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) regarding the dissolution decision announced by the PKK militant group:

With today’s announcement by the PKK, a new chapter begins in Turkey’s political and social dynamics. Naturally, our party supports the aspect of the process referred to as the “silencing of arms.” 

KKE's General Secretary concludes visit to Germany

KKE event in Berlin

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) concluded his visit to Germany on Sunday 11/5 with a speech in Stuttgart. 

 

The event, organized by the Communist Youth (KNE) organization, was held at Clara Zetkin Haus and was attended by numerous workers, members, supporters and friends of the Party.  

 

European Communist Action: 80 years since the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples

Joint Statement of the Parties participating in the European Communist Action on the 80th anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples:

"May 9, 1945 marks 80 years since the Great Anti-Fascist Victory when Nazi Germany surrendered and the peoples of the world, with the decisive role of the Red Army and the Soviet Union under the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as the organizer and inspirer of this struggle, brought fascism to its knees across Europe. 

80th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory: When the Communists saved humanity from the Nazi monster

By Nikos Mottas

“Anyone who loves freedom, owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid”. This phrase of Ernest Hemingway encompasses the whole symbolism of the 9th May 1945; the day of the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples.

80 years have passed since the day when the red flag with the sickle and hammer raised over Reichstag, in Berlin, thus marking the triumph of the Red Army and the Soviet Union over the monster of Nazism-Fascism.