Koutsoumbas: The KKE will become strong, ready to answer the call of history, for socialism!

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“A strong KKE, steadfast in every trial, ready to answer the call of History, for Socialism!”. With this slogan dominating the indoor Galatsi Olympic Stadium, amid an atmosphere of emotion and militant uplift, and in the presence of a large crowd of members and friends of the KKE and the KNE, the opening “kick-off” of the KKE’s 22nd Congress was given on Wednesday afternoon. 

The keynote address was delivered by the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, who took the podium to prolonged applause.

 

Anti-Communism in Iran: From the Pahlavi Dynasty to the Islamic Republic

 By Nikos Mottas

In modern Iranian history, anti-communism has never been an accident or a mere ideological reflex. It has been a permanent weapon of bourgeois state power. Across regimes that appeared to stand at opposite ideological poles — the pro-Western, secular monarchy of the Pahlavi dynasty and the theocratic order established after 1979 — the repression of communists and revolutionary leftists formed a stable axis of continuity. The language of power changed; its class function did not.

KKE's 22nd Congress kicks off on Thursday: Messages of greetings from Communist Parties

“A powerful KKE, steadfast in every trial, ready to answer history’s call, for socialism!””. With this slogan, the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) opens this week and will be held on 29, 30, and 31 January 2026.

As 902 portal stresses out, "the members and friends of the KKE and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) welcome the 22nd Congress with a deep sense of responsibility and pride, with militant yet realistic optimism rooted in the justice of our struggle and in the necessity of advancing our Programme—for a society free from exploitation, capitalist barbarism, and imperialist wars."

Communist and Workers' Parties against imperialist intervention in Iran, express solidarity with the Iranian people's struggle!

Joint Statement of the Communist and Workers' Parties against Imperialist Intervention and for Solidarity with the Iranian People's Struggle!

We, the undersigned Communist and Workers' Parties which have supported the struggle of Iranian people for peace, sovereignty, human and democratic rights, social justice, and against threats of imperialist attack are watching with grave concern the current developments in the country. 

Communist Workers' Platform USA: Statement on the struggle against ICE terror in Minneapolis

Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Workers' Platform USA (CWPUSA) on the Center of Struggle in Minneapolis:

The Trump administration launched Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis starting late December. In January, ICE agents have since arrested 3,000 people in the state of Minnesota. In recent weeks, ICE has shot 3 people, executing 2 legal observers: Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Michael Parenti, Marxist political scientist and author, dies aged 92

Michael Parenti, the American Marxist political scientist, author, and lecturer, has died at the age of 92. Parenti was widely known for his sharp critiques of imperialism, capitalism, and corporate power, and for his insistence that politics be examined through the lens of class interests and material conditions. 

Over several decades, he wrote influential books such as Democracy for the Few, Inventing Reality, and Blackshirts and Reds, combining academic research with a polemical style aimed at reaching audiences beyond the university. His work challenged dominant narratives on U.S. foreign policy, the role of the media, and the nature of liberal democracy.

Communist Party of Britain appoints Alex Gordon as new General Secretary

The Communist Party of Britain has announced the appointment of Alex Gordon as its new General Secretary, following a decision taken by the Party’s Executive Committee on 17 January 2026.

Gordon brings decades of experience from the trade union movement, as well as from peace, anti-fascist, anti-racist and international solidarity campaigning. He is a long-standing member of the Party’s Executive and Political Committees and has played a prominent role in struggles across Britain in defence of workers’ rights, democratic freedoms and peace.

Paul Robeson: 50 years since the death of the legendary communist voice

On 23 January 1976, the world lost Paul Robeson — an artist of towering ability and a man of rare moral courage. Fifty years on, Robeson’s life stands as a reminder that art can be a weapon against injustice, and that integrity, once chosen, can be carried through even the harshest storms of repression.

Robeson was many things at once, and all of them exceptional. He was born in 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of a formerly enslaved father whose life shaped his son’s unbreakable sense of dignity. 

 

Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) bids farewell to anti-imperialist journalist Walter Martinez

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) joins in the profound mourning over the passing of journalist, war correspondent, and international analyst Walter Martínez.

"With his departure, we lose a man of firm principles and proven integrity, who devoted his life to the ethical practice of journalism. Walter Martínez knew how to bring peoples closer to events as they unfolded, offering a rigorous, committed, and deeply human perspective on international reality.

Greenland: A "Northern Front" of Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

By Nikos Mottas 

The developments surrounding Greenland should not be treated as a diplomatic anomaly or as the product of individual political choices. 

They are a concentrated expression of the contemporary phase of imperialism, in which the sharpening competition among capitalist powers drags strategic regions and smaller peoples into conflicts not of their own making. 

In the final stretch for the 22nd Congress of the KKE

As announced, the 22^nd Congress of the KKE will be held from 29 to 31 January, 2026, under the theme: “A powerful KKE, steadfast in every trial, ready to answer history’s call, for socialism!”.

From mid-December until today, conferences were held by the Regional Organizations of the KKE, and specifically by the Party Organizations of Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia - Thrace, Western Macedonia, Thessaly, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Epirus - Corfu - Lefkada, Central Greece  - Euboea, Crete, the North and South Aegean, the Organizations abroad, as well as the Party Organization of Attica, the largest Organization of the Party.

PCV demands answers from the government over the presence of the CIA chief in Venezuela

The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) demanded that the government leadership provide clear and transparent explanations regarding the presence in the country of the Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, whom it described as “a nefarious figure for the peoples of the world,” and whose visit — the Party denounced — has not been officially communicated to the Venezuelan people.

 

KKE warns in the European Parliament: Unacceptable U.S. threats over Greenland; EU and NATO complicit

An intervention in the debate on U.S. threats and the escalating rivalry with the EU centered on Greenland was made by the European Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the plenary session in Strasbourg. The Party’s MEP, Kostas Papadakis, stated the following in his speech:

“We condemn the unacceptable threats of military intervention by the United States, NATO ally Denmark, and the EU against Greenland, following their military intervention against the people of Venezuela, as well as the threats against the Cuban people and the planned U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.