Issam Makhoul, Israeli-Arab communist leader and chairman of Hadash, dies at 73

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) mournfully announce to the Palestinian people, the progressive forces of the country, the international communist movement and liberation movements around the world the death of our dear comrade Issam Makhoul (Abu Hanna), chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. 

Comrade Makhoul, who passed away Friday, December 26, at the age of 73, was a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of Israel and the director of the Emil Touma Center for Palestinian and Israeli Studies, former MK and a former General Secretary of the CPI.

Russia: "Left Front" leader Sergei Udaltsov sentenced to six years in prison

On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the "Left Front" movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.” 

 

His so-called crime consisted solely of an article he published in 2023, where he condemned the arrest of members of the Marxist Circle in Ufa and stated that the accusations of terrorism against them were unfounded. For expressing solidarity and voicing a political opinion, Udaltsov is now being punished with years behind bars.

 

The Communist Party of Israel and Hadash mourn the death of renowned actor and director Mohammed Bakri

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) mourns Thursday, December 25, the passing of the renowned actor and director Mohammad Bakri died on Wednesday at the age of 72. 

 

“The legacy left by Mohammed Bakri will remain, reminding us that art can be an act of resistance,” said. Bakri passed away in a hospital in the city of Nahariya, northern Israel, after suffering from heart-related illnesses, according to his family. His health has deteriorated in recent days.

 

The fall of the USSR was a tragedy for humanity, but not the end of history

By Nikos Mottas

On 26 December 1991, when the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, the world did not merely witness the dissolution of a state. It witnessed the victory of counterrevolution—the temporary triumph of capitalism over the most advanced historical attempt to abolish exploitation and class rule. The fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the end of an experiment that had “failed,” as bourgeois ideology insists. It was one of the greatest tragedies in human history precisely because it interrupted a process that had transformed the lives of hundreds of millions and reshaped the global balance of class forces.

Statement by the Communist Party of Venezuela: No to imperialist occupation, no to internal capitulation!

In a statement, the 18th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), held in Caracas on 21 December  2025, stresses out:

As 2025 draws to a close, a year marked by the worsening of the national crisis and the dangerous escalation of imperialist aggression, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (elected at the 16th National Congress in November 2022) addresses the working class, the Venezuelan people—both within and beyond our borders—and the revolutionary and democratic forces of the world to warn of the magnitude of the threats to our sovereignty and to reaffirm a principled position in the face of the projects that today dispute the destiny of the country.

KKE: We welcome 2026 with militant and realistic optimism for the just cause of our struggle

Article by the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE

As 2025 draws to a close, broad masses of popular forces in Greece have taken to the streets of struggle, waging battles of great significance. Poor farmers have set up roadblocks on central and regional roads across the country, fighting for survival against the monopolies, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, and  government policies that are suffocating them. 

10 reasons why Stalin is at the heart of anti-communist propaganda

By Nikos Mottas 

No political figure of the twentieth century has been attacked with such persistence, intensity, and ideological unanimity as Joseph Stalin. From conservative anticommunism to liberal moralism and large parts of the so-called “democratic”  left and various anti-Stalinist currents (Trotskyists, Eurocommunists, and related tendencies), hostility to Stalin functions as a shared point of convergence. This is not the result of historical curiosity or ethical sensitivity. It is a political necessity.

Stalin is targeted not primarily for what he did, but for what he represents: the most advanced historical challenge ever posed to capitalism and imperialism.

The Communist Party as the organizer and leader of the people’s struggle for the cause of workers’ power in the 21st century

By Dimitris Koutsoumbas 

On the basis of our world view and our constitutional principles, the Communist Party is the Party of the working class, its conscious and organized ideological and political vanguard, its supreme form of organization. 

It is a revolutionary organization of like-minded volunteers and fights for the overthrow of capitalism and the building of the socialist–communist society, in which all exploitation of man by man and all forms of private ownership of the means of production will be abolished and a higher standard of living and rights for the people, equality of opportunities and rights, all-round social progress will be guaranteed.

Communist Party of Venezuela condemns imperialist offensive and defends national sovereignty

Statement by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (elected by the 16th National Congress, Nov. 2022): 

The recent statements by US President Donald Trump fully confirm the warnings made by the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV): Washington’s aggression against Venezuela and the Caribbean is not a response to a supposed fight against drug trafficking or the defense of democracy, but rather part of an imperialist offensive of recolonization aimed at appropriating our nation’s natural resources, territories, and strategic assets.

KKE strongly condemns the persecution of Marxist study group members in Russia

The International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has condemned the decision of the Russian authorities to sentence members of a Marxist study group to prison terms ranging from 16 to 22 years, warning against the criminalization of communist ideology and political struggle.  

 

More specifically, the statement, published in 902 portal, reads:

 

Is studying Lenin prohibited in Russia? Military Court jails members of marxist study group!

Article appeared in "Rizospastis", organ of the CC of the KKE, on Wednesday 17 December 2025:  

The Central Military Court of the Yekaterinburg District in Russia has concluded the trial of five members of a Marxist study group from the city of Ufa. The defendants had been officially designated as “terrorists” and “extremists” even before the trial began and were placed on the registry of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring).

When the Left manages capitalism, the far right takes power: Lessons from Latin America

By Nikos Mottas 

Chile’s presidential election marks a clear political reversal. José Antonio Kast, a figure of the hard right, has been elected president, bringing the far right back to the country’s leadership just three years after the centre-left government of Gabriel Boric took office. 

The result is not simply a conservative swing; it reflects a deeper political disappointment and a growing sense that the previous cycle of “progressive” governance failed to deliver real change.

Communist-backed public sector workers win historic victory in Greece

In a landmark development for the labour movement in Greece, the Democratic Militant Cooperation  (DAS) — the trade union faction affiliated with the All-Workers Militant Front  (PAME) and rooted in the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) — emerged as the leading force at the 39th Congress of ADEDY, the Confederation of Public Sector Workers. This result marks an unprecedented historic shift within Greece’s largest public sector union federation, sending a powerful message of working-class resistance and unity against pro-monopoly policies, austerity, and the dominance of pro‑government union currents.

 

KKE: On the new National Security Strategy of the USA

On the new National Security Strategy of the USA

The National Security Strategy of the USA, released last week, signals an intensification of competition and an escalation of wars across the globe, further fuelling the conflict with China for supremacy in the international imperialist system.

As the document states, “We want to recruit, train, equip, and field the world’s most powerful, lethal, and technologically advanced military to protect our interests,” as well as “We want to halt and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American economy.”

Turkish communists protest the Polish ambassador in Eskişehir: "Communism cannot be banned"

On December 10, 2025, members of the Communist Youth of Turkey (Türkiye Komünist Gençliği, TKG) mounted a resolute protest in Eskişehir against the visit of the Polish Ambassador, Maciej Lang, forcefully reaffirming the irrepressible spirit of communist solidarity and resistance to anti-communist repression.

Ambassador Lang, in Turkey at the invitation of academic institutions and youth organizations to speak on themes of “freedom” and "European values", found himself confronted not with passive observers but with an organized and militant display of international proletarian solidarity. 

 

German bank closes Communist Party (DKP) accounts over solidarity with Cuba!

Germany is witnessing a sharpening campaign of institutional anti-communism. Only days after several German states advanced plans to rename streets honoring Lenin and other revolutionary figures, another incident confirms the trajectory. The GLS Bank has announced it will terminate all accounts of the German Communist Party (DKP) and several of its organizations by 31 December 2025, in what can only be understood as a politically driven act.

 

19th MECYO: Common Statement of 16 Communist Youth Organisations

Common announcement of 16 Communist Youth Organisations after the 19th Meeting of European Communist Youth Organisations

Following the 19th MECYO, held in London, the undersigned organisations declare:

UNITED WE STAND AGAINST WAR, POVERTY, OPPRESSION, AND CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION — TOGETHER WE WILL BUILD A SOCIALIST EUROPE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORLD’S PEOPLES!

 

Oscar Figuera: A political proposal is needed that rejects foreign intervention and Maduro’s continuity

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) Oscar Figuera argues that a political option different from those led by Nicolás Maduro, on the one hand, and María Corina Machado, on the other, must be built to give the country possibilities for development with respect for its sovereignty.

As a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), he says that respect for human, political, and social rights should not be sacrificed in the name of defending national sovereignty.

German state's plan to rename streets honouring Lenin is an assault on socialist history

In recent days, a fresh wave of reactionary anti-communist agitation has swept through the Federal Republic of Germany. In the name of celebrating the 35th anniversary of capitalist German “unity,” representatives of the state apparatus are pushing to erase the names of Vladimir Lenin and other socialist heroes from public spaces.

At the center of this offensive stands Evelyn Zupke, the Federal Commissioner for the so-called "Victims of the SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) Dictatorship". 

Greek farmers rise up and the KKE stands by their side

Photo: Eurokinissi

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has taken a clear, decisive position in support of the escalating struggle of poor farmers across the country. 

 

With a series of on-site visits to the roadblocks in Larissa, Karditsa, Trikala, Tirnavos and other areas, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, conveyed the Party’s full solidarity and its commitment to stand at the side of those fighting for their survival.

 

The Kurdish nationalist movement’s anti-communism

By Cansu Oba

 

A recent article published by one of the Kurdish nationalist movement’s media outlets has provided an opportunity to revisit certain aspects of the movement’s class character and ideological foundations.  

In reality, this stance is not new. Throughout Abdullah Öcalan’s years in prison, he has repeatedly produced statements and writings that target socialist experiences and the founders of scientific socialism. These have for some time been highlighted in the movement’s own media.

Communist Parties of Venezuela and Ecuador expose the "World Antiimperialist Platform’s" opportunism

In early December 2025, two significant communiqués — one from the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and the other from the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) — drew a clear political line across the international communist movement. 

Both parties, united by shared ideological principles, issued sharp warnings about the so-called “World Anti-Imperialist Platform” (WAP), which they describe not as a vehicle for proletarian internationalism but as a reformist and openly anti-communist apparatus designed to align workers’ parties with the interests of one capitalist bloc against another.

Theses of the CC of the KKE: The current international reality and the stance of the international communist movement on imperialist wars

The Theses of the Central Committee of the KKE for the 22nd Congress provide a crucial and timely intervention in the international communist movement. 

 

They address the serious ideological confusion that has intensified with the imperialist war in Ukraine, especially the widespread misinterpretations of imperialism and the alignment of several communist parties with one or another imperialist pole.

 

Statement by the Communist Party of Poland: "Our struggle continues"!

The shameful attempt of the Polish state to outlaw the Communist Party of Poland (Komunistyczna Partia Polski - KPP) has become a central front in the international struggle against anti-communism. 

In recent weeks, the Polish authorities escalated their decade-long persecution by bringing the case before the Constitutional Tribunal in an effort to criminalize the Party’s very existence.