13 European Communist Youth organizations hail student protests, back dockworkers' strike

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Thirteen European Communist Youth organizations have issued a joint statement saluting the mobilizations of school students, university students and workers currently taking place in several European countries and expressing their solidarity with the worldwide dockworkers' mobilization on October 30.

The full text of the statement reads as follows:

 

KKE marks 86 years since fascist Italy's invasion of Greece, warns against new imperialist wars

On the 86th anniversary of Greece's entry into World War II, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) pays tribute to the heroic struggle of the Greek people against fascist occupation, highlighting the decisive contribution of the communists to the National Resistance and drawing urgent lessons for today's escalating imperialist rivalries and wars. October 28 is commemorated annually in Greece as Ohi Day (“No Day”), marking the rejection of fascist Italy's ultimatum in 1940 and the subsequent Italian invasion. The anniversary also recalls the years of Nazi-fascist occupation and the mass resistance movement that emerged under the leadership of the communists.

 

Israel: Communist-backed Joint List hails electoral gains, calls for genuine political change

The Hadash-led Joint List, which includes the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), has welcomed its strong showing in Israel’s parliamentary elections held on Tuesday, October 27, describing the preliminary results as a significant achievement for the political representation of the Arab-Palestinian population in Israel.

According to partial results released on Wednesday, October 28, the Joint List was projected to secure approximately 11 seats in the 120-member Knesset, marking an important electoral advance. 

 

KKE Europarliament Group calls member-states to support Cuba's resolution at the UN General Assembly

Call by the KKE’s European Parliamentary Group to EU member states to vote in favor of Cuba’s resolution at the UN General Assembly to lift the U.S. embargo. 

In light of yet another Cuban resolution at the UN General Assembly calling for the lifting of the criminal U.S. embargo, the Cuban people are currently facing great difficulties, under the threat of a U.S. military invasion and the CIA’s openly declared plans to undermine and overthrow the Cuban government. Since early 2026, they have been facing an energy blockade that amounts to an act of genocide. 

Brazil: Lula defeats far-right Bolsonaro, fuels social democratic illusions

Article published in Rizospastis, Organ of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on Tuesday 27 October 2026. Read below the translation:

 

In the second round of Brazil’s presidential election, held amid extreme political polarization, the winner was 80-year-old incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a social democrat who secured 51.8% of the vote (64.2 million votes), defeating 45-year-old far-right neoliberal Flávio Bolsonaro, eldest son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who received 48.21% (59.8 million votes). The result ushers in yet another round of social democratic illusions about the possibility of a more humane capitalism.

 

Serbia's Election: Student-led opposition triumphs, but communist alternative remains absent

Serbia's parliamentary elections on Sunday, October 25, delivered a decisive defeat to President Aleksandar Vučić's ruling camp, with the student-led opposition winning an outright majority after nearly two years of mass protests. 

 

Yet behind this major political shift lies a fundamental question: where is the independent political voice of the working class?

 

Jordanian and Israeli communists condemn deadly church attack, mourn Communist Party cadre

The Jordanian Communist Party and the Communist Party of Israel have strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan, which claimed eight lives, including that of Marwan al-Khaitan, a member of the Jordanian Communist Party's Central Committee. The massacre took place on Friday, October 23, during a funeral service at St. George's Church in Hammoud, near Karak, leaving dozens wounded.

The French people are taking to the streets — But where is a Communist Party to lead them?

By Nikos Mottas 

France is once again a country of protests, strikes and growing popular anger. Young people are mobilizing against deteriorating schools and an increasingly uncertain future, while workers confront austerity, rising living costs and attacks on public services. 

The French state finds enormous resources for military expenditure, yet workers and their families are told that sacrifices are unavoidable. 

Cuban Ambassador to Greece: “If we are attacked, we will defend our country with determination”

Ambassador Hernández during a KKE rally for Cuba (Archive)

The following is an English translation of an interview with Aramís Fuente Hernández, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Greece, originally published in Rizospastis, Organ of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on October 24, 2026. 

For 34 years, the overwhelming majority of UN member states have supported lifting the brutal blockade, which has become even more suffocating this year with the imposition of an energy embargo. At the same time, pressure from the United States and its Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who comes from Miami's anti-Cuban political establishment, has intensified as Washington seeks to persuade various countries to change their votes.

 

Latin American communist parties condemn US arrest warrant against Raúl Castro

Communist parties in Mexico, Peru and Brazil have strongly condemned the latest US judicial offensive against Raúl Castro, denouncing the arrest warrant issued by Florida authorities on October 19 as another act of imperialist aggression against socialist Cuba. In separate statements, the three parties expressed solidarity with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and rejected Washington's continuing attempts to intimidate and undermine the Cuban people.

 

Czech Republic: Leading KSČM members condemn Konečná's alignment with the far right

Kateřina Konečná's decision to join the far-right, xenophobic and anti-communist Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament has triggered fierce criticism within the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM). 

 

Leading party cadres, including Vice-Chairman Milan Krajča and Petra Prokšanová, have publicly condemned the move, describing it as a fundamental political error and distancing themselves from the former party chairwoman's decision.

 

70 years since the 1956 counterrevolution in Hungary

Seventy years ago, on October 23, 1956, counterrevolutionary forces launched an offensive against the People's Republic of Hungary, seeking to overthrow workers' power and restore capitalism. Seven decades later, bourgeois historiography continues to glorify these events as a heroic struggle for "freedom and democracy," concealing their class character, the involvement of reactionary forces and the role of Western imperialism.

 

Czech Communist Youth strongly denounces Konečná for joining far-right group "Patriots for Europe"

A political storm is unfolding within the Czech communist movement after Kateřina Konečná, former chairwoman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), joined the right-wing Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament. 

 

Her decision to sit alongside nationalist, far-right and openly anti-communist forces has provoked a fierce denunciation from the Communist Youth Union (Komunistický svaz mládeže - KSM), which is demanding that the KSČM leadership condemn the move and take disciplinary action.

 

Turkish communists protest Mecca Agreement: “You cannot kill our youth for Saudi oil!”

Hundreds of people gathered in Ankara on Wednesday, October 21, in a demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) against the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, warning that the military pact could drag Turkey into Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.

The agreement, signed on August 7 by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is awaiting parliamentary ratification. Its provisions stipulate that an armed attack against one signatory would be considered an attack against all three countries.

 

Communist Party of Poland warns: Grzegorz Braun's far-right, anti-worker agenda is no alternative

The Communist Party of Poland (KPP) has strongly criticized far-right politician Grzegorz Braun and his Confederation of the Polish Crown (KKP), warning that their supposedly anti-establishment rhetoric conceals a deeply reactionary, anti-communist and aggressively pro-capitalist political program. In an article published on October 20 under the title “Braun Is Not the Solution,” the Polish communists argue that growing dissatisfaction with the liberal establishment, militarism and the threat of war has driven sections of society toward political forces presenting themselves as opponents of the existing system. Braun's fascist party, however, offers no genuine alternative to capitalist exploitation.

 

The “Red Scare” is fading: 43% of Americans view Socialism positively

A record 43% of Americans now hold a positive view of socialism, according to a Gallup poll published on September 23, 2026. The figure is the highest recorded since the organization began tracking attitudes toward socialism in 2010, reflecting a significant shift in a country where anti-communism has been deeply entrenched for generations.

The findings are particularly striking among young Americans aged 18–34, 57% of whom view socialism positively, compared with 43% who hold a positive opinion of capitalism. 

 

KKE Group in EU Parliament denounce anti-communist persecutions in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has strongly condemned the persecution and imprisonment of communists and other political activists in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, raising the issue before the European Commission through a parliamentary question submitted by KKE MEP Kostas Papadakis.

In Uzbekistan, journalist Aziz Khakimov was sentenced to four years and two months in prison on charges of "inciting hatred" after opposing legislation aimed at banning communist ideology and the rehabilitation of participants in the Islamist armed movement of the 1920s–1940s. 

 

Ports of resistance: Dockworkers across the world prepare October 30 strike against imperialist wars

Dockworkers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas are preparing for a coordinated international strike and mobilizations on October 30, raising a powerful message against imperialist wars, militarization and capitalist exploitation: “Dockworkers do not work for war!”

The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers is expected to involve around 100 ports worldwide, as workers refuse to allow ports and transport infrastructure to become vital links in the machinery of imperialist war. The mobilization follows the February 6 international strike, which brought together dockworkers from 20 ports in seven countries.

 

Hands off Spanish communist youth! KNE and TKP denounce police repression in Madrid

The violent intervention of Spanish police against students and university workers at Madrid's Complutense University on October 14 has sparked international solidarity from communist organizations in Greece and Turkey.

During mobilizations in defence of public education, police attacked student pickets, arresting five people, including a member of the Communist Youth Collectives (CJC), the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE). Several protesters, including CJC militants, were injured, with some requiring hospital treatment.

 

When protests serve the West, they are "revolutions". When they challenge it, they are "violent riots"

By Nikos Mottas

The Western ruling classes have developed a remarkable ability to distinguish between a “revolution” and a “violent riot". The criteria have little to do with the demands of the demonstrators or the methods of their struggle. 

What matters is whose power is threatened, whose interests are served and whether the existing capitalist order is being challenged or strengthened. After all, democracy has never been independent of class interests.

Dutch communist veteran Rinze Visser, former leader of the NCPN, dies at 87

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.

 

Communist Party of Albania backs student protests against Rama, denounces police repression

The Communist Party of Albania (PKSH) has expressed its full support for the ongoing student protests against the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, condemning police repression and calling on workers and the broader population to stand alongside the protesting youth. 

 

In a statement published by party chairman Qemal Cicollari, the PKSH described the students' demands as entirely just and legitimate, denouncing high education fees, deteriorating living conditions and the hardships faced by young people under capitalism.

 

Greek communists join mass demonstrations in France, express solidarity with workers and youth

Members and supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth organization, the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), participated in the massive demonstrations in France on Saturday, October 17, expressing their solidarity with the struggles of French students, young people and workers against education cuts, social inequalities and the policies of the European Union.

 

Fascists target Jewish-Arab leftists' offices in Tel Aviv

Far-right extremists associated with Israel's racist Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, violently confronted left-wing activists in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, October 15, reportedly attempting to storm the election headquarters of the Joint List, the electoral alliance bringing together Arab and Jewish left-wing forces. According to the Israeli communist newspaper Zo Haderekh, around ten far-right thugs, including Mordechai David and Victor Shariki, forced their way into the Left Bank Club, a venue that also houses local branches of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash).