Latin American Communist Parties denounce US imperialist aggression against Venezuela

Several Communist Parties from Latin America strongly condemn the escalation of aggression by the US Trump administration against Venezuela:

 

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), through its member Neirlay Andrade, condemned on Monday 12 August both the recent interventionist threats by the United States government against Venezuela, as well as the intensification of repression against the popular movement and the revolutionary left in the country.

 

The spectre is still haunting them: German court declares Karl Marx’s teachings "unconstitutional"

"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism". 177 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the spectre is still haunting the capitalists, the bourgeois governments and their allies.  

Karl Marx and his teachings are still so dangerous for the ruling classes that courts in Europe try to declare them as "unconstitutional". 

A court in Hamburg, Germany, has stated in the details of a ruling concerning a Karl Marx reading group that Marx’s teachings may be contrary to the “free democratic basic order.” 

Which way out of Trump hell? Liberal, Dem-Soc, or Communist?

By Charles Andrews*

The working class knows who Donald Trump is.

Masked ICE goons rip people out of their workplace, school, and home. Police club demonstrators who shout against genocide in Gaza. High schools and colleges fire teachers who let students discuss the history of Zionism. Eight hundred employees of the weather service, NOAA, are fired; when disaster strikes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cannot dispatch enough staff to the flooded or burning land. 

The KKE denounces the escalation of US imperialist aggression against Venezuela

In a statement, the International Relations Section of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the recent escalation of the US imperialist aggression against Venezuela:

"The KKE denounces the new escalation of imperialist aggression by the US government against Venezuela, by sending warships with thousands of marines near Venezuela, under the pretext of fighting drug cartels. 

The funeral of the so-called “21st century socialism” in Bolivia

By Nikos Mottas 

The results of Sunday's elections in Bolivia were devastating for the leftist “Movement of Socialism” (Movimiento al Socialismo), known by the acronym MAS. Eduardo del Castillo, MAS’s candidate, received only approximately 3 percent of the vote—a historic collapse for a party that had ruled Bolivia for nearly two decades. 

This result highlighted deep-seated economic crisis—20–25 percent inflation, fuel and dollar shortages, public frustration—and internal divisions within MAS (notably between Morales-aligned “Evista” and Arce-aligned “Arcista” factions).

KKE: The imperialist bargaining on Ukraine does not portend anything positive for the peoples

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the negotiations between the US, EU-NATO, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses out:

“The live-streamed bargaining between those responsible for the war massacre in Ukraine does not portend anything positive for the people, nor does it focus on “peacemaking” and the “end of bloodshed”, as it is provocatively presented, but on the division of territories, “security guarantees” - that is, how the political-military relationship between NATO and Russian forces in Ukrainian territories will be settled - the businesses of large monopoly groups and arms packages.

"They have become communist": The 1993 Yeltsin-Supreme Soviet standoff and the dirty role of the US

Following the victory of the counterrevolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian leadership under Boris Yeltsin proceeded to harsh economic reforms (known as “shock therapy”), thus causing, among others, inflation, unemployment, and severe public discontent. 

Within this context, a growing conflict between Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) over economic policy and division of powers began to unravel. The Supreme Soviet resisted capitalist reforms and pushed back against the increasing presidential authority.

 

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan demolishes 25 Soviet-era monuments

In Khankendi (known as Stepanakert), the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, 25 monuments and busts erected in memory of prominent Soviet figures and soldiers of Armenian origin have reportedly been completely dismantled.

The Artsakh Culture and Tourism Development Agency announced on its Facebook account that 25 monuments and busts erected in Khankendi, located in Nagorno-Karabakh (known as Artsakh by Armenians), for heroes of the Great Patriotic War and other prominent figures have been demolished.

 

Lavrov's sweater and the actual meaning of CCCP

The article below was published on 902.gr, official portal of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on Saturday 16/8 under the title "No matter what they do, CCCP will always mean: Socialism consolidated in battle!". 

Read below the text translated into English:

"In the sidelines of the Trump-Putin meeting, the sweatshirt worn by Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov with the initials of the USSR, namely CCCP (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), was commented on worldwide.

Statement of the KKE on Trump-Putin Summit: The imperialist war in Ukraine continues and escalates

In a statement concerning the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), stresses out the following:

“The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska was part of the imperialist bargaining based not on the interests of the peoples, the Ukrainian and Russian people who are paying the price of the war, but on the interests of the US and Russian monopolies, the expansion of their business activity and the increase in their profitability.

Communist Party of Cuba to celebrate 60th anniversary of Granma and Juventud Rebelde in October festival

The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) with the Young Communist League are proud to announce the Granma Rebelde International Festival, taking place in Havana from October 17 to 20, 2025. 

This event marks the 60th anniversaries of Granma and Juventud Rebelde, newspapers founded by Fidel Castro Ruz, Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution.

The attempt to vilify Lenin in capitalist Russia: On the occasion of the reactionary film "The Mummy"

A new “documentary”, "The Mummy," which premiered in Moscow on June 26, has ignited a firestorm of debate surrounding the legacy of Vladimir Lenin and his final resting place.  

 

Produced by the fervently religious Christian channel “Spas” (Saviour), the film argues for the destruction of Lenin's Mausoleum, portraying it as a satanic temple and a bleeding wound on the soul of the Russian nation. The “documentary” presents a fantastical narrative, linking the Bolsheviks and their leader to a range of dark forces, including Egyptian pharaohs, Babylonian ziggurats, and Masonic conspiracies aimed at global domination by Satan. 

 

The two faces of Israel from a Marxist perspective

By Nikos Mottas 

The recent mass demonstrations held in Israel against the heinous plans of the Netanyahu Government to takeover Gaza remind us that societies aren't monolithic entities; they contain conflicting forces within them. 

Anyone with a fundamental perception of dialectics can understand the massive contradictions that exist in modern capitalist societies, including the Israeli one. 

Ukraine's regime destroys the last Lenin monument

The reactionary Ukrainian authorities have dismantled the country's last statue of the great Soviet leader and revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, authorities and activists reported on Monday. 

The monument stood in the village of Rudkovtsy in the western Khmelnytskyi Region and was taken down by the local utility service following a request from a group named "Decolonization Ukraine." 

 

According to the group, this was the last known Lenin monument in the country.

 

William Gallacher: Tribute to Stalin

Article written by Scottish communist leader William Gallacher (1881-1965) on "Labour Monthly", following the death of Joseph Stalin

Tribute to Stalin

THE people of the Soviet Union, the progressive forces and the Peace Movement throughout the world have suffered an irreparable loss through the death of our great and well-beloved Comrade Joseph Stalin. 

Interview of Reem Hazan, Politburo member of the Communist Party of Israel, to Rizospastis: "Reactions within Israel are growing"

Reem Hazan, CPI cadre

The weekend 9/10 August edition of “Rizospastis”, Organ of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), published an interview with Reema Hazan, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki) and head of its International Relations Section. Read below the interview translated into English:

“Last night (Thursday) the Israeli cabinet  approved the beginning of a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip. We warn of the continuation of ethnic cleansing, the war of extermination and the further destruction of Gaza,” Hazan says and continues:

The Nuclear Holocaust in Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Lies of the Imperialists

By Nikos Mottas 

Eighty years have passed since the United States, under the administration of President Truman, committed one of the most barbaric crimes against humanity – on August 6th in Hiroshima and a few days later, on August 9th in Nagasaki – by dropping the atomic bomb resulting to hundreds of thousands victims and many more in the following years due to the radioactivity effects. 

50 years since the death of Dmitri Shostakovich: A child of the October Revolution

"If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth"  

-  Dmitri Shostakovich

It was 9 August 1975 - 50 years ago - when one of the 20th century's giants of music died. He was Dmitri Shostakovich, the great Soviet composer and pianist who left his indelible mark on Russian and international culture. 

Hadash strongly condemns Israeli government's plans for Gaza City takeover: "Nothing less than a war crime"

After the Israeli far-right cabinet last night approved a plan for conquering Gaza City and fully occupying Gaza Strip, the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) slams it as a “disaster that will lead to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli hostages and soldiers.”  

 

Hadash calls it a "war crime" and "a total war for the destruction of the Palestinian people, for ethnic cleansing and state terrorism".

 

Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) denounces secret agreement between Maduro government and Chevron

The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) has denounced as harmful to national sovereignty, the restoration of operations by the US multinational oil giant Chevron in the country, following an agreement with the social democratic government of Nicolas Maduro. 

Pedro Eusse, a member of the Political Bureau of the PCV, said that the information was first  disclosed through foreign media and not through official channels in the country. "It is alarming that agreements of this magnitude are disclosed through informal channels and are not subject to public scrutiny," Eusse warned.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) blasts Trump government's imposition of tariffs on Indian exports

Following the decision of US President Donald Trump to impose an additional 25% tariff on Indian exports, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the United States for imposing a 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports. 

This unilateral move is arbitrary, dictatorial and reflects the bullying tactics of the US administration.

European Communist Action: 80 years since the US imperialist crime in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Statement by the European Communist Action on the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

The explosion of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki – crimes which should never be forgotten - demonstrated to the world the ruthless nature of U.S. imperialism and the terrible and devastating consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. The U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945) were calculated demonstrations of imperialist power aimed not just at Japan but at the Soviet Union and the global communist movement. 

KKE: What should be the perspective of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement?

Excerpt from an article published in Rizospastis, the organ of the CC of the KKE, on 2-3 August 2025, under the title “Aspects of the struggle within the movement against imperialist war and in solidarity with the Palestinian people”: 

Some argue that the war can be stopped or prevented from escalating. For example, Israel may back down under pressure from international solidarity or from actions such as boycotting Israeli products and companies.

Britain: More young people view communism positively - 40% among ages 25 to 34

The idea of communism is gaining more and more support in the birthplace of capitalism, a recent survey revealed.

 

Onward and Merlin Strategy’s new polling finds that there is significant support for the communist ideology among the young people of Britain, despite the persistent anti-communist propaganda from mass media and the state mechanism. 

Overall, younger Brits emerge as much more likely than those in older age groups to hold a positive view on communism. More specifically: 

Friedrich Engels: 130th death anniversary of the co-founder of Marxism

By Nikos Mottas 

It was 5 August 1895, at 10:30 pm, when the heart of Friedrich Engels, the man who, alongside Karl Marx, co-formed the revolutionary worldview of the working class, stopped beating. He was 75 years old. 

A leading figure of the world's proletariat and a pioneer of the international communist movement, Engels contributed immensely to the foundation of scientific communism, the theory that illuminated that path for the liberation of the working class from the shackles of capitalist oppression and exploitation. 

Hadash leader Ayman Odeh: IDF actions in Gaza are crimes against humanity

Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Protests calling for a Gaza cease-fire, against the far-right government and for hostage release deal took place across Israel on Saturday, August 2, after Hamas released a series of videos showing emaciated Israeli hostages earlier this week. 

The main protest in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square began with a screening of a video showing Israeli hostage Evyatar David. According to the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, 60,000 demonstrators participated in the rally. 

KKE bids farewell to the popular Lebanese communist artist Ziad Rahbani

In a statement (here in Greek) about the death of the prominent Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) points out:

“The KKE bids farewell to the uncompromising Lebanese artist of the people and proletarians Ziad Rahbani, who passed away prematurely on July 26, 2025.

 

France is teaching us a lesson, but what can we truly learn from it?

The following article was published in Rizospastis, the organ of the CC of the KKE, on 26–27 July, 2025: 

First, let’s start with a necessary reminder: A year ago, France held parliamentary elections. Although Le Pen’s “National Rally” received three million more votes (1), the “New Popular Front” (2) won the most seats in the second round. In fact, the New Popular Front lost two million votes between the first and second rounds, by withdrawing its own candidates in many regions and favouring the party of French President E. Macron. Consequently, Macron’s party avoided the resounding defeat predicted by the European election results (3).

KKE blasts Greek government's despicable attempt to suppress popular protests against Israel’s crimes

KKE MP C. Katsotis holding a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza.

The New Democracy government is escalating its attacks on and repression of popular protests denouncing Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. These protests express solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to all support from the Greek government for the murderous state of Israel as well as an end to all relations with it (military, political and economic).

It has even gone so far as to activate the anti-racism law, which confirms the KKE’s warnings that, once voted in Parliament, it would ultimately turn against the people and their movement.

 

Communist Party of Poland condemns the so-called "World Anti-Imperialist Platform"

In a letter addressed to the members of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (SolidNet), the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) informs that it does not participate, nor will it participate, in the so-called "World Anti-Imperialist Platform". 

Furthermore, it notes that the Platform's "actions are provocative and directed against the International Communist Movement”, characterizing its methods as "unacceptable”.

Does China have an internationalist foreign policy?

By Greg Godels

A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC.

Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced concerns about Chinese investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. Kara contends that Chinese are engaged in a brutal competition to acquire a raw material essential to battery manufacturing, participating in the highly exploitative practice of artisanal cobalt mining. 

Chris Smalls, American labor union leader, reportedly tortured by Israeli security forces

Chris Smalls at the KNE-Odigitis Festival in Athens, Greece, 2024

Chris Smalls, an American trade unionist and leader of the Amazon Labor Union, has been subjected to torture by Israeli security forces, reports say. Smalls was aboard of Gaza-bound Handala aid ship which was seized by Israeli forces near the Gaza coast on Saturday night, with 21 unarmed civilians on board, including lawmakers, medics, and volunteers. 

“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said on X.

Group of fascists attacked KKE members in Crete

An anti-fascist banner outside the KKE local offices in Chania

A group of fascists attacked members and supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who were at the party's offices in Chania, Crete, on Saturday afternoon.

According to "Rizospastis", the party's official newspaper, the attack was organized by individuals who shouted anti-communist slogans and declared their support for the Nazi-criminal organization "Golden Dawn". The reaction of the local organizations of the KKE and the Communist Youth (KNE), as well as residents of the area, was decisive and immediate, isolating the fascists and calling on the police to arrest them.

 

Turkey-Iran Relations on the Neo-Ottoman Axis

By Murat Akad

The war triggered by Israel’s attacks on Iran and intensified by Iran’s retaliation lasted for 12 days. Although short-lived, this war marked a significant turning point in world politics. It is essential to analyze this conflict from various angles, including what it means for the relationship between Turkey and Iran.

Turkey and Iran are two of the most powerful countries in the Middle East. A look at history reveals that the relationship between these two countries has experienced many ups and downs. 

Grover Furr's Khrushchev Lied is perhaps one of the most important books of the 21st century

By Nikos Mottas

Khrushchev Lied, first published in 2011, is definitely the most emblematic work of Grover Furr, an American Professor of Medieval English Literature at Montclair State University who has devoted years of research on Stalin-era Soviet Union. 

Before going to the book itself, it is significant to underline that Furr isn't an ordinary historian who relies on the dominant narratives and “sacred truths” of bourgeois historiography. On the contrary, he carefully challenges those narratives and “truths”, applying a dialectical approach on history and seeking for the actual facts one by one, usually using an enormous list of thoroughly-searched, primary and secondary, sources.

Ceaușescu's revenge: 66% of Romanians consider him a good leader, express nostalgia for pre-1989 period

Almost 36 years since the counterrevolutionary events in Romania and the execution of of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, capitalist barbarity has made most Romanians nostalgic of the pre-1989 years. 

A recent INSCOP agency survey reveals that 66% of Romanians consider Ceaușescu a good leader, while only 24% view him negatively. The study, titled Public Perception of Communism: Markers of nostalgia, conducted in July 2025 with a sample of 1,500 respondents. 

Syrian Communist Party: Letter of gratitude to the KKE

In a letter addressed to the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party expresses its gratitude concerning the internationalist devotion and humanitarian care the KKE demonstrated towards the late Ammar Bakdash, during his stay in Greece. 

The letter, published in 902 portal, reads:

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel: "The two-state solution is the only possible solution"

Article by Adel Amer, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), originally published in the Party's newspaper Zo Haderech on 20/7/2025:

 

Promote the two-state solution and the Jewish-Arab partnership

The brutal war of annihilation raging in Gaza raises many questions about the solution to the problem that is the basis for instability and many conflicts in the Middle East – namely, the Palestinian issue. But in light of the results of the war and the systematic destruction of more than 75% of the territory of the Gaza Strip, the path to resolving the conflict has become more difficult and complex. 

Funeral of Ammar Bakdash, long-time leader of the Syrian Communist Party, was held in Athens

On Wednesday 23 July, the political funeral of comrade Ammar Bakdash, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party, took place at the Kaisariani Cemetery in Athens. Comrade Bakdash had come to Athens after being persecuted by the criminal regime of the jihadists in Syria.

A large delegation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, a delegation from the Central Council of the Communist Youth of Greece, and a delegation from the Syrian Communist Party attended the ceremony.

Question by the MEPs of the KKE regarding the new attempt to ban communist ideology in Czech Republic

Question by the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) regarding the new attempt to ban communist ideology in the Czech Republic: 

Backed by the EU, whose official ideology is anti-communism, the Fiala government in the Czech Republic has pushed through despicable changes to the penal code. These changes provocatively criminalize support for communist ideology, equating it with Nazism and making it punishable by up to five years in prison. This paves the way for dangerous developments, such as the banning of the Communist Party and communist activity in the Czech Republic.

VS Achuthanandan, veteran Indian communist leader and former Kerala Chief Minister, dies

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on the death of Comrade VS Achuthanandan - also known with the initials VS - in Thiruvananthapuram today at 3:20 pm, after prolonged illness:

Homage to Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the death of V. S. Achuthanandan, an outstanding leader and veteran of the communist movement. V. S. Achuthanandan was a former member of the Polit Bureau. He was 101 years old.

Capitalism is dying: More than 30% of young Americans view communism positively, survey reveals

A recent survey conducted the by the reactionary Cato Institute and YouGov provides a quite promising perspective for the U.S society. Despite decades of severe anti-communist propaganda in education and media, a significant number of young men and women in the States seem to hold positive views on the concepts of socialism-communism.  

 

According to the Cato/YouGov survey, 62 percent of Americans aged 18–29 say they hold a “favorable view” of socialism, while 34 percent say the same of communism. 

 

Palestinian People's Party: Urgent appeal to stop the Israeli-US war in Gaza and save the Palestinian people

We urgently appeal for your immediate intervention to stop the Israeli-American war and to save our Palestinian people

The Palestinian People’s Party, in the name of our people, political forces, civil actors, and all segments of our society, addresses you—and through you, all those concerned—calling for immediate intervention and the exertion of maximum pressure through all available means to halt the genocidal war being waged against our people, especially in the Gaza Strip, by the fascist Israeli government and occupation forces, with explicit American support and cover, alongside European inaction and disgraceful international silence. 

The KKE condemns the attacks on members of the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash by fascists

In a statement, the International Relations Section of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the recent violent attack against members of the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash in Ness Ziona:

The KKE vehemently condemns the attack on Ayman Odeh, head of the parliamentary group of the Hadash Front, of which the Communist Party of Israel is a member, by a group of fascists shouting ‘Death to the Arabs’ on Saturday 19 July. 

 

Czech Republic: The despicable attempt to criminalize communist ideology shall not pass!

Rally by the KSČM in Prague (Archive Photo)

Based on the shameful and deeply unhistorical "theory of the two extremes", the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel (a former NATO General), signed on Friday 18/7 an amendment to the criminal code that criminalizes the "promotion of communist propaganda", putting it on a similar level to nazism!

The amendment invokes the known, unhistorical and shameful theory of the "two extremes", thus equating communism with the monster of nazism; under the amended criminal law, the public display of the sickle and hammer or the Soviet flag would incur similar penalty as bearing... swastikas or other Third Reich symbols!

KKE: The coordinated workers-people's struggle of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots against imperialist plans is necessary

In a statement concerning the 51th anniversary of the Turkish military invasion in Cyprus, which led to the partition of the island, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), stresses out the following:

"51 years have passed since the crime against the Cypriot people, the Turkish invasion that resulted in thousands of dead, missing and displaced people and the occupation of 37% of Cyprus, which continues to this day.