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Friday, June 11, 2021
Socialism is getting married and Communism, Leninism, and Marxism are special guests!
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Nationwide strike in Greece: Massive protests against the monstrous labour draft law
The Unions have declared Thursday 10 June a 24-hour nationwide strike, as a protest against the governmental draft bill which aims to take the labour conditions back to the Middle Ages.
KKE condemns anti-Cuban maneuver in European Parliament
In his positive and supportive statement, the Greek communist MEP said: “A known group of reactionary MEPs linked to US interests proposed this fraudulent conversation and a motion on Cuba; and the European Parliament executes on behalf of the EU. The deceptive pretexts of the US, NGOs and their agents related to so-called human rights are a serious provocation and serve to intervene in the internal affairs of Cuba.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
21st Congress of the KKE: Greeting messages by Communist and Workers Parties
Below you can read the messages sent to the KKE on the occasion of the 21st Congress. The list will be under constant update.
The farce of the debate on Cuba in the European Parliament
Monday, June 7, 2021
Brazilian communist leader Manuela d'Ávila received death threats from Bolsonaristas
According to the statement, Manuela and her family have been a target of hatred and propaganda by the far-right regime of Jair Bolsonaro.
The full statement reads:
Last surviving Soviet soldier who participated in Auschwitz liberation dies at 98
In January 1945, Red Army tank driver David Dushman saw Auschwitz survivors stagger out of the concentration camp, amidst the dead victims of Nazi terror. "They staggered out of the barracks, sat and lay among the dead," Dushman told the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper six years ago.
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Paraguayan Communist Party to hold its 9th Congress
"With deep internationalist fervor, we inform that this June 12 and 13 we will be holding the 9th Congress of the Paraguayan Communist Party, under the slogan "Broad and deep unity for socialism."
Friday, June 4, 2021
Protests in Greece: Hands Off the 8-Hour Working Day!
Under the slogan “the monstrous draft law must be abolished – hands off the 8-hour working day”, a large demonstration took place in downtown Athens, being the prelude of the nationwide strike that will be held on June 10th.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Turkey: 8th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests
Stating that the June Resistance was a people's movement in which secular and patriotic sensibilities were determinant from beginning to end, TKP drew attention to the fact that the hope and confidence that the people aroused through this resistance were tried to be extinguished in the halls of order politics.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Greek communist mayor declares US ambassador unwelcome
U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has been invited by a local newspaper to participate in a conference that will be held on June 3rd. Peletidis, a Communist Party (KKE) member who has been mayor since 2014, issued a statement saying that the presence of Pyatt in Patras consists a “provocation” that insults the people's peaceful sentiments.
Monday, May 31, 2021
Canada's Communist Party marked its 100th anniversary
In its editorial titled "May 28 - a day for all workers to celebrate", the Party's newspaper "People's Voice" points out:
Biden follows Trump's criminal policy against Cuba
Five months after the governmental change in the United States and the Biden administration maintains the genocidal economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba. Despite all challenges, Cuba has produced five vaccines that will soon be used in a mass vaccination of their people.
Apart from the blockade, the Biden administration continues the criminal and shameful policy of its predecessor over the so-called "terrorism-sponsor" accusations against Cuba.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Large KKE rallies in Greece sent militant message of struggle
A powerful and militant message against the anti-labour policies of the government was sent by thousands of people who participated in the political rallies organized by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Athens, Thessaloniki and other major cities on Thusrday afternoon.
In Athens' Syntagma Square, thousands of workers, men and women, self-employed and unemployed people, young students and pensioners, joined their voices against the monstrous anti-labour draft law prepared by the conservative ND government. Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, delivered a speech, sending the message: “We refuse to become slaves in the 21st century! The monstrous anti-labour law must not be submitted!”.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Africa Day: Statement by the Communist Party of Swaziland
Josep Almudéver Mateu, last fighter of the International Brigades, dies at 101
Almudéver, who was born on 30 July 1919 in Marseille to Spanish parents, was 16 and living in the Valencian town of Alcàsser when Franco’s coup triggered the Spanish civil war.
In 1936, at the age of 17, he enlisted to join the fight in defense of the Republic. He participated in the Aragon front where he was wounded. He was sent home when his true age emerged. However, Almudéver didn't give up. He used his French nationality to join the International Brigades so he could carry on fighting.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Irish communists: The hypocrisy of Western governments knows no bounds
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"The outrage being expressed by the Government and the minister for foreign affairs is all hot air and downright hypocritical, as is the blustering by the European Union, in regard to the Ryanair flight being forced to land in Belarus and the arrest of Roman Protasevich, a passenger on that Ryanair flight.
Nothing about Belarus can be separated from the aggressive political and military strategy of both the European Union and NATO towards that country and towards Russia.
Monday, May 24, 2021
KKE blasts US and EU interventionist policy in Belarus
The statement reads:
Thursday, May 20, 2021
KKE MEPs to EU Commission: What is your position towards Israeli state's aggression?
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
¡Hasta la victoria siempre, Jesús Santrich!
Santrich was traveling by a truck in Venezuela when it was attacked by Colombian commandos. "The truck carrying the commander (Santrich) was attacked with rifle fire and grenades," the statement of Segunda Marquetalia said, adding that the Colombian commandos left in a helicopter following the attack.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Chile's Communist Party won Santiago mayor's office
Iraci Hassler will be the second woman to hold this office, which has not been headed by a communist since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990.
She was elected as a candidate in the citizen primaries convened by the Santiago's Constituent Mayoralty platform, which brought together over 50 social, political, and women's rights organizations.
KKE and PAME express solidarity with the people of Colombia
In a statement issued on 12 May, the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE points out:
Monday, May 17, 2021
Kazan school shooting: Statement by the Political Council of the Russian Communist Workers' Party
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Livorno port workers refuse to load arms shipment destined for Israel
L’Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italy's independent, class-oriented trade union, pointed out that the ship contained weapons and explosives that will serve to kill the Palestinian civilians, already hit by a severe attack that has killed hundreds of civilian victims, including many children.