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Unity in action for the right to live
Focusing on the issues, supporting the all-people's front, engaging in the battle of ideas, and concentrated organizing are key to securing democratic victories.
The 2024 elections: Cornel West's outside challenge
How does Professor West's campaign fit into the fight against the MAGA right? Or does it?
Building the party and the movement through popular education projects
The party can develop its role by building mass organizations of culture and struggle that provide important ideological tools to working-class and democratic movements.
A tale of two FBI raids
Just before the FBI descended on Donald Trump's Florida residence last week, they conducted raids on the headquarters and homes of a Pan Africanist group in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri. The search of Trump's home was apparently related to a National Archive complaint that classified documents were improperly housed in the former president's basement; it's reported that the St. Petersburg and St. Louis searches were connected...
International Notes
Sudan: Repression of Communists and other oppositionists continues The Sudanese Communist Party is warning that, despite what is said to the contrary by some international sources, repression against their members and other oppositionists by the military-dominated government is continuing. On May 19 security forces raided the home of Muhammad Mukhtar al-Katib, the Political Secretary of the Communist Party. Al-Katib was arrested and taken away by security agents working for...
International Notes: CP's condemn Turkey's invasion of Syria
TURKEY: Communists say “Hands off Syria” The Communist Party of Turkey accuses Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the right-wing Justice and Development Party (AKP) of, for the past eight years, doing the dirty work of imperialism in Syria." PORTUGAL: CP warns of imperialist intrigues in Syria The Portuguese Communist Party points out that the recent Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, and the role of U.S. President Donald...
International Notes: SACP salutes ANC victory
South Africa: Communists support ANC in election but say “no blank check” South Africa held general elections on May 6-8. Although there had been some discussion previously of the South African Communist Party (SACP) running its own separate candidates, in the end the communists pushed for support for the African National Congress’ incumbent president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and for ANC candidates at other levels. Preliminary results indicate that the ANC has...
International Notes: Highlights from the frontlines
UK: British Communists call for Tory government’s ouster Robert Griffiths, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Britain, reporting to his party’s executive committee, blasted the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Theresa May, and called for it to be replaced by a left-led government of the Labor Party. Griffiths singled out government mishandling of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed 71 people, many of them...
International Notes: March 22
Brazil: Massive labor demonstration The Communist Party of Brazil (Partido do Comunista do Brasil), supported a labor demonstration held on Wednesday March 15. The ultra right wing president, Michel Temer, whom the communists and left consider illegitimate because of the way he took power after the removal of left-center president Dilma Rousseff last summer, has been rushing through a whole series of measures that seriously hurt the country’s social...
International Notes: January 18th
Germany: Communists disapprove ruling on fascists The German Communist Party (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei) has responded to Tuesday’s ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court that the extreme right wing National Democratic Party (NPD, or Nationaldemokratisches Partei Deutschlands) will not be banned. The NDP is a ferociously anti-Semitic, racist and nationalist organization whose leaders’ rhetoric often resembles those of the old National Socialists. It has no federal parliamentary representation but has...