26 June 2010 The recent publication of the report of the Saville Inquiry is to be welcomed. It is a repudiation of the two attempts at a cover-up by the Widgery and Whitelaw Inquiries.      The British establishment has been forced to acknowledge that all those murdered and wounded on Bloody Sunday, […]

15 June 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland welcomes the section of the Saville Report that exonerates the twenty-eight people who were shot, fourteen of whom were killed in Derry on the 30th of January 1972. It found that “the paratroopers’ actions were unjustifiable and unjustified.”      We congratulate the relatives and […]

5 June 2010 The new Polish law banning the display of communist symbols is an extraordinary attempt to rewrite Polish history. Even though the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis since the Second World War, it is not allowed to propose the only way out of the crisis, which […]

5 June 2010 The actions of the Israeli government over the past week have once again exposed its mailed fist of violence and repression, usually covered by peace rhetoric and military spin. The action of the Israeli armed forces in preventing the Rachel Corrie, with much-needed aid, getting to Gaza is nothing […]

3 June 2010 It is with deep concern that the Communist Party of Cuba has been following the development of the acute economic crisis in Europe, the performance of their governments, and the continuous mobilisations and strikes of rejection that have taken place in that continent.      We see that the political, […]

31 May 2010 The Communist Party of Ireland offers its deepest sympathy to the families and friends of those murdered on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. To the remaining international humanitarian volunteers on the flotilla we express our admiration for your courage and honour, which is in stark contrast with the […]

22 May 2010 At its regular meeting the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland called upon public-sector workers to reject the proposed Croke Park deal as not being in their interests. If adopted, its provisions and impact would not be confined to the public sector but would […]

Joint statement by forty-three communist and workers’ parties On 9 May we commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the victory over Nazi fascism—the most violent and brutal expression of the monopoly domination in a capitalist system in deep crisis—which led humankind to one of the worst catastrophes in its history, with […]

6 May 2010 Yesterday in Athens tens of thousands of Greek workers took part in another general strike against the austerity measures being imposed by the Greek government at the behest of the European Union. Throughout Greece millions of workers took part in the general strike to show their opposition […]

Open letter from the Press Bureau of the Communist Party of Greece 15 April 2010 To the thirteen MEPs of the so-called “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories”  Sirs,     We condemn your action in proceeding with the formation of a “Group for the Reconciliation of European Histories”— • because we regard your […]