Nazi intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen poses with fellow officers in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa, c. 1941. By R. L. Richards, People's World October carries special weight in the history of World War II, or as it is known in many countries, the World Anti-fascist War. This month marks 80 years since the verdicts against Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. It’s also 85 years since the launch of Operation Typhoon, the G

A Brief Survey Of Imperial Takeovers Since 1914 By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 9 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report continues its look at the concept and experience of annexation following the brief historical review posted on September 27. In that review, the ancient origins of annexation were sketched out to distinguish between mere military takeovers and the colonial administration model of the Roman empire (starting in the midd

Image via the KKE Via the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Following the election victory of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and the lamentations of the country’s Social Democracy over the “rise of the far right”, it is worth recalling who Sahra Wagenknecht is, and what the “Alliance” of the same name is. This Alliance is offering its seats to the AfD in order to form a government. Wagenknecht was an MP for Die Linke from 2004. Her

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on the election results in Germany: Only a revitalized workers’ and people’s movement can provide an answer to the far right and false polarities In a statement on the election results in Germany, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE notes the following: The attack on workers’ and people’s rights by the bourgeois political forces such as liberalism, social democracy, the pseudo-left, and others, the social contradictions int

Contribution of the German Communist Party (DKP) to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, 7-9 August 2026, Havana, Cuba The Cuban people and the Communist Party of Cuba are waging a heroic struggle against imperialism's murderous blockade. They wage it for humanity, for humanity's future, for socialism. To hold our international meeting under these conditions deserves gratitude and places on us the responsibility to do everything for Cuba's victory,

KKE headquarters The Europarliamentary Group of the KKE has highlighted the unacceptable ban in Germany and the Baltic states on Soviet and anti-fascist symbols, with which people around the world commemorate May 9, the day of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory, through a question submitted to the European Commission by the KKE MEP, Kostas Papadakis. Authorities in Germany, as well as in the Baltic states, banned the “display” and posting of Soviet and anti-fascist symbols during

“It’s time to turn the heat on the fossil fuel giants that caused this heatwave but are doing nothing to cover the costs.” Berlin police use water cannons to cool the streets and help residents cope with the intense heatwave, after the German capital recorded a historic temperature of 40°C on June 28 -- image via news video screenshot By Jon Queally, Common Dreams The head of the World Health Organization on Sunday said the deadly heat wave now boiling across Europe—which Fre

Wilhelm Hammann -- image via Wikimedia Commons Junge Welt, May 27, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Fabian Lehmann interviews Bernd Heyl, author of a forthcoming biography of Wilhelm Hammann: Why is the life of Wilhelm Hammann (1897-1955), a teacher, antifascist and Communist Party (KPD) member of the Hessian state parliament, worth sharing with a broader readership today? Antifascism is more urgent today than in recent years. It is therefore important to remember peo

Members of the fascist Carpathia-Sich unit, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyiv, May 20, 2026. (See note below.) By Sevim Dağdelen, X, May 21, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. While Chancellor Merz is transferring billions in German taxpayer money to a Ukraine mired in corruption and holding out the prospect of EU military aid to Kyiv, the Zelenskyy regime is repatriating the remains of Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk and his wife. The exhumation took place on May 19 in Luxe

Antifascists at the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Duisburg on May 10, 2026. Credit: German Communist Party (DKP) Duisburg. By Jörg Friedrichs. Unsere Zeit. Sozialistische Wochenzeitung – Zeitung der DKP, May 13, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Fascist Germany surrendered unconditionally to the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition on May 8, 1945. The German Communist Party (DKP) in Duisburg and the alliance “Duisburg Stands Up” (DSSQ) [1] commemorated this event on Ma

Police deployment at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin-Treptow on May 8, 2025 -- image via X By Ralf Hohmann, Unsere Zeit. Sozialistische Wochenzeitung – Zeitung der DKP, 8 May 2026 edition. Translation by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Soviet photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997) is known as a chronicler of the Second World War. His photos depict the horrors of war, the suffering and devastation in the concentration camps, and the city of Murmansk, reduced to rubble and ashes by

Conservative parliamentarian Roderich Kiesewetter speaks at a demonstration for Ukraine in Berlin, March 2025 By Susann Witt-Stahl, junge Welt, 29 April 2026. Translation and notes by Helmut-Harry Loewen. The visit by CDU foreign policy expert Roderich Kiesewetter [1] to the representative office of the “Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” [2] in Kyiv on April 14 was staged like a state reception. The meeting room was decorated with flags of the EU, Ukraine, and “Ichkeria.” The “pr

Photo: A wreath from the Russian Embassy was laid at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial on the anniversary of the liberation. IMAGO/ZUMA Press / jW screenshot Junge Welt, April 15, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. On Monday evening, the Embassy of the Russian Federation reported on X that on Sunday, the Buchenwald Memorial had attempted to prevent Russian diplomats, including the ambassador, from participating in a German Communist Party (DKP) commemoration ce

Russian President Vladimir Putin honouring the victims of the Siege of Leningrad, including his brother, in January 2020 -- image via the President of Russia website, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Junge Welt, Online Extra: April 9, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Russia officially considers Nazi crimes against the Soviet population during World War II to be genocide and has defined denial of this genocide a criminal offence. According to the Kremlin,

Campaign truck for Ernst Thalmann and the Communist Party in Germany during the 1924 elections. Sign on truck reads: The Ebert-Republic has imprisoned 700 workers—Do you want to free them? Then vote for Thalmann. -- Daily LIFT #1910

Various Sources Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania declined a major award at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for her film The Voice of Hind Rajab. She left the award at the ceremony to protest against the festival’s complicity in providing “political cover” for Israel’s genocidal military actions in Gaza. The award was presented during the Cinema for Peace and Democracy Gala, an event that exists to honor contributions in film for humanitarian causes and

The youth subculture in the late GDR was largely anti-communist: East Berlin skinhead poses in his apartment (12.8.1990) -- image via Junge Welt Interview with Stefan Wellgraf, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin. Junge Welt, 16 January 2026. Translation and notes by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Richard Malone: Your newly published book ”Staatsfeinde” ("Enemies of the State") deals with "right-wing subcultures in East Germany since the 1970s." A contributio

Images via the KKE On Saturday January 10, the Communist Party of Greece's (KKE) Party Organization in Germany held an event and discussion in Berlin on the topic: “Lessons from the class struggle in Germany, 1918–1923”. On Sunday January 11, the annual march in memory and honour of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, leading figures of the German revolutionary movement and founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), took place in Berlin. The march, first held in 1926,

Russian Volunteer Corps members during a press conference on 24 May 2023. Kapustin in the front in a black uniform -- https://armyinform.com.ua/army-authors/oksana-ivanecz/ , CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Various Sources Denis Kapustin, the prominent Russian neo-Nazi leader and commander of the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps, was killed by a Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast on December 27, 2025. Denis Kapustin, also known as Denis Nikitin or by his n

Victor Grossman in 2015 -- image via Junge Welt Junge Welt, 17 December 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Berlin -- Victor Grossman has died. The journalist, author, and translator passed away on Wednesday in Berlin at the age of 97. junge Welt learned this from his family. Grossman was born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928. As a teenager, he joined the youth organization of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in 1942 and became a party member while studyi