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

Image from December 5 via X Against compulsory military service: solidarity with striking students in Germany! Young Swiss communists stand in solidarity with German students who reject the reintroduction of military conscription! The youth wing of the Communist Party (Switzerland) - the Swiss Communist Youth - expresses its strongest solidarity with the students in Germany who went on strike December 5 against compulsory military service, a struggle that we have always supp

The West serves as the simultaneous judge and executioner, the honest researcher and the weapons manufacturer, the violator and the self-appointed defender of human rights. Lloyd Austin meets with Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 18, 2023 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Commit

Solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland Dear comrades! Within a few months, another attempt has been made to ban your party through the Constitutional Court. On 14 November 2025, the Polish President submitted a request to ban the Communist Party of Poland. Your party is to be declared unconstitutional and thus banned. This follows numerous repressive measures that have been taken against your party and its members for several years due to their use of communist symbols

The Berlin Freedom Week, hosted by Mayor Kai Wegner (Christian Democratic Union), brings together an international cast of regime change actors. Credit: Mo Wüstenhagen/visitBerlin By Susann Witt-Stahl. Junge Welt, 8 November 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. The German capital has been bathing in a sea of freedom. While Berliners were able to withstand the scurrilous attacks by high priests like Ronald Reagan against the "Evil Empire" in 1987 ("Tear down this wall!"),

Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Secretary of Organization, held discussions and signed agreements with representatives of the Belaya Rus party and the Communist parties of Türkiye and Germany. Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish To further the effective implementation of the exchange and cooperation agreement between the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)

Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on Friday October 3, two mass demonstrations against war took place...

Image from the funeral of Parubiy via news video screenshot By Susann Witt-Stahl. junge Welt, 6 September 2025. Translation and notes by...