No sacrifices for the imperialists’ wars – Greece out of the war: Statement by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of (KKE) The KKE calls on the working class, the people and the youth to remain vigilant and to take militant action. Let the alarm be sounded everywhere. Let opposition to the imperialist war and to our country’s dangerous involvement in it be expressed and strengthened. Our country must not become a target for reprisals. The peo

Hope and a way out of this burning world can and must be provided by the peoples through their struggle: Press Release of the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE on the teleconference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf On 12 March 2026, on the initiative of the KKE, a teleconference was held with Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf

Introductory speech given by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to the Teleconference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and Persian Gulf. Dimitris Koutsoumbas speaks at a rally in solidarity with Cuba in Athens, March 11 -- image via the KKE On 12 March 2026, on the initiative of the KKE, a teleconference was held with Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Eastern M

Communist Party (Switzerland) War against Iran: Switzerland bows to the EU and sanctions... the victim! The Communist Party (Switzerland) notes with concern and indignation the Swiss Federal Council's decision to adopt the European Union's sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In practice, unlike in the Ukrainian crisis, the victim is being sanctioned! This decision, which is incompatible with our policy of neutrality and hypocritical with regard to the imperialist

Modi with Netanyahu, February 25, 2026 -- Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India), GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons By Bodapati Srujana Two days after the United States and Israel launched attacks that killed Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and hundreds of others—including more than 160 children in a strike on a girls’ school—a United States submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean as it was returning from participating in the multinational naval

Smoke rises above Tehran, March 4 -- Avash Media, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) No to the wars of capital! The NCPN (New Communist Party of the Netherlands) and CJB (Communist Youth Movement) strongly condemn the Dutch government's decision to deploy the Dutch frigate Zr. MS. Eversen in a supposedly ‘defensive’ manner in the Mediterranean Sea in light of the imperialist attack on Iran and Lebanon by the United States and Israel. The Dutch population is thus being

What happens when a regional conflict becomes a global stress test? A war with Iran could trigger cascading crises—from the Strait of Hormuz to global markets, from fragile alliances to generations shaped by instability. This essay traces the pathways through which small decisions intersect with volatile structures, showing how imagination and restraint might interrupt—or fail to stop—the momentum toward catastrophe. We are Making a New World, painting, Paul Nash 1918 -- publ

The Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party, meeting on March 1 and 2, 2026, analysed the evolution of the international situation as part of a larger analysis that also looked at national issues in Portugal. International situation: 1. The escalation of confrontation and aggression promoted by imperialism, inseparable from the structural crisis of capitalism and the difficulties faced by the major capitalist powers, represents the most serious threat to the peopl

Friday Prayers in Tehran, March 6, 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ali Abutalebi On the last day of February, the United States and Israel launched a new round of military strikes against Iran. In the opening minutes of the operation, the residence of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, was targeted. The attack resulted in his assassination and the deaths of several members of his family, including his 14-month-

Images via Estudios Revolución By Leticia Martínez Hernández, translated from the Spanish At noon on Thursday, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, visited the Iranian embassy in Cuba to sign the Book of Condolences for Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. We felt deep pain and regret upon learning of the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian nation as a result of the

The Finnish Communist Party strongly condemns the military attack by the United States and Israel against Iran. This is a criminal act and violation of international law that threatens to push the entire Middle East into an expanding spiral of war. Israel and the United States have once again put forward unfounded accusations about the supposed danger posed by Iran. These accusations are as baseless as all the others these countries have used to justify their imperialist am

Images via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Organization of Chania held a large rally just a few kilometres from the US–NATO hornet’s nest at the Souda naval air base. The KKE reports that the rally sent a strong message to the government and to the other parties that are dragging the country into war for the interests of the bourgeoisie and the imperialists. It made clear that the people of Crete, and of the entire country, will not stand by and watch development

Joint Statement of the Communist Parties of Iran (TUDEH), Israel (CPI) and the United States (CPUSA) The war of aggression launched by the Netanyahu criminal government and the United States Imperialism in the early hours of Saturday morning against Iran has ignited a full-scale war and dragged the region and its peoples towards more disasters and civilian casualties – all in the service of imperialist interests, against the interests of peoples, their independence and their

The US war on Iran is a decisive moment for humanity, signaling the end of the “rules-based order” and international law and a policy of endless war. A funeral for a victim of the Minab Elementary School attack by the United States and Israel -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Eduardo Rodríguez, People's Dispatch On February 28, the US and Israel attacked Iran . This came at a time when the US and Iran were in the middle of negotiations regarding the

IRIS Dena in 2021 -- image via Wikimedia Commons CPI Condemns the Attack on the Iranian Naval Ship IRIS Dena by US-Israeli Forces Close to India-Sri Lankan Coasts The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (March 5, 2026): The Communist Party of India expresses its deep concern and strong condemnation over the reported sinking of the Iranian naval ship IRIS Dena barely 40 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, allegedly b

Netanyahu and Trump, December 29, 2025 -- public domain image Via the LALIT Party, Mauritius If a 4-year-old’s mother asks where he got a hundred Rupee note, she knows he is lying when one moment he says, “I found it by the steps to my pre-school”, the next moment, “An uncle gave it to me as he was going by”, and when you roll your eyes, he says, “I opened my bwat kondane and there it was,” and then when his mother is at her wit’s end, he tries, “God gave it to me.” Soon, the

Communist Party of Canada Statement Trump and Carney in 2025 at the White House -- public domain image No to the new imperialist war against Iran! End Canada’s complicity! The Communist Party of Canada condemns the illegal and reckless bombing of Iran launched this weekend by the United States and Israel. This murderous aggression flagrantly violates international law and the United Nations Charter, risking catastrophic escalation. This attack rests on false pretexts. The cla

Whatever criticisms one may have of Iran’s government, the Trump administration is the aggressor in this illegal war. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL, March 1, 2026 -- public domain image By Khury Petersen-Smith The Trump administration has joined Israel in launching large-scale attacks across Iran. The strikes mark the beginning of ​“major combat operations,” according to President Trump, and in response Tehran has launched retaliatory attacks in Middle Eastern countr

Statements by Communist parties of Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Palestine, the Philippines and Pakistan. Funeral for the children killed at the Minab Elementary School -- Morteza Akhondi, Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Firm condemnation of the brutal terrorist and imperialist aggression by Israel and the USA The Communist Party (Switzerland) condemns the latest criminal and terrorist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran by the United States

An Iranian flag is raised amid the rubble in Tehran -- Hossein Zohrevand, Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) express its unwavering revolutionary solidarity with the people of Iran and condemn in the strongest possible terms the unprovoked and illegal military aggression carried out by the United States and Israel against the sovereign nation of Iran. This act of war, marked by direct US bombing of Iranian territory an