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🔴Statement of the European Communist Action on the imperialist war in the Middle East: The anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples must be strengthened The European Communist Action condemns in the strongest possible terms the imperialist attack launched by the United States and Israel against the people of Iran, as well as the bombings and Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon. These developments are linked to the plans of the US, NATO, the EU and their allies, especially Israel, to “reshape” the Middle East, as part of their confrontation with their rival powers. Particularly dangerous is their attempt to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz. These developments carry the risk of a generalization of the war —a conflict in which dozens of countries are already involved in one way or another— leading to even greater bloodshed. A key role in this involvement is played by the US–NATO bases located across Europe, which serve both as military strongholds and as targets for retaliation. Workers in many countries around the world are already experiencing the economic consequences of the war through rising prices for fuel, energy, food, and other consumer goods. We call on workers in Europe to intensify their struggle against the bourgeois classes and the involvement of bourgeois governments in the war, in imperialist plans and organizations, and against US–NATO bases that serve as launching pads for wars. We also call on them to strengthen their solidarity with the peoples of Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and the other peoples of the region. The peoples have the power to oppose these war plans en masse and to chart a course towards the overthrow of the exploitative capitalist system, which gives rise to armed conflicts for the profits of monopolies. eurcomact.org/m-article/Stat…

🔴Statement of the European Communist Action on International Women’s Day 2026: March 8th – For The Organisation and Struggle of Working-Class Women Against the System of Exploitation, Inequality and War Every March 8th, and through our daily struggle, one of the main lessons the first communist women gave to us on March 8th, 1917 takes on great significance: the struggle for the rights of working-class women is inseparable from the struggle of the working class as a whole. Against exploitation, precariousness, and violence against women, class conscience and collective struggle are essential tools to advance towards the real emancipation of women. Capitalist relations of production hit working-class women particularly hard. Women face the severe consequences of poverty, labour precariousness, flexible working relations, work without collective labour agreements and wages that do not cover their needs, the responsibilities of caring for the family, as well as the commercialization of education, health and welfare. These represent modern forms of women’s inequality that are disproportionately placed on working-class women. At the same time, all bourgeois forces deny the structural inequalities promoted by the capitalist system and sow divisions among the working class. Such stances aim at concealing the material roots of the oppression of women. On the other side, social democratic views in particular seek to present women as a single category, regardless of their class, thus depriving the struggle for equality from its class-oriented content. Against this ideological, economic, and political offensive, it is essential to reinforce the conscious organisation of working-class women within the workers' movement, in class-oriented trade unions, and within their vanguard —the Communist Party. No right achieved for women has ever been the result of voluntary compromises by capitalist governments, but of organised struggle. Only through the class-oriented collective action is it possible to confront the exploitation and violence women endure under capitalism. This task demands the recognition of the particular conditions for exploitation affecting women, the organisation of working-class women according to their own interests, and the ensuring of their participation in every space of class struggle. The European Communist Action reaffirms the role of communists in the struggle against every form of inequality affecting working-class women and women from other popular strata. This task means the struggle of the workers' movement against the discrimination and oppression of women at workplaces and in every space for socialisation and living. The immediate demands of working-class women —decent salaries, humane working hours, safety at work, public and free social services that meet the needs of women and their families, guaranteed reproductive rights, an end to sexual exploitation and pornography— should be bonded to the strategic struggle against the capitalist system, with the unmasking of reactionary, social-democratic and other bourgeois positions, and with the promotion of political training and class conscience among working-class women. Faced with the intensification of war preparations, the sharpening of competition, and the escalation of imperialist wars, toiling women demand no involvement in and no sacrifice for imperialist slaughterhouses. The true emancipation of women will only be possible through the overcoming of capitalism and the construction of socialism. The material bases for inequality and the end of sexual division of labour can be removed only in a society based on central scientific planning, the socialisation of caregiving responsibilities for dependent family members, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, and the full participation of women in all the spheres of the political, economic, and social life. Socialism is a socio-economic system based on real equality, solidarity between the peoples, and the meeting of human needs, eliminating private profit. This 8 of March, we call on working-class women and women from the other popular strata in Europe to take the initiative in the struggle against exploitation, imperialist wars, and inequality, and to advance together with the working class as a whole towards the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist society. eurcomact.org/m-article/Stat…

🔴ECA Statement on the 107th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International We are celebrating the 107th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International (Comintern). The founding of the International Workingmen’s Association —the First International— on 28 September 1864 was an important milestone of the revolutionary labor movement. Inspired by the Communist Manifesto and spearheaded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it brought together trade unions, mutual aid societies, political and cultural groups, and organizations. It marked the decisive break with opportunism in an international framework and guided the struggle of the world’s working class for the overthrow of capitalism, while giving impetus to the realization of the need to establish workers’ political parties. Its dissolution (1876) came after the defeat of the Paris Commune (1871) in the face of the new circumstances it found itself confronted with. The Second International was founded on 14 July, 1889, amid rapid growth of the capitalist system and the swift rise of the labour movement. Ideological and political problems, along with the dominance of reformism, led to the collapse of the 2nd International. This was a product of the corrosion of the Workers’ Parties in the time leading up to the outbreak of the First Imperialist World War in 1914 and the eventual betrayal of the interests of the working class in favor of the bourgeoisie. Notable examples of parties that did not follow the bourgeoisie in their countries were the Bolsheviks in Russia, led by V. I. Lenin; the Internationalists-Spartacists in Germany (Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, etc.); and certain socialists groups in the Balkans. The Great October Socialist Revolution proved by practical example that a workers’ revolution capable of seizing power was possible and served as a beacon that continues to illuminate the struggle of working people around the world to this day. Lenin raised the crucial need to reform the programmes of the workers’ parties, rename them as Communist Parties, and establish a new International. The founding of the Comintern on 4 March 1919 was thus an important step in giving the revolutionary labor movement a definite organizational framework in which it could fulfill its revolutionary duties. Through its theoretical and practical intervention it  made an important contribution to the forming of Communist Parties, which became the leading force for the overthrow of capitalism in many countries. The development of the Comintern was prepared by the organization of the Zimmerwald and Kienthal conferences, in which a line of confrontation between the revolutionary labor movement and opportunism, as well as with its centrist or “left” social-democratic variety, was strengthened. Thanks to Lenin’s contribution, the contemporary epoch was characterized as the imperialist stage of capitalism and the necessary conclusion of turning the imperialist war —which threatened to break out among the imperialist states— “into a proletarian civil war against the bourgeoisie, for the purpose of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism”, was strengthened. Since the beginning of the imperialist War in Ukraine a similar differentiation within the International Communist Movement has taken place. We can now observe that many so-called Communist and Workers’ Parties have given up on representing the independent interests of the working class, renounce Proletarian Internationalism in favor for supporting their own bourgeoisie in imperialist conflicts and indefinitely postpone the preparation for socialist revolution by proclaiming the need to fight for various “intermediate stages”. Throughout its history the Comintern was the world’s leading center of the struggle of the working people for socialism-communism. It made important contributions to the theory of Marxism-Leninism, which require deeper study and include the problems and contradictions in its strategy. Important problems that had a negative impact on all its members include for example the nature of imperialist war, the struggle against fascism and the capitalist system that gives rise to it, and the stance towards social democracy. Nonetheless, this does not diminish its significant contribution to the International Communist Movement until its eventual self-dissolution in 1943. Due to its international character the working class struggle will always need a unified political leadership and strategy. Today, as in 1919 when the Comintern was founded, we recognize that the imperialist system is the highest and decaying stage of capitalist development. The development of the productive forces to such a high level that they are in sharp contradiction with the capitalist relations of production, inhibits the possibility to use them for the satisfaction of the needs of the people. Socialism–communism is more necessary and timely than ever. The founding and activities of the ECA based on its Founding Declaration and our world view, Marxism–Leninism, contribute to the effort to develop a common revolutionary strategy and lay the groundwork for a higher form of organization of the Marxist-Leninist pole within the international communist movement. The slogan of the Communist Manifesto remains as relevant as ever: “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”. eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

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🔴Joint statement of the European Communist Action The parties of the European Communist Action (ECA) met via teleconference hosted by the New Communist Party of the Netherlands on the 15th of February 2026 under the slogan: "Their war destroys everything that their peace left standing. Developments on the battlefields and the communists’ stance on the alternation between imperialist war and peace at gunpoint". A few days before the fourth anniversary of the formal start of the imperialist war in Ukraine, and only a few weeks after the overt imperialist intervention by the USA in Venezuela and the threats it has issued against Cuba, other Latin American countries and Greenland, and with tensions around Iran currently escalating, the parties of the ECA discussed the positions of their parties regarding the intensifying inter-imperialist rivalries, which have grave consequences for the people of our continent, for the people worldwide. Imperialism, whether under “peaceful” conditions or under conditions of war, is a system which deepens the exploitation of the workers worldwide, prevents social progress and actively destroys the people’s livelihoods and social rights, and even their lives, for the profit of the monopolies, represented by the bourgeois classes forming various imperialist alliances and blocs, such as the Euro-atlantic one (USA,NATO,EU). These clash on many fronts with their competitors, including other powerful forces in the modern international capitalist world (China, Russia, etc.), which are themselves seeking to establish their own alliances. The various pretexts used by bourgeois classes, like the fight for a “rules-based order”, “democracy”, “freedom” or “multipolarity”, etc. only serve to subordinate the interests of the working people to their own and to drag them into their unjust wars over energy, mineral wealth, transport routes for commodities, market shares, etc., fought for the profits of the few by slaughtering the peoples. The character of this system as a reactionary, rotten system cannot be changed by any bourgeois party, alliance or bloc, but must be confronted and overthrown by the workers and the peoples, with the communist parties at their vanguard. The parties of the ECA struggle in particular against the imperialist alliances to which their respective countries are tied, against NATO and the EU, and their respective governments which put the safety of the people of our countries at grave risk, while highlighting the need to overthrow capitalist power. We warn the people against the involvement of our countries in the dangerous imperialist plans which take place under various pretexts. The ECA vigorously condemns the new threats by US imperialism against Cuba and expresses its continuing solidarity with the Cuban people and the Communist Party of Cuba. The peoples have the power to struggle for their own independent interests against the bourgeoisie and the imperialist alliances that compete to redivide the world for the benefit of their monopolies. Workers, with communists at the forefront, can and must organize their struggle against anti-popular policies, rallying other popular forces against the system of exploitation and war. Only with the perspective of the overthrow of capitalism, and with the perspective of building a new, socialist society can we put an end to the bloodbaths that imperialism daily brings forth. eurcomact.org/m-article/Join…

🔴Hands off the people’s homes! Housing is a right, not a commodity Europe is facing a deep and structural housing crisis that pushing the lives of millions of people across the continent to a dead end. Over the past decade, housing prices and rents have risen significantly faster than wages in the EU, pushing decent, affordable homes out of reach for workers and their families. Across the EU prices have risen dramatically, construction costs are rising while public investment in housing construction has sharply declined. According to official data, over the last decade (2015–2025) the housing market has become 63.6% more expensive, while rents have risen by at least 21.1%. More than 1.1 million people are homeless across the EU; 18 million people are facing severe housing deprivation; 75 million people are living in overcrowded conditions; 69 million people are living in substandard housing and over 64 million households are struggling with housing costs. These conditions leave young working-class people, people in temporary or seasonal employment, older persons living on fixed incomes and migrants particularly vulnerable. This has been created by political choices rather than natural forces. This is not a matter of scarcity, it is the direct consequence of capitalist priorities which encourage more profitable luxury housing and green standards with a dramatic increase in building materials. People’s housing is treated as a commodity, and in this context it is controlled by profit-driven construction groups, banks and funds. The evidence of swelling public housing waiting lists, overcrowded living conditions, and families forced to spend an unsustainable share of their income on rent, with thousands living in inadequate housing that lacks basic amenities, safety, comfort, or hygiene is a demonstration of the fundamental bankruptcy of the capitalist system. This growing problem cannot be resolved by the capitalist “market” or by state and EU housing programmes. Nor can the crisis be solved through the temporary relief measures promoted by the social democracy: rent subsidies, tax breaks, social housing and shelters for those evicted and so on. These measures respond to the need of the bourgeois governments to stop the class struggle and are, in fact, sometimes the result of concessions to the immediate struggles of the class, but they do not put a final resolution to the problem. EU state aid rules and the provisions of the EU Stability and Growth Pact which compel member states to limit their annual budget deficit to 3% of their GDP and their public debt to 60% of GDP worsen the already critical situation. At the same time these EU rules are often broken when it serves the capitalist classes of Europe, as in the case of militarisation. Housing is a human right. The resources, land, and capacity to guarantee that right exist but are constrained by a system committed to capitalist profit. A proper home requires habitability, affordability, accessibility, security, non-discrimination, and the ability to live in dignity. Stable and affordable housing is essential for access to employment, education, health services, and community life. The parties of the ECA demand a massive development of high-quality public housing; proper protection for tenants; strict regulation of rents; an end to evictions into homelessness; ending homelessness through guaranteed housing and measures against the policies supporting capitalist profitability. The parties of the ECA are at the forefront of the struggle against foreclosure auctions and the eviction of people from their primary residences and they stand in solidarity with affected households. They highlight that housing inequalities are inherent in, and the inevitable outcome of, an economic system based on private ownership, markets and the pursuit of profit giving rise to exploitation which can only be solved by its overthrow. Capitalism cannot provide for the needs of the people. Only under socialism will housing become a universal right rather than a commodity. eurcomact.org/m-article/Hand…

The Parties of the European Communist Action condemn in the strongest possible terms the imperialist military attack launched by the USA against Venezuela, which has led to the bloodshed of its people. We condemn the unacceptable arrest of President N. Maduro, his transfer and imprisonment in the USA, as well as the Trump administration’s declarations that the US “will run the country”. These deplorable and dangerous actions blatantly violate the right of the peoples to decide the future of their country themselves. They are part of the renewed application of the “Monroe Doctrine” and the so-called US National Security Strategy, which is accompanied by an escalation of unacceptable threats against other countries in the region, including Cuba. Through its military attack and the overthrow of the Maduro government, the USA seeks to seize Venezuela’s vast oil reserves and rare earth resources, while exploiting its geostrategic position to secure an advantage for US monopolies over their competitors. The despicable pretexts invoked by the USA, other bourgeois governments and the EU, claiming to combat drug trafficking in order to justify their intervention, have already collapsed. It was these same forces that supported the US occupation of Afghanistan for two decades and turned it into the world’s largest producer and exporter of narcotics. The Parties of the European Communist Action call on the peoples of Europe and the entire world to decisively condemn this new imperialist intervention against Venezuela en masse; to intensify their struggle by expressing unwavering solidarity with the people of Venezuela; and to stand by them in their just struggle against imperialist intervention, affirming that only the people of Venezuela have the right and responsibility to determine the course of developments in their country, in accordance with their own interests. Victory to the people of Venezuela! Solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela and its just struggle! eurcomact.org/m-article/On-t…

On 1 January 2026, the Cuban people will celebrate the 67 th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution. With the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in 1959 and the triumphant entry of the revolutionary forces into Havana, the Cuban people initiated a historic break with exploitation, dependence and imperialist foreign rule. The Cuban Revolution was the first socialist revolution on the American continent and a milestone in the international class struggle. For almost seven decades now, socialist Cuba has been proving, under extremely difficult conditions, the superiority of a system that can put people and their needs at the centre. Despite imperialist aggression, invasion attempts, subversive campaigns, terrorist attacks and the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States, which has been in place for over 60 years, Cuba has achieved significant progress in the areas of health, education, science, culture and sport. These achievements are an expression of the creative power of the Cuban people, the revolutionary power of the working class and the scientific basis of Marxism–Leninism. The Cuban Revolution has shown that capitalism is not invincible and that the organised, conscious and militant working class has the power to overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and take control of its own social development. Cuba thus stands not only for the historic revolutionary choice made by the Cuban people but also for proletarian internationalism. Despite limited resources, the country has repeatedly placed its medical, educational and scientific capabilities at the service of other peoples, thus providing a living example of international solidarity in action. Today, Cuba continues to be the target of imperialist attacks, economic blackmail and attempts at political destabilisation – not only by the United States, but also by the European Union and its allies. The inclusion of Cuba in arbitrary and politically motivated sanctions and terror lists, as well as manipulative media campaigns, are aimed at undermining the country's sovereignty and bringing down socialism. The determined resistance of the Cuban people and their Communist Party is a clear response to these aggressions. The 67th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution is therefore also a political mandate. It commits us to strengthening international solidarity, to consistently fighting against the imperialist blockade and to defending socialism. The experience of the Cuban Revolution can and must be utilized to defend the history and contribution of the communist movement, to strengthen proletarian internationalism, and to defend the principles of socialist construction. Long live the Cuban Revolution! Long live socialism! Long live international solidarity! eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

The Great October Socialist Revolution inspires our struggle for a world free from class exploitation and imperialist wars 108 years ago, the victory of the October Revolution demonstrated the power of revolutionary class struggle and paved the way for a society free from exploitation, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and war. It became a turning point in the history of humanity,  brought to the fore a superior form of social organization, socialism–communism, which is radically opposed to previous exploitative formations. The socialization of the means of production, centrally planned economy and worker participation represented a profound qualitative leap in social development, delivering significant social achievements for the people. Today, as humanity bleeds and is torn apart by imperialist wars and interventions, the first Decree On Peaceissued by the new revolutionary power of the Soviets symbolically illuminates the path that the peoples must forge through their struggle. We are aware that today we act in a particularly negative correlation of forces, but we refuse to yield to it. After all, the entire history of the October Revolution and everything that preceded it proves that the negative correlation of forces is neither eternal nor immutable. The working class, in alliance with other popular strata, hold the power to overturn it! The course of history cannot be reversed; our era remains one of transition from capitalism to socialism. For this reason we reject any form of management of the exploitative system and the reformist policies of compromise that aim to manage and perpetuate it. We direct all our efforts to gathering forces for the revolutionary overthrow of the decayed capitalist system. The victorious Great October Socialist Revolution inspires us and has indelibly marked the path for humanity’s historic transition “from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom”. Our struggle to enable the working class to cast off the shackles of exploitation, overthrow the barbaric capitalist system, and build a new socialist society continues! eurcomact.org/m-article/The-…

Statement of the European Communist Action (ECA): Class Struggle – No Sacrifices in Wages, Pensions, Union and Social Rights for the War Economy Europe prepares itself for war. This is clearly proven by the strategy followed, various available economic data and the statements of the governments. All countries in present day Europe are capitalist countries and they are ruled by a single maxim — defending the interests of national monopolies— and ensuring their profits. Many of these countries have joined for the time being the European Union in an effort to improve their competitiveness against their capitalist rivals, such as China and the USA. The goal of the European Union is to defend the interests of a particular group of capitalists at a determined historical juncture. The assessments on the militarization of the European economy are to be framed within this context. Capitalism has not been capable of reaching the rates of growth, accumulation or profit existing before the 2008 crisis. Furthermore it is threatened by the shadow of the next crisis of over-production. Clashes between capitalists for the control of markets, transportation routes, and sources of raw materials are sharpening. This is why the danger of new and more violent military conflicts between capitalist powers is exponentially increasing. Currently all the European countries, led by the strongest ones i.e. Germany, Britain, and France are accelerating the anti-popular reforms for the increase of military expenses and to strengthen the economic sectors required to face the inter-imperialist disputes. In its report, NATO cynically tells young people that “the question is not whether they will fight, but for what future they will fight, and if they are not convinced to fight, we will have to force them to do so”. The NATO countries have committed to reaching 5% of GDP for military spending, and many exceed 2%. For most of the European countries, the last time such figures were seen was during wartime or right before it. For example, the last time such figures were recorded in military spending was in France, in 1953 —when it carried out colonial campaigns in Southeastern Asia and Northern Africa—; and in Germany, in 1963, while Western Germany was clashing with Socialist Germany. The European Union is mobilizing enormous resources for war. The “ReArm Europe” plan —renamed as “Readiness 2030” for cosmetic reasons— envisages the use of €800 billions for the war industry. The rules being now adopted will enable the European countries to bypass deficit targets for military spending. Budget limits are only for social expenses, while there is no limit for military spending nor for debt payments to lenders. Numerous European governments have confessed that such a European rearming process will have adverse effects on social expenditure. This view was expressed by the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, when he said that “the Welfare State can no longer be sustained”; by the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, when he said that “The Welfare State … will collapse … unless the policies are changed”; and also by the French Minister for the Economy and Finances, Éric Lombard, when he answered whether Europe was under a war economy regime by saying that “it is not, but it should be”. The working class in the European countries is losing rights at a rapid pace. In 2022, the real purchase power fell by a mean 4.3% — by 0.7% in 2023. More than three millions of workers are not protected by any collective agreements, due to the decline of union affiliation and the advance of laws against collective agreements. At the same time, anti-workers reforms come one after the other in a quick succession. Recently —and just to cite two examples—, the Greek Government, based on an EU directive, has promoted a 13-hour working day and the annualization of working time, and the Portuguese Government adopted a draconian Labour Reform, which increases the causes for dismissal and labour flexibility. The working class should strongly oppose the sacrifices the capitalists demand of us to wage for the cause of their wars. We should demand no sacrifices — no involvement in the NATO and EU slaughterhouses of war, defend the wages and collective labour agreements in the workplaces we receive for our labour, and our social security rights, strongly fighting the transfer of the wealth that labour generates to the pockets of capital for their war machinery, aiming to overthrow capitalism, abolish exploitation, and intensify the struggle for socialism. Our lives are at stake. eurcomact.org/m-article/Clas…

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📌Last Sunday, the European Communist Action had a teleconference on "The war machine of Euro-Atlanticism, NATO and the EU against the peoples - The communists’ proposal for a way out in conditions of intensifying imperialist competition", hosted by the Communist Party of Turkey. 📌Statement of the European Communist Action: The European Communist Action Parties met via teleconference hosted by Communist Party of Turkey on 28 September 2025 under the title: “The war machine of Euro-Atlanticism, NATO and the EU against the peoples - The communists’ proposal for a way out in conditions of intensifying imperialist competition”. This meeting took place only days after the 80th United Nations General Assembly, which  showcased the inter-imperialist rivalries, conflicts and regional wars around the world . Once again, the hypocrisy of bourgeois governments—whose interests are tied to war,—became apparent. In recent days, new countries have joined those recognizing Palestine. Although this is the direct result of Israel’s failure to crush the Palestinian resistance, and allows the Palestinian people to fight from a better position utilizing the solidarity movement of the peoples across the world, it is also an expression of increased competition between the US and EU capital, fueled by a desire to promote their interests in the region. Besides, the point remains that these European countries still promote a Palestine that is not a real state in all respects, despite now recognizing it. In this sense, recognition functions as the appearance of progress without its substance. It must also be remembered that all the governments voicing so-called anti-war rhetoric pledged at the latest NATO summit to increase war expenditures. Throughout the year, they continued to expand military budgets—funds which, in practice, amount to preparations for new wars. This is the logic of the system itself. Within the imperialist system, every capitalist state—at one level or another—is drawn into these commitments. They are compelled to compete for markets, raw materials, energy corridors, and transport routes, and, when necessary, to resort to war. Breaking this chain requires us to raise anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles in each of our countries. At this teleconference, our parties assessed the latest developments within the Euro-Atlantic structures—above all NATO and the EU—and the associated tensions and conflicts. Guided by our long-standing struggle, we declare our determination to continue the fight in each of our countries and across Europe as a whole. We must expose the lies told by NATO, the EU, and bourgeois governments in implementing their warmongering plans. We must show that military spending affects the workers and people's livelihoods, that it means cuts in social and healthcare spending, in education, pensions, and other attacks on workers and peoples rights and standard of living. Only through international working-class solidarity can we resist these attacks and confront the system that trades our livelihoods for war and profit. We must resist governments’ attempts to justify repressive and freedom-restricting policies under the pretext of threat of wars and imperialist tensions. We must intensify the struggle for the disengagement of our countries from war and the imperialist plans of NATO and the EU. We must raise our voices against conflicts which, within this irrational exploitative system, can at any moment spiral out of control, escalate into nuclear war, and threaten humanity’s very existence. Imperialism can only be defeated by the revolutionary labor movement. Down with imperialist war and exploitation — long live the socialist future of our countries and of the world. eurcomact.org/m-article/Stat…

The explosion of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki – crimes which should never be forgotten - demonstrated to the world the ruthless nature of U.S. imperialism and the terrible and devastating consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. The U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945) were calculated demonstrations of imperialist power aimed not just at Japan but at the Soviet Union and the global communist movement. By unleashing unprecedented destructive force, the U.S. sought to secure post-war dominance over East Asia and to intimidate other peoples who were fighting to follow a socialist path. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was designed by imperialism to send a message to the Soviet Union that the U.S. controlled nuclear weaponry and would dictate the post-war order; to reinforce U.S. hegemony in Japan and to deter liberation movements worldwide by showcasing the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. These aims revealed the capitalist rivalry and geopolitical competition. The bombings epitomized how advanced military technologies under capitalism inflict disproportionate suffering on working‐class and peasant populations. Over 200,000 people died instantly or later succumbed to burns, malnutrition, and radiation-related illnesses. Many of their descendants carried the affected genes and passed them onto their children. Rather than securing lasting peace, as the imperialists claimed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki inaugurated the arms race as the U.S. rushed to develop even more powerful thermonuclear weapons. Despite the efforts of the communists and the world peace movement, imperialism continues to develop nuclear arms production and other weapons of mass destruction which endanger the future of humanity and the planet. For many years nuclear arsenals have been sufficient to destroy the world, yet the accumulation of weapons continues. Developments in nuclear weapons technology has proliferated into the oceans and into space and the world has also witnessed the development of smaller nuclear weapons for so-called “battlefield” use which increase the possibilities for escalation to full-scale nuclear war. With the ever-greater reliance on advanced technology, arms production draws into its orbit ever new sectors of the capitalist economy and further accelerates the arms race. While the world faces critical problems of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, pollution, environmental destruction and war, imperialism increases its military budgets to the detriment of spending on the people’s vital social and economic needs. The diversion of scientific and technological resources to military ends imposes ever increasing attacks on peoples’ rights in the capitalist countries, including health, education, housing and social spending. The depletion of natural resources, both energy and raw material reserves, and the environmental damage caused by the arms race pose a continuing menace to the world. The pretexts used by the EU, the USA, NATO, and Israel regarding a green transition or the prevention of nuclear weapons acquisition, which they attribute solely to their capitalist rival states, are provocative and recently led to the bombing of Iran. The concentration of immense economic power in the hands of monopoly capital and the competition between imperialist centres and alliances create and perpetuate the conditions for imperialist aggression and war. The struggle against imperialist wars, the involvement of the governments of our countries, the arms race and the elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction remains a vital part of the workers and peoples’ fight against the capitalist system and the oppression, exploitation and misery it engenders. Only socialism, the collective, control and socialisation of the means of production and scientific and technological development, not capitalist competition, can avert the threat of nuclear annihilation and ensure peace and prosperity for the peoples. eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

ECA statement on the right of the workers’ - people’s families to vacation and recreation Year after year, poverty extends its claws among the working population, striking in a multi-faceted way. It affects their housing situation, their employment and their possibility to enjoy vacations and to rest during the summer - within the European Union, more than 40 million people, based on official figures alone, find themselves in what is called “vacation poverty”, which is an inability to afford a week-long trip away from home. As the contradictions within the imperialist system sharpen, the situation for the working people of the world deteriorates; as capital in every country exploits the labour of the working class in collusion with governments and the EU and channels more funds to strengthen the war industry and prepare for war and for its own competitiveness, it leaves working families with less and less. Among other ways this manifests itself in fewer families having the possibility for meaningful recreation and vacation, cuts in social tourism programmes, and commercialization of beaches, forests and mountains for business activities. At the same time, tourism under capitalism becomes a burden for many communities that crumble under the weight of mass tourism based on the profitability of capitalist market, driving prices through the roof and disrupting the possibilities for a normal life of the local population under the weight of the lack of modern civil protection infrastructure and staffed services due to the dangerous cost - benefit criterion. In the age of artificial intelligence, when workers —including those in the food and tourism sector— could work fewer hours, with less effort, and be paid more, ultimately they work exhausting hours in appalling conditions and for low wages. This development, where recreation and rest is denied to more and more people, and where mass tourism takes on unmanageable proportions, is not necessary, but rather a result of the capitalist system and its logic. We support the struggles of workers in the tourism and hospitality sector, and the demands of working people for free and open access to beaches, forests and mountains, free from business activities. However, the capitalist system is unable to guarantee the right to recreation and vacation and in its stead, we highlight the need for a planned economy, guaranteeing the working people sufficient infrastructure to give them a dignified way to spend their vacations, and to plan tourism in such a way, as to make it rewarding and and allow for the recovery of mind and body. With the working people in power, in charge of their planned economy, the door is opened to the organization of the planning of collective solutions, where working families are guaranteed recreational homes and sanatoriums, just as they were in the socialist countries, which emphasized the importance of rest and recreation as an integral element of their economy and society. The struggle to expand vacation allowances, make holidays more affordable and raise wages to allow for sufficient recreation is a part of the class struggle and cannot be waged in isolation from the need for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Therefore, we are clear that only a socialist system can ensure the direction of resources to the welfare of the workers, the meeting and extension of the right of workers to vacation and recreation. eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

📺On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, June 20, we, the European Communist Action (ECA) member Parties, denounce the anti-people policies of bourgeois governments, which force millions of people to flee their countries 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=N-ql_w…

📍Today’s anti-NATO protest, The Hague, Netherlands