European Communist Action

Press Release: Anti-NATO demonstration in Helsingborg On Saturday May 16 a large demonstration was held in Helsingborg to protest against the upcoming meeting of the NATO countries' foreign ministers, to be held there on May 21-22. Despite cold and rainy weather around 1000 demonstrators gathered to express their discontent with Sweden's deeper involvement in imperialist military alliance NATO, and to clearly state that it is not welcome in Sweden. Τhe Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) bloc in the demonstration was joined by our fraternal party, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) along with comrades from the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), as both parties participate in the European Communist Action. Several other fraternal parties joined the SKP bloc, including the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party of Norway (NKP), the Sudanese Communist Party and the Syrian Communist Party. Together we made slogans such as "Withdrawal from NATO can only take place - through struggle against capital, with the SKP!" echo along the streets of Helsingborg. The demonstration opened with music and speeches in the Furutorp Park, where Zahira Sarhan from SKP's Central Committee was the first speaker, highlighting the state’s deceitfulness and its war plans. To open up for increased exploitation by Swedish capital, the state must present war as the only possible option—and it is you who will be sacrificed for this so-called sacred purpose. It was further made clear that NATO is not the so-called “defensive alliance” that the parliamentary parties claim it to be, but in reality a network of terror that leaves misery and death in its wake. NATO is used by the bourgeoisie as one of many imperialist tools to curb the development of socialism and peace, with the sole aim of continuing the exploitation of the working class. After the speeches, the demonstration marched through Helsingborg, concluding at the terrace steps in the city center. The struggle for peace and socialism continues, and even if NATO were to disappear or be reshaped in the future, the work of the SKP and the ECA will not be finished. We will fight capitalism and imperialism wherever they exist and in all their forms. Not one weapon, not one rifle! Not a single Euro for NATO’s war machine! eurcomact.org/m-article/Pres…

We oppose the commercialization of health. Health is a social good, not a privilege for the few «The bourgeoisie…has transformed the personal dignity of man into an exchange value, and has replaced the countless freedoms—granted and won—with the single, shameless freedom of trade.» (  K. Marx, F. Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848  ) Since the late 1980s, public healthcare has everywhere—especially in the EU—been one of the sectors most affected by capitalist restructuring. According to the OECD, total healthcare spending has risen sharply in real terms from 1991 to the present, while the share allocated to public healthcare, also in real terms, has remained essentially stagnant—or has even declined significantly in Italy, Greece, and Spain. This has occurred alongside a corresponding increase in public funding for private healthcare through general taxation, the growing reliance on private health insurance, and the expansion of costs not covered and paid directly by users (so-called out-of-pocket expenses). Public healthcare facilities are being transformed into enterprises and managed according to private-sector criteria by hospital managers, whose primary objective is not patients’ health but financial performance. Chief physicians and other senior medical staff are often co-opted by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies under profit-driven business logics, which often results in medical decisions being made not on the basis of purely healthcare-related criteria and the patient’s best interests, but rather with the aim of serving the financial interests of those companies. Medical and paramedical staff are deliberately and significantly understaffed, waiting lists for medical services grow longer, patient co-payments increase, while the remaining services still covered by public healthcare decline in both quantity and quality—services which are not truly free, since they have already been paid for by taxpayers. All of this pushes those who can afford it toward private insurance and private healthcare, while those without sufficient means are forced to forgo treatment—a troubling and growing phenomenon that reveals a class-based discrimination, effectively denying the universality of healthcare provision and the right to health hypocritically proclaimed in bourgeois constitutions. The outsourcing of services and treatments to private companies, NGOs and social cooperatives, in place of public provision, proves even more costly for public finances than maintaining such services within public structures, while reducing quality and increasing the exploitation of workers, in terms of longer —often exhausting— hours and more intense workloads combined with low wages. Faced with growing needs  for care—due both to increased life expectancy and to the intensification of exploitation in production, as well as the physically and mentally exhausting nature of labor—the bourgeois state strengthens surreptitious forms of privatization, the so-called public-private partnerships that dismantle public healthcare and turn health into a commodity to the benefit of capital operating in the sector, whether directly (such as pharmaceutical companies and private healthcare providers) or indirectly (such as banks and insurance companies). The resources thus diverted from protecting the health of the popular masses are instead used to finance rearmament and public support measures for private accumulation and profit, in a form of reverse welfare that takes from the working class and popular strata to the bourgeois class. This process finds its legal basis in the European Semester Recommendations and in the macroeconomic constraints of the Stability and Growth Pact, adopted by the European Commission and the bourgeois governments of EU member states—constituting yet one more reason to strengthen the struggle to exit this and all imperialist alliances. While capitalism dismantles public healthcare and forces proletarians and the popular strata to endure serious injustices, inequalities, and disparities in treatment even in the field of healthcare —despite the tremendous development of scientific discoveries and technological capabilities—, we wish to recall that socialism has always guaranteed the right to health and to high-quality, completely free healthcare for all. Even today, socialist Cuba, despite the enormous difficulties caused by the criminal blockade imposed by U.S. imperialism, remains at the forefront of medical research and in ensuring free healthcare for its people. Communists declare that the right to health is a universal right—above all a social one—of the human being, fundamental to ensuring the quality and dignity of life, as well as its duration. Like all the rights that capitalism denies us, this must be asserted by demanding no sacrifice for the profits of capital or the slaughterhouses of war, in opposition to the privatization of the sector, and by demanding universal, free public healthcare in the direction of our broader struggle for socialism-communism. eurcomact.org/m-article/We-o…

📌ECA statement on the 81st anniversary of the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples: The 9th of May - The Victory of Socialism over Fascism On this day, 81 years ago, Nazi Germany capitulated to the socialist Soviet Union. The victory of socialism over the most brutal expression of capitalism was a fact. As we have done all previous years, we honour all the millions who gave their lives to achieve this goal, all those who became martyrs in the anti-fascist struggle. We never forget. The victory over fascism, achieved through the efforts of the national liberation movements and the invaluable contribution of the Soviet Union and the heroic Red Army, which raised the red flag bearing the hammer and sickle over the Reichstag, in Berlin is a milestone in the history of the peoples and socialism. Despite the murder of millions of people, the unimaginable destruction, and the pillaging of entire countries, the popular masses could achieve victory in the end. They showed us that capitalism could not withstand the supremacy of socialism, the determination and will of the people, not even capitalism in its most brutal form, that of fascism. On the 9th of May, every working person, every soldier, every partisan and every anti-fascist showed that the victory over fascism and the very system that gives rise to it, capitalism, was possible - and that it will always be possible. We raise our fists even higher in honour of their struggle. This great historical epic cannot be distorted or misrepresented by the EU, bourgeois governments and their staffs, or by their wretched anti-communist sermons and resolutions, which futilely seek to designate 9 May as so-called “EU Day” and to equate communism with the monster of fascism. Nor, of course, can it be used to justify the imperialist war in Ukraine or to absolve the bourgeois classes involved in the war. Despite the sacrifices that the peoples made in the struggle against Nazism they did not manage to smash it once and for all. In too few countries could this struggle lead to the overthrow of the capitalist system and socialism, with the contribution of the Red Army. Armed with historical experience, the struggle currently being waged by the communist parties of the ECA in their respective countries is promising. We see the same contradictions and rivalries sharpening in our times, as drew the world into the imperialist war that was just only on the part of the Soviet Union and finished on the 9th of May. On the shoulders of those who came before us, we therefore continue to struggle towards the same goals as they. Our world is characterized by sharp contradictions, by a sharp struggle that grows from the very nature of the capitalist system. The endless expansion of every bourgeois class  in a finite world allows us to glimpse the catastrophe that might await and lets us understand the imperialist wars that now rage for supremacy in the imperialist system. We struggle against Nazism and fascism; and to crush it once and for all, we must overthrow capitalism which gives rise to it. The struggle against fascism can never be separate from the struggle for socialism. The intensification of imperialist contradictions is also impacting bourgeois politics and governments, where reactionary and openly fascist forces are gaining ground in a context of widespread impoverishment of the working class. Recognising that fascism fulfilled a specific historical role—as a brutal response of the bourgeoisie at a moment of advancing class struggle—Communist Parties must strengthen their work within mass fronts in order to build a class-oriented opposition capable of linking the question of imperialist war, fascism, and the seizure of power. On this day, 81 years ago, fascism and Nazism was defeated, albeit not conclusively. This task awaits us. With the lessons gained through the struggles of the past we meet our future. We will finish what the victory 81 years ago did not finish - and those who gave their lives will show us the way. Long live the victory over fascism and Nazism! Long live the peoples’ power! Long live socialism-communism! eurcomact.org/m-article/ECA-…

📌The European Communist Action had a teleconference on the 3rd of May on "The tasks of communists in organising the Communist Party in workplaces and working-class neighbourhoods", hosted by the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain. 📌To read contributions by the ECA Parties to the conference, please follow: eurcomact.org/documents/meet…

The European Communist Action calls on the working class across Europe and all the popular strata to participate in the working-class mobilizations on May Day —International Workers' Day— and flood the streets to show the organized strength of workers. We honour the heroes and the fallen of our movement, from those in Chicago to the present day. We continue defiantly along the same path! The European Communist Action also calls on the class-oriented organizations and trade unions to strengthen the workers' nature of this day of struggle, as well as the internationalist solidarity in this context of imperialist war. The conditions under which we workers in Europe are approaching this May Day are shaped by the war economy and the escalation of military preparations. Our living standards and labour conditions continue to be worsened with the abolition of collective labour agreements; the deterioration and privatization of public services continue to advance; housing prices continue to rise; and the cost of living, of shopping baskets, of energy, of fuels continue to skyrocket unchecked. At the same time, the offensive against the interests of migrants and working-class women continues driven by racist, sexist, irrational and reactionary views, seeking to divide the working class and to make it accept a war that is alien to its interests as its own. Imperialist aggression is the dominant topic as a result of the accumulation of tensions and conflicts for years at various levels and in different regions of the world. Today, the imperialist aggression is being waged in various locations of the globe, though it reaches its most belligerent levels and has the worst consequences for the workers in the Middle East — particularly Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon due to the barbaric attacks launched by the US and Israel. The competition between different countries and capitalist blocs is escalating, and the various governments are preparing themselves for all the scenarios. In this context, rearming, militarization of the economy, and the preparation of the peoples for war are taking place: - Governments are mobilizing in order to ensure a rearming, thus deepening the market of arms production, purchase, and sale, and also of military intelligence; - The economy is being subdued to the interests of war (increase in defence expenses, transformation of productive sectors, creation of employment linked to war activity...); - Capitalism is using the propaganda machinery to ensure the ideological and social acceptance of the war and all the costs it has for the working class. It also promotes a false and dangerous appeal to broad sections of the working class to shed their blood for the interests of the capitalists. The European Union and various bourgeois governments are clear examples of these processes. They support the imperialist attacks against the peoples, are involved in them in multiple ways and back their despicable pretexts all the while hypocritically waving the flag of “No to war” and deepening their pursuit of strategic autonomy. They also seek to deceive the working class by promoting a European community of capitalist interests against any other imperialist alliance or bloc. There is no such community of interests between capitalists and workers within any border, only among the exploited workers all across the world. The European workers are clear: our class interests have nothing to do with the interests of those who exploit us nor their political representatives. While capitalists are promoting the anti-people policies, austerity, budget cuts and redundancies, the working class can barely reproduce its labour power. While capitalists need to increase the production in their military industry, the working class is being murdered in other countries with weapons produced by that same industry. While capitalists are fostering reactionary stances and exercise the repression against the working class, the working class is enduring persecution and attempts at class conciliation with their exploiters. While capitalists are broadcasting war-mongering propaganda, the working class responds with  proletarian internationalism. These are just some examples evidencing that their banners are not ours. In this context, the working class should articulate its own response to the attacks we are enduring, and we should take the lead in responding in a united and organized manner. In this path, it is essential to detach ourselves from dividing, reactionary, anti-trade union, racist, and sexist discourses, but also from the harmful influence of social democracy within the workers' movement, unveiling their practices of social conciliation and peace, which serve to disorientate and restrain mass mobilization and class struggle. The organized working class cannot trust in “better models” of capitalist management. In order to make the foundations of capitalism stagger and overthrow it, we need a class-oriented and independent programme of struggle that clashes with the power of monopolies, is opposed to the imperialist war, and practices proletarian internationalism. This response is built at workplaces, in working-class and popular neighbourhoods; in each strike, demonstration, and social protest; from the class-oriented organization in trade unions, from the communist and workers' parties. Workers of Europe, every step we take, every advance we achieve united strengthen us, every partial victory is accumulated until the construction of a working-class opposition capable of overthrowing this system of exploitation and building a society free from it, i.e. socialism. With that victory, the needs of workers at workplaces can be prioritized. Long live the struggle of the working class! Long live May Day! eurcomact.org/m-article/Stat…

Message of Condolences from the ECA Secretariat on the Passing of Comrade Tibor Zenker The ECA expresses its deep sorrow at the unexpected loss of our comrade Tibor Zenker, Chairman of the Party of Labour of Austria, at the age of just 50. Comrade Tibor was a prominent figure in the communist movement in Austria, as well as in the international communist movement, making a pivotal contribution to its development, for which he worked tirelessly under very difficult conditions following the counter-revolution. Through his modest yet substantial contributions and actions, and through his ideological and political grounding, he helped to confront opportunist forces and, in various positions of responsibility, contributed to the establishment of the Party of Labour of Austria. He held an unwavering belief in the just cause of the struggle of the working class and in its historic mission to build a world free from capitalist exploitation—socialism. He was distinguished by his revolutionary optimism and consistently emphasized the need to strengthen proletarian internationalism. His contribution was significant both in the effort to establish the European Communist Initiative and later in the formation of European Communist Action, at whose meetings he played a notable role in shaping its positions and guiding the steps it has taken to this day. His contribution to the struggle for the adoption of correct criteria regarding the stance of communists toward imperialist war was also significant. His important theoretical and political contributions to the Party of Labour of Austria as well as his published works did not prevent him from also producing a rich body of literary writing, including plays, novellas, and other works. We express our deepest condolences to his family and to his comrades in the Party of Labour of Austria. The Secretariat of the European Communist Action (ECA) eurcomact.org/m-article/Mess…

📺Statement of the European Communist Action on the imperialist war in the Middle East has just broadcasted on YouTube:👇 youtube.com/watch?v=8IUYH4…

🔴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-…

📌To read contributions by the ECA Parties to the teleconference, please follow: eurcomact.org/documents/meet…

🔴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…