While a de facto state of emergency continues in the capital city of Turkey due to the upcoming NATO summit, the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) marched to Kızılay Square, centre of Ankara, with the slogan “Down with imperialism, down with NATO!”
The Communist Youth Collectives (CJC), the youth of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE), has strongly condemned brutal police repression against students and university workers in Madrid, reporting five arrests, including one CJC militant, and several injured militants who required hospital treatment.
Members of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) are being prosecuted with prison sentences of between six months and three years, following the anti-NATO demonstration in Ankara during the NATO summit in July.
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has accused the Greek government of helping rehabilitate convicted neo-Nazi political figure Ilias Kasidiaris, following anti-communist remarks by Konstantinos Kyranakis, a prominent official of the ruling New Democracy (ND) party.
The Workers’ Party of Belgium (Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB/PVDA) has intensified its criticism of the federal and regional governments’ economic policies, focusing on pension indexation, threatened job cuts at pharmaceutical multinational GSK, and education reforms that the party says will worsen conditions for students and teachers.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) focused its activities in the last several days on challenging the September parliamentary election results, criticising government economic policies and promoting measures to protect household incomes.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) Astor García wrote an article for the International Communist Press, on the 90th anniversary of the International Brigades. Thousands of volunteers from different countries came together in the International Brigades and fought the fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War.