European deputy denounces EU loan to Ukraine

EU should support Antifascist Caravan, not the Poroshenko regime – Eleonora Forenza June 18: Last week, the European Parliament decided to grant Ukraine a loan of 1 billion euros. The Deputy of the European Parliament from the Italian Communist Refoundation Party, Eleonora Forenza, spoke categorically against the financing of Kiev by the EU, reports the […]

Stop repression of communists in Transnistria!

By Greg Butterfield Workers World Communists and socialists in the former Soviet Union and worldwide are calling for the immediate release of Oleg Horzhan, leader of the Communist Party of Transnistria, and dozens of other jailed party members and supporters. A wave of repression against the communists began on June 2 following a public gathering […]

Ukraine regime arrests vacationer for hammer and sickle T-shirt

In Vinnytsia, a man was detained who wore a T-shirt with the inscription “USSR”, hammer and sickle On June 8, at a health resort in Khmelnik [west-central Ukraine], police officers detained a man dressed in a T-shirt with banned symbols: a sickle, a hammer, a star and the inscription “USSR.” This is reported by the […]

Transnistrian Communist Party calls for solidarity against political repression

Freedom for the leader of the Transnistrian communists, Oleg Horzhan! Freedom for all political prisoners! STATEMENT Central Committee of the Transnistrian Communist Party (PKP) June 10: Transnistria has been swept by a new wave of political repression. On the night of June 2-3, 2018, about 30 people were detained in Tiraspol and Benderakh. At the […]

Transnistria: Free communist leader Oleg Horzhan!

Translator’s note: Transnistria (also known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) is an “unrecognized” state in Eastern Europe. Transnistria’s people proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1992, rejecting the capitalist counter-revolution in the USSR and abandonment of Soviet norms. The Communist Party of Transnistria has been a leading political organization in the republic since its founding. In […]

Neo-Nazi Sternenko, defended by Odessa governor, kills alleged assailant

Translator’s note: Sergei Sternenko, former head of the Odessa branch of the Right Sector fascist movement, killed one man and wounded another in an altercation on May 24, in what appears to be infighting among the city’s far-right ultra-nationalist groups. After being hospitalized in Odessa, Sternenko soon fled to Kiev. There is mounting evidence that […]

Residents of Gorlovka ask: ‘When will Poroshenko drink his fill of blood?’

By Kristina Melnikova May 21, 2018 Photos: Kristina Melnikova / EADaily In Donetsk, a serious aggravation began — since the second half of May, there are almost daily reports of wounded and dead civilians. Things have been especially difficult in recent days in Gorlovka and the surrounding settlements. This morning, there was information about an […]

On the sharpening military conflict in Donbass: Colonel Cassad

May 20, 2018: On the continuing aggravation near Gorlovka [Donetsk People’s Republic] on both sides. 1. The sharpening military situation near Gorlovka cannot be stopped by diplomatic methods (i.e., the Minsk agreements), since it is part of the strategy of the U.S. and Kiev to prevent the freezing of the conflict. Since the negotiations in […]

Venezuela: Communists from eight countries together support Maduro for May 20 vote

On a proposal of the Popular Front (Italy), communists from Italy, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, United States, Russia, Ukraine and Mali signed a joint declaration of support for the candidacy of Nicolás Maduro for the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the presidential elections of Sunday, May 20. The text of the declaration […]

Alexander Roshko, fighter against Moldova’s oligarchy, runs for Chisinau mayor

Translator’s note: Alexander Roshko is a revolutionary socialist and former political prisoner in Moldova. Representing the party Our Home is Moldova (Red Bloc), he is standing for mayor of the capital, Chisinau, in the elections scheduled for May 20, 2018. In this recent interview, Roshko explains his reasons for running and his party’s program to […]