Ce 26 avril, il y a exactement 75 ans, les avions allemands, envoyés par Hitler pour abattre la République espagnole, bombardaient la ville basque de Guernica, massacrant des dizaines de civils innocents.

Le Parti Communiste de Belgique, à... more

Le député européen portugais Miguel Portas est mort le 24 Avril 2012, vers 19h, à l’hôpital ZNA Middelheim, à Anvers. Il a fait face à sa propre maladie de la même façon qu’il a fait tout le reste pendant toute sa vie, de la politique au... more

Madrid, 23 de abril de 2012

Querido compañero Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Queridos compañeros del Front de Gauche:

Recibe en nombre de Izquierda Unida nuestra más sincera felicitación por los resultados del Front de Gauche en elecciones presidenciales en... more

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland 12/02/2012

The dismissal of a thousand of workers from the Nokia Salo site is yet another example of how the bill for errors committed by the management of a big company is being presented to its... more

Spanish Communist Party

On the 9th of February the conservative government of Spain has announced a major workers laws reform that is a brutal attack to the rights of the workers, the worst in the last 40 years.

The main contents of the reform... more

Thousands of Romanian protesters have been mobilised in the all country against the privatisation of their health service and the forced resignation of Raed Arafat, founder of the emergency service, who had the courage to denounce publicly the... more

by Jean-Luc Melenchon and Oskar Lafontaine (for other language versions please scroll to the end of the text)

With the current leaders of the European Union, we are heading for disaster.

For years now they have been conceding more and more power... more

The wars deployed by the western governments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya had as unique real cause the control of natural resources. In the case of Libya the same pattern has been repeated through war and destruction.

From the western powers... more

In Athens, the interim cabinet of the new Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, was sworn in after a long dispute on Friday. For the first time since the end of the military dictatorship self-confessed right- extremists and anti-Semites belong to the... more

Today, pending the announcement of the new prime minister, we decided to send, as Neolaia Synaspismou (the Youth of Synaspismos) and with the participation of students, precarious employees and unemployed people, a message of resistance ... more

On the 15th October the “Indignados” movement demonstrated in the streets of Europe and the rest of the world; thousands of people gathered in 951 cities and 82 countries protesting against the thievery of the banks, the cutting of the public... more

In a way to counterbalance lobbying by the finance sector a new European organization was recently created - Finance Watch is backed by more than 40 organisations, namely trade unions, NGO’s, consumer groups, and also individual members as... more

The inequality and discrimination against HIV carriers and AIDS patients is aggravated by the financial crisis. This was the common idea shared by the majority of speakers present at the Conference "breaking the barriers, bridging the gaps:... more

On the day that the Greek Parliament approved a new package of austerity measures in exchange of a new bailout from the EU and the IMF to overcome the country's debt, the GUE/NGL Group discussed, in the European Parliament, how to pass from a... more

Greece is holding during the next 48 hours a general strike and rallies against the Midterm Fiscal Program. People will massively fight once again, against the efforts of the Government to impose a program that is unfair and destroys every notion of... more

The International Criminal Court has just issued an arrest warrant for the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son and his military intelligence minister, naming crimes against humanity. ICC's decision corresponds to the 100th day of NATO operations... more

The economic governance package was today approved in the European Parliament by a majority of MEPs in spite of the disagreement and advises of EL and GUE/NGL deputies on these anti social and undemocratic measures that will only serve to increase... more

Coordinate our strengths - Democratic alternatives are necessary and possible - conclusions of the European Conference on 31 May 2011 in the European Parliament (Brussels) - in partnership with the GUE/NGL Parliamentary group

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The statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) published yesterday the first preliminary estimation for 2010 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita expressed in Purchasing Power showing that Greece in Portugal, together with Malta... more

The elections of last April led Finland to a historic situation. The big percentage of the nationalists "True Finns” brought to an end the “bipartisanship times” in power. The governmental coalition, built after True Finns option to stay in... more

On Friday, June 10th, the European Left met in Barcelona, for the public services seminar. Intended to address to the current situation provoked by the recent capitalist attacks across Europe and aggravated by the pact for the euro and the Lisbon... more

Rallies of the “indignados” - the indignant ones” - were held on Sunday in about 60 cities and gathered more than half million people to protest on high unemployment, austere economic prospects and the handling of the financial crisis in their... more