The Russian President has ordered to halt military operations during the upcoming 80th anniversary of the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany

The Russian President has ordered to halt military operations during the upcoming 80th anniversary of the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany

The proposal was blocked by the Western occupating countries.

In Brazil there'll be massive marches for the reduction of the workweek. I think this year it'll the biggest First of May since the turn of the century.

How's it gonna go in your countries?

Non-archive: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/world/asia/china-tariffs-trade-warning.html

This is actually some interesting strategy from the US. Rather than trying to actually reindustrialise the USA itself, they could move their offshore labour to some other aspiring third world country. The carrot of becoming a "Second China" against the stick of suffering sanctions could be enough to convince some massive country like the Philippines to also embargo China.

They can also extract more surplus than corporations in China due to less labour regulation and class struggle.

Vietnam seems like a prime candidate to become to China what China was to the USSR in the 70s. Despite statements of solidarity and friendship, they can easily fill China's niche in the world market.

Ironically, this competition between the old economic bloc and the nascent Chinese one could lead to industrialisation efforts in the periphery of both.

I'm not as positive on China as most users here, so I see a clear incentive for Chinese capital to invest in dependent primary sector development at the periphery of their bloc, as investing in advanced manufacturing is both competition in their own bloc and creating a replacement for the NATO bloc. On the other hand, any "second China" can't be held down economically, so it'll need a tighter leash through military dependence by surrounding them with war.

My candidates for those besides the usual Europe, Israel and Japan are Chile, Philippines, Vietnam and possibly even occupied and reconstructed Ukraine after the war.

The Communist and Workers’ Parties, which co-sign this Joint Statement, would like also in this way to honour a great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, as 22 April marks the 155th anniversary of his birth.

The imperialist war that is shedding the blood of the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, has been going on for more than three years, while the trade and economic wars and the militarization of the capitalist economies are intensifying. These are signs that show the anti-social and parasitic nature of the capitalist system, in the face of the new crisis —the burdens of which are again being shifted on the shoulders of the workers—, the aggressive nature of capitalism and the escalation of imperialist competition, which pose new dangers to peace and the peoples. Especially in the present conditions, we feel even more the need to refer to the historical physiognomy of V.I. Lenin. A personality that dedicated his life to the cause of the working class and other popular strata, to the struggle for the abolition of exploitation and the construction of the socialist society.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the founder of the contemporary working-class party, the “party of a new type”, which was firmly separated from the opportunism and apostasy of the old social-democratic parties. Such was the Bolshevik Party, which was at the forefront of the class struggle of the proletariat and the other oppressed strata of Russia. Lenin’s party, depending on the circumstances, used all forms of struggle, did not succumb to bans and persecutions, did not lose its ideological–political independence, and thus led Russia’s working class to victory by overthrowing the exploiting classes and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, the workers’ and peasants’ government, in the service of the interests of the many, the exploited and the oppressed. The above is also very important today as we see a number of bourgeois regimes banning CPs, putting obstacles to their activities and even setting up fake CPs. Their anti-communist actions will fail! V.I. Lenin defined and substantiated the leading role of the Communist Party, not only in establishing workers’ power but also in constructing socialism.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the theorist who, taking into account the particular reality, further developed the constituent parts of Marxism, i.e. philosophy, political economy and scientific communism. As an opponent of any opportunistic and revisionist distortion of revolutionary theory and practice, dogmatism and parliamentary illusions, without denying the intervention through the parliament.

His works, such as “What the friends of the people are and how they fight the Social-Democrats”, “The Development of Capitalism in Russia”, “What Is to Be Done”, “Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution”, “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, “Marxism and Revisionism”, “The Collapse of the Second International”, “Socialism and War”, “On the Slogan for the United States of Europe”, “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, “The State and Revolution”, “The April Theses”, “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder”, “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government”, and “The Great Initiative” are milestones in the propagation and development of Marxism and revolutionary struggle. Lenin's valuable theoretical work is still timely and serves as a beacon for the ideological-political education and action of every new generation of revolutionaries.

Of immense importance today is the Leninist approach and analysis of imperialism and its characteristics, as highlighted in Lenin’s work on capitalism in its highest and final stage, where monopolies dominate. The Leninist work, which is particularly useful at a time when the rivalry between the USA and China for supremacy in the international capitalist system is intensifying, contrasts with the identification of imperialism only with an aggressive foreign policy or only with a few powerful capitalist countries, a view that has been promoted over time by the forces of opportunism.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which about a century ago shook the world. The victorious revolution illuminated the power of the class struggle, the power of the exploited and the oppressed -when they take the case of their interests into their own hands and turn the wheel of history forward- in the direction of social liberation. The October flame led and accelerated the establishment of a number of Communist and revolutionary Workers' parties.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the leader of the world's first socialist state, which for the first time established workers’ power based on new revolutionary institutions, such as the Soviets, sought the economic functioning of society on a new basis, the basis of the satisfaction of contemporary people’s needs and the multi-faceted free development of all people, not the profitability of the few. The USSR, the first socialist state in the world, which was realized with the special contribution of V.I. Lenin, brought to the fore new unprecedented economic, social, political, and cultural achievements for the working class and the wider popular strata that had a profound effect on historical progressive developments around the world by implementing the socialization of the means of production, central planning and workers’ control. It was the USSR, the Red Army and the people, the partisan movements led by the communists, that defeated fascism, which capitalism gave rise to. We will commemorate the 80th anniversary of this Victory this year, rejecting the desire of the bourgeois powers that fought and are fighting against socialism, to usurp it. The USSR was a mainstay for the peoples in the struggle for socialism and peace, stressing that these are intertwined. No “multipolar world”, no new “world architecture” can guarantee peace and security for the peoples, despite the declarations of the bourgeois powers, which the opportunists reproduce. The solution lies in intensifying the class struggle for disengagement from the imperialist unions, such as NATO, the EU and others, against imperialist war and the “matrix” that gives birth to it, i.e. the capitalist system.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the great internationalist, the leader who raised the flag of proletarian internationalism against the treacherous attitude of the Second International during the imperialist World War I, opposed bourgeois nationalism and other bourgeois views such as the cosmopolitanism of the capital, and led the establishment of the Third Communist International, which made a major contribution to the international labor and communist movement and today is a basic source for drawing useful lessons from the experience it accumulated through its action. Lenin’s positions on colonialism led the Communists to understand the issue of colonies and inspired them to lead the anti-colonial struggles, both in colonial countries and colonies.

We honour V.I. Lenin as the tireless and consistent opponent of the imperialist war, the defender of peoples’ struggle for national and social liberation, social justice, peace, and socialism.

The counter-revolution and capitalist restoration cannot conceal the achievements of Socialism. The disasters and injustice we are experiencing, the acute problems and the suffering of the working class, the urban self-employed, the farmers and the peoples overall caused by capitalist exploitation and oppression, emphasize the necessity and timeliness of socialism all over the world.

The Communist and Workers’ Parties denounce the wave of silence as well as the reactionary and anti-communist distortion that has been unleashed around the world by the political forces that serve the interests of the capital against V.I. Lenin to the workers and the youth. In particular, we condemn the attempt of the bourgeois classes of Ukraine, Russia and other countries that emerged from the dissolution of the USSR to demonize Lenin. We struggle for the continuation of his work, we are committed to continue defending and propagating his legacy and we call on the workers and the people to learn from it.

SolidNet Parties

1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS)
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Communist Party of El Salvador
4. Communist Party of Greece
5. orkers Party of Ireland
6. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
7. Communist Party of Mexico
8. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
9. Communist Party of Pakistan
10. Palestinian Communist Party
11. Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]
12. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
13. Communist Party of the Soviet Union
14. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
15. Communist Party of Sweden
16. Swiss Communist Party
17. Syrian Communist Party
18. Communist Party of Turkey
19. Union of Communists of Ukraine
20. Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties

1. Argentinian Communist Party
2. Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party
3. Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism (Finland)
4. Communist Party (Germany)
5. Communist Revolutionary Party of France
6. Revolutionary Communist Party - Communists (France)
7. Communist Front (Italy)
8. Communist Workers' Platform USA

It's useful to understand how it'll work in practice beyond all the rhetoric and demagogy.

COMUNICADO URGENTE DE LA INTERNACIONAL ANTIFASCISTA: ECUADOR FRENTE AL GOLPE ELECTORAL Y ATAQUE NEOFASCISTA

Desde la Internacional Antifascista, denunciamos con absoluta firmeza el fraude de origen y las maniobras autoritarias y fascistas, que han marcado las elecciones presidenciales en Ecuador, perpetradas por Daniel Noboa, este fraude electoral no es un simple acto de corrupción, sino la imposición violenta de un régimen neofascista, que ha sido diseñado desde el extranjero con métodos propios de las dictaduras más oscuras del siglo XX, Noboa ha utilizado el aparato estatal para suprimir derechos, silenciar opositores y fabricar una victoria ilegítima, todo mientras despliega una estrategia con el apoyo de mercenarios y grupos de represión privatizada que busca gobernar mediante el miedo, la manipulación institucional y la fuerza bruta.

Las irregularidades documentadas —cambios sospechosos de recintos electorales, uso clientelar de fondos públicos, bloqueo a veedores internacionales y la suspensión arbitraria del voto en el exterior confirman que este gobierno nace de un asalto a la voluntad popular. Peor aún, el estado de excepción selectivo decretado por este gobierno fallido e impopular en provincias históricamente rebeldes demuestra que su única legitimidad busca lograrla desde la represión, no a través de las urnas.

Denunciamos que Noboa y sus operadores han preparado este fraude con meses de anticipación, utilizando recursos del Estado, cooptando instituciones y coordinándose con mercenarios extranjeros para sembrar el caos y justificar una escalada autoritaria. Este no es un gobierno legítimo, sino una ocupación encubierta al servicio de élites corruptas y poderes extranjeros.

Frente a esta emergencia, llamamos al pueblo ecuatoriano a la resistencia activa y organizada. La lucha continua y debe intensificarse en las calles, en las comunidades y en todos los espacios donde se defienda la democracia. La solidaridad internacional será clave para exponer este régimen ilegítimo y aislar a sus cómplices. ¡Ni un paso atrás! Con el fascismo no se negocia, se le derrota. La historia juzgará a los traidores.

Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution rejects Ecuador’s election results, alleging fraud and calling for a recount. Tensions rise as she demands transparency in the electoral process.

In a strong statement following the second round of elections in Ecuador, Luisa González, presidential candidate for the political movement Citizens’ Revolution, expressed her rejection of the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE). González alleged that fraud occurred in the vote tally, accusing current president Daniel Noboa of benefiting from an irregular electoral process.

“Before my people, facing them as I always do and as is right for good women,” González stated, emphasizing that her movement has accepted defeats in the past when polls indicated so. However, this time she declared: “Today we do not recognize the results.”

The candidate called on “the men, women, and young children I represent,” urging a review of the electoral process. “I refuse to believe there is a people who prefer lies over the truth. We will demand a recount and that the ballots be opened,” she concluded.

She insisted that they will request a recount. “We are going to defend our right to democracy. Ecuador cannot continue to be governed by a person incapable of leading it toward peace and development, someone who only prioritizes their business and the well-being of their family,” he said.

“Now more than ever, we must be vigilant about what the person who calls themselves the President of the Republic is doing. I publicly denounce that they are committing fraud. We continue in the fight,” he concluded.

Previously, González denounced that the president did not request unpaid leave from the National Assembly and used state resources to campaign, in addition to not entrusting the presidency to the elected vice president, Verónica Abad, as mandated by the Constitution.

The day before, the Parliament and the legislative bench of the Citizens’ Revolution accused Noboa of violating fundamental guarantees by declaring a state of emergency without just cause and imposing it in provinces where the vote did not favor him.

A few hours earlier, Noboa decreed the closure of borders to prevent international observers from entering the country, which would contribute to the transparency of the runoff election. In no case did the electoral authority—the CNE—speak out against these and other irregularities.

In addition, this Sunday, after the polls closed, the former presidential candidate of the Citizens’ Revolution, Andrés Arauz, denounced that the CNE (National Electoral Council) is uploading vote records without signatures, a requirement established in Article 127 of the Democracy Code to validate the results.

Arauz published images of six electoral records lacking the joint signatures of the president and secretary of the Voting Reception Boards (JRV). According to his complaint, all these unsupported records favor the current president, Daniel Noboa.