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  •    Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov   MR Online

    Russia: “Left Front” leader Sergei Udaltsov sentenced to six years in prison

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on December 26, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Dec 27, 2025)

    On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the “Left Front” movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.”

  •    The Voice of the Peoples   MR Online

    The Voice of the Peoples: Hadash lawmakers Odeh and Cassif defy imperialists in the Knesset

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 13, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2025)

    In refusing to bow to the applause of killers, Odeh and Cassif embody what it means to act with conscience in a place built on coercion and military might.

  •    German Democratic Republic   MR Online

    DDR: What was the German Democratic Republic?

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 7, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 13, 2025)

    On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic was founded.

  •    Communist Movement   MR Online

    Brief history of the communist movement in Palestine and Israel

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 5, 2025 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2025)

    The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East.

  •    Mass demonstrations held in Israel   MR Online

    The two faces of Israel from a Marxist perspective

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 13, 2025 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2025)

    The recent mass demonstrations held in Israel against the heinous plans of the Netanyahu Government to takeover Gaza remind us that societies aren’t monolithic entities; they contain conflicting forces within them.

  •    Ceaușescu   MR Online

    Ceaușescu’s revenge: 66% of Romanians consider him a good leader, express nostalgia for pre-1989 period

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on July 27, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2025)

    Today, three and a half decades since the parody trial that sent him to the firing squad, Ceausescu seems to take an extraordinary revenge from the counterrevolutionaries who overthrew his power.

  •    Ayman Odeh   MR Online

    Israel: Solidarity with Hadash leader Ayman Odeh

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on June 2, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jun 10, 2025)

    Two weeks ago, Ayman Odeh, MP and head of the Parliamentary Group of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), was violently removed from the podium of Knesset for denouncing the genocide in Gaza.

  •    Communist Party of India Marxist   MR Online

    Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the killing of 27 Maoists by state forces in Chhattisgarh

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on May 22, 2025 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted May 23, 2025)

    In a statement concerning the killing of at least 27 Maoist rebels, including their leader, by state forces, on Wednesday 21 May, in Chhattisgarh, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke.

  •    SACPTrump   MR Online

    South African communists blast Trump’s imperialist agenda: “We will not bow to imperialist threats”

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on February 10, 2025 (more by In Defense of Communism)  |

    In a statement issued on 6 February 2025, the South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns U.S President Donald Trump’s threats against South Africa and defends the country’s national sovereignty.

  •    Kemal Okuyan   MR Online

    Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 17, 2025 by Marinella Correggia (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    — “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”

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    Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 16, 2025 by Communist Party of Israel & Hadash (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2025)

    Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

  •    GDR at 75   MR Online

    GDR at 75: The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 8, 2024 by Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Austria (PdA) (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2024)

    The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process.

  •    Mijaín Lopez   MR Online

    Mijaín Lopez: The Cuban hero of the Paris Olympics who loves Fidel Castro

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on August 13, 2024 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Aug 14, 2024)

    The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.

  •    Dockworkers   MR Online

    Dockworkers in Greece refused to load arms shipment destined for Israel, forced cargo ship to change route

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on June 16, 2024 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2024)

    The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Greece’s major port, Piraeus, on Saturday 15 June led to the cancellation of the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to Israel.

  •    Communist Party of Israel Hadash   MR Online

    Communist Party of Israel-Hadash: Netanyahu’s fascist government on verge of causing humanitarian disaster in Rafah

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on May 7, 2024 by In Defense of Communism Staff (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted May 08, 2024)

    “Israel’s fascist government is on the verge of bringing about a humanitarian disaster in Rafah,” Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) says in a common statement on Monday, May 6.

  •    Communist Party of Israel and Hadash Netanyahus fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation   MR Online

    Communist Party of Israel and Hadash: “Netanyahu’s fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation”

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on October 7, 2023 by In Defense of Communism Editors (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2023)

    In a statement concerning today’s rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces, the Communist Party of Israel (MAKI) and Hadash blame the criminal occupation policy of the far-right Netanyahu government, underlining the grave dangers that it poses for the peace in the region. 

  •    Finlands social democrat PM Sanna Marin   MR Online

    The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on April 4, 2023 by Panos Alepliotis (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Apr 11, 2023)

    No, it’s not about another unknown Bunuel film. But if he had lived and knew about Finland’s election results, he could write a script and direct something similar.

  •    Lenin  Putin   MR Online

    Lenin still haunts the Russian ruling class

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on December 16, 2022 (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Dec 21, 2022)

    “In fact, Zelenskiy is far closer to Lenin than to George Washington. He is a dictator. He is a dangerous authoritarian who has used $100 billion in U.S. tax dollars to erect a one-party police state in Ukraine.” Who wrote this?  It is the opinion posted on Twitter by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV network (since 2005) and the Sputnik news agency (since 2014).

  •    Massive rally in Piacenza against the persecution of trade unionists   MR Online

    Massive rally in Piacenza against the persecution of trade unionists

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on July 25, 2022 by Nikos Mottas (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2022)

    The trade unionists were placed under house arrest and searched on July 19th, based on a 350-page indictment of the Piacenza Public Prosecutor’s Office against USB and Si Cobas unions.

  •    Stepan Malentsov   MR Online

    Stepan Malentsov on Ukraine war: “The fundamental solution of the problem is only on the path of socialism”

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on March 21, 2022 (more by In Defense of Communism)  |

    “I would strongly advise everyone to pay attention to the fact that the majority of the media talk less about the task of denazification, i.e. about the eradication of Nazism, fascism of the Banderamodification. It is understandable.” –

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    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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