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[Der Hammer @RoterHammer]

🔥 New issue of the ICR is here!

International Communist Review — Issue 15

https://t.co/QvmxwHe2di

[PCTE Asturies @AsturiesPcte]

PCTE estaremos presentes pues no existe ninguna salida favorable para la clase obrera sobre la base del racismo, la xenofobia o la competencia entre trabajadores, sino únicamente mediante la organización y la lucha conjunta contra quienes se benefician de nuestra explotación.

[In Defense of Communism © @id_communism]

📌 Erich Honecker, Magazine "Communist", 1976, No. 7, p. 69 #Quote

Honecker, leader of the German Democratic Republic from 1971 to 1989, was born on 25 August 1912.

[European Communist Action @eurcomact]

We oppose the commercialization of health. Health is a social good, not a privilege for the few

«The bourgeoisie…has transformed the personal dignity of man into an exchange value, and has replaced the countless freedoms—granted and won—with the single, shameless freedom of trade.»

(  K. Marx, F. Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848  )

Since the late 1980s, public healthcare has everywhere—especially in the EU—been one of the sectors most affected by capitalist restructuring. According to the OECD, total healthcare spending has risen sharply in real terms from 1991 to the present, while the share allocated to public healthcare, also in real terms, has remained essentially stagnant—or has even declined significantly in Italy, Greece, and Spain. This has occurred alongside a corresponding increase in public funding for private healthcare through general taxation, the growing reliance on private health insurance, and the expansion of costs not covered and paid directly by users (so-called out-of-pocket expenses).

Public healthcare facilities are being transformed into enterprises and managed according to private-sector criteria by hospital managers, whose primary objective is not patients’ health but financial performance. Chief physicians and other senior medical staff are often co-opted by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies under profit-driven business logics, which often results in medical decisions being made not on the basis of purely healthcare-related criteria and the patient’s best interests, but rather with the aim of serving the financial interests of those companies. Medical and paramedical staff are deliberately and significantly understaffed, waiting lists for medical services grow longer, patient co-payments increase, while the remaining services still covered by public healthcare decline in both quantity and quality—services which are not truly free, since they have already been paid for by taxpayers. All of this pushes those who can afford it toward private insurance and private healthcare, while those without sufficient means are forced to forgo treatment—a troubling and growing phenomenon that reveals a class-based discrimination, effectively denying the universality of healthcare provision and the right to health hypocritically proclaimed in bourgeois constitutions.

The outsourcing of services and treatments to private companies, NGOs and social cooperatives, in place of public provision, proves even more costly for public finances than maintaining such services within public structures, while reducing quality and increasing the exploitation of workers, in terms of longer —often exhausting— hours and more intense workloads combined with low wages.

Faced with growing needs  for care—due both to increased life expectancy and to the intensification of exploitation in production, as well as the physically and mentally exhausting nature of labor—the bourgeois state strengthens surreptitious forms of privatization, the so-called public-private partnerships that dismantle public healthcare and turn health into a commodity to the benefit of capital operating in the sector, whether directly (such as pharmaceutical companies and private healthcare providers) or indirectly (such as banks and insurance companies).

The resources thus diverted from protecting the health of the popular masses are instead used to finance rearmament and public support measures for private accumulation and profit, in a form of reverse welfare that takes from the working class and popular strata to the bourgeois class. This process finds its legal basis in the European Semester Recommendations and in the macroeconomic constraints of the Stability and Growth Pact, adopted by the European Commission and the bourgeois governments of EU member states—constituting yet one more reason to strengthen the struggle to exit this and all imperialist alliances.

While capitalism dismantles public healthcare and forces proletarians and the popular strata to endure serious injustices, inequalities, and disparities in treatment even in the field of healthcare —despite the tremendous development of scientific discoveries and technological capabilities—, we wish to recall that socialism has always guaranteed the right to health and to high-quality, completely free healthcare for all. Even today, socialist Cuba, despite the enormous difficulties caused by the criminal blockade imposed by U.S. imperialism, remains at the forefront of medical research and in ensuring free healthcare for its people.

Communists declare that the right to health is a universal right—above all a social one—of the human being, fundamental to ensuring the quality and dignity of life, as well as its duration. Like all the rights that capitalism denies us, this must be asserted by demanding no sacrifice for the profits of capital or the slaughterhouses of war, in opposition to the privatization of the sector, and by demanding universal, free public healthcare in the direction of our broader struggle for socialism-communism.
https://t.co/BtE1uZTJHp

[International Relations Section of the CC of KKE @intern_kke]

📌On Looting in the Soviet Tradition
✍️Comment by the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the KKE on the establishment of the so-called SOVINTERN
🔗https://t.co/GifrggYbhW

📌О мародер��тве на советском наследии
✍️Комментарий Международного отдела ЦК Компартии Греции относительно создания так называемого СОВИНТЕРНА
🔗https://t.co/7IZrEt58QN

📌Sobre el saqueo en la tradición soviética
✍️Comentario de la Sección de Relaciones Internacionales del Comité Central del KKE sobre la fundación de la denominada SOVINTERN
🔗https://t.co/AvJlhfnYGG

[European Communist Action @eurcomact]

Press Release: Anti-NATO demonstration in Helsingborg

On Saturday May 16 a large demonstration was held in Helsingborg to protest against the upcoming meeting of the NATO countries' foreign ministers, to be held there on May 21-22. Despite cold and rainy weather around 1000 demonstrators gathered to express their discontent with Sweden's deeper involvement in imperialist military alliance NATO, and to clearly state that it is not welcome in Sweden.

Τhe Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) bloc in the demonstration was joined by our fraternal party, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) along with comrades from the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), as both parties participate in the European Communist Action. Several other fraternal parties joined the SKP bloc, including the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party of Norway (NKP), the Sudanese Communist Party and the Syrian Communist Party. Together we made slogans such as "Withdrawal from NATO can only take place - through struggle against capital, with the SKP!" echo along the streets of Helsingborg.

The demonstration opened with music and speeches in the Furutorp Park, where Zahira Sarhan from SKP's Central Committee was the first speaker, highlighting the state’s deceitfulness and its war plans. To open up for increased exploitation by Swedish capital, the state must present war as the only possible option—and it is you who will be sacrificed for this so-called sacred purpose. It was further made clear that NATO is not the so-called “defensive alliance” that the parliamentary parties claim it to be, but in reality a network of terror that leaves misery and death in its wake. NATO is used by the bourgeoisie as one of many imperialist tools to curb the development of socialism and peace, with the sole aim of continuing the exploitation of the working class.

After the speeches, the demonstration marched through Helsingborg, concluding at the terrace steps in the city center. The struggle for peace and socialism continues, and even if NATO were to disappear or be reshaped in the future, the work of the SKP and the ECA will not be finished. We will fight capitalism and imperialism wherever they exist and in all their forms.

Not one weapon, not one rifle! Not a single Euro for NATO’s war machine!
https://t.co/3OZHARuAXS

[Riktpunkt @riktpunkt]

Det grekiska kommunistpartiets (KKE) avdelning för internationella relationer har uttalat sig om bildandet av den så kallade ”SOVINTERN”.

#historieförfalskning #KKE #Kommunisterna #repression #Ryssland #SKP #SOVINTERN #sovjet
https://t.co/nHgIgU5OA0

[El Machete @elmachete_mx]

La situación de los trabajadores de Altos Hornos https://t.co/9tLiObfZHa

[red_salute🚩 @red_salute]

Το ΚΚΕ ξερνάει αλήθειες όπως μόνο αυτό ξέρει:

Ζούγκλα οι χώροι δουλειάς γι αυτό και επιστρατεύουν από φασιστοειδή μέχρι μπράβους της νύχτας.

Εδώ όμως υπάρχει ΚΚΕ ��αι οργανωμένο κίνημα .-
#Βουλη

[TKG @TKGSosyal]

19 Mayıs’ın ruhuyla, ülkemizin bağımsızlığı üzerindeki kara leke olan NATO’yu kovmak için bugün ODTÜ’de sesimizi yükselttik.

​Holdinglerin ve tarikatların bekçiliğini yapan bu sömürü düzenine ve emperyalizmin kanlı terör örgütü NATO’ya meydan okuyoruz. Memleketimizi emperyalistlerin ileri karakolu yaptırmayacak, NATO’yu da yerli işbirlikçilerini de bu topraklardan söküp atacağız!

[Mehlis Valker @MehlisValker]

American "Communist" Party leadership works with National Intelligence Service of Greece. — Keep this in mind when you see them spreading anti-KKE propaganda.

[jønny @jonnycollage]

Why is an allegedly "communist party" international secretary linked to zionist aligned intelligence services, IN-Q-TEL, and a Mossad spyware scandal meeting with Axis of Resistance leaders? Perhaps that is a question that answers itself.

[Wem gehört die Welt @Kuhle_Wampe]

There is no equality in capitalism, sorry Kautsky apologists

[TKP @tkpninsesi]

Diyarbakır Cezaevi'nde gördüğü işkenceler nedeniyle yaşamını yitiren #İbrahimKaypakkaya’yı ölümünün 48. yılında saygıyla anıyoruz.

[In Defense of Communism © @id_communism]

🚩 KKE: Comment by the International Relations Section on the establishment of the so-called “SOVINTERN”

📌 Exposing the newly-founded so-called "Sovintern" and the plundering of Soviet legacy.

Read here: https://t.co/nYCumzR1AG

[PAME Greece International @PAME_Greece]

📌 Mass strike demonstration of public-sector workers in Athens

📍 Thousands of public-sector workers across Greece sent a resounding message through a 24-hour strike on the 13th of May against the anti-people policies of the New Democracy government

https://t.co/HJsCfVMvug

[ICP @IntCommunist]

Communist Youth of Greece is leading force in universities

https://t.co/cwvVhBUVMO

[PCTE Andalucía @PCTEAndalucia]

🔴 Hoy hemos celebrado nuestro acto de fin de campaña en Granada.

🔴 Más allá del 17 de mayo, los comunistas lo tenemos claro, todos los días del año, a construir la oposición obrera.