Communist Party of the Workers of Spain: Statement on the 90th Anniversary of the 1936 Fascist Coup d'État On July 18, 1936 a significant section of the Army, supported by the big bourgeoisie, landowners, the Church hierarchy, the most reactionary sections of the State apparatus, and the European fascist powers, rose up against the working people. That coup was the violent response of the ruling classes to guarantee their offensive in all the spheres; it was their response against the advance of the workers', peasants', and popular organization. Ninety years later, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain pays tribute to those who fought fascism on all fronts. From trenches and factories, in the villages, in prisons, in exile, and everywhere the working class and the working people refused to accept the victory of reaction. We remember all those who fought for our future, especially those who, as members of the International Brigades, came to our country to give their best to stop fascism.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/07/communist-party-of-workers-of-spain-statement-on-90th-anniversary.htmlBurnham knows what to do in Number 10: just keep his wordDAY ONE in Number 10 for Andy Burnham. Starmer made it simple for the new Prime Minister. All he has to do is do what he said he would do. Where Starmer took office on a false prospectus — that he would put into place Corbyn’s policies — and then proceeded to betray each one and start a police regime that stripped the guts out of Labour, all Burnham has to do is keep his word. At the rhetorical level Burnham has done well. Abandoning the ID card scheme — a maladroit move that Starmer bungled and which gifted the Tories a chance to pose as defenders of individual liberties — is set alongside his pledge to concentrate on the cost of living for working people. Where this newspaper has been the forum where scepticism about Burnham’s radical credentials are aired we can state plainly that in Burnham there rests both great hopes and real fears. But tackling the cost-of-living crisis entails real measures that go to the heart of the central contradiction in capitalist society between the interests of the class of people whose wealth derives from the work o
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