Joint statement of the European Communist Action

The parties of the European Communist Action (ECA) met via teleconference hosted by the New Communist Party of the Netherlands on the 15th of February 2026 under the slogan: "Their war destroys everything that their peace left standing. Developments on the battlefields and the communists’ stance on the alternation between imperialist war and peace at gunpoint".

A few days before the fourth anniversary of the formal start of the imperialist war in Ukraine, and only a few weeks after the overt imperialist intervention by the USA in Venezuela and the threats it has issued against Cuba, other Latin American countries and Greenland, and with tensions around Iran currently escalating, the parties of the ECA discussed the positions of their parties regarding the intensifying inter-imperialist rivalries, which have grave consequences for the people of our continent, for the people worldwide. Imperialism, whether under “peaceful” conditions or under conditions of war, is a system which deepens the exploitation of the workers worldwide, prevents social progress and actively destroys the people’s livelihoods and social rights, and even their lives, for the profit of the monopolies, represented by the bourgeois classes forming various imperialist alliances and blocs, such as the Euro-atlantic one (USA,NATO,EU). These clash on many fronts with their competitors, including other powerful forces in the modern international capitalist world (China, Russia, etc.), which are themselves seeking to establish their own alliances.

The various pretexts used by bourgeois classes, like the fight for a “rules-based order”, “democracy”, “freedom” or “multipolarity”, etc. only serve to subordinate the interests of the working people to their own and to drag them into their unjust wars over energy, mineral wealth, transport routes for commodities, market shares, etc., fought for the profits of the few by slaughtering the peoples.

The character of this system as a reactionary, rotten system cannot be changed by any bourgeois party, alliance or bloc, but must be confronted and overthrown by the workers and the peoples, with the communist parties at their vanguard.

The parties of the ECA struggle in particular against the imperialist alliances to which their respective countries are tied, against NATO and the EU, and their respective governments which put the safety of the people of our countries at grave risk, while highlighting the need to overthrow capitalist power. We warn the people against the involvement of our countries in the dangerous imperialist plans which take place under various pretexts.

The ECA vigorously condemns the new threats by US imperialism against Cuba and expresses its continuing solidarity with the Cuban people and the Communist Party of Cuba.

The peoples have the power to struggle for their own independent interests against the bourgeoisie and the imperialist alliances that compete to redivide the world for the benefit of their monopolies. Workers, with communists at the forefront, can and must organize their struggle against anti-popular policies, rallying other popular forces against the system of exploitation and war.

Only with the perspective of the overthrow of capitalism, and with the perspective of building a new, socialist society can we put an end to the bloodbaths that imperialism daily brings forth.