Dimitris Koutsoubas

The leader of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has used a visit to New York to express his solidarity with students at Columbia University protesting in opposition to Israel's war in Gaza.

Dimitris Koutsoubas, who is leading a KKE delegation on a ten day-long tour of Canada and the US the visit to the US and Canada until Saturday, visited the university on Friday.

The Communist Party of Greece has announced a boycott of the Delphi Economic Forum over the presence of 'reactionary' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Aleka Papariga, the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), will not contest the next election for the party, thus bringing to an end a 30-year stint as MP.

The KKE said the party made the decision with the agreement of Papariga, 77, who headed the party from 1991 to 2013.

A Metron Analysis poll published in the 3 October edition of To Vima, which was conducted in the aftermath of multiple crises over the last two months, shows the greatest yet drop for the government in all qualitative data of the survey.

Greek Communist Party (KKE) chief Dimitris Koutsoubas said party deputies will walk out of Parliament ahead of a vote on whether to request the prosecution of 10 prominent politicians named in a bribery scandal involving Swiss drugs manufacturer Novartis, in the final stage of a parliamentary inquiry into the case.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet on Saturday with the leaders of the main opposition parties to inform them about the discussions with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the name issue, although there is growing tension within his own coalition about the matter. 

Greek police arrested five people during clashes with members of anti-establishment and extreme-left groups in the area surrounding the Athens Polytechnic, Tuesday evening.

During yesterday’s debate on the omnibus bill, the opposition unleashed a fierce attack on the government of Alexis Tsipras.

General secretary of Greek Communist Party (KKe) Dimitris Koutsoubas voted at Nea Ionia polling station and said that everyone should go to vote and that with a powerful KKE “we will be able to get a better future for us and our children”.

The role of Greece and Cyprus as “pillars of stability and security in the region” was highlighted by SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras in comments made following a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades in Athens on Tuesday.