The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) has welcomed the results of British Columbia’s municipal elections on 17 October, describing the outcome in Vancouver as a major victory for progressive forces united against the outgoing administration of Mayor Ken Sim.

Rinze Visser, a veteran Dutch communist and former chairman of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN), died on 16 October 2026 at the age of 87.

The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has called for the cancellation of the large-scale US-Japan military exercise Keen Sword 27, scheduled to begin on 19 October.

The Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) supported a nationwide demonstration against high electricity prices held in Nicosia on 17 October 2026.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), reported a series of attacks on left-wing bookstalls during the Durga Puja festival in West Bengal, raising concerns about the safety of political and cultural activities in public spaces.

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) held a political event in Alexandroupoli on 18 October, bringing together representatives of the KKE and the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) to promote friendship and joint struggle between Greek and Turkish workers against exploitation, imperialist rivalries and war.

The Revolutionary Communist Party of France (PCRF) published a statement on October 16, 2026, as civil service strikes and high school student protests continue across the country. 

Hundreds of Cuban children took part in the Festival of Kites for Peace and Against the Blockade in Havana on October 16, raising their kites in an act of resistance against the intensifying economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

The Communist Youth Collectives (CJC), the youth of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE), has strongly condemned brutal police repression against students and university workers in Madrid, reporting five arrests, including one CJC militant, and several injured militants who required hospital treatment.

Members of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) are being prosecuted with prison sentences of between six months and three years, following the anti-NATO demonstration in Ankara during the NATO summit in July.

The Red Caravan’s activities explicitly reflect the SACP's local government manifesto, ‘Build People's Power Where We Live.’

The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) has condemned Egyptian airstrikes against Sudanese artisanal gold miners and called for renewed grassroots mobilisation to end the country's war and restore civilian democratic rule.