Europe

An event was organised by the municipality of Lokros in Greece, about the people of Atalanta who were executed by the Italian occupation troops on 29 May 1943. At the event, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General Secretary of KKE made a speech. 

Communist Front - Italy took part in the demonstrations that took place all over the country for the general strike. 

Several thousand opponents of the Sudeten German congress gathered in central Brno on 23 May to protest against the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Congress, the first-ever holding of the event in Czechia. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia was an active part of the rally and built a “Silent Barricade”, a symbolic barricade out of cardboard boxes.

Communist Front - Italy held its second congress from 22-24 May in Rome. Delegates from all over Italy discussed the theses on the agenda. 

Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Cyprus on May 24. Leaving the 24 seats allocated to Turkish Cypriots empty, the voters elected 56 of the 80 members of the House of Representatives.

On May 16, a large demonstration was held in Helsingborg, Sweden ahead of NATO's informal summit on May 21-22. Around 1,000 demonstrators had gathered within the Stop NATO network to show their dissatisfaction with Sweden's deepening participation in the NATO terrorist alliance and to say that that NATO is not welcome in Sweden!