Bulgaria’s entry into the eurozone and the struggle against imperialism

Working-class Bulgarians have begun to realise the hollowness of bourgeois ‘democracy’ as the decision to join the eurozone is implemented over their protests. The principled participation of communists in the recent anti-eurozone movement in Bulgaria has done much to bring the movement out of the fringes, where it has languished since the fall of socialism in eastern Europe. The stage is now set for further anti-imperialist struggles as the drive to all-out war in Europe accelerates and Bulgarian comprador elites try to prepare their country as a staging post in Nato’s assault on the Russian Federation. This statement was made by a representative of the 23 September movement (Движение 23 септември) at the recent ‘Bulgarian people’s anti-imperialist struggle against the euro and the consequences of European economic policy on Greece’ event, held in Greece in January 2026.