A Little Green Scarves rally in Argentina -- image via X By Maisa Bascuas On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP) for the declining birth rate, the slowdown in economic growth, and the crisis in the pension system. The tactic is politically effective: it reduces a global demographic trend to a

Image via the KKE The Solidarity Brigade of KNE completed its mission in Cuba Regarding the Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), which has now completed its mission in Cuba, the Press Office of the Central Council of KNE notes the following: “The Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade of KNE, which began on August 2, has been successfully concluded, adding yet another important chapter to the expression of internationalist solidarity with the Island of t

Image via the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan Via the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan On August 23, Kazakhstan held elections to the unicameral parliament, the Kurultai, as part of the constitutional reform that had been carried out. As a result, the main presidential party, “Adilet,” which was established just a few months ago, along with other parties representing large capital, secured more than 70 percent of the seats in the legislative body. The party of large agrarian

Ho Chi Minh portrait -- Daily LIFT #2062 CBS News portrait of the great leader released for a special they were doing in 1966 though the photo is clearly from earlier than that.

Massive state and federal lawsuits take Meta to task over widespread harm to children. sharpemtbr, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Sonali Kolhatkar As a mother of two children who has often been on the losing side of family battles against screen time, I’ve been closely monitoring New Mexico’s landmark lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. State Attorney General Raúl Torrez took the company to task to protect children “from sexual abuse, online sol

Image via the KKE In a statement on the criminal plans of the occupying state of Israel against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following: “At a time when the ruthless occupying state of Israel, backed by the US and the EU, is continuing its deadly attacks and threats in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and the broader region, and as the US - Israel war agai

Poster for the Conference of the Left held in South Africa in May, 2026 (See: Conference of the Left adopts Declaration for Working-Class and Popular Power) Tuesday, 25 August 2026: The inaugural meeting of the South African Council of the Left took place on Friday, 21 August 2026, at Birchwood Hotel, bringing together representatives of political organisations, trade unions, social movements, community organisations and other progressive formations that participated in the C

The conditions have been reportedly so horrible on the USS Lincoln that, according to a video obtained by The Crimson Ledger, it left 6 sailors to choose between life on the boat, and potential death in the water. By R. L. Richards, The Crimson Ledger, Washington DC In the North Arabian Sea, the illegal and unauthorized war into the sovereign state of Iran pushes onward despite legal and political resistance to US President Donald Trump’s clearly genocidal and colonial campai

By Joel Wendland-Liu The illusion of a constant present hides how most of our lives are experienced through memory. The physical imminence of the present—the sensation of concreteness, odors, sounds, vividness of sight, or tastes of the objectivity of the immediate now—continuously slips into memory. Still, memory may haunt the present, rendering it painful with an overwhelming sense of loss, despair of failure or falling short of goals, or perhaps with the emotions of nostal

Iranian missile display at the Holy Defense Museum in Tehran -- Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The gravest danger in the present war is not that Iran has already decided to manufacture a nuclear weapon. There is no verified evidence of such a decision. The danger is that another major US escalation could convince Tehran that remaining a non-nuclear state inside the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) no longer provides protection, recogni

Fidel, Cuba -- Daily LIFT #2061

White supremacist and Jan. 6 coup participant Jake Lange was arrested in Minneapolis this weekend after the vehicle he was riding in drove onto a sidewalk and into a crowd of counter-protesters demonstrating against his racist event. -- image via People's World By R. L. Richards, People's World MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Jake Lang, a 31-year-old far-right agitator and provocateur, was arrested Saturday in connection with a riot that erupted following a staged protest outside Minneapo

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at how so-called Black Ribbon Day is nothing more than far right anti-communist lies and propaganda that serve to advance the new McCarthyite wave by Trump-Rubio in the USA and historical revisionism in Europe. It is also widely supported by western liberals and social democrats playing their role as facilitators of fascism. References: The Left Chapter: Secrets and Lies -- Chrystia Freeland's grandfather and collaborating with th

Images via Estudios Revolución By Alina Perera Robbio, translated from the Spanish On Friday afternoon, under the trees at the headquarters of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in the capital’s Vedado, there was a palpable spiritual energy as many creators came together to celebrate the organization’s 65th anniversary, honoring its legacy of uniting talent in defense of the Homeland. There was a depth of the soul that no dark force could suppress. At o

Cuban President speaking at the IMCWP Presentation to the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties August 10, 2026, Havana, Cuba Anita Waters, Organizational Secretary, Communist Party USA Dear Comrades. I bring you heartfelt greetings of solidarity from your sister party, CPUSA. It is a deep honor for me to represent us here in socialist Cuba, in this year, the centenary of Fidel Castro, hero of working people everywhere. Thank you to the Communist Party of

Chairman Mao (second from right) with members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1939 -- Daily LIFT #2060

Axadem, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad Dear friends and colleagues, The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside the country. Hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and neighbourhoods have been struck. The 168 schoolgirls killed in Minab have become the terrible symbol of this war. Iranians have been forced to live

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the political and cultural event commemorating Fidel Castro's centenary and the closing of the 1st International Colloquium, “Fidel: Legacy and Future,” at the Karl Marx Theater, August 13th, 2026, “Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz”, translated from the Spanish Dear Army General Raúl Castro

Building a New Country, illustration, Mi KU, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #2059

Contribution of the German Communist Party (DKP) to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, 7-9 August 2026, Havana, Cuba The Cuban people and the Communist Party of Cuba are waging a heroic struggle against imperialism's murderous blockade. They wage it for humanity, for humanity's future, for socialism. To hold our international meeting under these conditions deserves gratitude and places on us the responsibility to do everything for Cuba's victory,