Kemal Okuyan meeting with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, May 8 Speech by Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) General Secretary Kemal Okuyan at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties Dear comrades, I would like to begin by thanking the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, Comrade Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist

By Grieve Chelwa and Vijay Prashad Across Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) presents itself as the custodian of macroeconomic stability. Its latest Article IV staff reports on Ethiopia. Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia are written for economies with very different histories and institutions. Yet they converge on a familiar prescription: fiscal consolidation, tighter monetary policy, market-determined exchange rates, subsidy reform, deregulation and ‘priva

Carissa Rogers, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more than 1,100 engineers at major artificial intelligence companies signed a joint petition calling for the development of technical tools and international governance mechanisms to regulate the pace of its development. What we are witnessing today is not the domination of robots over

Fidel Castro in 1984 Revolutionary, Communist, Anti-Imperialist and Internationalist Whose Ideas Live On 13 August 1926 – 13 August 2026 On the occasion of the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) and the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) pay tribute to one of the most significant revolutionaries, communists and anti-imperialist statesmen of the twentieth century — a man whose life and political struggle became a symbol

Cuban assemble in Havana for the 2026 May 1 march -- image via the Communist Party of Cuba By Vijay Prashad For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The latest phase of this economic war has targeted the island’s most vulnerable artery: its energy supply. Six months after Washington intensified pressure on countries and companies supplying oil to Cuba, the policy has no

Dear Comrades, Dear Cuban friends, The Communist Party of Denmark stands side by side with the Cuban people. We support the Cuban Revolution and the struggle for socialism. For us, socialism is not merely a political idea, but a vision of a society where people come before profit, and where human needs and dignity are what matter most. Your achievements cannot be denied. We salute and draw inspiration from Cuba’s selfless solidarity with people around the world. Solidarity wi

The contribution of the Communist Party of Canada to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) held in Havana from August 7 to 8, 2026. On behalf of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, I bring fraternal greetings to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. We thank the Communist Party of Cuba for hosting this important gathering in Havana. We salute the heroic Cuban people and their socialis

Via the South African Communist Party Thursday, 13 August 2026: The South African Communist Party (SACP) joins the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban government and people, and progressive forces throughout the world in commemorating the centenary of the birth of Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz. Born on 13 August 1926, Fidel devoted his life to the liberation of the Cuban people, the construction of socialism and the worldwide struggle against colonialism, imperialism, racism and ca

On the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, I recall his friendship with Che Guevara. By Urariano Mota On the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, I recall his friendship with Che Guevara. The following remarks are based on statements Jon Lee Anderson made to the press and on the biography he wrote about Che. Here, in an interview published in Colombia’s *Semana*, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the deaths of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara - *Semana* “Che died young, a

Keynote Address 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 opening of the 1st International Colloquium "Fidel: Legacy and Future," at the Convention Center, August 10th, 2026, "Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz", translated from the Spanish Dear sisters and brothers; Distinguished academics, intellectuals, artists, social and political leaders, y

Via the Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS) On the Occasion of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties Defending the Cuban People and the Cuban Revolution Against the Embargo and Imperialist Aggression; Strengthening Proletarian Internationalism; Uniting the Struggle of Communist and Workers’ Parties Against the Monopolistic Capitalist System and for Socialism. Dear Comrades, Representatives of communist and workers’ parties from around

Public domain image By Guillermo R. Barreto It happened on 25 May 2020, in Minneapolis, USA. George Floyd (a Black man) was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pay for a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Police officer Derek Chauvin (a white man) pinned him to the ground and pressed down on his neck for more than 9 minutes. It was to no avail that George Floyd repeated ‘I can’t breathe’ more than 20 times. He lost consciousness and died of asphyxiation. In ot

Image via X Statement by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) Central Committee following the AKP government's signing of the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” The AKP government has signed the so-called “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” and thereby dragged our country into a new and extremely dangerous military adventure. The agreement’s most important declared clause treats an armed attack on any one of the three countries as an attack on all of them. The AKP has thus placed Tu

Image via the KPL Contribution of the Communist Party of Luxembourg at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Worker’s Parties in Havana Dear comrades On behalf of the Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL), I wish to transmit the greetings and best wishes to the participants of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Worker’s Parties in Havana. Our special greetings are directed to the heroic people, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Revolutionary Government

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey Kemal Okuyan’s speech at the First Fidel International Colloquium Dear comrade Diaz-Canel, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the President of the Republic. The dedicated communists in the presidium. Comrades and friends of Cuba, Over the course of its long history, the communist movement has produced some truly great figures. The real burden always rested on the shoulders of the unnamed heroes, the working p

Communist Party of Swaziland’s message to the 24th International Meeting of Communist & Workers Parties, held in Cuba, 7-9 August 2026 Comrades, On behalf of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) and the working class of our country, I hereby convey revolutionary greetings to the Communist Party of Cuba, the host of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties. We also greet the revolutionary organisations convening on this momentous occasion and support t

Vessels in the Staright of Hormuz -- image via news video screenshot By Vijay Prashad For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate evidence is emerging in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and Oman are negotiating an arrangement under which Tehran could oversee vessels entering the Gulf while Muscat manages outbound tra

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) -- Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CPUSA Statement on Hiroshima Day (August 6) The United States, eighty-one years ago, carried out a surprise nuclear attack on the people of Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped an even more powerful nuclear device on Nagasaki. Between the initial blasts, subsequent firestorms, and acute radiation exposure, the two bombs killed over 200,000 people by the end of 1945. Those who survived

Caetano Veloso -- image via X By Urariano Mota To our great surprise, Caetano Veloso turns 84 today. But 84?! If the seasons rule our lives, we can say of them what Nelson Rodrigues said about videotape during a discussion: “Time is stupid!” We say this because when we look at the faces of these artists, we see ourselves in them. Not so much because of their physical appearance—their features and bodies—which are in better shape than ours these days. Some of them, like Paulin

Today we live as prisoners consigned to a permanent death row, having organized our world not around a commitment to collective sanity, safety, and security but around the perpetual preparation for collective destruction. Public domain image. By Eric Ross, Common Dreams It has been 81 years since the atomic bombings delivered an unmistakable message. From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was faced with a choice that Martin Luther King, Jr. would later describe as