Group photo at the conference -- image via Dr Fred M'membe on Facebook Conference of the Left Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power Declaration of the Conference of the Left Adopted on Sunday, 31 May 2026, by the participating organisations of the Conference of the Left at Birchwood Conference Centre, 29-31 May 2026 Preamble We, the political parties, trade unions and federations, community and social movements, co-operative and solidarity economy forma

June 3rd is the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, a guerrilla fighter who has dedicated and dedicates his life to fighting for the Cuban Revolution. May this serve as a sincere and grateful tribute to him. Photo: Estudios Revolución By Alina Perera Robbio, translated from the Spanish Twenty-five years have gone by, and as time keeps layering itself one moment over another, I find myself wondering how that conversation in the province of Ciego de Ávila with Army G

Statement of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The United States government has once again acted with premeditated intent in its eagerness to create pretexts to discredit the Cuban Revolution, its historical leadership, and its leaders, thereby confusing both our people and international public opinion. Everything is part of a roadmap designed by far-right Cuban-American ideologues, who pride themselves on being creative and unpredictable. Thei

Cities across the country are considering permanently affordable housing. That’s good — but we’ll keep more people off the streets if we also invest in supportive services. Representational image -- Pedro Ribeiro Simões CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tony Carter, Sandra Scott & Marianne Dolan Between the three of us, we’ve experienced homelessness in Kentucky, Texas, and New York — different places, same crisis. We’ve all cycled through jails, emergency rooms, and shelte

We condemn the indictment of Raúl Castro, the military pressure against Cuba and the continued exacerbating criminal blockade imposed on the Cuban people International Commission of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands On 26 May 2026, the United States announced the indictment of Raúl Castro, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of Cuba, in relation to the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue incident. This comes in the context of renewed U.S. military pr

Group photo at the conference -- image via Dr Fred M'membe on Facebook Conference of the Left Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power Press Statement Conference of the Left adopts Declaration for Working-Class and Popular Power Birchwood Hotel, Ekurhuleni | 31 May 2026 The Conference of the Left, convened from 29 to 31 May 2026 under the theme "Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power," has adopted a historic Declaration committing par

A rally of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement -- Photo source: redacaonline By Guillermo Barreto The right to food and to choose what we plant, how we plant it, how we harvest it, how we distribute it, and even how we cook it is what is known as food sovereignty: a central concept when discussing people’s sovereignty, introduced by the international peasant movement known as La Vía Campesina during the World Food Summit in 1996. Food sovereignty is defined as ‘the right of p

The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education. By Jeff Bryant In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend their local public schools—is gradually being made less viable. Take North Carolina, for instance. For years, the Republican-dominated state legislature has chosen to cut the state’s

For and with Cuba, down with imperialism! Raúl Castro represents the struggle for independence and sovereignty, for popular power and for socialism! Political Note from the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) raises its militant voice to denounce yet another criminal offensive by U.S. imperialism against the heroic Cuban Revolution. The farcical accusations of Donald Trump's government against Commander Raúl Castro are nothing more than a cynic

CPI(M) members and supporters in Tamil Nadu protest condemning the ED raids on the residences on former Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family, and the brutal repression of protesting CPI(M) workers in Delhi -- image via the CPI(M) on Facebook Statement by the Workers Party of Ireland condemning the attacks on the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested The Workers Party of Ireland unreserv

Rubio on May 5, 2026 -- public domain image By Daniela López Ferreiro, translated from the Spanish Secretary of State Marco Rubio doesn't speak to the Cuban people: he speaks about the Cuban people. His message on May 20, presented as an offer of help and an explanation of the Cuban crisis, is in reality a carefully constructed piece of political manipulation. The Florida hawk takes real issues, strips them of context, exaggerates certain facts, hides others, and boils Cuba’s

KPP condemns the US accusation against the Army General Raul Castro Ruz The Communist Party of Poland strongly condemns activities of the United States Department of Justice, that on 20th of May announced despicable accusation against the Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. This accusation is baseless and politically motivated. It is an element of the anti-Cuban campaign conducted by the US authorities. The charges relate to the alleged role of Raul

El Rojo Mosca (Aranguren), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts mass organisations, trade unions, feminist movements and student bodies, extending further to undermine coordination among the forces of the left themselves. This is not a purely Iraqi pre

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and U.S. President Donald Trump pose after signing the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2026. -- image via the U.S. Trade Representative on X/public domain By Airlangga Pribadi Kusman and Peiman Salehi More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independenc

Itamar Ben Gvir in May, 2025 -- משטרת ישראל-לשכת גיוס, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The Theatre of Punishment The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now a mountain of evidence before humanity: Gaza has become not merely a place under siege but a geography of calculated despair, where star

The president just created a slush fund to pay off supporters with the tax dollars of Americans— and barred the IRS from ever auditing himself or his businesses. Trump on May 22 -- public domain image By Craig Holman Even President Trump’s own Justice Department is having a hard time grappling with Trump’s brazen money grab from the IRS — and, by extension, American taxpayers. First, Trump attempted to enrich himself and his family by suing the federal government for $10 bill

Trump is flouting regulations to reap billions for himself, as ordinary Americans teeter on the edge of economic ruin. Trump on May 19 -- public domain image By Sonali Kolhatkar President Donald Trump has brazenly engaged in what appears to be insider trading. A bombshell story published in Bloomberg on May 14, 2026, revealed that Trump made thousands of stock trades in the first quarter of this year with companies connected to the government. This isn’t fake news. Bloomberg

Wilhelm Hammann -- image via Wikimedia Commons Junge Welt, May 27, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Fabian Lehmann interviews Bernd Heyl, author of a forthcoming biography of Wilhelm Hammann: Why is the life of Wilhelm Hammann (1897-1955), a teacher, antifascist and Communist Party (KPD) member of the Hessian state parliament, worth sharing with a broader readership today? Antifascism is more urgent today than in recent years. It is therefore important to remember peo

Image via the Communist Party of Cuba on X South African Communist Party Statement on indictment of Raul Castro by US department of justice The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted with grave concern the US government’s decision through its department of justice to indict Comrade Raul Castro on flimsy and baseless charges related to a plane incident that occurred 30 years ago. Besides the fact that the US government has no legal jurisdiction by any measure to instit

Javier Milei, December 2025 -- Ministerio de Defensa, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lucia Converti Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding it, his economic policy reduces it. Neoliberal policy advocates a model of free enterprise, free trade, and free movement of capital that favors the extraction of national surplus toward core countries, limiting the possibilities fo