Via Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish Sixty-five years after that April of courage under fire, the Fidel Castro Ruz Center will hold the workshop "Girón, 65 Years After the Great Victory Against Imperialism" on April 14 and 15. As part of the Centennial of the Commander in Chief, the event aims to analyze the significance of the April 19, 1961 victory, which showed the world the Cuban people's determination to defend the Revolution with arms.

Part 1 of 2. Preventive inoculations. TLC Editor's Note: The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The program was formalized after Mao Zedong’s 1965 directive, which emph

From Arthurian epics to submerged cities, Lyonesse shows how folklore and history intertwine to shape a region’s cultural identity. Tristan and Isolde, miniature of the XV century, cropped -- public domain image By Samantha Sudol For centuries, the waters off Cornwall’s Atlantic coast have kept a secret: the legendary drowned land of Lyonesse. Stories of a prosperous kingdom swallowed overnight by the sea have persisted in Arthurian tales, medieval manuscripts, and Cornish fo

Image via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish In the early hours of April 11, 1895, beneath a relentless downpour, a small boat reached the rocky shore of Playita de Cajobabo, in what is now the municipality of Imías, Guantánamo. In it came José Martí and Máximo Gómez, accompanied by Francisco Borrero, Ángel Guerra, César Salas and Marcos del Rosario. Martí, the Apostle, noted it in his Campaign Diary with three words that still echo today like a tr

Çatalhöyük, 7400 BC, Konya, Turkey - UNESCO World Heritage Site. A very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, 7400 BC (photo 2019) -- Murat Özsoy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Erdem Denk Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük —a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told us about it?” My tr

Image via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish During the Ten Years' War (1868-1878), as the fire of independence swept through Cuba’s fields, a small group of patriots came together in a humble liberated town to give the Mambi movement something even more powerful than weapons: a Republic in Arms with its own laws. The Constitution of Guáimaro, Cuba’s first constitution, was a brief yet revolutionary document that not only structured the insurgent g

From the Soviet Press in the 1960s, a look at the Soviet Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow. An internationalist project with deep connections to the USSR's anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist worldview it was a beacon of comradeship between the Soviet Union and the peoples of the Global South. Text: In response to requests from progressive public leaders and government circles, as well as from private citizens in many Asian, African and Latin American countr

Image via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish On April 10, 1961, merely a week prior to the mercenary invasion at Playa Girón (the Bay of Pigs), three educational institutions began operating in modest neighborhoods of Havana: Camilo Cienfuegos, Ciro Frías, and Fulgencio Oroz. These were more than just basic nurseries. They were Cuba’s first Children’s Circles, a hallmark of the Revolution that aimed to both free women from domestic confinement and

Image via the Album Páginas de Gloria By Jorge Enrique Jerez Belisario, translated from the Spanish Imagine the April dust rising in that town in Camagüey. The news from the front was not encouraging: it had been only six months since we had lit the fuse in La Demajagua, and Bayamo had already fallen back into Spanish hands. The military initiative had slowed down. And most critically, there wasn't a single government that represented the emerging Republic. There were three.

Image via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish "Attention, Cubans! This is the July 26th Movement calling for the Revolutionary General Strike! Today is the day of freedom... Workers, students, professionals, employers, join the revolutionary general strike from this moment on!" With these words, broadcast from Radio Rebelde and other clandestine stations at 11 am, it began. April 9, 1958, marked one of the most intense days in the insurrection and f

Street barricades in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Uprising -- public domain image Easter Oration: Workers Party of Ireland, 5 th April 2026 Comrades and friends, The ideals of Easter 1916 Every year our Party, the Workers Party, commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916. This is far more than simply tradition. Today, we gather not only to remember the past. It is also about looking forward. The Easter Rising of 1916 occupies a unique place in our history: a moment whose politi

Göbeklitepe dig, 2015 -- public domain image By Erdem Denk In the heart of Ankara, less than a kilometer apart, stand two pillars of Turkish academia: the Faculty of Political Science ( Mülkiye ) and the Faculty of Language and History-Geography ( DTCF ). Mülkiye was established in 1859 to navigate the Ottoman Empire’s diplomatic relations with the West, while DTCF was founded by the first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in 1935 to create the historical and lingui

All images via the KKE At a mass event held on 29 March 2026 in Litohoro —where, 80 years ago, the response to the “White Terror” began and led to the formation of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE)— the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) inaugurated its programme of events marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the DSE. The main speaker was Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, who stated, among other things: “We honou

Coup president Jorge Rafael Videla assuming power in 1976 -- public domain image By Julián Bokser It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural transformation of its economy. Throughout the 20th century, the country experienced six interruptions of its democratic order—in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and 1976—but the last coup ushere

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Memorial in Angola By Vijay Prashad In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst these are the names of two thousand and seventy Cuban soldiers who died in Angola between 1975 and 1988 for the liberation of southern Africa. It is said, however, that two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine Cubans died in that

Stamp of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1975 From the Soviet press, 1983: The liberation of Czechoslovakia from nazi occupation in May 1945 marked a turning point in the country's history. The new National Front government launched democratic transformations. The defeat of the counter-revolutionary coup in February 1948, which aimed at restoring capitalism in the country, ensured the peaceful development of the national democratic revolution into a socialist revolution.

Li Yueh-ying serving customers From China Reconstructs, March 1973. Changes in a Restaurant Old Nanking was a parasitic consumer city. Wine shops, restaurants and the like made up half of its industrial and commercial units. A total of 84 wine houses and restaurants lined the 500-meter length of Kungyuan Street, located near offices of the big Kuomintang government officials. A great many people made their living waiting upon the official elite. In the city as a whole there w

PCB flag at a rally in 2020 -- Andreysantiago01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) PCB: 104 Years of a History of Struggles The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) celebrated 104 years of existence on March 25, 2026. This is a historic date because it represents over a century of trajectory for the country's oldest political operator, which has been present in all the struggles of the Brazilian proletariat throughout this period. Even while operating underground for m

The Yugoslav city of Novi Sad on fire in 1999 -- Darko Dozet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Statement of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia On the Occasion of March 24 – Anniversary of the NATO Aggression Against the FR Yugoslavia (1999) On March 24, 1999, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was struck by the most powerful military machinery deployed against a sovereign country since the Second World War. The first explosions, which followed the attack by the NATO all

Parisians stand around a toppled statue of Emperor Napoleon I, considered the symbol of imperial despotism, during the Commune Written in 1926 by Alexander Trachtenberg this is an in-depth look at the impact of the Paris Commune on the thinking of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Trachtenberg (1884–1966) was a prominent American Marxist educator, and longtime activist in the US socialist movement and later the Communist Party USA. He is best known for founding International Publishers