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International solidarity statement of the SACP
The South African Communist Party on Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, South China provocations by the US imperialist regime, Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Western Sahara and Swaziland. The South African Communist Party (SACP) convened its Augmented Central Committee (ACC) at Birchwood Hotel Boksburg from 28 – 30 November 2025. The ACC assessed the implementation of the SACP annual programme of action and resolutions of the 15th National Congress and the 5th Special National Congress. Ac

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Dec 2, 20257 min read


Daily LIFT #1810
Nikita Khrushchev delivers the report "On the Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" at the Twenty Second Communist Party Congress on October 18 , 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1810

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Dec 1, 20251 min read


Solidarity with the Palestinian People!
Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People from the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Communist Party of Swaziland and the World Federation of Trade Unions. Andrew Ratto, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People NCP of the Netherlands, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People : On 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with the Pales

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Dec 1, 20257 min read


Greek Communists salute the mass uprising of toiling farmers and condemn government repression
Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) salutes the mass uprising of toiling farmers and condemns government repression On Sunday November 30, Greek farmers began blocking major highways with tractors and other agricultural machinery. The government responded with repression, using chemicals, riot police and arrests to suppress the farmers’ mobilization, but these efforts proved futile in the face of the toiling farmers’ mass participation, determination and org

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Dec 1, 20252 min read


Socialism was the launching pad
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and Hero of Socialist Labor Nikolai Mamai from the Donbas at the Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 The whole world knows that socialism was the launching pad from which spaceships Vostok I and Vostok II were shot. Socialism created the necessary conditions for cosmic flight. My friends and fellow cosmonauts are getting ready for new ventures. The era of space exploration has only just begun. Yuri Gagarin and I are

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Dec 1, 20252 min read


Daily LIFT #1809
Under the Apple Trees, traditional-style painting, Lei Hung-sheng and Liu Han-yu, People's Republic of China, c. 1976 From the PRC Press: In "Under the Apple Trees", another traditional-style painting, a young cook with water flasks and cups swinging from his shoulder pole passes beneath apple trees heavy with ripe fruit, taking water to the men helping a commune pick apples. The scene calls to mind an incident during the Third Revolutionary Civil War (1946-49) when the PLA w

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Nov 30, 20251 min read


Communist Party of Cuba and United Russia sign unprecedented cooperation agreement
Image via the PCC By Yuniel Labaceno Romero, translated from the Spanish MOSCOW, Russian Federation - On Thursday, November 27, The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and the United Russia Party signed a Special Agreement of Privileged Cooperation, the only one of its kind ever made by the Russian party with a foreign partner. The agreement was signed by Political Bureau member Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and V

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Nov 30, 20252 min read


From Rescuers to Criminals: How Ukraine Is Prosecuting Those Who Kept Cities Alive
Via Antifascist News Repressive measures against so-called “collaborators” continue in Ukraine — people who, in 2022, were simply performing their professional duties in territories that came under Russian control. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is relentlessly targeting the most vulnerable: postal workers, teachers, shop assistants, social workers. In recent weeks, however, pressure has noticeably increased on residents of the Kyiv-controlled part of Donbas. This look

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Nov 30, 20254 min read


Ceremony held in Havana to honour eight medical students murdered in 1871
154 years after the horrific crime that shook Cuba on November 27, 1871, the youth and people of the capital marched this Thursday to honour the eight medical students who were unjustly murdered for a crime they did not commit. President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez led the traditional procession. Images via Alejandro Azcuy By Angélica Paredes López, translated from the Spanish On the afternoon of Thursday, November 27, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Commun

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Nov 30, 20254 min read


Sitting Targets: Negligence and Occupational Risk in Sri Lanka
A Brandix factory floor in Sri Lanka -- image via a Brandix corporate video screenshot By Shiran Illanperuma Sundays at Paramasivam Pushpalatha’s home used to be a much livelier affair. It was her only day off from the factory and so she would pack seven days of domesticity into one. Her husband, Govindasamy Sivakumar, would sometimes take walks to avoid the hustle and bustle of the house being turned upside down in a frenzy of cooking and cleaning. “She had the strength of t

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Nov 30, 20255 min read


Hundreds of thousands protest anti-labor legislation in India
Farmers joined the factory and public sector workers across the country on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the historic Delhi protests which had forced the extreme right wing government to withdraw anti-farmers laws Protesters march on November 26 -- image via the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch On Wednesday, November 26, hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers across India came out in a mass protest against the

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Nov 30, 20254 min read


A Judas of the Caribbean
Via the Casa de las Américas, translated from the Spanish Sixty years ago, over forty thousand U.S. Marines invaded the Dominican Republic. The pretext at the time was to prevent the nation from turning into "a second Cuba." Now, six decades later, President Luis Abinader stands alongside the Secretary of War of the invading nation, not to demand accountability for the dreadful act that claimed the lives of thousands of his fellow citizens, but to offer their national territo

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Nov 29, 20251 min read


Cuban revolutionary hero Gilberto García Alonso dies at age 95
Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On Friday afternoon, Jesús Gilberto García Alonso, a member of the Granma yacht expedition, passed away at the age of 95. Gilberto, as everyone called him, was born on June 29, 1930 in Havana. He started his working life at fourteen, and in his free time, he learned blacksmith welding and studied typing. In 1950, while employed at the Vaccaro Line dock, he formed the employees' union, resulting in his dismissal. Thi

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Nov 29, 20253 min read


The Angry Tide of the Latin American far right
José Antonio Kast campaigning in Chile in October -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump’s own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. Th

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Nov 29, 20258 min read


Trump Claims Venezuelan Airspace Is Closed in Latest Illegal, ‘Dangerous Escalation’
Trump on November 25 -- public domain image By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Policy experts and advocates on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump’s claim that he had ordered the airspace above and around Venezuela “to be closed in its entirety”—an authority the US president does not have but that one analyst said signaled a “scorched earth” policy in the South American country and that others warned could portend imminent airstrikes. Francisco Rodriguez, a senior researc

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Nov 29, 20253 min read


Workers Party of Ireland Message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Workers Party of Ireland Message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People In 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year’s observance takes place in the context of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. The Workers Party of Ireland, since the beginning, has taken to the streets to demonstrate against the genocidal ac

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Nov 29, 20252 min read


Daily LIFT #1808
Engels and Marx at Hague Congress, illustration -- Daily LIFT #1808 Friedrich Engels was born November 28, 1820

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Nov 28, 20251 min read


Solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland: DKP
Solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland Dear comrades! Within a few months, another attempt has been made to ban your party through the Constitutional Court. On 14 November 2025, the Polish President submitted a request to ban the Communist Party of Poland. Your party is to be declared unconstitutional and thus banned. This follows numerous repressive measures that have been taken against your party and its members for several years due to their use of communist symbols

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Nov 28, 20252 min read


The Scapegoating of Peasants for Pollution Crisis
Image via India Today on X, November 28, 2025 By Srujana Bodapati It is that time of year again when India’s national capital Delhi’s air quality turned acutely hazardous. Official Indian air quality indicators hit their maximum adverse readings of 500, while indices based on international norms shoot past 1,000 or even 2,000 —a level that effectively turned the city into a gas chamber. The thick smog, loaded with toxic gases, seeps into every corner of the city, including in

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Nov 28, 20257 min read


Provoking China Again: Macedonia’s Unlearned Lessons
Milososki, Mizrahi and Bytyqi at a meeting with the Taiwanese delegation / Photo: RSM Assembly / Facebook By Biljana Vankovska A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, accompanied by two MPs, formally received a Taiwanese parliamentary delegation. The visit came less than two weeks after the new Ambassador of

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Nov 28, 20255 min read
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