Communist Party of Swaziland Friday, 19 June 2026: The International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict is commemorated at a moment when humanity is witnessing an alarming escalation of wars, occupations and military aggression. Across the globe, imperialist powers continue to compete for spheres of influence, strategic territories, natural resources, markets and geopolitical dominance, fuelling devastating conflicts whose victims are overwhelmingly worker

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft fly in formation, June 3, 2026 -- public domain image By Gisela Cernadas, John Bellamy Foster and David Vine U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase by 44 percent the acknowledged budget for 2026. While a roughly $500 billion increase would be unprecedented in modern U.S. history, the idea that the military budget only recently hit $1 trillion is incorr

Images via Estudios Revolución By Demetrio Villaurrutia & Héctor Martínez, translated from the Spanish With the participation, through videoconference, of the leader at the head of the Cuban Revolution, Army General, Raúl Castro Ruz, and led by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Third Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power in its X Legislatur

By Molly Dhlamini Sudáfrica fue testigo de una histórica Conferencia de la Izquierda convocada por el Partido Comunista Sudafricano (SACP) del 29 al 31 de mayo de 2026. El encuentro reunió a partidos comunistas, organizaciones socialistas, sindicatos, formaciones comunitarias, organizaciones de mujeres, movimientos juveniles, intelectuales y académicos progresistas, líderes tradicionales progresistas, organizaciones religiosas y socios de solidaridad internacional en lo que s

Kim Il Sung delivers a radio address titled, Go All Out for Victory in the War, to the entire Korean people, June 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1997

Speech delivered by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, at the closing of the June 17 Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Central Committee in Havana. Via video translation and transcription Comrades, members of the Party’s Central Committee; Distinguished guests; Compatriots: This extraordinary plenary session is taking place at a decisive moment for Cuba. As proud heirs to

In Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, both parties agree with the assumption that Washington has the right to shape the political future of other nations. Daniel Ortega, Nicolas Maduro, and Miguel Diaz-Canel By Roger D. Harris & John Perry, Common Dreams Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute—if there i

Funeral of the victims of the Minab Primary School for Girls bombing -- Tasnim News Agency, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad En la ciudad de Minab, al sur de Irán, donde el calor se eleva de la tierra en ondas resplandecientes y la realidad del imperialismo persiste en cada puerto e instalación militar, un misil impactó en una escuela el 28 de febrero de 2026. El ataque mató a 156 personas, entre ellas 120 escolares, lo que el gobierno iraní calificó inmediatamente de “

Twice awarded Hero of Labour of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jik Hyun at work, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1996

Tesla charging stations at Pacific Fair, Queensland -- Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Layne Hartsell, Max Wilbert and Ntafakabirhi-Aganze Clovis Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic growth based on the ‘renewable’ energy provided by lithium-ion batteries. Such batteries are necessary for storing energy from solar photovoltaics in order to make that electricity readily

Dimitris Koutsoumbas speaks at the rally -- all images via the Communist Party of Cuba on X The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on June 15 a large crowd of workers and young people attended the KKE event marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. The rally also called for an immediate end to the US blockade against Cuba, the removal of Cuba from the US government’s despicable list of “state sponsors of terroris

The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands. By Ronnie Cummins and André Leu Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine months a year. La pipa, the water truck, brings enough water to

Che meets Josip Broz Tito, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1995

A look at Valentina Tereshkova from the US publication "Man in Space" in 1974. We have edited and modernized the text. Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963. On June 14, 1963, at 3:00 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Lt. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky into orbit aboard Vostok 5. This flight was not unexpected by western observers, since the Nikolayev Popovich double Vostok flight of ten months previous had shown the Soviets were continuing to

By Sumaila Mohammed The Night They Murdered the Revolution In the early hours of February 24, 1966, rogue elements within the Ghana Armed Forces and the Police Service committed what can only be described as a crime against Ghana, against Africa, and against the future. The men behind it and their co-conspirators were not patriots answering the call of the nation. They were agents of Western imperialism, executing a script written in Washington and London to derail the social

Image via the PCC The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has announced the convening of an Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Central Committee on Wednesday, June 17 to evaluate proposals for economic and social reforms that have been made by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in recent statements to the press. This session is notably prompted by the pressures of the sustained

Funeral of the children of Minab Primary School for Girls killed during Saturday 28 Feb. 2026 bombardment of the school -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism lingers in every port and military installation, a missile struck a school on 28 February 2026. The strike killed 156 people, notably 120 schoolchildren, which t

Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto -- Ina96, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons -- Hector Pieterson became a symbol of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa after being fatally shot by police at the age of 12 during the Soweto Uprising on June 16, 1976. Tuesday, 16 June 2026: The South African Communist Party (SACP) joins the people of South Africa in commemorating the 16 June 1976 youth uprising, one of the defining moments in our struggle for freedom, equality an

Via the Sudanese Communist Party and Al-Midan The ongoing war in Sudan, together with the widespread security and humanitarian collapse that has accompanied it, has forced millions of Sudanese to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighboring countries, foremost among them Egypt. Sudan and Egypt are bound by deep-rooted historical ties and profound social, cultural, and human connections forged through centuries of interaction and strengthened by the shared struggles of both

“The temperatures here went very high so everything outside melted,” said one scientist. Public domain image of Antarctica By Brad Reed, Common Dreams Climate scientists are sounding the alarm after an unprecedented heatwave hit Antarctica this month and delivered temperatures 20°C higher than normal. According to a Friday report in The Guardian, temperatures at Antarctica’s Trinity Peninsula this month hit peaks of over 15°C, even though it is the start of winter when ice ty