Mswati at the 46th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government -- image via X Tuesday, 18 August 2026: The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) condemns the appointment of Africa’s last absolute monarch, Mswati III, as the chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, known as the Troika. Mswati’s appointment as chairperson of the Troika, an organ whose stated objectives include the promotion of p

Fidel Castro speaks to a crowd of over 100,000 people at the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, January 2, 1969, for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution By Dayan Jayatilleka The month he turned 50, my father, Mervyn de Silva, and my mother, Lakshmi, were in Havana watching Fidel Castro take over the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement at its 6th Summit. After my father died, I discovered in his briefcase the embossed invitation on stiff parchment. He had treasured it fo

The Spinning Instructor, woodcut, Li Chuin, People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #2054

Image via Estudios Revolución and the Communist Party of Cuba The Communist and Workers' Parties participating in the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP), organized by the Communist Party of Cuba in Havana, declare their will and determination to undertake joint and convergent actions on the following main issues until the next meeting: Oppose imperialist wars, the arms race, including nuclear weapons and foreign military bases, and reject all

Public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma On 16 August 1976, representatives from eighty-six countries met in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the Fifth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries. This was the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Asia and perhaps the largest international conference ever held in Sri Lanka. In her inaugural address to the summit, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike – the world’s first woman p

Mass protest in Argentina against the land bill on August 7 -- image via news video screenshot By Julian Bokser Javier Milei’s government recently suffered a double defeat. The first occurred in the streets, with massive protests against his plan to liberalize land purchases by foreigners. The second took place in the halls of the Argentine Congress, where he failed to secure enough votes to pass the bill as presented. Both defeats point to the same thing: a power project tha

“Defending and honoring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on the centenary of Fidel’s birth and consolidating solidarity with socialist Cuba; strengthening joint actions and joining forces for peace and against imperialist aggression.” Image via Estudios Revolución and the Communist Party of Cuba FINAL DECLARATION OF THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' PARTIES Havana, Cuba, August 7-8, 2026 “Defending and honoring the legacy of the Cuban Revolution on th

Göbeklitepe site in May, 2025 -- public domain image By Erdem Denk While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical interpretations of the site. An international group of New Age seekers seemed to be searching for extraterrestrial connections there, but when I pointed out that the enclosures had originally been roofed, they recast the T-shaped pillars as traces of humanity’s mystical past. Representatives of an NGO working with conser

Mswati III of the Kingdom of eSwatini arrives at King Shaka International Airport ahead of the 46th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government. He was received by South Africa’s Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina -- image via x We in Friends of Swazi Freedom are deeply troubled by the announcement that King Mswati III of Swaziland has landed in Durban to be a participant in the 46th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government. Although th

They (People's Army) are coming!, woodcut, People's Republic of China, 1949 -- Daily LIFT #2053

Lenin in his study Originally published in English by the USSR Information Bulletin, 1947. Lydia Fotieva, the author of this article, worked with Lenin for a long time as his private secretary. These are her personal reminiscences of the great man with whom she worked in close association. IN the course of five years, Lenin's study in the Kremlin was the actual headquarters of the Revolution. I recall the furnishings of the room. Just opposite the door stood a writing table w

The four defendants in the Baku anti-communist case, as seen in a screengrab from videos circulating on social media. By R. L. Richards, People's World A court in Baku sentenced four Azerbaijani citizens to prison terms of 18 months to two years on July 29 for promoting communist ideology and attempting to organize a march carrying Soviet flags. Theirs is the latest case in an escalating campaign against the political left in Azerbaijan. Ibrahim Asadli and Abdulla Ibrahimli w

Mao and Zhou Enlai receive the cast members of Taking the Bandits' Stronghold staged by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2052

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

Imagers via KCNA Various Sources Kim Jong Un, the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited both the Liberation Tower in Pyongyang and the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong to mark the 81st anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule. National Liberation Day is held annually on August 15. At the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery he was accompanied by senior party, gove

Worker, Mother and Peasant, illustration, USSR 1949 -- Daily LIFT #2051 From the Soviet Press: Happy in their socialist homeland, Soviet citizens are building a solid future on a basis of peace, abundance and solidarity in the multinational Soviet Union.

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

Fidel Castro and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong visit Dong Ha town in 1973 -- Daily LIFT #2050