Marx & Engels stamp in honour of the Centenary of the founding of the First International (1864–1876), USSR 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1837

Political parties and organizations from Latin America, Europe, the United States and the Global South sent messages of congratulations and solidarity to Cuba for the 67th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, reaffirming their support for the Cuban people and condemning the blockade imposed by the United States. Image via the PCC Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The 67th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution's victory has been celebrated wit

By Michael Laxer In yet another indication of the grotesque growth of inequality in Canada in our new Gilded Age a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), found that the 100 best-paid chief executive officers in Canada make 248 times what the typical worker earns. They were paid a whopping $16.2 million, on average, in 2024. In a vile example of just how out-of-control inequality has been allowed to get, the report notes that "It’s challen

Revolutionary Committee, People's Republic of China, c. 1971, ink and gouache on paper -- Daily LIFT #1836

Image via X On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his 2026 New Year message. The following is the full, translated text of the message as distributed by multiple sources: Greetings to all! Year after year, life opens a fresh chapter. As the new year begins, I extend my best wishes to you from Beijing! The year 2025 marks the completion of China's 14th Five-Year Plan for economic and social development. Over the past five years, we have pressed ahead with e

Marchers during the General Strike on December 11 in Portugal -- image via the Portuguese Communist Party As we welcome the year 2026, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) addresses its militant and class-oriented greetings to workers, trade unionists, and progressive peoples across the globe. The new year finds the international working class confronted with old and new challenges, but also armed with experience, organization, and the unbreakable strength of solidari

From India to Portugal to Italy and the United States and beyond, the working class fought back in 2025! Marchers during the December 11 General Strike in Portugal -- image via the Portuguese Communist Party By Cameron Harrison From the ports of Italy to the mines of India, from the public squares of Portugal to the picket lines re-emerging in the United States, in 2025 the international working class demonstrated a militant retort to the deepening crises of the capitalist sy

The Entire Nation is Red, People's Republic of China, 1968, hooked rug, wood on cotton -- Daily LIFT #1835

Gaza, December 2025 -- image via the UNRWA on X By Vijay Prashad El 19 de enero de 2025 entró en vigor un alto al fuego destinado a detener los bombardeos israelíes contra la población palestina en Gaza. Este alto al fuego fue fruto de un proceso de mediación por parte de Egipto, Qatar y los Estados Unidos, que había quedado sellado en junio de 2024 con la Resolución 2735 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas. Sin embargo, Israel rechazó el acuerdo y esperó hasta

Image via the CPA By Vinnie Molina, National President Communist Party of Australia 2025 is leaving us with an enormous toll the peoples of the world are feeling as a result of genocide and the Zionist attacks on several countries in the Middle East. Also, environmental disasters like bushfires and the most recent hurricanes that devastated countries in the Caribbean among them Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and closer to home, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. This year also s

Another Israeli genocide is not a distant threat; it is an encroaching reality that will be finalized unless it is stopped. A Gaza street, December 2025 -- image via Philippe Lazzarini of the UNRWA on X By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly 80 years of rel

Screenshot of the closing ceremony of the CPV congress, Hanoi, February 2021. Read more about that congress at: Highlights from the 13th National Party Congress of the CPV The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has issued an official notice to the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties announcing that the 14th National Congress of the CPV will be convened from 19 to 25 January, 2026. COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIET NAM CENTRAL COMMITTEE To: International Meeting of Co

Graphic of the national emblems of the USSR with words from the Soviet constitution, graphic, USSR, December 1972, for the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union -- Daily LIFT #1834 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first socialist state led by the working class was formed on December 30, 2022.

CPS calls for global mobilisation denouncing USA arms deal with the Taiwan region illegitimate separatist administration 29 December 2025 The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) strongly condemns the recent United States $11.1 billion arms package to the Taiwan region of China. This provocative act constitutes a blatant violation of the One-China principle and undermines regional stability and global peace. It is common cause to believe that the USA is either effectively dona

Gaza, December 2025 -- image via the UNRWA on X By Vijay Prashad On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been sealed in June 2024 with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735 . However, the Israelis rejected the agreement and waited until Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election to proceed so that Trump coul

Ignoring repeated Chinese warnings and their own expressed commitments to the one-China policy, successive US administrations have been selling arms to Taiwan and supporting separatist forces there. By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch On Friday, December 26, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against US weapons manufacturing firms and their high-level officials over Washington’s decision to allow billions of dollars of arms sales to Taiwan. The 20 weapons

Via the Sudanese Communist Party Political Bureau Mass Communiqué On the Seventieth Anniversary of Independence and the Seventh Anniversary of the Glorious December Revolution: The Masses Remain Capable of Action and Change As our country marks the seventieth anniversary of independence and the seventh anniversary of the Glorious December Revolution, our people confront one of the gravest moments in the nation’s history. The condition of a collapsed state is embodied in two d

We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can lead to irreversible consequences. Powell with Bush as he signs H.J. Resolution 114 authorizing the use of force against Iraq, October, 2002 -- White House photo by Paul Morse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Angel Gomez, Common Dreams In the annals of modern international relations, few moments carry as heavy a legacy as

"Youth of the North", photograph, G. Nadezhdin, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1833 Maya Pyak, a Nenets woman, breeder of blue fox at the Purovsk state farm of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of the R.S.F.S.R.

CPI centenary rally in Chhattisgarh -- image via the CPI Facebook page By Pallab Sengupta The centenary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) is not only an occasion to commemorate a hundred years of struggle within the country, but also a moment to recall and reaffirm its consistent and principled engagement with the international communist and workers’ movement. From its formation in 1925 to the present day, the CPI has understood the Indian revolutionary struggle as insepa