Group photo at the conference -- image via Dr Fred M'membe on Facebook Conference of the Left Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power Press Statement Conference of the Left adopts Declaration for Working-Class and Popular Power Birchwood Hotel, Ekurhuleni | 31 May 2026 The Conference of the Left, convened from 29 to 31 May 2026 under the theme "Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power," has adopted a historic Declaration committing par

Financed by surpluses generated when international mineral prices rise above the state-set benchmark, the fund will not be used for short-term budgetary expenditure, but ring-fenced for long-term, strategic infrastructural and industrial projects. By Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch To transform “mining rents into a lever for sustainable development and economic sovereignty for the benefit of the people of Burkina Faso”, its Council of Ministers decreed the establishment of

Onscreen Mosfilm logo at the opening of Soviet films, 1950s -- Daily LIFT #1981

Thongloun Sisoulith and Xi Jinping in 2021 -- image via X Various Sources General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith is scheduled to visit the People's Republic of China for a five-day state visit beginning June 2. The visit comes at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President Xi Jinping, highlighting the continuing close diplomatic and strategi

Iván Cepeda speaking on May 19 -- image via Iván Cepeda on X Leftist Iván Cepeda, a senator and ally of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, has advanced to the second, run-off round in Colombia's presidential election although he did so unexpectedly trailing far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. In the first round of the 2026 presidential election on Sunday, Cepeda received approximately 40.9% of the vote, finishing just behind de la Espriella, who garnered around 43.7%

A rally of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement -- Photo source: redacaonline By Guillermo Barreto The right to food and to choose what we plant, how we plant it, how we harvest it, how we distribute it, and even how we cook it is what is known as food sovereignty: a central concept when discussing people’s sovereignty, introduced by the international peasant movement known as La Vía Campesina during the World Food Summit in 1996. Food sovereignty is defined as ‘the right of p

Che on a mule in the jungles of Bolivia -- Daily LIFT #1980

Signing of the Decree to form the Tatarian ASSR, Painting from 1952, L. Fattakhov & Kh. Yakupov The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed at the end of May, 1920. From The Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1979 this is a comprehensive look at the republic, its geography, history, revolutionary tradition, language, arts and culture and economy. Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tatarstan Avtonomiyäle Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasï), Tataria (Tatarstan), p

Archaeological ruins at Mohenjo-daro, Sindh, Pakistan -- Saqib Qayyum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Adam S. Green Inequality and Urbanism Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth and hedge funds looking to garner predictable returns: New York’s avenues, Paris’s thoroughfares, and Dubai’s dazzling skyscrapers are great at making the rich

Mao at Yenan illustration, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1979

The Conference of the Left in South Africa has brought together a wide range of left-wing political parties, socialist organizations, and progressive movements in an effort to forge greater unity, coordination, and collective action among working-class forces. Image via news video screenshot on X By Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch South Africa’s progressive forces are converging. On May 29, 2026, a diverse array of socialist, communist, and Pan-Africanist organizations con

The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education. By Jeff Bryant In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend their local public schools—is gradually being made less viable. Take North Carolina, for instance. For years, the Republican-dominated state legislature has chosen to cut the state’s

For and with Cuba, down with imperialism! Raúl Castro represents the struggle for independence and sovereignty, for popular power and for socialism! Political Note from the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) raises its militant voice to denounce yet another criminal offensive by U.S. imperialism against the heroic Cuban Revolution. The farcical accusations of Donald Trump's government against Commander Raúl Castro are nothing more than a cynic

CPI(M) members and supporters in Tamil Nadu protest condemning the ED raids on the residences on former Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family, and the brutal repression of protesting CPI(M) workers in Delhi -- image via the CPI(M) on Facebook Statement by the Workers Party of Ireland condemning the attacks on the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested The Workers Party of Ireland unreserv

Rubio on May 5, 2026 -- public domain image By Daniela López Ferreiro, translated from the Spanish Secretary of State Marco Rubio doesn't speak to the Cuban people: he speaks about the Cuban people. His message on May 20, presented as an offer of help and an explanation of the Cuban crisis, is in reality a carefully constructed piece of political manipulation. The Florida hawk takes real issues, strips them of context, exaggerates certain facts, hides others, and boils Cuba’s

Che in the countryside of Bolivia -- Daily LIFT #1978

KPP condemns the US accusation against the Army General Raul Castro Ruz The Communist Party of Poland strongly condemns activities of the United States Department of Justice, that on 20th of May announced despicable accusation against the Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. This accusation is baseless and politically motivated. It is an element of the anti-Cuban campaign conducted by the US authorities. The charges relate to the alleged role of Raul

El Rojo Mosca (Aranguren), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts mass organisations, trade unions, feminist movements and student bodies, extending further to undermine coordination among the forces of the left themselves. This is not a purely Iraqi pre

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and U.S. President Donald Trump pose after signing the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2026. -- image via the U.S. Trade Representative on X/public domain By Airlangga Pribadi Kusman and Peiman Salehi More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independenc

Itamar Ben Gvir in May, 2025 -- משטרת ישראל-לשכת גיוס, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The Theatre of Punishment The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now a mountain of evidence before humanity: Gaza has become not merely a place under siege but a geography of calculated despair, where star