Hands off Cuba and Raúl! The Justice Department of the United States regime is currently staging a farcical political trial against comrade Raúl Castro Ruz, former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and former President of the Republic of Cuba, accusing him of having ordered, 30 years ago, the downing of two US aircraft causing the death of four people. For the record, the aircraft shot down in 1996 were not civilian planes but belonged to an armed criminal organi

Photo: Estudios Revolución via Granma In a statement concerning the aggressive actions of the United States against Cuba, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) emphasizes the following: We condemn the provocative issuance by the United States of an arrest warrant against the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro —a move through which US imperialism once again bares its teeth against the heroic Cuban people, whom it has long sou

Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish "On June 3rd, we will celebrate the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and we will do so with a collective embrace of a man whose heart is bound to this land and whose life's guiding principle is loyalty." The National Bureau of the Young Communist League (UJC) shared a post on its Facebook profile, inviting participation in a popular day of action titled "Raúl's 95th Birthday," and encouraging people to

Mao stamps, German Democratic Republic, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1971

Raul Castro marching on May Day in Havana via the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, translated from the Spanish Statement by the Revolutionary Government The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice announced on May 20 and proclaimed for several weeks against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. The United States government lacks the legitimacy and jurisdiction to car

In an outrageous escalation of ongoing US imperialist aggression against socialist Cuba, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former President, in connection with the 1996 downing of two civilian planes operated by the anti-Castro organization Brothers to the Rescue, which resulted in four deaths. As the Cuban Embassy in the US noted on X, the indictment is farcical given what actually happened in 1996 noting, " Is a sovereign State l

Students march through Skopje, May 18 -- image via video screenshot on X By Biljana Vankovska When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right to take the bar exam in Albanian, the protests quickly became something far larger than a dispute over a legal procedure. Alongside banners invoking language rights and the presence of only Albanian and US flags, the symbols of the UÇ

South African Communist Party South African left forces convene the Conference of the Left to build working-class unity Tuesday, 19 May 2026: From 29 to 31 May 2026, South African organisations of the left will converge at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg for a national Conference of the Left, convened under the theme “Building a Left Movement for Working Class and Popular Power”. The Conference of the Left is collectively convened by organisations of various forms that identi

Trump and Xi Jinping on May 15 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump traveled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping, Western media, as it often does, fixated on spectacle: lavish banquets, honor guards, theatrical gestures that were designed to flatter the US president. Yet beneath all this ritual lay another reality, ha

Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated!, poster, Great Patriotic War, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1970

Demonstrators have closed several roads and faced heavy repression from security forces. Meanwhile, the Paz government has accused former president Evo Morales of being behind the mass protests. Bolivian workers with COB march towards La Paz. Photo: COB By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The protests in Bolivia against Rodrigo Paz’s neoliberal government continue to intensify. The main roads leading into and out of La Paz and El Alto remain closed following violent clashes

Rally for Iván Cepeda and Aida Quilcué on May 15 -- image via X By Laura Capote This May, which began with International Workers’ Day, has seen us navigate one of the most defining moments in the regional landscape: the presidential elections in Colombia have entered their final phase. With four intense weeks shaping the scenario that will be fully unveiled on 31 May, when the elections take place, we will find out what the balance of power will really be in a country that t

Voting in Callao, Peru on April 12 -- Johnattan Rupire, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By José Carlos Llerena Robles For some time now, we have maintained that there are three fundamental categories for understanding the Peruvian situation, especially following the popular victory of rural teacher Pedro Castillo Terrones in the presidential elections of 2021. Now, in 2026, in light of the still-unresolved Peruvian electoral process held on 12 April, we can confirm that t

Karl Marx Silver Coin, German Democratic Republic, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1969

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez taking part in defense preperation drills in March, 2026 -- image via the PCC With elements within the US administration and media making increasingly unhinged and ludicrous accusations against Cuba in an effort to build a case for military attack, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez took to X on Monday, May 18 to say that the besieged socialist nation has a legitimate right to defend itself. This came in the wake of an Axios’ article where a

Image via the PCC Via Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), translated from the Spanish The 5th National Exercise for the Prevention and Confrontation of Crime, Corruption, Drugs, Illegal Activities, and Social Indiscipline has begun in Cuba, this time with the purpose of intensifying actions against these acts and behaviors that threaten the country's priorities. It is being carried out under particularly complex circumstances, as a consequence of the intensified eco

Antifascists at the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Duisburg on May 10, 2026. Credit: German Communist Party (DKP) Duisburg. By Jörg Friedrichs. Unsere Zeit. Sozialistische Wochenzeitung – Zeitung der DKP, May 13, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Fascist Germany surrendered unconditionally to the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition on May 8, 1945. The German Communist Party (DKP) in Duisburg and the alliance “Duisburg Stands Up” (DSSQ) [1] commemorated this event on Ma

Cuban youth marching on April 3, 2026 The Workers Party of Ireland extends warm revolutionary solidarity to the Cuban people, their Communist Party and their revolutionary process, which for more than six decades has stood as a living example of socialist construction under the most aggressive conditions of imperialist hostility. Cuba’s struggle is not symbolic, it is concrete and rooted in the struggle between a sovereign socialist country and the global capitalist system th

Demonstrators in Thessaloniki -- All images via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that anti-imperialist demonstrations organized across Greece on May 16 and 17 by the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace (EEDYE) saw mass participation, sending a loud and clear message: no sacrifices for wars and capitalist profits! Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside US and NATO bases in many parts of Greece, including Crete, Larissa, Alexandroupoli an

Marching on October Revolution Day, November 7, 1938, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1968