The USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, 1959 Part I The first in a new series looking at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow from the Soviet Press, 1959. Text: IT IS an unusual cinema hall surrounded by a high circular screen. There are no seats and the spectators walk about as they please. When the lights go out and the picture begins, its first shots take the spectator to offshore oil fields. Wherever you look there is the sea with the sound of its

Li Zongyuan's presence demonstrates the strong relations between the two parties. They confirmed their commitment to advancing the implementation of the consensus reached between Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Xi Jinping. Image via the PCC By Dayán González Ramírez, translated from the Spanish On October 20, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau and the Secretary of Organizati

On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Image via the PdA On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Last Wednesday, our long-time comrade and PdA co-founder Gerhard Bruny passed away after a short serious illness – an obituary. Comrade Gerhard Bruny was born on 19 December 1954 in Vienna. After completing his compulsory schooling, he studied printing technology at the Graphic Arts Teaching and Research Institute. This, however, was to become the professi

Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models. By John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) investigate Brazil’s “ attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices ,” followed by the launch of 50 percent tari

On Cuban Culture Day, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, led the celebrations for the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the José Martí Cultural Society. Comrade Eduardo Moisés Torres Cuevas was posthumously honored with the Félix Varela Order of the First Degree by Presidential Decree. Images via Estudios Revolución By René Tamayo León, translated from the Spanish During the

The First Tractor Arrives, illustration, Li Chi, People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1763 About the illustration: "The peasants show great interest in the first tractor arriving from the Soviet Union, which heralds great changes ahead in the rural mode of production."

By Vijay Prashad Aos poucos, o panorama completo da devastação de Gaza por Israel está se revelando. O Escritório Central de Estatísticas Palestino (PCBS) divulgou um relatório no período do cessar-fogo que começa a apresentar os números: o bombardeio de Gaza por Israel resultou na destruição total de 190.115 edifícios e na destruição quase total de outras 330.500 unidades habitacionais. Os constantes ataques de artilharia e aéreos durante os 734 dias do genocídio resultaram

Image via the PCC By Arnaldo Laborde Williams, translated from the Spanish The creation of a new Joint Task Force (JTF) under the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) by the U.S. Southern Command has set off alarms in diplomatic and military circles in Latin America. While officially its mission is to bolster counternarcotics efforts in the Western Hemisphere, its deployment in the Caribbean and its operational structure suggest a much broader capability: a strategic pressu

The PCP on US imperialism, NATO warmongering, Palestine and the Middle East, Venezuela, the Nobel Peace Prize, and the blockade of Cuba. A PCP flag at the 2025 Avante! Festival -- image via the PCP From the Communiqué of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party of October 14, 2025 (For the full communique looking at the results of the local elections, addressing various aspects of the Portuguese national situation and the elections for President of the Republic

The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) held the Third International Meeting of Theoretical Publications and the First International Granma Rebelde Festival, in which more than 35 leftist parties participated. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez speaks at the Third International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Leftist Parties and Movements -- image via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish During the past week, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) hosted two import

Trump and Starmer, September 25, 2025 -- Number 10 https://www.flickr.com/number10gov/, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons "Labour should quit its competition against Reform UK and the Tories to see who can sink the lowest in their grovelling to President Trump, their connivance in Israeli genocide and their attacks on human rights and democratic liberties", Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's executive committee last weekend. "We have a Prime Minister who shows more conce

The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it. Trump on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Manolo De Los Santos Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly confirmed that he authorized the CIA to carry o

The leftist Colombian president retorted that “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the UN, September 23, 2025 -- Fotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia from Colombia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams The United States carried out another deadly attack on a boat it claimed was being used by a left-wing Colombian revolutionary grou

Image via X By Biljana Vankovska The flood of angry—and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision than about the public’s sense of shock. How can anyone still be astonished when a figure who embodies everything but peace receives this award? History shows that the Nobel Peace Prize has often gone to war criminals, opportunists, and politically “convenient” figures—honored not for moral

Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Secretary of Organization, held discussions and signed agreements with representatives of the Belaya Rus party and the Communist parties of Türkiye and Germany. Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish To further the effective implementation of the exchange and cooperation agreement between the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)

Mural, USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1762

Hungry communities called for an end to food wastage and high food prices on World Food Day. About 100 protesters marched to the 7th Social Justice Summit held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday. Photo by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi & Simon Ramapuputla, Elitsha, South Africa Union Against Hunger marked World Food Day (October 16) by marching to Shoprite in Centurion, Gauteng, and to the Cape Town International Convention Centre, demanding affordable food

Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish To affirm the longstanding friendship and establish a plan for enhanced cooperation between the two countries, Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Secretary of Organization, met on the morning of October 17 with Liudmila Mwaa Maguni, the secretary for International Relations of the Central Committee of the Mozambique Libera

The demonstration rejected US interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs as US military operations in the Caribbean Sea increase. Images via Manuel Marrero Cruz on X By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch On October 17, tens of thousands of Cubans took to the streets of Havana to show their support for Venezuela in the face of a potential intervention by the United States following its recent military deployment in the Caribbean Sea. Under anti-imperialist and pro-sovereignty

Com a suspensão do diálogo entre os EUA e a Venezuela, o avistamento de bombardeiros B-52 dos EUA no espaço aéreo venezuelano e os novos ataques letais dos EUA no Caribe, os EUA parecem estar acelerando sua marcha rumo à guerra com a Venezuela. Donald Trump walks alongside the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on October 5, 2025 -- public domain image Via Manolo De Los Santos O clima no Caribe torna-se cada vez mais tenso à medida que os Estados Unidos intensificam suas am