There are moments when political developments strip away every disguise and expose the class character of political forces with unusual clarity. The latest oil agreement between Washington and the government of Delcy Rodríguez is one such moment. After years of “Bolivarian,” “anti-imperialist” and even “socialist” rhetoric, Venezuela’s social-democratic leadership is presiding over a further opening of the country’s strategic energy wealth to U.S. monopoly interests.
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At a Secretariat meeting held on Wednesday, the party called on the government to act immediately to safeguard those affected, intensify search and rescue operations for missing persons, relocate people living in high-risk areas and ensure prompt medical treatment for the injured.
"On August 23, Kazakhstan held elections to the unicameral parliament, the Kurultai, as part of the constitutional reform that had been carried out. As a result, the main presidential party, “Adilet,” which was established just a few months ago, along with other parties representing large capital, secured more than 70 percent of the seats in the legislative body.
“At a time when the ruthless occupying state of Israel, backed by the US and the EU, is continuing its deadly attacks and threats in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and the broader region, and as the US - Israel war against Iran is escalating, a highly dangerous series of settlement activities in the Palestinian West Bank is being resumed.
For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to disguise its aggressive imperialist policy toward Cuba as a question of “national security,” diplomatic pressure or concern for “democracy”.
Behind this sanitized vocabulary stands a far more brutal reality: economic strangulation, political coercion, extraterritorial intimidation and the deliberate worsening of the material conditions of life of an entire people because that people refuses to renounce its Revolution.
The Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Britain and Communist Party USA held a trilateral meeting during the 24th International Meeting of Communist & Workers Parties which convened in Havana, Cuba from 7-8 August 2026.This wasthe second trilateral meeting held between our parties to discuss the AUKUS pact between the governments of Australia, the UK and the USA to provide nuclear submarines and more advanced weaponry for deployment from bases in Australia.
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Communist and workers’ parties against imperialist wars: The workers’-people’s struggle will grow stronger with an independent line, away from all bourgeois and imperialist plans.
With this Resolution, on the occasion of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana from 7 to 9 August 2026, we express our solidarity with Cuba and its people, we honour the memory and historic contribution of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Communist Party of Cuba and of the Cuban Revolution, on the centenary of his birth commemorated this year.
In Uzbekistan, the well known blogger and left wing activist Aziz Khakimov was given a harsh sentence of 4 years and 2 months in prison for speaking out against the rehabilitation of the leaders of the Basmachi movement of 1918-1944. His only “crime” was that he called them murderers and executioners of the people!
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The Mexican daily El Universal spotlighted the Party in a report headlined: “We want to win the presidency in 2030: Communist Party of Mexico is alive and seeks permanent power”. The report highlights the PCM’s determination to expand its national presence and intervene more decisively in Mexico’s political life.
Havana, Cuba, August 7-8, 2026
“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.”
"On this day 100 years ago, the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Cyprus (CPC) was held in Limassol. It was the culmination of a process that had been developing for years, as the first socialist groups in Cyprus had already emerged in the late 1910s. News of the October Revolution reached colonial Cyprus as well, giving fresh impetus to the workers’ struggle against wage exploitation.
"We thank the organizers for the invitation to participate in the 1st International Symposium “Fidel: Legacy and Future.” From this platform as well, we wish to express the profound solidarity of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and of all communists in Greece, with the heroic people of Cuba, who for decades have been in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism.
“Socialism is and will be the hope, the only hope, the only path for the peoples, the oppressed, the exploited, the plundered. Socialism is the only alternative" — Fidel Castro Ruz
A century after the birth of Fidel Castro Ruz, on 13 August 1926, the hatred directed against him has hardly diminished. Nearly ten years after his death, the same vocabulary is repeated with remarkable persistence: “dictator,” “tyrant,” “totalitarian.” Fidel is vilified, the Cuban Revolution is slandered, its achievements are denied or reduced to inconvenient footnotes, while the Cuba that existed before January 1959 is carefully pushed out of sight.