KKE condemns Greek government’s disgraceful abstention on UN vote against Cuba blockade

In a statement concerning the Greek government's disgraceful stance at the UN General Assembly on Cuba, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) notes:

"The New Democracy (ND) government has once again found itself on the wrong side of history, as, for the first time in 33 years, Greece abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly on Cuba's resolution demanding an end to the imperialist blockade. 

 

KKE Europarliament Group calls member-states to support Cuba's resolution at the UN General Assembly

Call by the KKE’s European Parliamentary Group to EU member states to vote in favor of Cuba’s resolution at the UN General Assembly to lift the U.S. embargo. 

In light of yet another Cuban resolution at the UN General Assembly calling for the lifting of the criminal U.S. embargo, the Cuban people are currently facing great difficulties, under the threat of a U.S. military invasion and the CIA’s openly declared plans to undermine and overthrow the Cuban government. Since early 2026, they have been facing an energy blockade that amounts to an act of genocide. 

Delcy Rodríguez at the UN: The speech of capitulation

Editorial published in Tribuna Popular, Organ of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV):

Delcy Rodríguez’s speech before the 81st United Nations General Assembly deserves to be examined closely, not only for what she said, but for everything she left unsaid. 

Rodríguez avoided any direct reference to the US military intervention of January 3, which culminated in the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, presenting those events instead as “a painful ordeal” for Venezuela.

Communist Party USA responds to Trump's tirade at the UN General Assembly

In a 38-minute tirade before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump boasted about abducting foreign leaders, bombing boats in the Caribbean and launching an unjust war against Iran, while branding Cuba a “failed state.” He also singled out the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Democratic Socialists of America and “Antifa” as part of an alleged “coordinated subversive network” controlled by Cuba.

 

KKE calls the Greek government to support Cuba's resolution against US blockade at the United Nations

The International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has called the Greek government to support the Cuban resolution against the US blockade at the UN General Assembly.

In a statement (here in Greek), the Party stresses out:

"The KKE has consistently expressed its solidarity with the Communist Party and the people of Cuba and demands the immediate lift of all measures of the barbaric imperialist blockade imposed by the US for 65 years.

 

Fidel Castro's Greatest Speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 1979: "I speak on behalf of the..."

Read below the extraordinary address by Comandante Fidel Castro, President of Cuba and President of the Non-Aligned Movement, at the 34th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on 12 October 1979:

"Very esteemed Mr. President; Distinguished Representatives of the world community:

I have not come to speak about Cuba. I do not come into the heart of this Assembly to air a denunciation about the aggressions our small but dignified country has suffered for 20 years. Nor do I come with unnecessary adjectives to wound our powerful neighbors here in their own house.

KKE strongly denounces U.S decision to ban Palestinian Authority officials from entering the country

In a statement published today, Saturday 30/8/2025 on 902 portal, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) denounces the despicable decision of the U.S. Government to deny and revoke visas from Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas,  ahead of next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. 

The statement reads: 

USSR and the creation of Israel: Remarks by Andrei Gromyko at the UN General Assembly — May 1947

Intervention by Andrei Gromyko, Representative of the Soviet Union at the United Nations, at the UN General Assembly on 14 May 1947, concerning the establishment of a special committee on Palestine (UNSCOP):

Discussion of the report of the First Committee on the establishment of a special committee on Palestine (documents A/307 and A/307/Corr. 1)

Cuba exposes capitalism's inherent inequality at the UN General Assembly

Mainstream media will not refer to the speech given by the Cuban Foreign Minister at the 77th UN General Assembly...

Addressing world leaders gathered for the first fully in-person high-level debate of the UN General Assembly in three years, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel slams US imperialism at the UN General Assembly

The President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez participated in the General Debate of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Below, you can read his full speech:

Madam President:

Mister Secretary-General:

It is impossible to be here, speak from this rostrum on behalf of Cuba, and not recall historic moments of the General Assembly which are also part of our dearest memories: Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro and the "Chancellor of Dignity", Raúl Roa, just to mention the most significant, have brought here not only the voice of our people but also the voice of other Latin American and Caribbean, African, Asian, non-aligned peoples, with whom we have shared more than half a century of struggles for a fair international order, which is still far off being attained.

United Nations: Major diplomatic defeat for the U.S. government - 128 countries rejected Trump's decision on Jerusalem

Cartoon: Carlos Latuff.

More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. More specifically, in favor of the UNGA resolution voted 128 countries, 9 countries voted against and 35 countries abstained. 

"[The resolution] Affirms that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered, the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void," the document said. The document also calls upon UN members to "refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem".