
Communist Party of France plans to build broad left coalition
French communists pledged that they will have half a million conversations with French voters this fall.

China's Communist Party elects new leaders
On Thursday November 16, the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) ended in Beijing with the election of a new team of party leaders.

Marcha Patriotica takes shape in Colombia
Marchers, 100,000 of them, filled the Plaza Bolivar in the Colombian capital, Bogotá.
Iraqi Communist Party attacked
The attack on the Communist newspaper office occurred just before the eve of the Iraqi Communist Party's 78th anniversary.
Cuba's Communist Party holds national conference
While the Congress concentrated on recommendations applying to Cuba's economy, the conference dealt mostly with Party functioning.
Hungary's government lurches further to the right
Hungarian right-wing nationalism has its roots in the period between the two world wars.

General strike shuts down Portugal
A general strike called by Portuguese unions against austerity measures imposed by international finance capital practically shut down Portugal last Thursday.

Thoughts from China: Socialism, a work in progress
The government in Beijing plans to raise the minimum wage by 15 percent every year for the next five years.



