Winds of change blow strong in Cuban colleges
Many regard Cuba's success in making education accessible and socially useful to have been a prime achievement of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba's new, experimental urban cooperatives
The plan is to develop 222 urban cooperatives throughout the island: food service ventures, agricultural markets, technical and personal services, fisheries, and water management services.
Venezuela’s new labor law “first in transition to socialism”
The legislation reduces the work week to 40 hours and seeks to abolish private sub-contracted labor in the country.
World communist parties: "Socialism is the future"
"Socialism is the future" was the theme of a meeting here of communist and workers parties from 59 countries last month.
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.
Celebration marks 32nd anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution
Thirty-two years ago, a Marxist-led national liberation movement forever changed the history and political dynamics of Nicaragua.
Cuban Communist Party congress recalls victories, projects more
At the Cuban Communist Party's sixth congress, it was an occasion for remembering and rededication.
Communist Party of Egypt resumes open political activities
The Communist Party of Egypt has once again become an important voice in the secular opposition.
Vietnam's Communist Party meets
The goal for the Vietnamese Communist Party's 11th Party Congress was to “enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness, promoting the nation's synergy, comprehensively boosting the doi moi (renovation) process, creating the fundamentals for Vietnam to basically become a modern-oriented industrial country by 2020.”
Oldest Cuban celebrates her 126th birthday
The oldest peson in Cuba, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez celebrated her 126th birthday with relatives and friends and attributes her health to the pure air of the countryside, a diet rich in meat and a "heart that has always been full of love."
