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Communist party of Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba
Partido Comunista de Cuba
First Secretary Raúl Castro
Second Secretary José Ramón Machado
Founder Fidel Castro
Founded 3 October 1965; 51 years ago (1965-10-03)
Preceded by 26th of July Movement
Popular Socialist Party
Headquarters Havana, Cuba
Newspaper Granma
Youth wing Young Communist League
Women's wing Federation of Cuban Women
Workers' wing Workers' Central Union of Cuba
Farmers' wing National Association of Small Farmers
Pioneer wing José Martí Pioneer Organization
Armed Wing Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
Membership  (2011) 800,000
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Castroism
Guevarism
Socialism of the 21st century
Left-wing nationalism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties,
International Communist Seminar
Regional affiliation Foro de São Paulo,
COPPPAL
Colors      Red      Blue
Slogan ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
National Assembly
612 / 612
Website
www.pcc.cu

Coordinates: 20°59′27.7″N 77°25′41.5″W / 20.991028°N 77.428194°W / 20.991028; -77.428194

The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the political party that rules in Republic of Cuba, although others exist. It is a Communist party of the Marxist-Leninist model. The Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state." Since April 2011, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba has been Raúl Castro, the President of Cuba, younger brother of the previous First Secretary and President of Cuba, Fidel Castro who died on 25 November 2016, and the Second Secretary has been José Ramón Machado Ventura.

Cuba had a number of communist and anarchist organizations from the early period of the Republic (founded in 1902). The original "internationalised" Communist Party of Cuba formed in the 1920s. In 1944 it renamed itself as the Popular Socialist Party for electoral reasons. In July 1961, two years after the successful overthrow of Batista and the creation of a revolutionary government, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) was formed from the merger of:


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