Partido Comunista de Cuba
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Communist Party of Cuba
Partido Comunista de Cuba |
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| First Secretary | Raúl Castro |
| Second Secretary | José Ramón Machado |
| Founder | Fidel Castro |
| Founded | 3 October 1965 |
| 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 (2016) |
 670,000 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism Castroism Guevarism Socialism of the 21st century Left-wing nationalism Anti-capitalism |
| 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! |
| Website | |
| www.pcc.cu | |
Coordinates: 20°59′27.7″N 77°25′41.5″W / 20.991028°N 77.428194°W
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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