The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is currently the governing political party in Cuba. It is a Marxist-Leninist organization. The present Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state". The current first Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba is Fidel Castro; the second secretary of the Party is Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, the President of Cuba.
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The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is currently the governing political party in Cuba. It is a Marxist-Leninist organization. The present Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state". The current first Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba is Fidel Castro; the second secretary of the Party is Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, the President of Cuba.
Cuba had a number of communist and anarchist organizations since the early period of the Republic. The original "internationalised" Communist Party of Cuba was formed in the 1920s, which was later renamed the Popular Socialist Party for electoral reasons. In July 1961, two years after the 1959 Revolution, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) was formed by the merger of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, the Popular Socialist Party led by Blas Roca and the Revolutionary Directory March 13th led by Faure Chomón. On March 26, 1962 the...
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