Communist Pairty O Cuba

It is a communist pairty of the Marxist–Leninist model. The Cuban consteetution ascribes the role of the pairty tae be the "leading force of society and of the state". Since 2021 the First Secretar o the Central Committee haes been Miguel Diaz-Canel, president since 2018, an afore him it wis Raúl Castro, younger brither o the original First Secretary Fidel Castro, who died on 25 November 2016. The Seicont Secretary haes been José Ramón Machado Ventura.

Communist Pairty o Cuba Partido Comunista de Cuba
First Secretary	Raúl Castro
Seicont Secretary	José Ramón Machado
Foonder	Fidel Castro
Slogan	¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
Foondit	3 October 1965; 58 years ago (1965-10-03)
Precedit bi	26th o Julie Movement Popular Socialist Pairty
Heidquarters	Havana, Cuba
Newspaper	Granma
Youth weeng	Young Communist League
Pioneer weeng	José Martí Pioneer Organisation
Membership  (2016)	670,000
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary socialism Anti-capitalism Castroism Guevarism Socialism of the 21st century
Poleetical poseetion	Far-left
Internaitional affiliation	Internaitional Meeting o Communist an Wirkers' Pairties
Regional affiliation	COPPPAL Foro de São Paulo
Colours	Red      Blue
Naitional Assemmly	605 / 605
Website
www.pcc.cu

Cuba haed a nummer of communist and anarchist organisations frae the early period of the Republic (foondit in 1902). The oreeginal "internaitionalised" Communist Pairty o Cuba formed in the 1920s. In 1944, it renamed itself as the Popular Socialist Pairty for electoral reasons. In Julie 1961, twa years efter the successful overthrow of Fulgencio Batista and the creaution of a revolutionary govrenment, the Integratit Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) wis formed frae the merger of:

• Fidel Castro's 26th o Julie Muivvement
• The Popular Socialist Pairty led by Blas Roca
• The student-based Revolutionary Directory led by Faure Chomón

On 26 Mairch 1962, the ORI became the Unitit Pairty o the Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC), which in turn became the Communist Pairty o Cuba on 3 October 1965. In Article 5 of the Cuban consteetution of 1976, the Communist Pairty is recognised as "the superior guiding force of society and of the State, that organises and orients common efforts toward the heich goals of the construction of socialism and the advancement toward communist society". All pairties, including the Communist Pairty, are prohibitit frae publicly advertising thair organisations.

For the first fifteen years of its formal existence, the Communist Pairty wis awmaist completely inactive ootside of the Politburo. The 100 person Central Committee rarely met and it wis ten years efter its foonding that the first regular pairty Congress wis held. In 1969, membership of the pairty wis only 55,000 or 0.7% of the population, making the PCC the smallest rulin communist pairty in the warld. In the 1970s, the pairty's apparatus began tae develop. By the time of the first pairty Congress in 1975, the pairty haed grown tae juist over twa hundred thoosand members, the Central Committee wis meeting regularly and providit the organisational apparatus giving the pairty the leading role in society that ruling Communist pairties generally hauld. By 1980, the pairty haed grown tae over 430,000 members and it grew further tae 520,000 by 1985. Apparatuses of the pairty haed grown tae ensure that its leading cadres were appointit tae key govrennment posertions.^{[citation needit]}