Cuban Communists

The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba, founded on October 3, 1965. It succeeded the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which itself emerged from the 26th of July Movement and Popular Socialist Party after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The PCC governs Cuba as an authoritarian one-party state, with its role as the "leading force of society and of the state" enshrined in the Cuban constitution. The party's guiding ideology is Marxism–Leninism, and it pursues state socialism under a planned economy. Its highest body is the Party Congress, which convenes every five years.