Cuito Cunavale estatua Angola By Vijay Prashad En el “Parque de la Libertad” ( S’kumbuto ), a las afueras de Pretoria (Sudáfrica), hay un Muro de los Nombres que rinde homenaje a los hombres y mujeres que murieron en la lucha por liberar a Sudáfrica del apartheid. Entre ellos se encuentran los nombres de dos mil setenta soldados cubanos que murieron en Angola entre 1975 y 1988 por la liberación del sur de África. Se dice, sin embargo, que dos mil doscientos ochenta y nueve cu

Choosing renewables over fossil fuels would mean fewer wars and less economic disruption in the U.S. and around the world. Matthew T Rader, https://matthewtrader.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Sonali Kolhatkar The war on Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, as oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz falters. Taken together with this year’s invasion of Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven oil reserves , and the Trump admin

The Trump regime’s elimination of the legal basis to regulate greenhouse gases is an attack on Americans — and the rest of the world. Trump on March 9, 2026 -- public domain image By Basav Sen The White House recently announced what might be its most brazen attack on climate science yet. A few weeks ago, the administration rolled out plans to repeal the federal government’s “Endangerment Finding” — essentially, its authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas

Protestors outside of the federal courthouse in Manhattan, March 26, 2026 -- image via news video screenshot By Celina della Croce Venezuelans in the News On the morning of 26 March 2026, two crowds gathered outside of the federal courthouse in Manhattan where President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores sat awaiting their trial, set to begin at 11AM that day. On one side was a group of protestors gathered behind a large yellow banner that read “Free President Maduro

Coup president Jorge Rafael Videla assuming power in 1976 -- public domain image By Julián Bokser It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural transformation of its economy. Throughout the 20th century, the country experienced six interruptions of its democratic order—in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and 1976—but the last coup ushere

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Memorial in Angola By Vijay Prashad In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst these are the names of two thousand and seventy Cuban soldiers who died in Angola between 1975 and 1988 for the liberation of southern Africa. It is said, however, that two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine Cubans died in that

Signs at a No Kings protest in Washington DC, March 28 -- G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska We are living through times where the architecture of global peace is not merely crumbling; it is being deliberately dismantled. The drums of global war beat louder than ever, drowning out the voices of reason. Across the globe, imperial power grinds forward, indifferent to human lives. In the face of such force, silence is complicity. We are com

Image via the Communist Party of Cuba By Raúl Antonio Capote, translated from the Spanish While the world focuses its attention on other conflicts, Cuba has become the scene of an unprecedented communication offensive. Be careful, we are not talking about an invasion in the style of the last century; This is more subtle, and perhaps that is why more dangerous. It is a war designed to shape perceptions, sow doubts, fabricate realities. Three techniques are, with surgical preci

Today’s war rhetoric is often dismissed as “childish,” likened to video games and online bravado. But the issue is not immaturity—it is adaptation. As political communication adopts the language of spectacle, war is increasingly encountered as sensation before meaning—altering the sequence through which violence is felt before it is judged. Francisco Goya, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Martina Moneke A word keeps appearing across political commentary and media criti

Fidel Castro with Elián González, July 14, 2011, Cárdenas, Cuba -- image via X By Macdonald Stainsby There are so many things about Fidel Castro that jump to mind. For me? The aspect that stands out more than his incredible charisma, the successes of the revolution in medicine and education, or even the battles won in the Bay of Pigs or Southern Africa? His skill and ability to see where a particular political struggle was going to go into the future, and what the long term w

Trump and Vance at a ceremony for the return of the remains of six U.S. soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, Saturday, March 7, 2026 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad El pasado mes de julio, los Estados Unidos e Israel bombardearon las instalaciones de energía nuclear e investigación nuclear de Irán durante doce días. Tras unos días, las dos potencias beligerantes – que no contaban con la autorización de las Naciones Unidas para esta guerra de agresión

Image via the PCC Via Granma, translated from the Spanish The blockade does exist, it is real, and it has an ongoing effect on Cuban Public Health. This Friday, Deputy Minister Dr. Julio Guerra Izquierdo explained on the television program Mesa Redonda the direct and harsh impact of the United States Government's policy against Cuba. He noted that this policy has intensified over the past two months, creating a blockade to prevent fuel from reaching the country. He stressed t

What I witnessed over those days was not the Cuba of Western propaganda. It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another. Aid arriving in Cuba via the Nuestra América Convoy, March 18 -- image via the Progressive International on X By Gerardo Delgado, Common Dreams I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my ro

Trump and Vance at a ceremony for the return of the remains of six U.S. soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, Saturday, March 7, 2026 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad Last year, in July, the United States and Israel bombarded Iran’s nuclear energy and nuclear research facilities over twelve days. After a few days, the two belligerent powers—who had no United Nations authorisation for this war of aggression—opened the door for a ceasefire . At that time,

“There can be no clearer example of a violation of human rights than the economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.” By Muhemsi Mwakihwelo How can one describe a situation where one country prevents another from establishing friendly relations or engaging in trade with other countries? How can one describe a situation where one country prevents another from buying or selling goods, including essential items such as medicine, spare parts, machinery, and energy

The U.S. wants to curb international medical brigades. Some countries cave in to these demands, but others resist. Cuban internationalist medical personnel -- image via the Communist party of Cuba By Volker Hermsdorf, junge Welt, Berlin, 27 March 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. U.S. President Donald Trump not only has his military bomb civilians, schools, and hospitals, but he also endangers the health and lives of countless patients in regions that depend on the hel

For what the Pentagon wants for this war, we could easily restore SNAP and Medicaid benefits to struggling Americans. Pete Hegseth on February 27 -- public domain image By Lindsay Koshgarian Secretary of War Pete Hegseth would rather use your tax dollars to bomb Iranian families than feed American families. That’s the upshot of news that Hegseth is prepared to request $200 billion in funding for the Pentagon’s new war on Iran . That’s far higher than earlier reports that put

For Generation Z, the war in Iran is clouding the future we already worried would be bad. Mass rally in New York against the war on Iran, February 28 -- image via news video screenshot By Chisom Okorafor I wasn’t alive yet for the beginning of the Iraq War. But as I watch the U.S. war on Iran threaten to spiral out of control, I’m starting to see what it might have felt like. The Iraq War was predicated on a lie , but the Bush administration at least attempted to justify it.

CPS in Solidarity with Cuba 26 March 2026 The Communist Party of Swaziland hereby issues this formal declaration of solidarity with the Republic of Cuba and calls upon the working class of Swaziland, progressive movements throughout Africa, and the international community to provide substantive support during this critical period. The Communist Party of Swaziland formally condemns the prolonged economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. This blockade constitu

What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended. Young woman at a ceremony in Tabriz, Iran, March 18, 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Common Dreams For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. O