By cutting aid abroad and the social safety net at home, while spreading vaccine skepticism, the administration is ensuring that more children will suffer and die. Vaccination campaign in Nigeria, 2021 -- Ugochukwu2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By James Alwine & Elizabeth Jacobs, Common Dreams Most of us understand that children are vulnerable, innocent, and must be protected and nourished. But too often in our country, and the world, that doesn’t happen—and now t

Tarique Rahman on the campaign trail -- image via X video screenshot By Vijay Prashad and Atul Chandra El Partido Nacionalista de Bangladesh (BNP) obtuvo una victoria aplastante en las elecciones del 12 de febrero de 2026, asegurándose 212 de los 300 escaños parlamentarios. Esta victoria no representa simplemente un cambio de gobierno. Es la culminación de un proceso político que no comenzó con la ira espontánea de los estudiantes en las calles de Daca en 2024, sino mucho ant

BNP leader Tarique Rahman -- Image cropped via X By Vijay Prashad and Atul Chandra The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a sweeping victory in the 12 February 2026 elections, securing 212 of 300 parliamentary seats. This victory represents not merely a change of government. It is the culmination of a political process that began not with the spontaneous anger of students on the streets of Dhaka in 2024, but much earlier, in the strategic calculations of sections of the B

Taylor Dahlin, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Laura Capote La insistencia permanente del discurso estadounidense alrededor de la lucha contra las drogas pareciera evidenciar una cruzada moral de los sucesivos gobiernos norteamericanos en limpiar su país del consumo de drogas. Sin embargo, la realidad dista mucho de esta simple idea que suele instalarse en los medios de comunicación masivos. En realidad lo que se busca con la denominada “guerra contra las drogas”, demostra

Representational image By Laura Capote The constant insistence of the US discourse on the war on drugs seems to reflect a moral crusade by successive US administrations to rid their country of drug use. However, the truth is far removed from this simplistic idea that is often perpetuated by the mass media. In reality, what the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ seeks to achieve, as demonstrated by our region’s history, is a facade for the development of various mechanisms of imperialis

Anutin Charnvirakul arrives at the Bhumjaithai Party headquarters on election night in Thailand -- image via news video screenshot By Kay Young The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may seem, there are green shoots amongst the concrete. On 8 February 2026 following the Thai general election , there was a paradigm shift ushering in a new era of Southeast Asi

Water being distributed into buckets in South Africa -- image via news video screenshot South African Communist Party Statement on the national water crisis Thursday, 12 February 2026: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) is extremely concerned by the current national water crisis in the country. The taps have been dry for months in several parts of the country and where there has been no constant absence of water the residents have been forced to contend with inconsis

Monumento a José Martí en la Plaza de la Revolución. La Habana, Cuba. -- RG72, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons By Guillermo Barreto El 29 de enero pasado, el presidente de los EE. UU., Donald Trump, firmó una orden ejecutiva que declara una emergencia nacional y establece aranceles a productos de cualquier país que venda o suministre de otro modo petróleo a Cuba. Según la Orden, esto tiene la finalidad de proteger “la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos y su políti

Despite several theories proposed by scientists and philosophers, there are no conclusive answers. Mind in Cave, David S. Soriano -- David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Leslie Alan Horvitz Consciousness, at its basic level, is an individual’s self-awareness , comprising both external and internal phenomena; it may constitute any kind of cognition , experience , feeling, or perception . Awareness can be a continuously changing continuum, or it may shut do

Capitalism has elected AI as the next tool to distribute and dismantle labor, create a new power structure in the world, and repress social and political movements. Elon Musk in September, 2025 -- Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By João Camargo, Common Dreams AI is being diffused throughout society under chatbots, models, and agents which are explicitly reactionary and create communicative and physical walls to defend the status quo. Capitalism has elected

Image via the KKE Statement by the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) On the Greek government’s invitation to Trump’s “Board of Peace” The Greek government must, without hesitation, reject Trump’s invitation to the upcoming meeting of the so-called “Board of Peace”, whose aim is to implement the plan to turn Gaza into a US–Israeli protectorate and an “El Dorado” for investments, in which there will be no place for the homeland of the

Office of the Secretary-General South West Africa People's Organisation ( SWAPO) PARTY STATEMENT ON THE FUEL BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA (translated from the Spanish ) The SWAPO party expresses grave concern and strongly condemns the United States of America for imposing a complete blockade on fuel supplies to the Republic of Cuba. This action has significant humanitarian consequences for the Cuban people and extends a long-standing policy of unilateral economic restrictions. The

Venezuela's legislature advancing an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez -- image via news video screenshot By Guillermo Barreto On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being stabbed, he was doused with gasoline and set on fire in front of everyone present. Young Orlando was admitted to a hospital with multiple

Joint Statement «Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!» We firmly condemn US imperialism’s new escalation of aggression against the sovereignty and independence of Cuba and against the rights of the Cuban people. The US President’s Executive Order calling Cuba an «unusual and extraordinary threat» against its security is merely creating, based on a pack of falsehoods, a cynical pretext by US imperialism to try and prevent the supply of fuel to Cuba and to step up th

On Monday 9th, an open letter under the name "Let Cuba Live!" was released denouncing Donald Trump´s new Executive Order that seeks to cut off Cuba’s access to oil as an intentional attempt to induce famine and mass suffering for the Cuban people. Influential public figures, elected officials, artists, and organizations—including 22 Members of the New York City Council, Mark Ruffalo, Kal Penn, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, Alexa Avilés, 50501, Movement for Black Lives, The P

Images via Estudios Revolución Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke to the press on Thursday, February 5, in Havana about the situation facing the island in the wake of the latest criminal measures imposed by Washington and the Trump regime. This very long press conference that involved exchanges with several reporters is of real importance in understanding the situation from a perspective not generally reflected in the western media. We are translating the questions and a

Image via the TKP We will neither forget nor forgive. We will hold them accountable! - Communist Party of Turkey Three years have passed… According to official figures, which are indeed unreliable, we lost exactly 53,537 citizens in the February 6 (2023) earthquakes; and over 107,000 people were injured. And this happened right before our very eyes. There were so many comprehensive scientific reports prepared; the destruction, losses, and crisis we experienced had all been pr

Claims by officials in Washington that “Cuba’s collapse is imminent” usually coincide with a tightening of the blockade. Yet, once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their commitment to the revolution and their creative resistance in the face of the latest US attacks. Cuba's leaders head a traditional Torchlight March of tens-of-thousands in Havana in homage to National Hero José Martí, on the 173rd anniversary of his birth, January 27, 2026 -- image via X By Manolo De Los Santos,

A sign at a rally protesting government policy negatively targeting Te Tiriti o Waitangi in New Zealand, 2023 -- L Maule, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry Anti-Indigenous rhetoric and policy actions have started trending in Canada, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, reflecting what can only be described as a coordinated rollback of hard-won gains and an emboldened backlash against Indigenous self-determination. What was once de

Newsom giving a press conference in 2024 -- Caassemblyedits, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Norman Solomon, Common Dreams California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires in the state. Many national polls now rank him as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, but aligning with the ultra-wealthy is not auspicious for wooing the party’s voters. Last