The arrest of a drug kingpin in Mexico has reignited debate over how active U.S. military and intelligence forces are in Mexico and where they might be headed. Marco Rubio meets with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City, Mexico, September 3, 2025 -- public domain image By John P. Ruehl FBI Director Kash Patel’s announcement on January 23 regarding the arrest of Canadian drug trafficker Ryan Wedding in Mexico led to immediate diplomatic tension between Washingto

With statements from Algeria, Greece, Brazil and Cyprus Enrico Strocchi, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS) Solidarity with Cuba in the Face of the U.S. Imperialist Blockade The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS) strongly condemns the new reckless escalation of U.S. imperialism against Cuba. The presidential decree issued on January 29, 2026, which threatens to i

“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies. Image via video screenshot By Jeff Bryant Chicago schoolteacher Claudia Morales may have been reflecting the feelings of most Americans about life under the Trump presidential administration when she told Our Schools, “Every day, there’s yet another abuse. It’s scary. And it’s coming from our own government.” In her work as a bilingual program teacher and bilingu

The US embargo, as well as new sanctions ordered by Trump, is partly rooted in leftover Cold War ideology and geopolitical posturing, but largely appears to reflect personal vendetta and financial gain. Cubans rally outside the US embassy in January 2026 -- image via news video screenshot By Julia Norman, Common Dreams The Trump administration’s latest threat to impose secondary tariffs on any nation selling oil to Cuba represents a dramatic and catastrophic tightening of

With Cuba, against the imperialist criminal aggression, statement translated from the Spanish Within the context of competition with its imperialist rivals, as an additional move towards the broadening of imperialist conflict, the United States has developed a new national security doctrine. This doctrine, which is being implemented now, aims at complete control over our continent. To achieve this, they have deployed a military fleet in the Caribbean since October, and on Jan

Owen Nxumlao, Minister of Education and Training in Swaziland, news video screenshot Jason Cohen, Friends of Swazi Freedom As the school year begins in Swaziland students who are already facing social and economic insecurity due to the exploitative nature of the Tinkhundla regime are now faced with the threat of expulsion and discipline due to their deviation from heterosexual norms according to Owen Nxumlao who is the Minister of Education and Training in Swaziland. In a sta

Portraits of Chavez, Bolivar and Maduro in Venezuela -- Guaiquerí, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Celina della Croce U.S. President Donald Trump has not shied away from admitting his thirst for Venezuelan oil. On 16 December 2025, in the leadup to the 3 January bombing of Caracas and kidnapping of the country’s president and first lady, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, he claimed ownership over Venezuela resources, stating that “America will not… allow a hostile regime to tak

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents budget -- image cropped from news video screenshot Both the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) have released statements condemning the new Union Budget. Budget Priorities Detached from the Concerns of the Masses The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 1, 2026) the following statement: The Union Budget once again reflects the government’s

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Memorial Complex, Volgograd, USSR, 1980s The Workers Party of Ireland marks the anniversary of the historic Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most decisive and devastating confrontations of the Second World War. By the summer of 1942 the nazis transferred substantial forces to the Soviet-German front but despite numerical superiority the nazis could not force their way into the city and it was not until mid-September that the fascist forces were

The bar at The Foreign Correspondents Club in Bangkok, 2019 -- image via X By Kay Young Since the American War on Vietnam, Bangkok has been a key hub for international journalists and academics in Southeast Asia. It offers modern infrastructure, easy travel, and a high quality of life, allowing them to chopper into the periphery and return home for drinks. These advantages foster a professional environment removed from the region it purports to cover. Western expatriates oper

The global energy map is being redefined and brings Tehran and Caracas together: gaining control of their oil wells requires military power. January 2026 marks a turning point: Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and President Donald Trump both held key meetings with the hydrocarbon business sectors, confirming what had been hinted at for some time in analyses: the US needs to take control, by any means possible, of Venezuela and Iran’s oil resources. In Venezuela, a

Hand painted mural with the Cuban flag and Che Guevara in Old Havana -- Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons No to US Economic Terrorism Against Cuba The Communist Party USA condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump regime’s executive order of January 29, 2026—a cruel and illegal escalation of the 65-year economic war against Cuba. By declaring a fraudulent "national emergency" to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies, U.S. imperialism has reac

An election campaign poster of Pheu Thai Party on the Charot Withi Thong Road in Sawankhalok district, Sukhothai province, January 2026 -- image via Chainwit, Wikimedia Commons By Kay Young As Thailand goes to the polls, three visions compete: one which experiments in strange new populist economics, one which critiques from the seminar room, and one paying to keep the countryside quiet. In the Thai election, scheduled for 8 February, we can see the Global South’s political la

Image via jonathan buttle-smith jbs, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Condemn U.S. economic terror against Cuba: Canada must act! The Communist Party of Canada condemns the Trump administration’s January 29th executive order, a dangerous and illegal escalation seeking to strangle Cuba by imposing a total blockade on its fuel supplies. This latest act of economic warfare in a 65 year history of U.S. aggression is driven by a singular goal: to destroy the socialist revolution that, 9

The following is the joint statement issued by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party: Against US Threats to Cuba We strongly condemn the threats issued by the United States of America against socialist Cuba and denounce its decision to block the shipment of oil. This is against the international law and a violation of the UN Charter. Af

Declaration of the Revolutionary Government, translated from the Spanish The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the new escalation of the United States Government against Cuba, in its efforts to impose an absolute siege on fuel supplies to our country. The executive order of the U.S. President, announced on January 29, 2026, declares a supposed national emergency under which his government will be able to impose trade tariffs on imports of products from

On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation 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, People's Dispatch In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a genera

Swiss tank crew participates in exercises in Germany with US and other forces, February, 2025 -- public domain image The Communist Party (Switzerland) strongly opposes the decision to increase the security and military budget to 31 billion francs by raising value added tax (VAT) by 0.8 percentage points. VAT is an unfair and antisocial tax, which everyone—from workers to billionaires—pays equally and which should simply be abolished: increasing it to finance the arms race—jus

Statement by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs We condemn in the strongest possible terms the new US escalation against Cuba. Now the US government intends to impose a total blockade on Cuba's fuel supplies. In order to justify that, it resorts to a long list of lies with the purpose of portraying Cuba as a threat, which it actually is not. Every day there are new evidence showing that the o

By Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) firmly denounces President Trump's new Executive Order that seeks to impose a total blockade on fuel supplies to Cuba in order to create greater difficulties for our people and prevent the construction of our socialist model. That fascist government continues to escalate it