The Iranian flag draped over a burnt out building in Tehran, January 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, member of the Politburo and spokesperson of theTudeh Party of Iran and the editor of party’s organ, Nameh Mardom., tells the British Communist newspaper the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change HOW do you assess th

Image via the KKE Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) on the tragic train accident in Córdoba The Political Bureau of the PCTE expresses its dismay and sorrow following the derailment in Córdoba, which has so far resulted in 39 deaths and dozens of injuries. We extend our condolences to the families of the deceased and our support and solidarity to the injured, as well as to the emergency personnel, the workers from the affe

Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Cualquiera que sea de la antigua Yugoslavia entenderá inmediatamente el título. Mujo es un personaje bosnio legendario (aunque ficticio), protagonista (junto con su inseparable amigo Haso) de innumerables chistes con los que crecieron generaciones de yugoslavos. Las guerras se cobraron muchas vidas, borraron pueblos y destruyeron futuros, pero Mujo sobrevivió incluso a los días más oscuros del conflicto

More than a political figure, Trump acts as a chaotic stress-test on American institutions, civic norms, and political culture, revealing the weaknesses the system has long ignored. Trump in December, 2025 -- U.S. Institute of Peace, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Martina Moneke Every system eventually encounters the user it was never designed to survive. In finance, that user is the bad actor who ignores best practices, exploits loopholes, and treats safeguards as sugge

Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Resisting Imperialism with Popular Organization Attack on Venezuela is a Threat to Latin America and Brazil Political Statement by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people in the face of the criminal imperialist attack carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and demands the freedom of Presiden

Chibichiri cave in Yomitan village, Okinawa. A place of mass suicide of Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians during the Battle of Okinawa -- Vitalie Ciubotaru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak and Atul Chandra We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you walk. The air is damp, the light disappears quickly,

Mass rally in Tehran condemning US and Israeli threats and intervention in Iran, January 12, 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of Yugoslavs grew up with. Wars took many lives, erased towns, and destroyed f

More than 420 researchers and scholars globally have signed a statement denouncing the U.S. attacks on January 3 and calling for reparations for Venezuela. We, the undersigned scholars, students, and academic workers, unequivocally condemn the Trump administration’s January 3 strikes against Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The attacks are a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter by a US president claiming, “I don’t n

The heroes are honoured in Havana -- image via Granma on Facebook Remarks by Army Corps General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of the Interior, in honour of the 32 heroes who fell in the line of duty in the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela delivered January 15, 2025, translated from the Spanish: Family members of our 32 heroes, combatants, compatriots: On this solemn morning, the homeland mourns

The KKE condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran In its statement (January 15) on developments in Iran, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE stresses the following : The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran, in cooperation with the state of Israel, within the framework of broader imperialist competition aimed at shaping political

View of Nuuk from the top of Ukkusissat -- Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen El 14 de enero, pocas horas antes de la histórica reunión en Washington entre los representantes de Groenlandia y Dinamarca y sus homólogos estadounidenses, J. D. Vance y Marco Rubio, Dinamarca y varios de sus aliados de la OTAN reforzaron su presencia militar en Groenlandia y anunciaron que enviarían más refuerzos. Algunos interpretaron esta medida como una p

The youth subculture in the late GDR was largely anti-communist: East Berlin skinhead poses in his apartment (12.8.1990) -- image via Junge Welt Interview with Stefan Wellgraf, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin. Junge Welt, 16 January 2026. Translation and notes by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Richard Malone: Your newly published book ”Staatsfeinde” ("Enemies of the State") deals with "right-wing subcultures in East Germany since the 1970s." A contributio

Greenland's flag -- Christoph Strässler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of its NATO allies reinforced their military presence in Greenland and announced that more reinforcements would follow. Some interpreted this move as pressure on the Trump Administr

ICE is murdering citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants first. How many more need to die before ICE is held accountable? Sign at a NYC rally in the wake of the murder of Renee Good -- SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Farrah Hassen On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agen

Big Oil is a winner in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, even if they don’t extract a drop of oil from there. Donald Trump attends a roundtable with energy officials and executives from the oil industry in the East Room of the White House, Friday, January 9, 2026 -- public domain image By Basav Sen Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There are often multiple motivations for war

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof with the Trump at the NATO Summit in June, 2025 -- public domain image The unacceptable, hypocritical stance of the Dutch government and House of Representatives towards the imperialist intervention of the US in Venezuela International Commission of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands On 8 January, the bankrupt outgoing Schoof cabinet held a debate with the House of Representatives on the imperialist interventio

Image from the riots via X By Vijay Prashad Irán está sumido en el caos. En todo el país se han producido protestas de diferente magnitud, con un aumento de la violencia que ha llevado a manifestantes y policías a la morgue. Lo que comenzó como paros laborales y protestas contra la inflación reunió a una serie de descontentos, con mujeres y jóvenes frustrados por un sistema incapaz de garantizar su sustento. Irán ha estado sometido a un prolongado asedio económico y ha sido a

Image via X By Vijay Prashad Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood. Iran has been under prolonged economic siege and has been attacked directly by Israel an

Trump on January 6 -- public domain image By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India The year 2026 has begun with a dangerous alarm for the future of the world, showing the blood-stained fangs of imperialism. The United States, under President Donald Trump, carried out a terrible attack on Venezuela, forcibly captured the incumbent President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro and transferred him to the United States to face prosecution. This was not a covert operation a

CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons By Shadab Murtaza It is often assumed that the collapse of clerical authoritarianism in Iran would inevitably result in the establishment of a government subordinate to the United States. This assumption overlooks a fundamental historical reality. In the 1979 revolution, the Iranian people dismantled not only the rule of the Pahlavi monarchy but also the system of domination through which US imperialism exercised decisive influence over Iran