The data centers popping up across the South and Midwest don’t just pollute and raise utility bills — they keep Americans hooked on wars for oil. Construction at the Southaven, Mississippi data center -- image via news video screenshot from April, 2026 By Melissa Garriga Across the country, resistance to data centers is rising even as plans are steadily being made to build new ones. According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of new data centers — 67 percent — are being

Final Declaration of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-Imperialism, “100 Years with Fidel”, translated from the Spanish On May 2, 2026, 766 delegates from 36 countries, representing 152 political, social, union, solidarity, youth, and peace organizations, came together in Havana for the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-Imperialism, “100 Years with Fidel” and declared that: We’re holding this meeting in a world facing multidimensi

The real story is not the candle in the window. It is the hand that cut the fuel. May Day march beginning before dawn in Havana -- image via the PCC on X By Michelle Ellner, Common Dreams When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on balconies, mothers fanning infants through another airless night. They come for the line outside the pharmacy, the bus that n

TO THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' PARTIES OF THE WORLD ON THE OCCASION OF MAY 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY - 2026 COMRADES! On this May 1st, 2026, Chilean communists abroad raise our banners high to fraternally salute those who, from every corner of the planet, are building a future of justice. This year, our battle cry resonates more powerfully than ever: Peace and Socialism! U.S. imperialism, in full decline, seeks to impose its world order based on the arrogance of the power

US President George W. Bush speaks with Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor during their meeting at Osu Castle, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 in Accra, Ghana By Vijay Prashad In February 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US President George W. Bush stood before a small gathering of journalists and dismissed swirling rumors with a chuckle. The United States, he claimed, had no intention of building military bases in Africa. “That’s baloney,” he said. The casual, dismi

The fossil fuel industry is aligning itself with fascist forces to remain profitable. To survive, it is prepared to take the whole planet, as well as liberal democracy, down with it. 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 Cynthia Kaufman, Common Dreams The fossil fuel industry is the most powerful and destructive industry in the history

Image via the PCC Via the Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On May 1st, Cuban squares will serve as platforms where the people of this archipelago, with their proletarian strength, will uphold their right to be a free, independent, sovereign, and peaceful nation. Joined by hundreds of friends from around the globe who have come to the island to share in the daily resilience of a nation that pushes through every obstacle placed in its way, the

Image via the PCC By Emilia Reed, special to Granma, translated from the Spanish Last night, while I was on my cell phone for a while, my neighbor Marta stumbled upon a poll on Facebook.: "Do you support So-and-so or Mengano?" Two options: a counter that shoots up at full speed and, in under an hour, a striking result—"84% So-and-so.". Soon after, that screenshot made its way around WhatsApp accompanied by a blunt comment: "People have spoken." Marta, who is not a specialist

Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown's Island, Richmond Virginia -- image via X By Guillermo Barreto Cuando una persona hiere a otra, el sentido común indica que esa persona debe disculparse y preferiblemente resarcir el daño que pudo haber hecho. Disculparse, compensar el daño y asegurar que no lo volverá a hacer. Parecen normas básicas de convivencia. Convivencia entre personas, pero también entre sectores de una sociedad y entre naciones enteras. La historia nos mues

Palestine Action Protest, London, Saturday 6th September, 2025 -- indigonolan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Various Sources More than 130 prominent scholars, writers, and public figures signed an open letter dated April 24, 2026 addressed to the UK Court of Appeal in support of individuals associated with Palestine Action, a group that -- in a profoundly anti-democratic move -- has been proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK. The letter simply reads: “We oppose

A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. Image via X By Sonali Kolhatkar A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause of homelessness in the United States: “For the past two decades, rents and house prices have been rising faster than incomes across most regions of the United States.” The logic of this claim—based on documented evidence—is straightforward. People aren’t earning enough to pay re

The international class-oriented trade union movement, workers, and militant trade unions around the world honor, through struggle, the 140th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886. They honor the heroic May Day of the working class, symbol of the relentless struggle against capitalist barbarity, with new class struggles, determination, and internationalist solidarity. On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the mo

Statement of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties We strongly condemn the growing multidimensional aggression of the United States against Cuba, which has been implemented since January 1, 1959. At this stage, what we face goes beyond an economic, commercial, and financial blockade that violates the international law and has reached intolerable levels of criminality; it is the policy of total annihilation which includes direct military threats following

Trump’s unprovoked war has killed thousands, strengthened Iran’s position, and made life more difficult for struggling Americans. Trump at a Turning Point USA event, April 17 -- public domain image By Mitchell Zimmerman Did you know that Germany won World War II? Because so many died in the Soviet Union, the combined Russian and U.S. military deaths in World War II were over twice that of Germany. So Germany won — except for the small matter of the Soviets and the U.S. occupy

The meeting of the Working Group of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) is taking place at a time when the world bears painful witness to US imperialism and Israeli savage military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, and the continuing genocidal policies of Israeli government in Palestine. The latest phase of military aggression, that started on 28 February, has once more pushed the Middle East region into a dangerous spiral of widening m

Trump continues to issue maximalist demands for conditions he helped create. The American president’s lack of strategic and emotional maturity only promises more war. Trump at a Turning Point USA event on April 17, 2026 -- public domain image By Jamal Kanj, Common Dreams The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the temporary ceasefire is the culmination of an American policy defined by strategic incoherence. At the center stands Donald Trump, whose shifting positions, co

Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are actually declining. Image screenshot via promotional video By Robin Scher Earlier this year, a little-noticed institutional complaint was filed against the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. It did not challenge a specific policy position or legal argument. Instead, it raised a more fundamental question: when instit

Photo Cartoon by Moro By Raúl Antonio Capote, translated from the Spanish The nature of war has changed radically. This may seem like an overly categorical statement, but it is a reality defined by the nature of current conflicts, marked by the rapid development of the technological revolution. Military Information Support Operations (MISO), aimed at influencing “enemy” audiences—their emotions, behaviors, and motivations—are part of this approach to waging conflict. The term

Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown's Island, Richmond Virginia -- WomenArtistUpdates, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Guillermo Barreto When one person hurts another, common sense dictates that the person should apologize and, preferably, make amends for the harm they may have caused. Apologize, make amends, and ensure it won’t happen again. These seem like basic rules of coexistence. Coexistence among people, but also among sectors of a society and among entir

Image of Meyer via X South African Communist Party SACP on the ill-advised appointment of apartheid-era politician Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US Friday, 17 April 2026 - The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted with great concern the decision of the President of the Republic of South Africa to appoint Mr Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US. While the president has the constitutional authority to appoint ambassadors to represent th