Kast and Argentinian president Milei on December 16 -- Argentina.gob.ar , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 percent to 41.84 percent. Kast ran as the candidate of the Cambio por Chile (Change for Chile) platform and was backed by all the parties of the traditional right and the cent

Kast campaigning in October, 2025 -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Atilio A. Borón José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme right-wing force consolidated as a result of the convergence of two radical variants of Pinochetism —one led by Kast and the other, even more extreme, by Johannes Kaiser— to which rushed to join the standard-bearer of a political fiction calle

The 41st Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada convened in Montreal from December 5-7, 2025, amidst a consequential and dangerous period for the working class in Canada and worldwide. The Convention met in a spirit of political unity, determined to analyze and respond to an accelerating imperialist drive towards world war, a rightward shift by the federal government, and a rapidly intensifying corporate assault. Delegates assessed a situation where the Carney g

Nigel Farage speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February -- Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The left and the labour movement ignore recent advances by Reform UK at our peril”, Robert Griffiths warned the Communist Party of Britain’s political committee on Sunday (December 14). He was speaking after nine local council by-elections in England and Scotland showed gains in seats

Often overlooked in traditional emergency management, women play a critical role in preparedness, risk reduction, and building resilient communities. Representational image -- Kartiki Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Reynard Loki On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and children to board first while the men

What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially? Netanyahu and Trump in September, 2025 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the US administration is serious about pushing forward the secon

Donald Trump on the USS Harry S. Truman, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad Desde que Hugo Chávez assumiu o poder em 1998, os Estados Unidos têm tentado derrubar a Revolução Bolivariana. Eles tentaram de tudo, exceto uma invasão militar em grande escala: um golpe militar, a construção de um presidente substituto, o corte do acesso ao sistema financeiro global, a imposição de várias sanções, a sabotagem da rede elétrica, o envio de mercenários e a tentat

On December 3, 2025 in a profoundly anti-democratic move, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal moved to ban the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). Solidarity statements from parties in Brazil, Spain and Catalonia. On December 3, 2025  in a profoundly anti-democratic move , Poland's Constitutional Tribunal (TK) ruled that the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) violates the country’s constitution. You can read the response to this by the party itself here: The Communist Party of Poland

Trump aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted  to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, selecting a substitute president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing layers of sanctions, sabotaging the electricity grid, sending in merc

Skyline of Pudong, Shanghai, seen from Suzhou creek area -- Steffen Wurzel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Shiran Illanperuma Is Asia possible? This provocation comes from a recent intervention by Tricontinental Asia, the latest in a series of conjunctural analyses on the Asian continent. There is increasing acknowledgement that the world economy’s centre of gravity is shifting to Asia. Home to 60 percent of the world’s population, the continent contributes to 70 per

Screenshot from a Department of Homeland Security video of the attack helicopter approaching the tanker The Communist Party USA condemns in the strongest terms the U.S. government’s illegal seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker which reports indicate was en route to Cuba. This is an act of piracy and a brazen escalation of imperialist aggression against the people of Latin America. Under the fraudulent pretext of combating “terrorism” and “drugs,” this criminal action has two

Trump in the hangar bay of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington, October 28, 2025 -- public domain image By Atul Chandra The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety,” threatened to invade Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” to protect Christians from an alleged genocide, and demanded that the Taliban return Bagram airbase with warnings of uns

Deaths in ICE facilities have reached their highest point in decades as the agency continues to abuse detainees and resist oversight. Adelanto immigration detention center -- image via news video screenshot By Farrah Hassen Gabriel Garcia-Aviles was a 56-year-old grandfather with a work permit who’d been living in the U.S. for over 30 years. He was a beloved member of his Southern California community. This fall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Garci

The relentless push for data centers is raising US power bills and polluting US communities. It doesn’t have to be this way. Virginia data center -- image via news video screenshot By Michi Trota Bill Gates recently made headlines by suggesting that climate change is no longer a priority , but the American public begs to differ. In this last election, climate change was a defining issue in states like Virginia and Georgia , where voters grappled with rising energy costs. And

Image via the Communist Party of Cuba LET'S DENOUNCE THIS ACT OF IMPERIAL PIRACY! Declaration of the Cuban Delegation to the People's Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace in Our America The Cuban delegation participating in the People's Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace in Our America wants to publicly declare its support for the Communiqué of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denouncing "the brazen theft and the act of international piracy" that was the assault and seizure

Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don’t hold the president to account, a war is exactly what we may get. Trump aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Michelle Ellner, Common Dreams The first US missiles that struck the boats in the Caribbean in early September 2025 were described by

December 9, 2025 Joint Statement Issued by Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc Oppose Attempts to Whip Up Communal Tensions in Tamil Nadu The Left parties strongly condemn the attempts by the BJP and other Hindutva communal forces to whip up communal tensions in Tamil Nadu by manufacturing a controversy around the religious sites situated

Export of War Materiel: The Swiss Parliament Bows Once Again to NATO! The Communist Party (Switzerland) expresses deep concern over the political developments of recent weeks regarding the defense sector. On the one hand, the Council of States (upper house of the Swiss parliament) has approved a motion to prevent the relocation of SwissP Defence, currently owned by the Italian private group Beretta. A motion that would never have been necessary had the company - once an integ

Javier Milei speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) -- Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad A extrema-direita na América Latina está enfurecida. Jair Bolsonaro, do Brasil, e Javier Milei, da Argentina, sempre parecem furiosos e falam alto e de forma agressiva. A testosterona escorre por seus poros, um suor tóxico que se espalhou por toda a região. Seria fácil dizer que ess

Dimitris Koutsoumbas at the protests -- image via the KKE D. Koutsoumbas: Escalating the struggle is now the only way forward On 6 and 7 December, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), visited the region of Thessaly where thousands of farmers have blocked the main highways at three points with their tractors. The GS of the CC of the KKE visited the farmers’ roadblocks in Larissa and Karditsa, where he was wel