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

From the Soviet Press, June 1960: THE DEPARTMENT store in Maryita Roshcha, which was once a run-down section in an outlying part of Moscow, has been growing with the neighborhood. Maryina Roshcha in the last few years has mushroomed with new houses, schools, clubs and shops. Look at the attractive window display of the department store and it is apparent that the Soviet purchaser has more goods to buy and more money to buy with than was true even a few months ago. The quantit

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

According to LIBRE, foreign interference and an electoral manipulation plot affected the decision of the Honduran people and popular sovereignty. Rixi Moncada denouncing the results at a press conference -- image via Partido LIBRE on X By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The presidential candidate for the ruling Liberty and Refoundation party (LIBRE), Rixi Moncada, announced that an “electoral coup” was committed in the presidential elections on November 30. “Here in Hondura

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

Red Army packer Maria Ivanova Petrova putting medical supplies and instruments into a parachute bag to be dropped from a plane for wounded guerrilla fighters and soldiers of Red Army units operating behind enemy lines during the Great Patriotic War, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1817

Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on December 7, 2025, mass demonstrations in solidarity with Greek farmers took place in Athens and Thessaloniki, organized by workers’ unions. Student unions and other mass organizations also participated. In Athens, the rally took place outside the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, where those gathered emphasized that workers and toiling farmers are united against the anti-people policies of the govern

Lenin in conversation with local peasants, illustration, P. Vassiliev, USSR c. 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1816

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

By C. J. Atkins, People's World MONTREAL—“This is a city whose history has, to no small degree, been written by Communists,” declared Communist Party of Canada leader Liz Rowley as the 41st Central Convention of the party opened in Montreal, Quebec, on Dec. 5. It’s the hometown of the famed Dr. Norman Bethune, who first proposed a public healthcare system for Canada and died in China offering his medical expertise to the revolution there. “It’s where the Communist Party of Qu

Indigenous leaders, farmers, and environmental activists worldwide face harassment, violence, and legal threats while defending land, water, and ecosystems, highlighting the urgent need for stronger protections and international accountability. Banner at a protest after the murder of Honduran environmental activist Juan López -- image via X By Reynard Loki Land and environmental defenders—Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives

Image from December 5 via X Against compulsory military service: solidarity with striking students in Germany! Young Swiss communists stand in solidarity with German students who reject the reintroduction of military conscription! The youth wing of the Communist Party (Switzerland) - the Swiss Communist Youth - expresses its strongest solidarity with the students in Germany who went on strike December 5 against compulsory military service, a struggle that we have always supp

Subway trainee students at the Moscow Railway School No. 1, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #1815

At the historic cemetery before the pantheon honoring those who fell in Internationalist Missions, floral offerings were laid that were sent by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution; by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the PCC's Central Committee and President of the Republic; by the Association of Combatants, family members, and on behalf of the Cuban people. Photos via Dunia Álvarez Palacios Via the Communist Party of Cuba, tran

Finnish Government, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CP of Finland : Money for Social and Health Services – Not for War! Global military spending in 2024 amounted to approximately 2,390 billion euros – nearly 2.4 trillion euros. By far the largest spender was the United States (865.2 billion euros). Next came China (around 298.5 billion euros) and Russia (around 129.5 billion euros. The combined military expenditure of the European Union member states was about 343 billion eu

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature. The silt filled Matilija Dam in California -- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License, via Wikimedia Commons By Tara Lohan With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every ma

Karl Marx portrait at the Nanjie Commune in the People's Republic of China, 2011, Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons -- Daily LIFT #1814

On December 3, 2025 in a profoundly anti-democratic move, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal moved to ban the KPP. Solidarity statements from parties in Algeria, Norway, the USA, Chile and Belarus. 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 continues it

The West serves as the simultaneous judge and executioner, the honest researcher and the weapons manufacturer, the violator and the self-appointed defender of human rights. Lloyd Austin meets with Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 18, 2023 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Commit