We face an unprecedented fascist and imperialist threat from the Trump administration; mealy-mouthed centrist imperialism just won’t do the trick. Tim Kaine at a press conference in February, 2026 -- public domain image By Joseph Bouchard, Common Dreams On Friday, the Trump administration announced a “deal” handing the United States 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude oil, roughly a fifth of the country’s total reserves (the largest on Earth), on leases running up to 100 y

While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the US is not doomed to act this way forever. Trump and allied leaders at the Shield of the Americas summit in March, 2026 -- public domain image By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Common Dreams Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never prov

Carney with Trump at the White House in May, 2025 -- public domain image Via the Communist Party of Canada The trade war with the United States is already causing devastation for workers across Canada. Despite doing the right thing and walking away from a bad deal on tariff negotiations, the response from the Carney government has been to make working people pay for the deepening trade war and to show a willingness to make profound concessions that will hurt working people. T

The conditions have been reportedly so horrible on the USS Lincoln that, according to a video obtained by The Crimson Ledger, it left 6 sailors to choose between life on the boat, and potential death in the water. By R. L. Richards, The Crimson Ledger, Washington DC In the North Arabian Sea, the illegal and unauthorized war into the sovereign state of Iran pushes onward despite legal and political resistance to US President Donald Trump’s clearly genocidal and colonial campai

White supremacist and Jan. 6 coup participant Jake Lange was arrested in Minneapolis this weekend after the vehicle he was riding in drove onto a sidewalk and into a crowd of counter-protesters demonstrating against his racist event. -- image via People's World By R. L. Richards, People's World MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Jake Lang, a 31-year-old far-right agitator and provocateur, was arrested Saturday in connection with a riot that erupted following a staged protest outside Minneapo

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at how so-called Black Ribbon Day is nothing more than far right anti-communist lies and propaganda that serve to advance the new McCarthyite wave by Trump-Rubio in the USA and historical revisionism in Europe. It is also widely supported by western liberals and social democrats playing their role as facilitators of fascism. References: The Left Chapter: Secrets and Lies -- Chrystia Freeland's grandfather and collaborating with th

Cuban President speaking at the IMCWP Presentation to the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties August 10, 2026, Havana, Cuba Anita Waters, Organizational Secretary, Communist Party USA Dear Comrades. I bring you heartfelt greetings of solidarity from your sister party, CPUSA. It is a deep honor for me to represent us here in socialist Cuba, in this year, the centenary of Fidel Castro, hero of working people everywhere. Thank you to the Communist Party of

Cuban assemble in Havana for the 2026 May 1 march -- image via the Communist Party of Cuba By Vijay Prashad For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The latest phase of this economic war has targeted the island’s most vulnerable artery: its energy supply. Six months after Washington intensified pressure on countries and companies supplying oil to Cuba, the policy has no

Vessels in the Staright of Hormuz -- image via news video screenshot By Vijay Prashad For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate evidence is emerging in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and Oman are negotiating an arrangement under which Tehran could oversee vessels entering the Gulf while Muscat manages outbound tra

Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducting a maritime interception operation, July 16, 2026 -- public domain image Via the Tudeh Party of Iran Translated Excerpts from the Editorial of Nameh Mardom, issue no. 1265, published Monday 27 July 2026 The devastating war unleashed by the third act of aggression by United States-led imperialism against our homeland [in just over one year] has, over the past thirteen days, inflicted severe damage on the cou

In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. Western media outlets reported this as a total ban on voting. Ortega in 2025 -- image via video screenshot on X By John Perry, Common Dreams July 19 is a key date in Nicaragua’s calendar—the anniversary of the victory of its Sandinista revolution in

Public domain image By Carlos Ron On 14 July, at a summit in Orlando, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, declared that Mexico’s cartels and Mexico’s government are ‘one and the same.’ He offered no evidence. President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded some; none came. Mexico’s Security Cabinet answered with figures—tens of thousands of arrests, hundreds of tons of narcotics seized—while Cole’s office remained silent. The accusation was never meant to

At a press conference on Wednesday, July 29, Drew Garvie, leader of the Communist Party of Canada denounced what he described as a "corporate coup" unfolding in Canada as the Carney government uses the threat to Canadian sovereignty posed by the Trump administration as cover for a a corporate agenda. "We're here today because the federal government is using the attacks on Canadian sovereignty and independence by the United States government to carry out a corporate coup, a co

Will the federal government have the guts to do what it takes to protect the American people’s guts? By Sonali Kolhatkar The recent, record-breaking outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to lettuce consumption has left Americans wondering what food is safe to eat. What brands of lettuce are safe and which aren’t are important questions. But even more important might be why such outbreaks happen in the first place — and how our government has made them increasingly likely.

Communist Party of Swaziland extends its solidarity with the people of Cuba, condemns the continued US imperialist blockade Wednesday, 22 July 2026:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) extends its unwavering revolutionary solidarity to the Communist Party of Cuba, the revolutionary government, and the heroic people of Cuba, who continue to defend socialism and the right to self-determination under one of the longest and most ruthless campaigns of imperialist aggression in

Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale. President Donald J. Trump with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the 2026 NATO Summit -- public domain image By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares, Common Dreams In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against th

Critics panned the publication for not only its warmongering but also “unfounded claims seeking to tar domestic movements for social change as agents of a foreign government.” Rubio, May 22, 2026 -- public domain image By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams While some Republicans in Congress cheered the US Department of State’s Monday report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” American and Cuban critics blasted it as part of both President Donald Trump’s push to

ICE raid in Virginia, May 15, 2026 -- public domain image By Mitchell Zimmerman In less than one week, ICE agents killed twice. Neither victim was the man they were looking for. And each time their excuses made no sense. But the killings served a purpose: terrorizing immigrant communities, in pursuit of Trump’s white nationalist agenda. On July 7 in Houston, masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves stopped and shot to death Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52 year old Mexic

Trump on July 4, 2026 -- public domain image By Rezgar Akrawi When Vladimir Lenin wrote about imperialism and considered it the highest stage of capitalism, he was tracking the moment capital shifted from the space of free competition into the world of monopoly, where banks merged with industry, the state turned into a direct instrument serving finance capital, and the world was redivided by force among the great monopolistic blocs. Today, more than a century later, we stand

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits — and the farmers who fed them — are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon. Trump walking past military equipment at Fort Bragg, June 2025 -- public domain image By Danaka Katovich In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average household had to shell out for the Pentagon last yea