Canada, despite claiming to have imposed an arms embargo, continues to fuel the violence unabated, its factories producing fighter jet components, explosives, and munitions that move through US channels directly into the assault. By Anne Kamath & Umer Azad, Common Dreams For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights , and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking, and cracking fast. For too long, Canada has cloaked its i

Marchers during the General Strike on December 11 in Portugal -- image via the Portuguese Communist Party As we welcome the year 2026, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) addresses its militant and class-oriented greetings to workers, trade unionists, and progressive peoples across the globe. The new year finds the international working class confronted with old and new challenges, but also armed with experience, organization, and the unbreakable strength of solidari

From India to Portugal to Italy and the United States and beyond, the working class fought back in 2025! Marchers during the December 11 General Strike in Portugal -- image via the Portuguese Communist Party By Cameron Harrison From the ports of Italy to the mines of India, from the public squares of Portugal to the picket lines re-emerging in the United States, in 2025 the international working class demonstrated a militant retort to the deepening crises of the capitalist sy

Gaza, December 2025 -- image via the UNRWA on X By Vijay Prashad El 19 de enero de 2025 entró en vigor un alto al fuego destinado a detener los bombardeos israelíes contra la población palestina en Gaza. Este alto al fuego fue fruto de un proceso de mediación por parte de Egipto, Qatar y los Estados Unidos, que había quedado sellado en junio de 2024 con la Resolución 2735 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas. Sin embargo, Israel rechazó el acuerdo y esperó hasta

Another Israeli genocide is not a distant threat; it is an encroaching reality that will be finalized unless it is stopped. A Gaza street, December 2025 -- image via Philippe Lazzarini of the UNRWA on X By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly 80 years of rel

Gaza, December 2025 -- image via the UNRWA on X By Vijay Prashad On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been sealed in June 2024 with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735 . However, the Israelis rejected the agreement and waited until Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election to proceed so that Trump coul

Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious. Trump on December 17, 2025 -- public domain image By Michelle Ellner, Common Dreams The loudest question in Washington right now is whether Donald Trump is going to invade Venezuela . The quieter, and far more dangerous, reality is this: he probably won’t. Not because he cares about Venezuelan lives, but because he has

How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza? By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Common Dreams The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela , while also destroying dozens of small

Trump addressing top US military figures in September -- public domain image By Biljana Vankovska Like every U.S. administration since the Cold War, the Trump administration has released a document titled the National Security Strategy (NSS). I use the word “titled” deliberately, for if this text were not stamped with the official seal of the United States, it would hardly merit the designation of “strategy.” It is a document that contains little that is strategic and even

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

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

Image of the protest via X Various Sources The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader known for her far right positions and explicit support for US military intervention in Venezuela. This decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee triggered considerable backlash both domestically in Norway and internationally due to Machado’s association with calls for conflict escalation, support for Israel and its genocide in Gaza and

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

The South African Communist Party on Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, South China provocations by the US imperialist regime, Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Western Sahara and Swaziland. The South African Communist Party (SACP) convened its Augmented Central Committee (ACC) at Birchwood Hotel Boksburg from 28 – 30 November 2025. The ACC assessed the implementation of the SACP annual programme of action and resolutions of the 15th National Congress and the 5th Special National Congress. Ac

Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People from the New Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Communist Party of Swaziland and the World Federation of Trade Unions. Andrew Ratto, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Statements for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People NCP of the Netherlands, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People : On 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with the Pales

Workers Party of Ireland Message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People In 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year’s observance takes place in the context of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. The Workers Party of Ireland, since the beginning, has taken to the streets to demonstrate against the genocidal ac

In practice, this ceasefire amounts to a one-sided truce, where Israel can carry out a relentless, low-grade war on Gaza, while Palestinians are systematically denied the right to respond or defend themselves. A "Yellow Line" block in Gaza -- image via Drop Site News video screenshot on X By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruc

Image via the US ambassador to Sri Lanka on X On the NPP Government’s Military MOU with the United States The Communist Party of Sri Lanka strongly condemns the NPP government for entering into a new military Memorandum of Understanding with the United States National Guard under the so-called State Partnership Program (SPP). This agreement between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the Montana National Guard represents another step in the militarisation of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ an

The coming months and years mark the most critical fight for truth in the conflict’s history. Catastrophic devastation in Gaza -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv reestablish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide , but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built on myths and outr

The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. People amid the catastrophic devastation in Gaza as winter approaches -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza . Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinian