The global energy map is being redefined and brings Tehran and Caracas together: gaining control of their oil wells requires military power. January 2026 marks a turning point: Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and President Donald Trump both held key meetings with the hydrocarbon business sectors, confirming what had been hinted at for some time in analyses: the US needs to take control, by any means possible, of Venezuela and Iran’s oil resources. In Venezuela, a

We, the undersigned Communist and Workers' Parties which have supported the struggle of Iranian people for peace, sovereignty, human and democratic rights, social justice, and against threats of imperialist attack are watching with grave concern the current developments in the country. We have received detailed reports, published by the fraternal Tudeh Party of Iran, regarding the circumstances surrounding the protest demonstrations that began on 28 December in Tehran. Acco

Image via Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Cropped) The Workers Party has long supported the struggle of the Iranian people for peace, sovereignty, human and democratic rights and social justice. We have received detailed reports, published by our fraternal party, the Tudeh Party of Iran, setting out the circumstances surrounding the protest demonstrations that began on 28 December in Tehran which describe the brutal mass crackdown waged by the authoriti

Scores of protesters picketed outside the US Consulate General in Cape Town. The protesters demanded that the US end its sponsorship of the Palestinian genocide. All photos by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi, Elitsha, South Africa Waving Palestinian and Iranian flags and chanting ‘Hands off Venezuela’, protesters lined the road outside the United States of America Consulate General in Cape Town as part of ‘intensified protests’ against ‘American Imperialism’ on Thursday. Led by the

Communist Party of Pakistan, Solidarity Message The Communist Party of Pakistan declares its solidarity with the working class, poor peasants, students, women, oppressed nations of Iran, and the fraternal Tudeh Party of Iran who are confronting exploitation, repression, and deepening Capitalist crises. The present upheaval is the product of acute class contradictions under a clerical-capitalist state that rules through coercion, capitalist-plunder, and ideological obscuranti

The Iranian flag draped over a burnt out building in Tehran, January 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, member of the Politburo and spokesperson of theTudeh Party of Iran and the editor of party’s organ, Nameh Mardom., tells the British Communist newspaper the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change HOW do you assess th

Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Cualquiera que sea de la antigua Yugoslavia entenderá inmediatamente el título. Mujo es un personaje bosnio legendario (aunque ficticio), protagonista (junto con su inseparable amigo Haso) de innumerables chistes con los que crecieron generaciones de yugoslavos. Las guerras se cobraron muchas vidas, borraron pueblos y destruyeron futuros, pero Mujo sobrevivió incluso a los días más oscuros del conflicto

Mass rally in Tehran condemning US and Israeli threats and intervention in Iran, January 12, 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of Yugoslavs grew up with. Wars took many lives, erased towns, and destroyed f

The KKE condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran In its statement (January 15) on developments in Iran, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE stresses the following : The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran, in cooperation with the state of Israel, within the framework of broader imperialist competition aimed at shaping political

Image from the riots via X By Vijay Prashad Irán está sumido en el caos. En todo el país se han producido protestas de diferente magnitud, con un aumento de la violencia que ha llevado a manifestantes y policías a la morgue. Lo que comenzó como paros laborales y protestas contra la inflación reunió a una serie de descontentos, con mujeres y jóvenes frustrados por un sistema incapaz de garantizar su sustento. Irán ha estado sometido a un prolongado asedio económico y ha sido a

Image via X By Vijay Prashad Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood. Iran has been under prolonged economic siege and has been attacked directly by Israel an

CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons By Shadab Murtaza It is often assumed that the collapse of clerical authoritarianism in Iran would inevitably result in the establishment of a government subordinate to the United States. This assumption overlooks a fundamental historical reality. In the 1979 revolution, the Iranian people dismantled not only the rule of the Pahlavi monarchy but also the system of domination through which US imperialism exercised decisive influence over Iran

Britain's Communist Party has condemned the latest threats against Cuba and challenged the British government to uphold international law. At the party's Political Committee on Sunday (January 11) , general secretary Robert Griffiths was responding to President Trump's announcement that the 64-year long economic embargo embargo on Cuba would now include all exports of Venezuela oil to the Caribbean island. US forces have also hijacked Venezuelan and Russian-flagged oil tanker

By Shadab Murtaza In the analysis of contemporary struggles against oppression and exploitation, a recurring pattern emerges particularly on social media spaces in which debates are often artificially reduced to a false binary. On one side is the defense of local ruling elites and bourgeois governments; on the other is the endorsement of imperialist intervention and externally imposed regime change. This framing not only distorts the reality of class struggle but also sideli

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