The peer-reviewed findings, according to the study’s authors, “contradict claims” that Gaza health officials have “inflated the death toll from the war in the Gaza Strip.” Israeli occupation forces operating in Gaza in 2024 -- image via Wikimedia Commons / IDF Spokesperson's Unit By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams A peer-reviewed study published Wednesday in The Lancet Global Health estimates that more than 75,000 people in Gaza were killed during the first 16 months of Israel’

Illegal Israeli West Bank settlement -- Image via news video screenshot The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s expansionist plans to occupy more Palestinian land in the West Bank, designating it as “state land" yet another manoeuvre to deepen its apartheid policy on the Palestinian people. The annexation is yet another violation of international law, aimed at entrenching the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. The latest

Various Sources Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania declined a major award at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for her film The Voice of Hind Rajab. She left the award at the ceremony to protest against the festival’s complicity in providing “political cover” for Israel’s genocidal military actions in Gaza. The award was presented during the Cinema for Peace and Democracy Gala, an event that exists to honor contributions in film for humanitarian causes and

Image via the KKE On Friday, February 6, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that mass, militant rallies took place in Piraeus and Elefsina, Greece as part of a strike opposing policies prioritizing capitalist profits and imperialist wars over people's lives and rights. The strike coincided with the International Day of Action by dockworkers, held under the slogan “Dockworkers do not work for war." Strikes, demonstrations, and other actions were carried out by dockwo

Board of Peace signing ceremony -- public domain image By Milkaela Nhondo Erskog Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble. His wife was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. She needs urgent treatment abroad, but the Rafah crossing remains sealed.  As intern

“This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.” Screenshot from the Al Jazeera report. By Julia Conley, Common Dreams An analysis of Gaza’s civil registry by Al Jazeera detailed Monday how thousands of US-backed Israeli military’s attacks on the exclave become stories not only of individual casualties but of “lineage, heritage, and identity disappearing in an instant”—with 2,700 families entirely wiped o

Syrian troops engaged in machine gun training in June, 2025 -- public domain image via the US military Yet another chapter in the imperialist bloodbath that has plagued the Syrian people over the past 15 years is now unfolding. After the jihadist terror regime, backed by Turkey, the Gulf States, the EU, and the US, and in tacit cooperation with Israel, massacred hundreds of Druze and thousands of Alawites in the country’s southern and western regions in 2025, they are now car

In the fantasy being pushed by Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner, Palestinians appear only as an absence, buried beneath the rubble of the real Gaza. Trump at the Board of Peace announcement and signing ceremony on January 22 -- public domain image By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies, Common Dreams At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos , Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining apart

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

Machado’s decision to accept the prize, supposedly contrary to the wishes of the White House, before delivering it to him in person, signifies the depth of Machado’s commitment to enact the US will on Venezuela. Trump accepting the prize -- public domain image By Nuvpreet Kalra, Common Dreams Maria Corina Machado said it was a “historic day for us Venezuelans” as she handed President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize . For the pro-Israel, far-right opposition figure in Vene

Flag of Rojava By Vijay Prashad The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major political defeat for the Syrian Kurdish political formations. Certainly, the rapid advance of the Syrian armed groups loyal to President Ahmad al-Sharaa broke the resistance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the largely Kurdish group, but this advance can only be understood by the total back

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

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

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

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

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

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