Image via the KKE In a statement on the criminal plans of the occupying state of Israel against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following: “At a time when the ruthless occupying state of Israel, backed by the US and the EU, is continuing its deadly attacks and threats in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and the broader region, and as the US - Israel war agai

Today we live as prisoners consigned to a permanent death row, having organized our world not around a commitment to collective sanity, safety, and security but around the perpetual preparation for collective destruction. Public domain image. By Eric Ross, Common Dreams It has been 81 years since the atomic bombings delivered an unmistakable message. From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was faced with a choice that Martin Luther King, Jr. would later describe as

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

Rufus Wiena Recently we looked at the the ongoing attacks on supporters of Palestine in the footvolley community. Written by Rufus Wiena you can read it at: The Price of Solidarity: How Israel Weaponized European Footvolley and the Institutions that Looked Away Irish Sport for Palestine has now released an English video interview with Wiena called “Bombs, Threats and Silence: Why Footvolley Must Answer.” It covers documented threats, military-glorifying content connected to f

SACP condemns the continued US-Israel war against Iran Sunday, 19 July 2026: The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the continued US-Israel war against Iran, which has caused massive devastation to the people of Iran and undermined the ceasefire. This is a violation of international law. Following a brief period of cessation of hostilities, the US government resumed its military campaign against Iran, seeking to elevate its war operations. The 82-day ceasefire brok

A displaced Palestinian girl sleeps in the street after the Israeli army ordered them to evacuate the Abu Areif and Al-Mazra'a areas in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, 21 August 2024 -- Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons By Guillermo Barreto It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village of Bert-Furik. A group of Israeli settlers kidnaps them. At knifepoint, they drag the children to an olive

US troops at Simón Bolívar International Airport, Venezuela, July 1, 2026 - public domain image Tribuna Popular — Pedro Eusse, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), denounced on Tuesday the “escalation of U.S. imperialist domination” over Venezuela, asserting that the tragedy caused by the earthquakes on June 24 is being used to deepen the United States’ presence and influence in the country. During a press confer

Representational image of a footvolley player in action -- Charliew92, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rufus Wiena My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete. I was leaving for my safety. Hours earlier, a four-time European champion with over 25,000 Instagram followers had posted a story asking his fans what should be done with me. The res

Saleem Al-Ashqar Communist Party of Swaziland condemns the murder of Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Al-Ashqar in Gaza by apartheid Israeli forces and calls for international isolation of Israel Friday, 3 July 2026:- The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) condemns the murder of Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Al-Ashqar in Gaza by the settler Israeli regime. The CPS conveys its message of condolences to Al-Ashqar’s wife and their entire family for the loss. We also send our messag

A girl walks amid the devastation in Gaza, August, 2024 -- Jaber Jehad Badwan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel release done of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative body on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Its title is almost unbearable to read: The Essence of Childhood Has Been

Trump signs a Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States on June 17 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had reached its political limits. Washington and Tel Aviv presented their illegal war of aggression as a necessary response to Iran’s nuc

Israeli forces operating around Beaufort Castle in Lebanon on May 31 -- IDF Spokesperson's Unit By Vijay Prashad There are moments in history when words lose their meaning. Not because dictionaries are rewritten, nor because language itself changes, but because political power empties words of the realities they once described. The word ceasefire has increasingly acquired this desolate quality when used by Israeli and US officials. What was once understood to mean the suspens

Itamar Ben Gvir in May, 2025 -- משטרת ישראל-לשכת גיוס, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The Theatre of Punishment The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now a mountain of evidence before humanity: Gaza has become not merely a place under siege but a geography of calculated despair, where star

Juan Orlando Hernández and Trump in 2019 By John Perry and Roger D. Harris, Common Dreams Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before US President Donald Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura had only a wafer-t

Image via the PCB Build the anti-imperialist movement and advance the working class struggle! The Central Committee of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) assesses that the imperialist system, the more it intensifies its decline, the more it abuses violence and aggressiveness. What we are witnessing are not isolated incidents, but part of a global offensive by a decaying system that, through increased aggression and attacks, attempts to maintain its hegemony over the peoples.

Banner held as detained Gaza aid flotilla activists arrive in Netherlands, May 4. Two of their fellow activists remain in Israel for questioning. -- image via news video screenshot Freedom to the Global Sumud flotilla activists: Communist Party of Israel Statement: Again, the state of Israel illegally and brutally violates International Law as Israeli naval forces intercepted the boats of the Sumud flotilla in international waters, while forcing and dragging other countries t

“Money for welfare, not for war” in Hebrew and Arabic – YCLI members at the demonstration held today in Nazareth (Photo: Zo Haderekh via the CPI) Various Sources The offices of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and its allied Hadash party were raided by police in multiple locations, including Nazareth, Umm al-Fahm, and Haifa, in late April, shortly before planned May Day rallies. In some cases, police confiscated flags, including Palestinian flags, and arrested several acti

“How on Earth,” asked the UN’s top Palestine expert, “is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe?” Image via video screenshot on X By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Palestine defenders on Thursday condemned Israeli forces’ raid of the latest Global Sumud Flotilla—which was sailing off the Greek coast while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza—and the arrest of more than 200 of its participants, with s

The international class-oriented trade union movement, workers, and militant trade unions around the world honor, through struggle, the 140th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886. They honor the heroic May Day of the working class, symbol of the relentless struggle against capitalist barbarity, with new class struggles, determination, and internationalist solidarity. On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the mo

The meeting of the Working Group of the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) is taking place at a time when the world bears painful witness to US imperialism and Israeli savage military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, and the continuing genocidal policies of Israeli government in Palestine. The latest phase of military aggression, that started on 28 February, has once more pushed the Middle East region into a dangerous spiral of widening m