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The Iranian Revolution And African Solidarity

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran, which had been in the making for decades. As a faithful cheerleader for America’s wars, the legacy media narrativized the war in the context of the supposed dangers Iran’s nuclear program posed to the “civilized” world. In reality, the nuclear issue was always secondary and subsidiary to the larger problem: Iranian sovereignty, which the United States, as the Middle East’s imperialist broker, cannot tolerate. From the US’s perspective, Iran’s sovereignty is contagious: it could spread to other Global South countries as far as Africa, which Iran has viewed, since its 1979 revolution, as a strategic partner in the fight against imperialism. 

Defending the Cuban Revolution’s Record Against Ahistorical Attacks

A new front has opened in the long-running information war against Cuba. It is not being fought with overt political tracts or state-sponsored media, but with sleekly edited Instagram Reels and TikTok carousels. The antagonists are not the traditional counterrevolutionaries of Miami, but a cohort of young, predominantly Black, self-styled influencers operating under the diffuse banner of the pseudo “Black left”—a space where anarchist critiques of the state and cultural nationalist laments over racial injustice converge.

Tyranny Or Revolution

Mexico City — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create systems of justice and equality — albeit ones where capitalists retain significant power. The National Coordinator of Education Workers in Mexico (CNTE) — a grassroots union created in 1979 by dissident teachers — is currently attempting this in Mexico. It announced that if its demands for salary increases and job security are not met it will occupy public spaces and shut down the World Cup soccer matches scheduled to take place later this month in Mexico City.

Socialism Is Slow To Mature

In 1921, a few years into the Soviet experiment, V. I. Lenin published an essay with the revealing title ‘New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise’. The essay opened a line of inquiry that would remain with Lenin until the end of his life three years later. What captivated him was the issue of how to build socialism in a country ravaged by war, with minimal capital at its disposal, a largely peasant society with high rates of illiteracy (around 70%), and no public administration capable of running a socialist-oriented state.

Cuba Is Not A Failed State; It Is A Besieged State

May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over 5 million Cubans reportedly mobilized island-wide under the slogan of la patria se defiende (the homeland must be defended). The largest demonstration took place in Havana in front of the US embassy. The symbolism of International Workers’ Day was not lost on the White House. President Trump chose that day, May 1, to impose yet more sanctions on top of the already draconian illegal measures immiserating Cuba.

US Revives Old CIA Provocation To Threaten Cuba With Invasion

The Justice Department is moving to indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, over Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue — not a humanitarian group, but one arm of a U.S.-created anti-Cuba terrorist network rooted in the CIA’s war against the Cuban Revolution.  Raúl Castro was a commander in the revolutionary struggle that overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. He later served as Cuba’s defense minister and president. Washington is not just naming an individual. It is targeting a leader identified with the revolution itself.

The Revolutionary Spirit Of Iran

The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the population. Rather than promoting democracy in Iran and empowering the people, US economic punishment and aggression have accomplished the opposite and have made life more difficult for most Iranians. Like Cuba, Iran is being targeted because it will not relinquish its sovereignty.

Sawdust, Sunrise Singing And Solidarity: Holy Week In Nicaragua

“I don’t like the music,” my daughter whispers to me. Suddenly, a cymbal crashes, followed by tuba and trombones droning a death dirge. I peer through the incense to make out the slow movement of men burdened by an impossibly heavy bier carrying the image of Christ crucified. It’s Good Friday, and we are watching the Holy Burial in the León Cathedral. “You’re not supposed to like it,” I tell her. “Jesus is dead, this is his funeral. The music is meant to fill you with dread and sadness.” In Nicaragua, a small country that has seen much suffering, Holy Week carries a special importance.

Dialectics, Iran And The Long Durée Of Anticolonial Revolution

Dialectical and historical materialism cannot be understated as critically important in understanding the “war on Iran”. The framework is indispensable for moving beyond the phenomena of geopolitics (sanctions, military posturing, diplomatic tensions) to grasp the essential phenomena: the structural contradictions of imperialism in its current, neocolonial phase. By examining the nation-state as an enclosure, the process of primitive accumulation, and the dialectic between the dictatorship of capital and the dictatorship of the proletariat, we can see the war on Iran not as a discrete conflict between nation-states, but as a critical battle in the ongoing class war that shapes the entire imperialist world-system.

Popular Participation And Socialist Renewal In Cuba In A Time Of Crisis

Central to Cuba’s strategy is the recognition that economic stabilization cannot be imposed from above. Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez Oliva Fraga emphasized that the Program operates through continuous monitoring, debate, and public discussion. This reflects the realities of Cuba’s economic situation. As a small and trade-dependent economy, the country faces enormous distortions caused by the U.S. blockade and by its forced exclusion from the international financial system. The economic war’s intensification—including Cuba’s placement on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism—severely obstructs banking operations, investment flows, and basic trade.

We Are Willing To Give Our Lives For The Revolution

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, recently gave an interview to Spanish political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión on the digital platform Canal Red, which was broadcast on the Cuban Mesa Redonda program. The dialogue addressed issues related to the current situation in Cuba, the impact of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States government, and recent acts of international solidarity. The conversation offers insight into the internal and external challenges facing the Caribbean nation, as well as the government’s stance regarding the humanitarian flotilla that took place in recent days.

When Black People Are Xenophobic They Risk Black Deaths In Iran

In recent days, Mylo Simmons has given heart-rending interviews about his only child, Master Sergeant Tyler Simmons, who perished along with five other soldiers after a refueling aircraft they were operating crashed in Iraq and rendered them casualties of the satanic imperialist/Zionist war against Iran. If we, as an African community in America, had done our job, would Simmons not only be alive, but also have never considered enlisting in the U.S. military in the first place? The U.S. military is no place for Black youth. Because the military’s sole purpose is to wage war to advance the interests of imperialism, then ipso facto the military wages war on us.

Few Nations In The World Have Faced A War On All Fronts As Cuba Has

In Cuba this week, the crisis has intensified—one that, in my view, has been ongoing for one or two years now. I have been living on the island for three years, and for the past two or two and a half years, I have observed how power outages occur daily or nearly daily, even in Havana, where they are less frequent than in the rest of the provinces, which gives a real sense of the severity of the energy problem. Although the United States has been actively pursuing a policy to destabilize the Cuban people since the early 1960s—beginning with Lester Mallory’s memorandum, which proposed creating material shortages to provoke the people into rebelling against their government—the truth is that this crisis has intensified with each successive administration.

Cuba Is Not Afraid

On 13 March 2026, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez gave a press conference in Havana, Cuba. The country has been wracked by a worsening fuel and electricity crisis produced by the long-standing illegal US blockade, which the Trump administration tightened further in early 2026 by effectively cutting off oil shipments to the island. On 29 January, Trump issued an executive order filled with the bluster of falsehoods – including the claim that Cuba ‘welcomes transnational terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas’ – and threatened tariffs against any country that tried to send oil to Cuba.

Toward A Revolutionary Charter For Comprehensive Liberation

As liberation movements in the Global South forged their new political language reflecting the perspective of colonized peoples, Amílcar Cabral was one of several leaders who identified the role of intellectuals and the educated elite as a critical vulnerability at the heart of popular revolutions. Some intellectuals have sought to promote Western-friendly approaches while normalizing conciliatory, defeatist frameworks. Cabral’s warning resurfaces sharply in the Palestinian and Arab context, after a brutal and unprecedented genocide met with a widespread silence and betrayal from the public, and complicity on the part of many Arab and Muslim regimes.
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