By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 21, 2026 from Havana
image: Adán Iglesias Toledo
Although the hegemonic media controlled by the United States, Israel, and the West have tried to conceal the military and political defeat suffered by Washington and Tel Aviv following their devastating attacks launched against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the facts have come to light after 40 days of fighting. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on April 13, 2026
These statements come amid a military and energy standoff centered on control of the strait, through which approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil trade passes. Photo: EFE.
Two major armed conflicts are currently unfolding: one in Eastern Europe and one in Western Asia. Both are interconnected through the involvement of actors who share some common association. NATO is involved in both conflicts. So are the BRICS nations. It is a Third World War—for now, scattered—pitting the neocolonial West, with its aspirations for geopolitical unilateralism, against the emergence of a multipolarity that respects national sovereignties and their specific historical trajectories. The so-called Thucydides Trap, coined by Graham Allison, suggests that an empire—challenged by an emerging rival, in this case the People’s Republic of China—is forced to embark on warmongering adventures to avoid being replaced as the global hegemon. (more…)
A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as the Warthog, takes off after refueling in the sky. Photo: AFP
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 9, 2026.
Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul condensed the illusion of neutrality into four verses: So that I may write poetry that is not political, / I must listen to the birds. / And to listen to the birds, / the warplanes must be silent. Where the sky is occupied by war, there is no place outside of politics. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on April 8, 2026
foto: AFP
As I put the finishing touches on these lines, we can now say with certainty that the threats made by the most sinister and powerful head of state of our time, Donald Trump, have been postponed for a period of fifteen days. The world breathes a sigh of relief upon learning that the order to wipe out one of history’s most brilliant civilizations, the Persian one—which Trump claimed would be returned to “the Stone Age”—has been postponed for two weeks. We will see how that stands. It is difficult to find in history a head of state who has expressed such a categorical destructive intent against a country that, according to UNESCO, has 29 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List—the result of a three-millennia-old history captured in beautiful architectural works, Persian gardens, and numerous archaeological sites. But nothing surprises us about Trump, who has made crude insults, verbal aggression, and racist contempt for his opponents the hallmark of his politics. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2026 from Caracas
aspiring young astronauts
In recent weeks, the United States has celebrated one of the most ambitious milestones in its space program in decades: the launching of the Artemis II mission, marking the return of crewed flights beyond Earth’s orbit. The project, led by NASA, aims to lay the foundations for a sustained human presence on the Moon and eventually open the door to missions to Mars. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 6, 2026
image: Adán Iglesias Toledo.
The illegal, devastating, and bloody U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran has also brought serious consequences upon the aggressors because they did not foresee that they would face powerful resistance very different from their previous aggressions in the Middle East against countries such as Libya, Syria, or Iraq. (more…)
By Party for Socialism and Liberation on April 1, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
Donald Trump used his address to the nation tonight to issue what can be described as nothing other than a genocidal threat: “We’re going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong”. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 20, 2026
Che in Gaza in 1959
Ernesto Che Guevara traveled from Cuba to the Gaza Strip in 1959. A photograph immortalizes that unprecedented moment. He wore the olive drab uniform, the same from the struggles in the Sierra Maestra, which led to the victory of the Barbudos rebels in January of that year. At his side stood Palestinian leaders; in the background, a land marked by resistance and dignity. (more…)