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If You Negotiate with Washington, You Lose Your Independence

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…)

Socialist Response to Trump’s Televised Address on Iran War: Promising Genocidal Destruction of the Iranian People

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…)

From Gaza to Cuba: Solidarity by Sea as a Form of Resistance

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…)

“We Are Defending Our Sovereignty and We Will Defeat the Aggressors.” Interview with Iran’s Ambassador to Caracas

By Geraldina Colotti, from Caracas on March 14, 2026

Ali Chegini, Iranian ambassador to Venezuela

In Plaza Bolívar, photos of the girls killed in Iran by U.S. drones are arranged in a circle beneath the monument to the Liberator. On stage, speeches by activists and artists alternate. At the tables of the Cuba-Venezuela Association, medicines are being collected to send to Havana. Women and men hold flags of Iran, Palestine, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries and movements, including those from the United States, represented by the international delegation of the People’s Congress, which has just arrived from Cuba at the initiative of the Brazilian Landless Movement. Everyone watches, moved, as the Comunicalle theater group performs “La Matria Palestina,” battered, wounded, but not subdued. (more…)

U.S. Global Strategy Under Scrutiny: A Progressive Perspective on Resistance

By Alejandra Garcia on March 13, 2026 from Caracas

The global political landscape is marked by intense debate over the intentions and methods of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the face of rising aggression with nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Pawel Wargan, Political Coordinator of the Progressive International, offers a critical analysis of what he characterizes as a coherent and rational U.S. strategy aimed at undermining sovereign nations one at a time. (more…)

The Far Right Goes to War Against Women

By Vijay Prashad on March 12, 2026

illustration : Collectivo

In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism. (more…)

Imperial Oil Grab: The Abduction of Venezuela’s President as a Prelude to the Attack on Iran

By Roger D. Harris on March 11, 2026

Hugo Chavez greeting Ayatollah

Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that would be only for narrow economic motives. (more…)

Will Iran be Trump’s Vietnam?

By Javier F Ferrero on March 8, 2026

Wars are not won with tweets.

For years, Donald Trump sold the fantasy of quick wars. Surgical strikes, lightning operations, easy and cheap victories that could be announced at press conferences or celebrated on social media. But the reality of modern warfare is less cinematic and much more costly. And now the US president himself is beginning to discover this. (more…)

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