The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against US Imperialism

In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US security – a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally reserved for national security adversaries. The US blockade against Cuba began in the 1960s, right after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but has tightened over the years.

Bangladesh Wins, Fundamentalism Loses

The long wait is over. After eighteen months of mass uprising, elections have finally been held in Bangladesh. The people have delivered a decisive verdict. By resisting fundamentalism, they have secured a victory of relief.

Absent League, Bangladesh Heads to the Polls

FOR the first time in the history of independent Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami believes that a genuine possibility of victory has opened up before it. Even if it does not win outright, it is set to emerge as a powerful opposition force.

14th Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam and the Tasks of Socialist Construction

The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi concluded with the adoption of a long-term development strategy aimed at positioning the country to navigate an increasingly volatile global environment. The Congress reaffirmed socialist development, mass participation, disciplined reform, and people-centred governance amid global instability.

The Rupture Within the Global North

MARK Carney is not the person you would expect to deliver the message from within the Global North that their conspiracy to rule the world has ended. The Global North, the Collective West, whatever you want to call it, had formed into a decisive military and political bloc after World War II, which effectively ended the divisions within the Global North and gradually brought all its pieces into a line with the United States at its head.

Six points to navigate the turmoil in Iran

Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood.

Contradictions of the Trump Era

LOOKING at approval ratings of US presidents after their first year in office is an interesting exercise. Most presidents in recent years have net negative approval, with more than half of the population disapproving of their work as president. The exception is George W Bush after 9/11, when the US public rallied around the president after the shock of the attack and after his bellicose rhetoric to conduct a War on Terror around the planet.

The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient

On the early morning of January 3, the US government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly 150 aircraft swarmed the skies, bombing with exceptional ferocity. Amongst these aircraft were EA-18 Growlers equipped with the most advanced electronic warfare systems, such as the Next Generation Jammers, as well as AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

The US War on Venezuela Began in 2001.

The United States had no problem with Venezuela per se, not with the country nor with its former oligarchy. The problem that the US government and its corporate class have is with the process set in motion by the first government of President Hugo Chávez.

The Angry Tide Has Washed into Chile.

ON 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed in the presidential election over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 per cent to 41.84 per cent. Kast ran as the candidate of the Cambio por Chile (Change for Chile) platform and was backed by all the parties of the traditional right and the centre-right.

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