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Israel’s bombing of Beirut was “the deadliest ten minutes in decades,” according to The Guardian. On the same day that Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a ceasefire “on all fronts,” the Zionist regime carried out the most fatal mass killing in Lebanon since the civil war of 1975–90.
According to Trump, the Iranians “ were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.” He has repeated this claim ad nauseum, despite saying that Iran’s nuclear program had been “totally obliterated” by American strikes during the Twelve-Day War last June. So which is it?
In January 1979, the Iranian masses brought down Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, America’s favorite Middle Eastern dictator. The movement of the Iranian people astonished the world and shook the foundations of American imperialism in the region. Though it ended in counterrevolution, the early phases of the Iranian Revolution are an inspiring example of the power of the working class.
The first casualty of war is always the truth. Here we share just a few of the ruling class’s lies about US imperialism’s war on Iran.
The US-Israeli war on Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz have created a crisis in the world economy and further exposed the fault lines between US imperialism and its Russian and Chinese competitors.
The unprovoked war of aggression by the US and Israel against Iran has set the Middle East on fire.
Ehsan Ali and other leading members of the Awami Action Committee in the Pakistan-administered region of Gilgit-Baltistan have been arrested once again. The Revolutionary Communist International is running a solidarity campaign to secure the comrades’ release, starting with a global day of action on April 2.
At the center of the crisis lies the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery of the global energy system. While millions suffer, others profit. Paradoxically, one of the economic beneficiaries of the conflict may be Russia.
Six months ago, Nepal was in the midst of a revolutionary uprising, led primarily by the youth. The potential was there for Nepali workers and youth to take power into their own hands.
The Cuban Revolution has held on for nearly seventy years, right under the nose of the most powerful imperialist country on earth—which has tried every possible means to overthrow it.
Comrade Ehsan Ali, chairman of the Awami Action Committee of Gilgit Baltistan and central leader of RCP in Pakistan, was arrested on the night of March 10 from his home in Gilgit, when police raided his home.
On 4 March, US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Venezuela. The Secretary was welcomed with a red carpet at the Miraflores Palace and cordial smiles from Acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.