On February 25, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior published a report by the Cuban Border Guard about the interception of a Florida-based speedboat into Cuban territorial waters a mile off Cayo Falcones, in Villa Clara province, on the north coast of the island. This is a very serious escalation in the US imperialist aggression against the Cuban revolution.
Drunk with success in Venezuela, Trump thought that the same methods could be used to force Iran to submit. That was a very serious miscalculation.
As long as the capitalists rule, there will be slaughter and suffering in every corner of the globe. A workers’ government in the US is the first step to ending the scourge of war.
There is not a single Latin American country whose land is not soaked with blood spilled by American imperialism. Only a people that is organized and willing to fight to the end can stop an attack.
In the morning of Saturday, February 28 Tehran was shaken by a series of loud explosions as US and Israeli missiles struck the capital of Iran. Clouds of smoke were also seen rising from Tehran, Qom and other Iranian cities, announcing the commencement of war.
Since 2000, the ruling class has waged wars costing $8 trillion that have destroyed entire societies. The war-weary working-class elements of Trump’s base increasingly see him as just another “war hawk sitting in Washington.”