'Communists should have largeness of mind and should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as their very life and subordinating their personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere they should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; they should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about themselves. Only thus can they be considered Communists.' Mao Zedong
The USS Fort Lauderdale in a file photo. The amphibious assault ship is now docked in La Guaira, Venezuela, after the June 24 earthquakes. U
The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport. A U.S. amphibious warship is docked at its principal port. MQ-9 Reaper drones and combat helicopters fly reconnaissance over Caracas. Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops are deployed on land, air and sea in and around the country, operating out of two colonies: U.S.-held Puerto Rico and Dutch-held Curaçao.
SLL photo A coalition of community organizations, advocates, scholars, authors, health care professionals, and residents, all united to stru
By Andrew Matatag
A coalition of community organizations, advocates, scholars, authors, health care professionals, and residents, all united to struggle for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom, called for an emergency 24-hour vigil in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall.
Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: "Beware of natural death... and do not die except amidst the sprays of bullets." — Ghassan Kanafani
The 54th anniversary of the martyrdom of the comrade, writer, and member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Louis Allday’s introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic p
[...] The Martyrs of Palestine Cemetery next to the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, is a unique place – a non-confessional burial ground, in which people of different religions, nationalities, ethnicities and political orientations lie in rest together, united by the ultimate sacrifice they paid as martyrs in service of the Palestinian cause. The cemetery is effectively an open-air museum illustrating the intertwined stories, geographies and struggles of the Palestinian revolution and those who have fought and died for it – a physical manifestation of Ghassan Kanafani’s declaration that Palestine is “a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is … a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses.” Short of being buried in the soil of his beloved Palestine – where he was born on April 9, 1936 – it is fitting that it was here that Kanafani was laid to rest following his murder by Israeli agents on July 8, 1972. [...]
Kanafani was many things at the time of his death, including a celebrated author, a Marxist-Leninist, a Pan-Arabist, a comrade, a refugee, an artist, a husband, an uncle, and a father. As such, his murder constituted different things to different people, and one of the most remarkable aspects of Anni’s tribute to him is the way it draws from her own memories, as well as from letters of condolence, photographs, extracts from Kanafani’s writing, and artwork by him and others, to convey intimately what a profound and multi-faceted loss his death was. In doing so, it places his death in the context of an ongoing revolutionary struggle, and sends a defiant message to those responsible for it.
At its core, Kanafani’s murder was a family tragedy, one compounded by the fact that his sister’s daughter, Lamis Nijem, whom he and the whole family adored, was killed alongside him aged only seventeen years old. Simultaneously, it was a crushing blow, personally and politically, to Kanafani’s comrades in the PFLP and beyond. Foremost amongst those affected in this manner was his close friend, mentor, and fellow PFLP member, George Habash, who Kanafani had first met over two decades earlier as a teenager in Damascus, where he and his family settled as refugees after the Nakba. In his autobiography, Habash describes the day Kanafani was killed as one of the most painful of his life and recounts the difficulty he experienced writing a letter of condolence to Anni that would convey the magnitude of the loss he felt. He need not have worried because his letter, published in full in Anni’s tribute, is a masterpiece of understated yet heartfelt affection and revolutionary steadfastness. Pained by his inability to attend his dear friend’s funeral and console Anni in person, Habash writes: “Anni – I know very well what Ghassan’s loss means to you, but please remember that you have Fayez, Laila, and thousands of brothers and sisters who are members of the P.F.L.P., and above all you have the cause Ghassan was fighting for.” For Anni, Kanafani’s death was the loss of “an exceptional human being,” her husband, comrade, and teacher, and the loving father of their two young children. “Your good and beautiful hands and mind were always creating, giving to us – to the people,” she writes in her poignant letter of farewell to him.
[...] The issue of armed resistance is central when discussing Kanafani and his legacy. As The Daily Star proclaimed in its obituary, he was “the commando who never fired a gun,” yet he was explicit in his belief that armed struggle – for the Palestinians and all oppressed peoples – was legitimate and necessary. He did not distance himself from the revolutionary violence of the PFLP or other Palestinian factions engaged in armed struggle. Rejecting “bourgeois moralism,” Kanafani proudly asserted that armed struggle was the Palestinians’ moral right as an occupied and oppressed people fighting for their land and dignity. He also argued that it was the “ideal form of propaganda,” and that in spite of the “gigantic propaganda system of the United States,” it was through people fighting to liberate themselves in armed struggle “that things are ultimately decided.”
So certain was Kanafani’s belief in the centrality of armed struggle that, upon returning from a visit to Gaza in 1966, he felt:
… more than any time in the past, that the sole value of my words is that they are a meager and insufficient substitute for the absence of weapons and that they pale now before the emergence of real men who die every day in pursuit of something I respect.
Half a century later, there is little doubt Kanafani would be heartened by the increasingly unified and effective Palestinian armed resistance – of which the PFLP is a member and continues to fight in his name. In May 2021, and again as I write this in May 2023, this resistance – centered around the unified factions in Gaza, but increasingly involving acts of coordinated resistance throughout historical Palestine, and with the direct cooperation of Hizbullah in Southern Lebanon – has withstood Israeli military onslaughts and dictated the terms of ceasefire. This is fundamentally undermining Israel’s deterrence capability and rewriting the military balance to its detriment. [...]
Ghassan has not been forgotten, nor will he ever be – and his memory will live longer than the entity that sought to silence him and his people. The republication of the evocative tribute that follows this introduction will help to ensure that is so.
On Tehran’s Azadi Street, where millions of people gathered on Monday to bid farewell to their beloved Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the whole stretch was dominated not by black, the traditional color of mourning, but by a sea of red.
Red flags bearing the phrase "Ya Latharat al-Hussein" ("O Avengers of Hussein"), a rallying cry rooted in Shia commemorations of Imam Hussein's (AS) martyrdom at Karbala in 680 AD, appeared throughout the procession. Alongside them, mourners carried a newly coined variant: "Ya Latharat al-Khamenei." This adaptation fused the funeral of Iran's martyred leader with one of Shia Islam's most potent symbols of injustice and the demand for retribution.
Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, pet
The White House says the war on Iran is winding down. On June 29, it declared a national emergency over the U.S. food supply.
The proclamation blames “conflicts in fertilizer-producing regions” and says the largest foreign source of U.S. phosphate fertilizer “has experienced supply chain disruption.” The White House does not name the source or the conflict. Both have names.
Designed by Roberto Casanueva for the Continental Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Students (Organización Continental Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Estudiantes).
I think it was clear to everyone from the start that the US war against Iran has never stopped and has no intention of stopping.
A predator's jaws are designed in such a way that it cannot unclench its teeth. Its only nature is to swallow and shit until it dies.
In today's world, the United States and Iran are the most accurate metaphor for the relationship between the power of transnational capital, completely mad with money and impunity, and the rest of the world, condemned by this power to a life under sanctions, bombs, and promises.
The entire point of the US "negotiations" with Iran is to buy time to find a gap, a weakness, a distraction—so that at the most opportune moment they can launch a coup de grace and deliver the finishing blow.
Both sides are well aware that the entire world is watching Iran today, and the future of everyone directly depends on the outcome of this story.Iran and the US aren't just Iran and the US.
We've already seen the story of these same "negotiations" in Minsk, Istanbul, and Anchorage. "Negotiations" and "agreements" have also been turned into elements of war, used against all traditional believers in spoken words or signed papers.
Negotiating with the US today is like trying to peacefully part ways in a dark alley with a murderer whose knife the victim accidentally knocked out of his hand.
Supporters of trans youth outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, D.C., as the justices heard arguments in the school sports cases. The Su
On June 30, the court struck down Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented and temporary-visa parents. Five justices held that the 14th Amendment protects those children as citizens at birth.
The ruling brought relief to millions of immigrant families. That should not be minimized. A child born in the U.S. remains a citizen.
But the same day the court preserved that right, it upheld state bans that bar transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the decision. Justice Clarence Thomas went further in a concurrence, declaring that trans girls and women are not girls or women at all.
Put the two rulings side by side and the court’s method comes into view. The justices ask one question: what does preserving or destroying this right mean for the system they serve? Where a right props up the legal order that capitalism needs to function, the court defends it. Where an oppressed group can be attacked without disturbing that order — where the attack even serves to divide working people and expand state power — the court clears the way.
Gerardo Hernández July 2, 2026 There was once a very hungry wolf who saw a flock of sheep. One day, he found a sheepskin in the forest and c
Interview with Gerardo Hernández:
The U.S. government wants pretexts — perhaps even for an act of aggression against Cuba. What pretexts can it find? Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, even though everyone knows that the previous Biden administration removed Cuba from that list because there was no evidence.
Iran has warned that it will close the Strait of Hormuz and strike twice as many targets in response to any fresh attack, following recent U
Iran has issued a firm warning that it will not back down from its management of the Strait of Hormuz and is prepared to fight to maintain control over the strategic waterway, an informed security source told Press TV on Wednesday.
The source revealed that developments over the past 48 hours have solidified Tehran's resolve, with a new military and strategic doctrine now in place.
According to the source, Iran's updated strategy dictates that in the event of any fresh attack on Iranian soil or interests, the Islamic Republic will respond with overwhelming force.
The city of Baltimore recently had its AFRAM (African American Festival) weekend celebrations. The festival started on June 19th, Emancipati
By Colby Byrd
At this year’s African American Festival, it was the Baltimore Pig Department’s “Group Violence Reduction Unit” that was the real demon and devil ruining the event for everyone. This same unit that was terrorizing kids at AFRAM is responsible for the deaths of multiple Black men across the city.
Reflection. The so-called "United States" is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. We, the f
By NDN Collective
Today, we witness a country that proclaims “freedom” while kidnapping our immigrant neighbors without due process, passing laws that encourage harassment and discrimination against our LGBTQ and two-spirit relatives, and pulling out every political, legal and military strategy to suppress any form of dissent against the state.
At the start of this nation, the government ratified over 350 treaties with Native Nations — and then proceeded to break every single one of them. Just as it was clear to our ancestors, it remains clear to us now: this colonial experiment has failed at building anything resembling a true democracy.
Trump and Rubio, two politicians who stink. Will they be held accountable for their war crimes? July 6, 2026 A diplomatic cable leaked to Th
By Gustavo Veiga
A diplomatic cable leaked to The Nation, a U.S. news outlet, indicates that the State Department instructed its embassies to pressure both allied and non-allied governments to withdraw their support for Cuba at the upcoming United Nations assembly, which will address the intensification of the blockade. Marco Rubio acts as if he were a viceroy of the empire, waiting for a humanitarian crisis to erupt on the island.
Naciones Unidas, 7 jul (Prensa Latina) Estados Unidos fracasó hoy en su intento de impedir el debate en la Asamblea General de la ONU sobre
The US was unable to prevent a debate at the UN on the blockade of Cuba
United Nations, July 7 (Prensa Latina) The United States failed today in its attempt to prevent the debate in the UN General Assembly on the blockade against Cuba, while its representative gave a speech full of misrepresentations and lies.
Michael Waltz, President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations (UN), said here that the blockade is a "myth," thus describing the same unilateral economic, commercial and financial embargo that has weighed on the Cuban people for more than six decades, trying to suffocate them.
During his speech, and contrary to what other representatives were saying, Waltz denied the existence of "an embargo or blockade, whatever you want to call it" and asked how it is possible for humanitarian aid to reach the country if this policy, which the international community has condemned for more than 30 years in this same General Assembly setting, were actually being applied.
By stating that the blockade does not exist, the US ambassador himself contradicted the statements made by the government he represents, which explicitly outlined the foundations of that genocidal policy against the island in a secret State Department memorandum dated April 6, 1960.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, who is leading the island's delegation to this 99th plenary session of the 80th period of the General Assembly, called for a point of order on two occasions.
Rodríguez asked the president of the session to "call the Permanent Representative to decorum." He pointed out that the General Assembly "is not a Green Beret camp" and asserted, "You are a liar, Mr. Waltz."
At another point, the Foreign Minister interrupted the US ambassador for speaking “in an offensive manner against my country” and asked the president of the plenary “to call for decorum.”
With 136 votes in favor, nine against - including the United States and Israel - and 30 abstentions, the Assembly agreed to hold this Tuesday the debate proposed by Cuba on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by successive US governments on the island nation.
Previously, on his X account, the Cuban foreign minister wrote that in this session he would defend "our sovereign right to live without an energy blockade, without external suffocation, without coercion, without threats of a bloodbath, without collective punishment."
Furthermore, he denounced that the United States government tried to prevent the UN General Assembly from making a statement and sought to pressure and coerce "the sovereign will of the member states."
The UN General Assembly has condemned the blockade against Cuba on 31 previous occasions, with the majority support of the international community.
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