The oil blockade decreed by Trump on 29 January is slowly but surely asphyxiating Cuba, which relies on oil imports for 60 percent of its energy production. The Cuban government has admitted talks are taking place with the United States, but these take place in conditions of extreme imperialist blackmail. How can the Cuban Revolution be defended?The Cuban Revolution is facing its most dangerous period ever
Following the US and Israel’s scandalous, unprovoked attack on Iran, we are republishing the following article, which was first written after the 12-Day War in June 2025. It remains every bit as true as then.
As it explains, communists must be absolutely clear on one thing: this is a predatory, imperialist war waged to subjugate or destroy Iran in the interests of US and Israeli capitalists. We say unequivocally: Hands off Iran! Down with Imperialism!Israel’s war on Iran- how would Trotsky have posed the question?
Gilgit-Baltistan remains a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, currently under Pakistani administration. Despite its importance and vast natural resources, the people of the region continue to face political exclusion and economic neglect. The area… Statement from RCI Australia on the Situation in Gilgit-Baltistan
Thirty years after the launch of the Hubble telescope, its successor, the James Webb telescope is now operational. Big Bang cosmologists expected it to show young galaxies just a little after the universe’s own ‘beginning’. But having peered deep into the cosmos, the James Webb telescope is sending back images that defy the established cosmology, and point to a universe that is infinite in time and space. This article is included in issue 39 of the In Defence of Marxism magazine, click here to buy a copy and subscribe!The James Webb telescope: an eye onto a universe, infinite in time and space
The war in Iran, which started as a reckless gamble on the part of Trump, is developing into a significant strategic defeat for US imperialism, which can have important consequences for the world economy, the position of America as a world power, and world relations in general. Trump’s defeat in Iran and its worldwide consequences
The economic and social consequences of US and Israeli imperialism’s war on Iran continue to rip through Asia and the Pacific. Australia, formerly a bastion of stability in the region, is facing its worst economic crisis in years, and the ruling class is becoming increasingly desperate. What for many was previously unthinkable has now become reality. Alarm bells are sounding across the ‘Lucky Country’. Australia faces “nightmare scenarios” after ruling class backs Iran War
“Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it.” With these words, Donald Trump described the two-week ceasefire with Iran announced last night.
In the morning of Saturday 28 February, 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.The war on Iran: where do communists stand?
Storm clouds are gathering over the Middle East as Israel, backed by the western imperialist powers, pushes the region ever closer to a devastating all-out regional war, highlighting yet again the choice before humanity: either socialism or barbarism.
Fight Israeli aggression, fight imperialism- statement of the Revolutionary Communist International
The Palestinian people were forcibly expelled from their homeland by Zionist armed militias in 1948, in an event which remains in their collective historical memory as the Nakba, or the Catastrophe. The Zionist project had always envisaged such a development, and all genuine revolutionary Communists had consistently been opposed to the Zionist ideology. Why then did Stalin abandon the position of one state for the two peoples, Palestinian and Jewish, and come out in support of partition in 1947, together with the subsequent setting up of a separate Jewish state?
Stalin’s responsibility in the creation of Israel and its disastrous consequences
Throughout the self-proclaimed ‘civilised’ western world, the ruling classes have banded together to denounce Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October and have rallied around Israel’s ‘right of self-defence’ as it bombs Gaza to smithereens. But this is not the first time we have been told to accept a bloody war against an oppressed people in the name of the oppressor nation’s ‘self-defence’.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is reaching a pivotal stage. The horrifying images of butchered civilians have provoked a wave of revulsion across the world. Thousands have taken to the streets in capitals throughout the Middle East, demanding action in support of Gaza, while hundreds of thousands of people in the West have protested the complicity of their governments in Israel’s crimes.
Palestine: the failure of the two-state solution and the communist alternative