Category: War

One Month into Trump’s Bloody So-Called “Excursion”

It has been nearly one month since Trump’s administration, together with Israel, launched a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the war began, the lies and distortions coming from Trump’s mouth have been nearly endless. He declared war, and then said it’s not a war. He called for the overthrow of the Islamic […]

U.S. and Israeli Attack on the People of Iran is Built on Lies

The current war against Iran by the United States and Israel has been a huge disaster for the people of Iran as well as throughout the region. Thousands of people in Iran and the Gulf States have been killed. Donald Trump has declared he is not interested in making any deal with Iran and that […]

No to U.S.-Israel War on the People of Iran!

Together with Israel, the United States began its murderous bombing campaign against the people of Iran. A day after the strikes began, Trump announced that Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed along with several other key military and political leaders of Iran. Thus far, the U.S. and Israel have bombed over 2,000 targets in […]

Nuclear Treaty Expires, Further Threatening All Humanity

On February 3, the one internationally agreed upon treaty limiting the development and deployment of nuclear weapons expired. Humanity is closer to species and planet altering disaster than ever before. After 1972, when the U.S. and Russia (then the Soviet Union) signed the first of a series of Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties, their actions had been […]

Dick Cheney: Decades of Service to U.S. Imperialism

On the evening of Monday, November 3rd, former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away at 84 years old, from complications from pneumonia and vascular disease. While Cheney had a long history of involvement in politics stretching back to 1969, he is best known for his role as Vice President in the George W. Bush administrations […]

U.S. Regime Attacks Latin America, Focusing on Venezuela

The Trump administration has been aggressively escalating its attacks against Venezuela as well as other nations in the region. Since early September, it has carried out missile strikes on boats in international waters in the Caribbean and the Pacific, off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts, so far killing at least 61 people. Included in the […]

Stop the Famine – No Genocide in Our Name!

According to the UN and international health organizations, the people of Gaza City are experiencing a severe famine. They report that, by the end of September, more than 640,000 people in Gaza City will face the highest level of food insecurity, Phase 5 – Famine (at least two adults or four children under five per […]

Greek Port Workers Refuse to Load Genocide Materials

Last week, on July 16, port workers in Piraeus, Greece blocked shipment of weapons grade steel in route to Israel for use in that nation’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Workers and their union said in advance that they would not handle or load and unload the cargo. When it arrived, hundreds of dockworkers […]

Iran and 125 Years of Imperialism

The Iranian nation-state, presently under attack by both Israel and the United States, has a long history as an object of imperialist aggression. Although the degree to which western powers were able to influence and dominate Iran has varied, since approximately 1900 two major western capitalist powers have regularly intervened to either control or undermine […]

Oppose the U.S.-Israel War on Iran!

The decision by the Trump administration to order the bombing of Iran is a criminal act of unprovoked violence. This attack makes the prospect of a wider war in the region, and possibly the world, more likely. Israel began this latest assault on Iran on June 12, claiming it was an act of self defense, […]

The Real Scandal Of “Signalgate”

On March 15th, the United States carried out drone strikes in a residential area of Sanaa, the capital city of Yemen, taking the lives of at least 53 men, women and children. The attacks were directed at the Houthis’ “top missile guy” that they knew was “walking to his girlfriend’s building.” The unprovoked attack on […]

Israel Continues Its Deadly Assault On Gaza

Since early morning on Tuesday, March 18, Israel has been carrying out deadly airstrikes across Gaza that are reported to have killed at least 506 people. Of those, at least 200 were children. At least 600 more have been wounded. Many of the strikes took place in heavily populated areas with homes and makeshift schools. […]

Hands Off Mahmoud Khalil!

On the night of Saturday, March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University in New York City, was arrested by plain-clothed ICE agents to be deported. Although a federal judge has since blocked Trump’s attempt to deport Khalil, he is currently in custody in an ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana. He graduated […]

Ukraine: It is Up to the Workers to Turn the Tables on the Great Powers’ Lies and Poker Games!

March 3, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French With their usual vulgarity and thuggish brutality, Donald Trump and his vice-president, J.D. Vance, gave a fine lesson in imperialism on world television. Faced with Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy, not docile enough in their eyes, they raised their tone, believing they […]

Workers of All Countries, Now More Than Ever, Solidarity with Palestine!

January 20, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French Last Sunday, for the first time in 470 days, Israel did not bomb Gaza. We can only share the relief of the Palestinian population affected by hunger and epidemics. This ceasefire was conceded by Israel. But there is no doubt […]

How Far Does Israel’s Far Right Seek to Extend the War?

This article is part of a series from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, looking back at the situation in the Middle East over the past year. Iran decided to retaliate against Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Beirut: some 200 missiles were fired in the direction of Israeli territory. […]

September 11 – An Excuse for Imperialism

The United States used the September 11, 2001 attacks to advance its imperialist goals. Israel is doing the same today with its colonial goals in Palestine after the October 7 attack.

Harris Stands with U.S. Imperialism

Kamala Harris bragged about the U.S.’s “most lethal” military during her speech at the DNC. She will continue the U.S.’s imperialist foreign policy.

Julian Assange is Finally Free After 14 Years

Julian Assange was freed on June 26 under a plea deal with the U.S. government where he pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and was sentenced to time served while in the British jail. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, an internet site designed to expose crimes and corruption committed […]

When Vietnam War Vets Protested the War

On June 1, 2024, the United States continues to support and finance Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians. Protests against the war have simmered for months, and since mid-April, protests have exploded on college campuses as tens of thousands of young people in the U.S. and worldwide have slept on malls, been arrested, and protested at […]

We Must Remember the West Bank!

While the Israeli military continues its attack on Gaza, Israeli settlers and the IDF are also attacking Palestinians in the West Bank.

Columbia Students Spark a Larger Uprising!

Since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent genocidal war on Palestinians, many universities have experienced a simmering battle between those supporting Israel’s Zionist policies and those protesting them. Soon after Israel’s disproportionate response to the attack materialized and it became clear that their war was intended to destroy and displace people […]

Famine: a Genocidal Policy for Gaza

Famine is choking the life out of the population of Gaza where two million people struggle to live. At no other point in recent history has there been such starvation of an entire population. The United Nations predicts that more than 200 people will be dying from starvation every day. Nearly 700,000 people, almost a […]

“Uncommitted” In A System That Is Committed To Genocide

People in the United States have continued to watch the ongoing slaughter in Palestine with horror and have looked for possible ways to halt the genocide. As one of the forms of protest that people have turned to, hundreds of thousands have been refusing to vote for current President Joe Biden in the ongoing Democratic […]

Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians Continues with U.S. Support

Israel’s genocidal war continues as it inflicts a state of “total siege” on the people of Gaza. Access to food and water has been severely restricted by the Israeli siege. UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) says Israel has blocked it from making any deliveries of […]

U.S. Airman Sacrifices His Life to Free Palestine

Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC captured the attention of the world. The active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, disillusioned by the military and U.S. government, morally rejected the U.S. government’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. The U.S. has provided Israel with the weapons and intelligence to carry out […]

The War Against Gaza is Not in Our Interests

The violence in Gaza is horrific. In just over four months, the destruction of Gaza has reached a scale of devastation among the worst since World War II. It has continued to worsen everyday. The Israeli state is knowingly targeting children, civilians, journalists, and medical and rescue workers. Israel is collectively punishing an entire population […]

United States: Violent Enabler of More Violence

Does it seem like in the past few months someone is shooting up the neighborhood (in this case, our world)? If it seems that way to you, you’re not wrong. And if it seems like the U.S. is the shooter, you’d be right. The U.S. has many hundreds of military bases, installations, facilities, storage centers, […]

A World of Forced Migration Caused by the Capitalist System

Today, according to the United Nations, there are 110 million people in the world displaced from their homes. More than half of those people are internally displaced within their countries. The rest are refugees fleeing their home countries, or asylum seekers or people seeking other legal protections in other countries. This number only counts those […]

U.S. Navy Prepares for War With China

Last week at the White House, President Biden met with the leaders of small Pacific Island nations, some with a population as small as 1,700 people. Last year, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Fiji, a nation of less than one million, in the highest level U.S. visit to that nation in at least 36 […]

August 6: The Anniversary of Nuclear War — NEVER AGAIN!

August 6, 2023 is the 78th anniversary of the start of nuclear war. In 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 70,000 civilians. Three days later, they dropped another on Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 more. These are the U.S. military’s estimates at the time, so the […]

War over Ukraine Starves People around the World

Earlier this month, Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal. This agreement was negotiated between Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine in 2022 to ensure that Ukraine, one of the world’s largest suppliers of grain, would still be able to export this essential food source to the rest of the world even after Russia’s invasion. […]