The New Popular Front in France

The French Left Unites to Build a Barrage against the Fascist Far Right THE results of France’s recent legislative elections have come as a surprise not just to the French political establishment but also to much of the world. The consensus among polling organisations, political pundits and the mainstream media was that France’s major force on the fascist far right, the Rassemblement National ((National Rally: RN) led by Marine Le Pen, would win the largest number of seats.

Cuba Has Never Stood Idly By

Article based on the interview “Cuba has never stood idly by” granted by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, to Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish professor and journalist, at the Palace of the Revolution.FOR more than 60 years, Cuba has suffered the limitations and adversities derived from the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

The British People Voted Against Austerity

IT is impossible for a political party committed to policies of austerity to remain in office forever. Austerity policies cannibalise social life, cutting everything that makes it possible for humans to live in the modern world. When the Conservative Party’s David Cameron became the prime minister in 2010, after thirteen years of New Labour rule which had already pursued an austerity strategy, he pushed an ultra-austerity budget that cut investments in health and transportation, in education and community life.

Lancet Letter Estimates as Many as 186,00 Deaths in Gaza

A letter published in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journal renews accusations of genocide and claims that current death toll estimates of people who have been killed in Gaza since October 7 are far below the real number.“IT is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,” reads a letter published in The Lancet, penned by Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusuf on July 5.

The US Ruling Class is In Deep Despair

IT is a fair question to ask: how does a ruling class that controls more money ($45 trillion), nearly twice the annual gross domestic product of its country, produce two men who should not be leading a country, let alone a country with the most powerful military in the world? When Joe Biden, the incumbent president of the United States, and Donald Trump, the former president, met to debate each other in late June, they confounded anyone who watched them.

The Twilight of the G7

FROM June 13 to 15, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries met at a luxury spa called Borgo Egnazia in the Italian town of Savelletri. The entire meeting had the air of obsolescence.

The KKE Emerged Stronger from the Elections Where the Heart of the People & Their Struggles Beats

Below we publish the reports and statements of various Communist and Workers parties on their performance in the recently concluded European Parliament elections

Migrating Workers Provide Wealth for the World

A FEW weeks ago, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) released its World Migration Report 2024. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism. As states in the poorer parts of the world found themselves under assault from the Washington Consensus (cuts, privatisation, austerity), and as employment became more and more precarious, larger and larger numbers of people took to the road to find a way to sustain their families.

Israel’s Unending Genocidal War on the Palestinians

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable GingerRephraseRephrase with Ginger (Ctrl+Alt+E)AFTER seven months, the lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, decided to announce that he would be looking into framing warrants regarding Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. With nearly 40,000 people dead and 10,000 missing, and with over two million people displaced and threatened with death from bombs or from disease, this war is one of the worst in recent years.

China and Cuba, For a Community of Shared Future

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceChina is willing to work with Cuba as companions of socialism, good partners for common development and good comrades in strategic coordination IN 2013, President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of building a community of shared future of mankind, which represents the greatest common denominator of all peoples, in the desire to build a better world.It has far-reaching theoretical value and historical significance, and is showing incr

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