U.S./Israel hands off Iran! No liberation through US bombs!
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted February 28, 2026
1. After several years and different US governments threatening Iran with military attack, the USA, in alliance with Israel, has launched missile strikes and bombs against the country. Trump has called on the Iranian military to surrender or ‘face certain death’. Iran has retaliated with strikes on US military bases across the Gulf and now there is a threat of a wider regional war.
2. The pretext for this war is the ‘inconclusive’ negotiations around Iran’s nuclear programme and Trump’s claim that Iran is building long range missiles to strike at Europe or even the USA, the same refrain as when George W Bush and Tony Blair claimed that Iraq could strike at western targets with only “45-minute warning” in 2003. The hypocrisy of the strongest military powers – equipped with global striking power and nuclear weapons – claiming that Iran is a meaningful threat to people as far away as New York is obvious. Iran had offered some concessions in its Uranian enrichment programme and also to open up its gas and oil to US contracts – this was not enough for a bully and a war monger like Trump who demands complete subservience and obedience to himself personally and the US geo-politically.
3. Military actions must be viewed in the context of the openly aggressive and colonialist turn of the US under a neofascist government, with growing competition between imperialisms for direct access to resources as the neoliberal and globalizing order disintegrates. The kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela, and the consequent control over the country government, Trump’s threats against Greenland, ongoing genocide against the Palestinians and the planned “reconstruction” of Gaza, the annexation of the West Bank and now the bombs falling on Tehran, are all part of this new world order. The first missiles were initially launched by Israel before being followed up with US military ordinance launched from its warships and aircraft carriers in the region. This once again demonstrates the close military and political connection between the two countries…
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Looking at Jean-Paul Marat
Clifford D. Conner
Posted March 9, 2026
Keith Michael Baker,
Jean-Paul Marat:
Prophet of Terror
(U. of Chicago, 2025). 930 pages. $50.00.
A shorter version of this review was published in March-April 2026 ATC.
The adage “You can’t judge a book by its cover” makes a valid point, of course, but covers do often provide useful clues to a book’s contents. Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two biographies of Jean-Paul Marat in the English language…
8 March: Long Live Women in Struggle Against the Far Right
International Committee of the Fourth International
Posted March 8, 2026
All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.
It is within this framework that International Women’s Day will take place with the occupation of streets and territories around the world against fascist authoritarianism….
Join the Convoy to Cuba!
Nuestra América
Posted March 6, 2026
We are mobilizing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
The Trump administration is strangling the island, cutting off fuel, flights, and critical supplies for survival.
“There’s an embargo. There’s no oil. There’s no money. There’s no anything,” Trump bragged aboard Air Force One on 16 February.
The consequences of the US siege are lethal, for newborns and parents, for the elderly and the sick.
“Intensive…
Trump’s State of the Union: Doubling Down?
Gilberto Araujo
Posted March 4, 2026
EARLY EACH YEAR, the President of the United States delivers the State of the Union address before Congress, presenting an assessment of the country and outlining future priorities.
That Trump’s most recent speech, on February 24, was a horror show comes as no surprise when Trump is involved. What does deserve attention, however, is that the president escalated his rhetoric at a moment when his policies are increasingly isolated and his popularity is declining — unlike the situation a…
A Criminal Imperialist War
Against the Current editors
Posted March 1, 2026
THE U.S.-ISRAELI WAR of “regime change” against Iran opens a fresh stage of catastrophe in the Middle East. This entirely illegal war — under both U.S. and international law — is an imperialist adventure with unknown global consequences.
The peoples of the region will pay an enormous price, and it will become clear that this war is not separable from the Trump regime’s ongoing war on the rights of the U.S. population and assaults on the nations in the Americas.
As media and political attention…
In defense of Cuba against the neocolonial blockade and starvation imposed by Trump
Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra, João Machado, Manuel Rodríguez Banchs
Posted February 24, 2026
The neo-fascist in the White House is attempting to bring the Caribbean island and its government to its knees, strangling it economically once and for all, killing its people with darkness and scarcity. But this is not “just” a war against Cuba and its revolutionary tradition. It is the continuation of the war against the sovereignty of all Latin American countries and Latino peoples within the United States. Scheinbaum, Lula, Petro, Orsi and the social democratic governments must emphatically…
Solidarity with the Ukrainian people
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted February 24, 2026
February 24, 2026, marked the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Putin regime thought this would be the beginning of a quick military operation to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. However, determined resistance by the Ukrainian people spoiled Russian plans for a quick victory. Four years later, the Ukrainian people continue to resist against overwhelming odds.
The Ukrainian struggle is a struggle for the self-determination of an historically oppressed people, and…
DSA’s “rank-and-file strategy” Has ’60s Roots at UC Berkeley
Steve Early
Posted February 23, 2026
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor:
A Collective History of the International Socialists
edited by Andrew Stone Higgins
Haymarket Books, available March 2026.
“The lessons of the International Socialists can help point us in the right direction by sharing what has worked and what has failed in past decades” —Andrew Stone Higgins
SOME DSA MEMBERS are still pondering how they should relate, personally and collectively, to the labor movement. Should…
Ukraine Still Stands
Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
Posted February 23, 2026
As Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine enters its fifth year on February 24, the UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (US) calls on progressive and peace-minded people to renew their moral, political, and material support for the people of Ukraine in their resistance to Russia’s invasion and their rights to self-defense and self-determination.
We must remember Ukraine even as we struggle against so many other outrages that rightly demand our attention: the US-backed genocide in Gaza, US military strikes…
Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): An Assessment of a Civil Rights Icon
Malik Miah
Posted February 23, 2026
JESSE JACKSON’s DEATH has brought about a look back at his life and what it shows about progress and retreat for civil rights and freedom. Jackson was a bridge from the civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr, to today’s activists against the Trump MAGA white nationalist movement.
Today the victories of the civil rights revolution of the 1960s — the winning of civil rights (1964), Voting Rights (1965) and other laws ending legal segregation and discrimination — are being reversed….
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