Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal on Wednesday, February 20, with the Jewish Home party to grant the settlers’ national-religious party a pair of ministerial posts after the April elections in exchange for its merging with the racist Otzma Yehudit.
Comrade Fathi Alfadl, member of the Political Bureau of the Sudanese Communist Party and its official spokesman, was released on 14th February 2019 after spending 5 weeks in detention following his arrest by the security forces of the dictatorial regime.
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Adel Amer, met last weekend in Ramallah with the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the State of Palestine, Maher Taha, and firmly condemned the escalation of interference and blackmail by the US against Venezuela.
The World Federation of Democratic Youth condemns the imperialist onslaught against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by the US government. The American government, along with others, has applied to the fatherland of Bolivar all methods of unconventional warfare with the clear intention to make the courageous Venezuelan people to surrender.
A pile of lies, falsehoods, manipulations and calumnies has been constructed; a whole world parallel to reality, a whole alternate fantasy that serves to confuse millions of people about what is happening in Venezuela.
The Young Communist League of Britain issued the following statement:
For the second time in two weeks we have seen Marx’s grave attacked and vandalised in London.
Whilst we are more concerned with the tangible impact of Marx’s work, we cannot sit idly by while anti-communists attack the graves of those that inspire us.
A Palestinian teenager, Hassan Nofal, 17, died on Tuesday, February 12, of the wounds he sustained when he was shot by Israeli forces last Friday, February 8, during the Great March of Return protests along the borderline area to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources at the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah said. The youth was from the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Letter of solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland
Dear comrades,
Congratulationson your recent victory when the regional court in Dąbrowa Górnicza acquitted themembers of the editorial board of the Communist Party of Poland magazine “Brzask”and the website of the Communist Party of Poland of charges of “promoting a totalitariansystem”.
After airport workers threatened a strike and brought Trump to his knees last month, and as they threatened to do so again this coming Saturday, Pelosi has capitulated to his anti-immigrant hysteria and agreed to increases for immigration enforcement, including $7.6 billion for ICE ($512 million over FY2018) and $14.9 billion for CBP ($942 million over FY2018). $1.375 billion is allocated towards border barriers.
We begin today by getting the Venezuelan government’s response to a deluge of allegations leveled against the Maduro government by the Trump administration, by top Democrats including Pelosi, by the corporate media and by Venezuelan opposition figures who have asserted that they represent the legitimate voice of the Venezuelan people. Joining me now is Venezuela’s Vice Foreign Minister, Carlos Ron. He was named to his post by President Nicolás Maduro following the May 2018 elections. Vice Minister Ron, welcome to Intercepted.
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the US government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to prevent its consummation.
From the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York, the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, announced on Thursday the integration of an important group of member states of the multilateral organization, who share the concern for the need to maintain respect for the principles of the fundamental Charter that governs the behavior of the international community.
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the US government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a humanitarian intervention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to prevent its consummation.
Between February 6 and 10 of 2019, several military transport aircraft have been flying to the Rafael Miranda Airport in Puerto Rico, the San Isidro Air Base in the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean Islands that have a strategic location, most certainly without the knowledge of the governments of those nations. These flights took off from US military facilities from where Special Operation Troops and US Marine Corps units operate. These units have been used for covert operations, even against leaders of other countries.
The ANSWER coalition released a call for a massive march against Trump's agression against Venezuela for March 16th.
The ANSWER Coalition, of which the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a founding member called for a national march in DC on March 16th against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela.
The Security Council of the United Nations (UN) will not approve the resolution proposed by the United States on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela given that it is aimed at covering the plans for military intervention in the South American country, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov.
On his 15th birthday, November 16, 2014, Palestinian high school student Attiya Nabaheen had just returned home from school and was in the front yard of his family’s home in the Gaza Strip, when Israeli military forces shot him. Attiya was not armed and was not involved in any violence.
As a result of the shooting, Attiya was permanently paralyzed and is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. In November 2018, Israel’s Beersheba District Court rejected a case filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – and the Gaza-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights on behalf of the Nabaheen family against the Israeli military for the shooting and crippling of their son. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the court ruled that the state is not liable for damages because Palestinians in Gaza are not entitled to seek compensation from Israel as they live within an “enemy entity.”
The spokesman of the Tudeh Party of Iran, Mohammad Omidvar assessed the Forty Years of the 1979 Revolution and Iran today.
In the Peoples Democracy, issued by the Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI), an interview with Mohammad Omidvar, member of the Polit Bureau and Spokesperson of the Tudeh Party of Iran was published. Omidvar is the editor of Nameh Mardom, central organ of the TPI.
Communist Party General Secretary wrote today to the Ambassador of Sudan to protest at the inhuman treatment of prisoners being held in Sudan and to demand their immediate release. Elderly prisoners have now been held without access to medical assistance, medicines or their families for over a month. Their lives are reported to be in danger.
The World Federation of Trade Unions, which is the militant voice of 95 million workers in 130 countries of the five continents, reiterates its internationalist support and solidarity with the workers and the people of Sudan, who have been protesting over the last three months against the financial hardship and poverty in their country.
After placing his signature on the document that includes the expression and will of the Venezuelan people who are in favor of peace and against the interventionist actions presided over the United States, the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, in an interview granted to THE COUNTRY of Spain, criticized the international pressure that weighs on Venezuela and assured that the governments that execute the unilateral and coercive measures against the South American country “judge us, they condemn us, they sentence us without even having listened to us”.
Through a statement, the president of the Southern African Development Community (SAC) and chief executive of Namibia, Hage Geingob, expressed his concern about the interventionist actions carried out by the United States and satellite governments against Venezuela, in their pretention to intervene in the internal affairs violating the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
The international financial blockade imposed by the United States against Venezuela has caused the South American country to lose 350,000 million dollars in production of goods and services between 2013 and 2017, according to the research carried out by the Economic Debates Unit of the Latin American Geopolitics Strategic Center(CELAG).
On Thursday, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, invited the Venezuelan people and the world to join rationality, to avoid aggression against Venezuela and to respect the principles emanating from the Charter of the United Nations.
The Workers’ Party have accused Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney of prioritising Donald Trump’s foreign policy ahead of Irish neutrality. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, the Workers’ Party candidate in May’s European Parliament elections, said:
“Simon Coveney has, for the first time in our history, given formal backing to United States overseas aggression. Successive governments under Fianna Fáil, Labour and the Green Party have facilitated US overseas aggression by allowing the use of Shannon Airport, but this move marks a new departure, leaving behind even the facade of neutrality.
According to a new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute, some 52% of the Israeli public (49.5% of the Jews and 66% of the Arabs who participated in the survey) believes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign if Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit recommends that he be indicted for any of the alleged legal improprieties for which he has been under investigation.
Good evening and thanks for tuning in. My name is John Bachtell. I’m the national chair of the Communist Party USA. Welcome to our response to the State of the Union address. Our country and the world are at a crossroads. Both humanity and nature face existential crises. We face a climate catastrophe and an escalating nuclear war danger.
The election rally organized by the CPI(M) mobilized a million people in Kolkata.
On February 3, one million people gathered in Kolkata for "People's Brigade" rally to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government from West Bengal in the forthcoming elections. The election rally was organized by the Left Front, an alliance led by the Communist Party of India - Marxist.
BRITAIN’S navy and marines are conducting military exercises close to Venezuela, the Morning Star has discovered.
The Mounts Bay, a giant Royal Fleet Auxiliary landing ship, spent New Year in Miami embarking a US coastguard helicopter for the first time. It then sailed south to within 50 miles of the Venezuelan coast and had docked in Caracas Baii, on the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, by January 21. The Royal Navy claims the vessel is working on counternarcotics “take-down” operations with the US Southern Command – though it is this branch of the Pentagon that would lead any attack on Venezuela.
KARL MARX’S tomb was vandalised in a suspected “hammer attack” over the weekend and “will never be the same again.”
Marks appeared on the marble plaque situated under the bronze bust of the communist philosopher’s tomb, in Highgate Cemetery in north London, with the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust charity condemning the “deliberate attack on the memory of Karl Marx.”