The international left keeps asking Iranians which force is permitted to hurt them first. A solidarity that requires that answer is worth very little.
By: Mina FakhravarAugust 29, 2026
Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.
The U.S.-Israeli Wars on Iran Achieved the Opposite of Their Intended Goal
By: Saeed RahnemaAugust 27, 2026
Faced with war and escalating domestic instability, the Iranian government has pursued military responses, engagement in diplomacy, and intensifying repression at home.
Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
Lisbeth Moya González analyzes the current crisis in Cuba, for which both the Cuban and the US governments are responsible.
With this announcement, Ortega has put the last nail in the coffin of the revolution, the final hammer blow in a long process.
We cannot allow ourselves to become advisors of the empire on how to govern Cuba, including what to do with the survivors of the PCC.
The wars against Iran are the product of American imperialism; Israel and global Zionism, and the clerical/military/economic oligarchy of the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. government spent more money attacking Iran in the first two weeks than it did on military aid to Ukraine over four years.
We, a group of Baluch abroad, while opposing this reactionary war and emphasizing the necessity of overthrowing the Islamic Republic, declare our solidarity with Iran’s progressive forces.
Why progressive Iranian exiles who oppose the Islamic Republic nevertheless reject the U.S._Israeli war.
Iranians face attacks from both US imperialism/Israel and a brutally oppressive regime amid their struggle for democracy and social justice
Fightback condemns the attacks by US forces on Venezuela, which have resulted in 40 deaths and the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro.
Simón Rodríguez discusses the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated it to US president Donald Trump.
A socialist Vermont state senator explains how the left must support Ukraine while also supporting Gaza and opposing militarism.
Online panel with Iranian Women’s Rights Advocates
By: New PoliticsJune 25, 2025
Iranian feminists will speak about how U.S. activists can take a principled stand against the violations of human rights by all the powers involved and defend progressive, life-affirming forces inside Iran, the Middle East region, and the U.S.
Opposing Netanyahu, Trump, and Khamenei
Donald Trump’s forging of a political alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination may not be totally unexpected, but its speed and extent represent a dramatic transformation of world politics.
While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.
An interview with Joseph Daher
By: Joseph DaherDecember 9, 2024
In this interview, conducted amidst a rapidly changing situation in Syria, Tempest asks Swiss Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Assad’s rule, the prospects for progressive forces,
The party fell into the trap set for it by Israel, through its insistence on continuing to exchange fire with it “until a ceasefire in Gaza”, while it became clear that the weight of the battle was shifting from the wracked Strip to Lebanon.
John Feffer speaks for the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the Russian invasion, as a struggle of an oppressed people against imperialism.