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There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of Honduras on February 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban medical mission under pressure from the administration of the US president, Donald Trump.
Amid war, sanctions, and deepening economic crisis, Iran’s working class stands at the center of a historic confrontation. Rodney D. Green traces how decades of imperialist intervention, clerical domination, and capitalist restructuring have produced mass poverty, repression, and revolt. From oil workers to teachers, coordinated protests reveal a society pushed to the brink. Yet the struggle is not simply against one regime, but against intersecting systems of power—domestic and global. The question remains: can an organized working-class movement emerge with the vision and strength to transform Iran’s future?
A vast and deep-seated cognitive war is being waged by major U.S. and Western information technology (IT) and communication technology (ICT) companies to change minds and distort events in order to portray the oppressors of the people as the good guys and the oppressed as the guilty ones. At the same time, they carry out cyberattacks against the critical infrastructure of other countries to create confusion.
The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I hugged everybody: the woman who checked me in, the man who stamped my passport, the ground staff. I had hugged all my friends tightly the previous day, my tears fighting for the right to stream down my face. It felt as though, through these hugs, I wanted to somehow transmit my trepidation about what could possibly happen to Cuba, the Cubans, the Cuban Revolution – all of it – because of the madness of Donald Trump.
The International Labour Organisation’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world’s workers.
Across the world, cities are being remade in the image of global capital. Once messy, vibrant spaces of community, culture and spontaneous life are being sanitised, monitored and packaged for tourism, investment and corporate profit. From the transformation of Amsterdam’s countercultural streets to the rise of “smart cities” driven by surveillance, data extraction and digital control, urban life is increasingly enclosed within systems designed for efficiency rather than human connection. At the same time, the same logic reshapes agriculture and rural landscapes. What is being lost is not merely architecture or street culture but the sacred, reciprocal relationships that once bound communities, land and everydaylife.
The US official asserts that “Cuba needs to change” and that Cubans require “economic freedom.” However, his narrative omits key facts about the social achievements of the Revolution and Washington’s responsibility for the current difficulties.
