Category: Thinking Politically

“Cuba en la encrucijada de un multilateralismo hipócrita,” by Josué Veloz Serrade, appeared on La Tizza on 17 March 2026. Read the English translation of an expanded and revised version of the original Spanish text for publication on Communis.

Argues for a more affirming vision of protests, with encouragement to deepen and expand.

Examines activities of the US left (broadly speaking) over the last 25 years or so, asks some hard questions, makes some strong claims, and hopefully stimulates critical thinking about what can we learn from the past to utilize and build upon in the future.

Iran is cast as a master chess player in Western discourse—but this analogy obscures more than it reveals. Drawing on history, from the 1979 revolution to today’s war dynamics, this piece argues that Iran’s strength lies not in tactical brilliance alone, but in a deeper social resilience that defies conventional military logic. Unlike fragile, top-down…

During the invasion of Cuba at Playa Girón, the attackers’ air force had around 30 aircraft, including B-26 bombers and C-46 and C-54 transport planes used to drop paratroopers and provide logistical support for the landing. On the Cuban side, in April 1961, the revolutionary air force could barely muster eight operational aircraft: a few…

Report on the first day of the 2026 anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Dan Kovalik and Jeremy Kuzmarov’s Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change was published on September 1, 2025. What can it teach us now that the empire has pulled the trigger on three more nations resisting its drive to dominate?

Why has U.S. policy toward Iran repeatedly failed despite decades of pressure, sanctions, and intervention? This essay argues that the problem is deeper than geopolitics: it is a civilizational misreading. From the 1953 coup to the nuclear dispute, Washington has approached Iran as a strategic threat rather than a historical society shaped by memory, sovereignty,…

Reports of 1-year-old Karim Abu Nassar being burned with a cigarette and pierced with a nail followed the publication of a United Nations analysis detailing Israel’s “systematic” torture of Palestinians since October 2023.

Trump’s latest National Security Strategy echoes an old and dangerous ideology — the revival of the “White man’s burden.” Historian Juan Cole argues that the Trump administration’s rhetoric on immigration, Europe, and global power reflects a disturbing embrace of White nationalist thinking reminiscent of early 20th-century colonial and fascist ideas. By portraying multicultural democracy as…