Category: Thinking Politically

The people “want to rebuild it with their own hands — without foreign pressure or intervention,” said one Gazan.

A searing indictment draws parallels between Gaza’s devastation and the Warsaw Ghetto, not to equate histories but to expose recurring patterns of enclosure, dehumanisation and mass destruction. The article situates Gaza within a longer trajectory of settler-colonial violence, systemic erasure and global complicity, arguing that impunity has enabled catastrophic human loss and institutional collapse. As…

Will a US-Israeli war on Iran redraw the political map of West Asia—or deepen the long shadow over Palestine? Dr Ramzy Baroud situates the conflict within a century-long arc of imperial design, from Sykes-Picot Agreement to the Abraham Accords, arguing that today’s war is less rupture than culmination. While Palestine is not always foregrounded in…

Residents of border villages have been abandoned by the Lebanese army as Israeli troops invade.

“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