Cuba: US moves in for the kill

 

[Havana, June 15, 2026: Funeral of 32 Cuban soldiers killed in US attack on Venezuela.]

[Educational to Socialist Alliance Melbourne branch, March 3, 2026.]

Washington’s fundamental hostility

67 years after the initial victory of the Cuban Revolution, it faces perhaps its greatest ever challenge as Washington moves in for the kill.

The January 1, 1959 triumph of the Revolution and its victory over the US-led counterrevolution at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) in April 1961 electrified progressive and popular forces in Latin America. The revolution and the bold, dynamic new leadership around Fidel and Che had a huge impact.

Can the Rojava Revolution survive?

[Educational talk given to Newcastle Socialist Alliance on February 11, 2026.]

Distribution of Kurds across the Middle East.

What’s really at stake in Ukraine

For many years the mainstream media has been full of relentless, wall-to-wall propaganda against Russia and China. As the US-NATO defeat in Ukraine becomes impossible to deny, the campaign against Russia and its ally China has intensified.

Recently, for instance, former Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrews was excoriated by the media because he appeared in a photo in Beijing with “rogues and dictators” (ABC News), namely, Putin, Xi and Kim Jong-un — currently the top hate figures for the West. If he had appeared in a photo with, say, Trump, Starmer, Macron and Merz — lying Western capitalist politicians who specialise in blighting the lives of ordinary people in the interests of the corporate rich — nothing would have been said.