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Iran stands firm as Middle East burns!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The Middle East is ablaze as Israeli and American rockets rain down on Iran and the Islamic Republic hits back with devastating missile attacks on Tel Aviv and American bases across the Persian Gulf. American bases and early-warning systems in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been knocked out. The Iranians have closed the Straits of Hormuz, the key artery for Gulf oil exports, to all but Russian and Chinese shipping and the north Yemenis have resumed their blockade against Israeli and Anglo-American shipping in the Red Sea. Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement, has joined the fray hitting the port of Haifa and other military targets in northern Israel while a Sudanese general says volunteer brigades from his country are ready to join the Iranians on the front line should the USA and Israel launch ground operations against the Islamic Republic.

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The view from the Donbas

by Theo Russell

Members of the New Communist Party and International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity recently held an online meeting with Boris Litvinov, the Secretary of the Donetsk Region of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). The meeting was also joined by Gedrius Gebrauskas, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania, who is currently living in exile in Moscow. We publish here a summary.

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Editorial

The Madness of King Trump

Rambling speeches, delusions of grandeur, unhinged threats to friend and foe alike…and now a demand for “unconditional surrender” as his offensive against Iran falters in the first week of open combat. The Iranians have crippled the American military network across the Middle East, cut off the Persian Gulf to all Western shipping while giving the Israelis a taste of their own medicine with daily drone and missile strikes on Tel Aviv and other cities across the Zionist entity. America and Israel’s ‘achievements’ so far have been the killing of 165 school-kids in an air-raid last week and the sinking of an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean.

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