The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 3rd April 2026
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 3rd April 2026
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
American and Israeli missiles rain down on the Islamic Republic as the Iran war enters its second month with no end in sight to the bitter conflict. The Iranians showed they can still pack a punch, with wave after wave of devastating drone and rocket attacks on Israel and American military and economic targets throughout the Middle East. Western stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities take a hammering as the Iranian blockade of the Persian Gulf throttles the global oil and gas markets. Muslim Brotherhood guerillas in Syria say they will soon join the fight if the Zionists carry out their threat to hang members of the Palestinian resistance. And on the battlefield the Hezbollah militia is beating back the Israeli invaders in south Lebanon and raiding into northern Israel.
In Tehran, the Iranians have accused the USA and Israel of genocide over the deliberate targeting of schools and education facilities in strikes on the country. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei Hamaneh said more than 600 schools and educational facilities across Iran have been targeted in American-Israeli attacks over the last month, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab where more than 160 children were killed.
”This is not an isolated act of cruelty – it is part of a systematic and brutal pattern of illegal warfare against Iran,” he said. “The term ‘war crime’ falls far short of adequately describing these atrocities. Given the explicit rhetoric of hostility toward Iranians (as a nation) expressed by US/Israeli officials, these crimes amount to genocide.”
Trump tells his dwindling band of followers that he’ll bomb Iran back into the Stone Age if they don’t give in. But others say the pathetic old man is seeking a speedy way out of the conflict to avoid a battering at the mid-term congressional elections in November. Trump wants to declare victory and end hostilities before the political damage becomes irreparable, Time magazine reported this week.
On the diplomatic front, the Russians say the best way to restore free passage through the Persian Gulf is for the Americans to stop their fighting against Iran. China and Pakistan have proposed a five-point plan to end the war on Iran that calls for an immediate ceasefire and restoration of “normal passage” for vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, while a former Iranian foreign minister is calling for an “all for all” deal with the Americans with the Islamic Republic re-opening the Strait of Hormuz and mothballing their nuclear programme in return for the lifting of the sanctions regime and normalisation with the USA. Trump’s response – a national address to the American people on prime-time TV – was an incoherent repetition of the usual lies and threats that no-one takes any notice of, least of all the Iranians who say their rockets will do their talking for the time being.
In the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, the leader of the communist-led Democratic Front for Peace & Equality said: “The latest war began in Gaza and after two and a half years of staggering loss – both in lives and resources – its consequences have rippled across the entire region. What began in Gaza has now escalated into a wider confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran (with support from Russia and China) on the other – a conflict with ripple effects stretching far beyond the battlefields. In this expanding crisis, Tehran’s network of regional actors has been engaged to varying degrees, with some militias intensifying attacks even as others hold back from full-scale war…
“The war with Iran – yet another consequence of the unresolved Palestinian question – has revealed something else: the United States and Israel are unlikely to achieve their stated goal of regime change. Everything that has unfolded over the past two years shows that the Middle East will remain a region prone to repeated eruptions of violence. At the centre of that instability is the unresolved Palestinian question.”