It’s been two weeks since the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) laid siege to over 20 Mexican states after the killing of their leader, ‘El Mencho’, by state forces. And while things may appear to be back to ‘normal’, all the conditions remain for even greater violence.

Ecuador is in crisis, with a higher murder rate than Haiti, a stagnant economy, and rampant poverty. What is the government’s response? Expelling the Cuban embassy and inviting American troops with open arms!

A series of countries across Latin America are cancelling the medical aid programmes they receive from Cuba, after pressure from the US to strangle the island continues. While the United States sets the Middle East ablaze, they denounce the ‘atrocities’ committed by one of Cuba’s main exports: healthcare.

On 4 March, US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Venezuela. The reason for the visit? Burgum, in addition to being Secretary of the Interior, heads the brand-new National Energy Dominance Council, a council created by Trump with the aim of ensuring “that the United States is the dominantcountry in energy matters.”

Drunk with success in Venezuela, Trump thought that the same methods could be used to force Iran to submit. Either a threatening naval force encircling the country would lead to capitulation, or a short sharp decapitation strike would produce regime change through the emergence of a new leadership willing to comply with imperialists’ demands (a ‘Delcy in Teheran’ as some put it).

On 25 February, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior published a report by the Cuban Border Guard about the interception of a Florida-based speedboat into Cuban territorial waters a mile off Cayo Falcones, in Villa Clara province, on the north coast of the island.

Once again, the eyes of the world are fixed on every word and gesture of the man in the White House, Donald J. Trump. With one third of the entire American Navy assembled in the region, and with Trump oscillating between threats and calls for negotiations, the question on the lips of millions is: will there be war with Iran?

There is not a single Latin American country whose land is not soaked with blood spilt by American imperialism. This has been the case for over a hundred years. But now that America has entered an era of decay, it has set its sights squarely on its backyard. The strangulation of the Cuban Revolution, weaponised tariffs, threats against presidents, and the kidnapping of Maduro are only the beginning of US imperialism’s attempt to retrench itself in the hemisphere and push China out of the continent. 

It is not an exaggeration to say that the greatest political scandal of all time is unfolding before our eyes. The magnitude of the Epstein revelations is not only breathtaking—it is without parallel in the history of class society. Never before has the global ruling class had its dirtiest, darkest inner workings exposed publicly in this way. No scandal has ever implicated such a wide swathe of the world’s financial and political elite and their ruling institutions.

One of the great mysteries of society is what those who do terrible, unjustifiable things, think about their behaviour. How do they justify the unjustifiable?

The 16th annual Montreal Marxist Winter School was a landmark event for communism in Quebec and Canada. The event received rave reviews from attendees, and the mood matched the seriousness of this moment in history—with all 750 attendees more determined to learn and build the forces of communism than ever.

On 17 February 2026, the already broken republic of Peru added a new chapter to its long history of political instability. Congress, with 75 votes in favour, approved the censure and removal of President José Jerí, who had taken office just 130 days earlier following the departure of Dina Boluarte. The reason? A scandal known as ‘chifagate’: clandestine meetings between the president and Chinese businessmen, sparking suspicions of corruption.

The Argentinian capitalist class, weighed down by high debts and low investment, is turning to the only weapon it has left: counter-reforms that lengthen the working day, make work more precarious, and attack the right to strike. Not taking this lying down, over one million protested across Argentina, fighting armed police in the streets.

Cuba is now facing an almost complete blackout after Trump imposed an oil blockade on the island. The aim is clear. US imperialism sees an opportunity to finally crush the Cuban Revolution after 67 years of relentless assault. It is the duty of the world’s working-class movement to rally to the defence of the Cuban Revolution.

After a month of panic in the Colombian press, 3 February finally arrived and passed. The meeting between Petro and Trump has been considered a great success and a demonstration of the merits of diplomacy and moderation. During a ‘special visit’ to the White House, Petro and Trump had a meeting lasting one hour and forty minutes, during which Trump ended up flattering the Colombian president, saying he was a “very nice guy.”