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On December 10, 2025, US forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign ministry called it “blatant theft and an act of international piracy,” adding: “The true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed. It has always been about our natural wealth, our oil.”

That same day, on the other side of the world, China released its third Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean (the first since 2016) outlining a vision of partnership “without attaching any political conditions.” The timing captures the choice now facing Latin America. Two documents released within a week — Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) on December 5 and China’s policy paper five days later — lay bare fundamentally different approaches to the hemisphere.

The Monroe Doctrine returns

Trump’s NSS makes no pretense of diplomatic subtlety. It declares a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting US opposition to “hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets” in the hemisphere. The Western Hemisphere is now America’s “highest priority”, with three threats requiring military response: migration, drugs, and China.

Countries seeking US assistance must demonstrate they are “winding down adversarial outside influence” — a demand that Latin American nations cut ties with Beijing. The strategy promises “targeted deployments” and “the use of lethal force” against cartels. It states that Washington will “reward and encourage the region’s governments … aligned with our principles and strategies.” Unsurprisingly, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rushed to congratulate Chile’s Trump-inspired extreme right wing candidate José Antonio Kast, who won the presidency with 58% of the vote (the most right-wing leader since Pinochet).

The tanker seizure shows what this doctrine looks like in practice. Since September, US strikes on boats have killed 95 people. The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group patrols the Caribbean. As Colombian President Gustavo Petro observed, Trump is “not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking” — only oil. After declaring that a new phase of attacks could include “land strikes on Venezuela”, Trump threatened the Colombian president that “he’ll be next” as well as invasion of Mexico.

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China’s alternative

China’s policy paper operates from an entirely different premise. Opening by identifying China as “a developing country and member of the Global South,” it positions the relationship as South-South cooperation and solidarity rather than great power competition. The document proposes five programs: Solidarity, Development, Civilization, Peace, and People-to-People Connectivity.

What distinguishes this paper from its 2008 and 2016 predecessors is its explicit call for “local currency pricing and settlement’ in energy trade to “reduce the impact of external economic and financial risks” — new language directly addressing the weaponization of the dollar. This trend has been underway, as highlighted by the R$157 billion (USD 28 billion) currency swap agreement between Brazil and China, signed during Brazilian president Lula’s visit to the Asian country in May this year.

China’s policy paper supports the “Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace”— a pointed contrast to US twenty-first century gunboat diplomacy. And it contains a line clearly responding to Washington’s pressure: “The China-LAC relationship does not target or exclude any third party, nor is it subjugated by any third party.”

The historical pattern

Of course, the focus on the “China threat” to “US pre-eminence” in the region is not new. In August 1961, progressive Brazilian Vice President João Goulart visited China, the first high-ranking Latin American official to do so after the Chinese Revolution. At a mass rally in Beijing, he declared that China showed “how a people, looked down upon by others for past centuries, can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters.”

The US response was swift. American media constructed a narrative linking Brazilian agrarian reform movements to a “communist threat from China.” On April 1, 1964 (less than three years after Goulart’s visit) a US-backed military coup overthrew him. Twenty-one years of dictatorship followed.

The playbook remains the same. In the 1960s, the pretext was “communist threat”; today it’s “China threat.” And what’s at stake is Latin American sovereignty. What makes this moment different is economic weight. China-LAC trade reached a record US$518.47 billion in 2024, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce. China’s share of trade with Mercosur countries has grown from 2% to 24% since 2000. At the May 2025 CELAC-China Forum, Xi Jinping announced a USD 9 billion investment credit line. In 1964, Latin America had few alternatives. Today, China presents another option.

The question before the Latin American people

The right-wing surge across the continent is undeniable — Kast in Chile, Milei in Argentina, the end of MAS rule in Bolivia. These victories reflect the limitations of progressive governments when addressing crime, migration, and economic stagnation. But they also reflect how US-generated crises become the terrain on which the right wins.

The question is whether Latin American governments (including right-wing ones) want to be subordinates in what Trump’s strategy calls an “American-led world.” Even Western liberal analysts are alarmed. Brookings describes the NSS as “essentially assert[ing] a neo-imperialist presence in the region.” Chatham House notes that Trump uses “coercion instead of negotiation”, contrasted with China, “which has been providing investment and credit … without imposing conditions.”

That being said, China’s presence in Latin America is not without contradictions. The structure of trade remains imbalanced — Latin America exports raw materials and imports manufactured goods. Meanwhile, labor and environmental concerns linked to specific Chinese private enterprises cannot be ignored. Whether the relationship enables development or reproduces dependency depends on what Latin American governments demand: technology transfer, local production, industrial policy. This agenda for a sovereign national project must be pushed forward by the Latin American people and popular forces.

At present, the differences between the two visions being presented of the “US-led world” and a “community with a shared future” have never been starker.

Tings Chak is the Asia Co-Coordinator of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.

This article was produced by Globetrotter.

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Climate and human rights advocates on Tuesday blasted European Union legislators for approving a deregulation package that Amnesty International's Eve Geddie said "undermines vital climate and human rights safeguards, betraying people and the planet at a time when protections are needed most."

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted 428-218 in favor of Omnibus I, which will weaken the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, with 17 abstentions. The package still needs final approval from the Council of the EU, after which governments will have until mid-2028 to transpose it into national law.

Under the new text, only EU companies that employ more than 1,000 people on average and have a net annual turnover above €450 million, or $529 million, will have to conduct social and environmental reporting, and only firms with over 5,000 employees and a net annual turnover exceeding €1.5 billion, or $1.76 billion, have to carry out due diligence.

The changes, finalized in negotiations between the European Parliament and member states last week, "are expected to exempt around 80% of companies originally expected to disclose against the rules," reported Responsible Investor.

Anticipating the vote, Sebastien Godinot, senior economist at WWF European Policy Office, said Monday that "under the guise of easing regulatory burdens, the EU engaged in a race to the bottom, rushing to undo necessary safeguards that were set in place to protect our nature and climate, as well as to secure future economic prosperity."

"Instead of focusing on the successful implementation of the laws, decision-makers shifted their focus to short-term political gains, ignoring the strong evidence showing that corporate climate targets are not only feasible, but make a lot of sense for companies," he continued. "After years of positioning itself as a sustainability leader, it is disappointing to see the EU stepping back and ignoring the science meant to guide decision-making."

Mariana Ferreira, who focuses on sustainable finance at the WWF office, noted that "this outcome reflects a troubling trend in the European Parliament, where the conservative bloc has increasingly aligned with far-right agendas, legitimizing polarizing demands and pushing aside science-based evidence and warnings."

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After Tuesday's vote, Human Rights Watch senior corporate accountability advocate Hélène de Rengervé lamented: "All that is left of the EU's trailblazing corporate accountability law is a skeleton... The final text means corporate interests are being prioritized over the rights of workers, communities, and environmental protection."

Gaëlle Dusepulchre of the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights also argued that the vote "sets a serious precedent for EU policymaking by signaling a clear prioritization of corporate interests over the protection of people and the planet."

Geddie, director of Amnesty's European Institutions Office, pointed out that "this rollback is part of a bonfire of regulations and is the result of intense lobbying efforts by powerful industry actors and external pressure, including from the United States. Ignoring widespread criticism from civil society, economists, the [United Nations], and even the European Ombudsman, this rushed and opaque process also flies in the face of public opinion, which clearly shows the majority of Europeans favour human rights and environmental protection."

"Now, EU governments must strengthen key provisions when they incorporate these regulations in national law and use every available avenue to improve protections, ensure access to justice for victims, and urgently prevent further erosion of corporate accountability—especially since other deregulation packages are already in the pipeline," she stressed. "European states must not squander the opportunity to use these regulations to ensure businesses contribute to thriving communities—our future and the future of our planet rely on it."

European Coalition for Corporate Justice director Nele Meyer called the vote "a betrayal of people and communities suffering from corporate abuse around the world," and warned that it "puts member states at risk of breaching their obligation to protect human rights and prevent environmental and climate damage."

"It is deeply alarming to witness how foreign pressure shaped a file that should have been driven by evidence and by the needs of those facing the impacts on the ground," Meyer added. "While the protections have been weakened, the core due diligence duty remains. Now the law must be implemented in a way that delivers real protection for people and the planet."

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On the floor before the votes, lawmakers said Congress must assert its authority to decide when to go to war.

“The constitution vests this body with authority over matters of war and peace. That power has too often been ceded to the executive branch,” Rep. Meeks said. “Congress must make clear to all of us that no president can unilaterally draw the United States into a conflict.”

Others warned against war with Venezuela altogether.

“It's easy to get into a war. It's hard as hell to get out of war,” Rep. McGovern said. “I've been around long enough to hear representatives of both parties talk about war as something simple, ‘You can get into it. We get out of it easy. No big deal.’ That's never happened!”

“Even the Pentagon says it will be very, very complicated to topple Maduro,” he said.

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A commission of top United Nations human rights watchdogs sent a series of blistering letters to the heads of five U.S. universities raising sharp concerns over the treatment of pro-Palestine students, The Intercept has learned.

The letters, which were sent on October 14 to the presidents and provosts of Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Minnesota State, and Tufts universities, called out school officials and U.S. law enforcement agencies for cracking down on student protesters and subsequently using immigration authorities to single out foreign students for detention and deportation.

“We are highly concerned over reports that students were arrested, suspended, and expelled, and lost their university accommodation, campus access, and their immigration status merely because of assembling peacefully to express their solidarity with victims of the conflict in Gaza,” wrote the group of U.N. special rapporteurs, independent experts who monitor human rights violations. “We fear that such pressure and public attacks on scholars and institutions can result in repression of free expression and in self-censorship, thus damaging academic freedom and the autonomy of universities.”

The letters suggest the international body has taken notice of domestic protest repression on U.S. campuses. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has weaponized immigration authorities against international students and investigations over alleged antisemitism at universities across the country — ratcheting up a crackdown on student protests for Palestine that began under former President Joe Biden.

The letter to Columbia highlighted the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Leqaa Kordia, as well as the attempted arrest of Yunseo Chung. (Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Khalil and Mahdawi both spent months in detention earlier this year. Kordia, a Palestinian student who was arrested on March 8, was still in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as recently as December 8, according to a report by Drop Site News.

“It has been reported that the conditions of Ms. Kordia’s detention are particularly severe. Due to overcrowding, she sleeps on the floor where cockroaches and other bugs abound, and many showers and sinks do not work,” the authors wrote. “She is also not given materials her faith requires to have to pray, and she is not allowed to wear a hijab in the presence of men as her religion requires.”

The authors of the letter include Mary Lawlor, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Farida Shaheed, the special rapporteur on the right to education; Irene Khan, the special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; Gina Romero, the special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; and Gehad Madi, the special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. Representatives of the U.N. rapporteurs who drafted the letters did not immediately respond to The Intercept’s requests for comment.

The U.N. letter also highlighted the cases of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish student at Tufts who was snatched by masked ICE agents on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25; Badar Khan Suri, the Indian-born researcher at Georgetown arrested on March 17; Momodou Taal, a Cornell grad student with dual citizenship from the United Kingdom and Gambia who was ordered to turn himself in to ICE agents on March 22; and Mohammed Hoque, a Minnesota State student arrested at his home on March 28. (Cornell, Minnesota State, and Tufts did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)

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In the letter, the authors singled out Columbia for bowing to pressure from the Trump administration, which they said set a standard that chilled speech nationwide.

“The restrictive measures at Columbia University reflect nationwide structural changes at universities to suppress Palestine solidarity movements,” the authors wrote.

In each letter, the authors asked the universities to provide information on the allegations of mistreatment, any measures taken by the schools to protect the rights of its students and scholars, and details on how the schools plan to safeguard the rights to freedom of expression and assembly.

“Students report self-censoring political expression, and particularly international students are withdrawing from activism due to deportation fears,” the authors wrote. “Campus organizing has diminished significantly, with activists reporting less attendance from international students who had to quit their activism because of the potential risk of repercussions. This intimidating effect extends beyond issues concerning Israel and Palestine, with students reporting reluctance to engage in any political activism.”

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Liberation stands in unwavering solidarity with the seven pro-Palestine political prisoners in British jails who have undertaken a coordinated hunger strike beginning November 2, 2025, now extending beyond 45 days. This hunger strike is a collective act of resistance against imperial war, arms profiteering, and the carceral repression deployed to defend them. This is not a protest born of desperation. It is a conscious political intervention made necessary by the British state’s refusal to grant bail, ensure fair trials, allow uncensored communication, or meaningfully engage with legal representatives, while continuing to criminalise resistance to genocide. The strike has grown in scope, participation, and international significance:

• What began with two prisoners has expanded to seven hunger strikers across multiple British prisons, many held on extended remand for over a year without conviction.
• Prisoners have endured censorship of letters and books, denial of family contact, religious humiliation, punitive transfers, and prosecution under counter-terror legislation designed to silence dissent rather than protect public safety.
• The hunger strike has entered a life-threatening phase:
  • Five of the seven hunger strikers have been hospitalized after prolonged starvation.
  • Kamran Ahmed was hospitalized after 18 days, later collapsing again as the strike continued. His family has publicly stated they fear for his life.
  • Teuta “T” Hoxha became the second striker hospitalized, suffering severe medical symptoms after nearly three weeks without food.
  • Medical deterioration now includes cardiac irregularities, dangerously low blood sugar, collapse, and organ stress.

Despite these developments, the UK Labour government has refused to respond, meet with lawyers, or address the prisoners’ demands. The state’s inaction comes in the face of overwhelming warning signs:

• Over 100 medical professionals have signed a formal letter of concern, warning of the imminent risk of irreversible harm or death if the hunger strike continues without intervention.
• The prisoners are now represented by Imran Khan & Partners, who have urgently sought ministerial engagement and warned that the government may bear responsibility for preventable deaths.
• Families of the hunger strikers have spoken publicly of their fear, anguish, and the lack of transparency surrounding their loved ones’ conditions.

This is no longer a question of prison administration. It is a human rights emergency. The hunger strikers are being punished for direct action against Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. Elbit’s weapons, drones, and surveillance systems are used daily against Palestinians. Britain’s protection of Elbit and repression of those who disrupt its operations reveals the material alliance between state power, arms capital, and imperial violence. A comprehensive study released by CAGE International has documented that Palestine Action’s direct-action campaign has been materially effective: forcing factory closures, disrupting supply chains, increasing insurance and security costs, and winning jury acquittals. The severity of repression is a response to this effectiveness. As the state has remained silent, international participation has intensified:

• Stecco (Luca Dolce), an imprisoned Italian anarchist, joined the hunger strike, naming the shared struggle against the “military techno-industrial system.”
• Jakhi McCray, incarcerated in the United States, declared a solidarity fast.
• Manar in Gaza, living under siege, sent a message affirming that the prisoners’ hunger is inseparable from the reality of colonial violence in Palestine.
• Bernadette McAliskey situated the strike within Ireland’s long history of hunger strikes and colonial repression, stating clearly, "This is resistance, not terrorism."
• Irish city and county councillors, including those from Derry City & Strabane District Council, have passed motions and signed letters in support of the prisoners and condemning Britain’s actions.
• Major outlets and institutions, including Middle East Eye, Novara Media, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and New Internationalist, have now framed the hunger strike as a national moral and political crisis, and as part of a broader assault on the right to protest.

The campaign is prisoner-led. As conditions worsened and official channels failed, Prisoners for Palestine issued a clear call to ESCALATE, urging supporters to move beyond routine advocacy toward sustained, disruptive pressure on the institutions complicit in genocide and repression.

Support actions have already included:

• Coordinated protests at seven prisons
• A banner drop on Westminster Bridge, resulting in terrorism arrests
• A global day of action on 25 November
• Continued direct action against arms manufacturers and state institutions

This escalation reflects the reality – that the prisoners have already escalated with their bodies. Hunger striker Jon Cink, in his ending statement, rejected martyrdom and individualism, emphasizing that the struggle is collective and ongoing. He named the enemy clearly, imperialism and the weapons industry, and affirmed that real change requires shared risk, sustained effort, and refusal to retreat. His message was simple and resolute: power to the hunger strikers, power to the resistance. The hunger strikers have articulated five precise and just demands, which Liberation fully endorses:

An immediate end to the censorship of letters, books, and communications in prison

Immediate release on bail for all remanded Palestine Action prisoners

The right to a fair trial, including full disclosure of evidence and state–corporate collusion

De-proscription of Palestine Action, ending the criminalisation of anti-war resistance

Permanent closure of all UK Elbit Systems facilities, ending Britain’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide

These are not narrow prison grievances. They are demands that strike at the heart of imperialism, militarism, and carceral control. Liberation affirms:

• These prisoners are political prisoners, targeted for opposing genocide and arms profiteering.
• Hunger strikes are a legitimate and historic form of resistance when all other avenues are closed.
• The repression they face mirrors tactics used against Black, Indigenous, migrant, and working-class movements in the United States.
• The struggle against prisons in Britain is inseparable from the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and from the abolitionist battle at home.

We call on DSA chapters, caucuses, members, and allied organizations to:

• Continue escalating solidarity actions in line with prisoner-led direction
• Sustain pressure on British authorities and complicit corporations
• Send letters and material support to the hunger strikers
• Organize political education, screenings, and discussions, including support for completing and distributing Operation Recomply (the Filton 24 film)
• Integrate this struggle into anti-imperialist, anti-carceral, and abolitionist organizing in the U.S.

To the Comrades: Your hunger has crossed borders. Your resistance has unified prisoners, workers, students, and oppressed peoples across continents. You have exposed the machinery of empire where it hoped to remain unseen. We stand with you, not as spectators, but as comrades. We will escalate with you. We will organize with you. We will not allow your sacrifice to be isolated, silenced, or forgotten. Until the prisoners are free. Until the arms factories are closed. Until the empire and its prisons are dismantled.

In solidarity and struggle,

Liberation

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One US House Democrat pledged Tuesday night that Colorado officials will fight the Trump administration's latest attack on science "with every legal tool that we have" after top White House budget adviser Russell Vought announced a decision to break up a crucial climate research center in Boulder.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) called the decision to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) "a deeply dangerous" action.

"NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD—where scientists perform cutting-edge research every day," said Neguse. "We will fight this reckless directive."

Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said the National Science Foundation (NSF), which contracts the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to run NCAR, "will be breaking up" the center and has begun a "comprehensive review," with "vital activities such as weather research" being moved to another entity.

He added that NCAR is "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”

But scientists pointed to the center's 65-year history of making major advances in climate research and developing systems that scientists use regularly.

NCAR developed GPS dropsondes, which are dropped from the center's aircraft into the eye of hurricanes to gather crucial data and improve forecasts, as well as severe weather warnings and analyses of the economic impacts that weather can bring, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, told USA Today, which first reported on the plan to dismantle the facility.

Neguse also called the decision to shutter NCAR "blatantly retaliatory." The breakup of the center was announced days after President Donald Trump announced his plan to pardon Tina Peters, despite uncertainty over his authority to do so. The former county clerk was convicted in Colorado court on felony charges of allowing someone to access secure voting system data—part of an effort to prove the baseless conspiracy theory pushed by Trump that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.

Trump attacked Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, over the Peters case last week, calling him "incompetent" and "pathetic."

Also on Tuesday, the administration announced it was canceling $109 million in environmental transportation grants for Colorado that were aimed at boosting investment in electric vehicles, rail improvements, and other research.

Writer Benjamin Kunkel said the dismantling of NCAR is evidently "what happens to a state whose leading officials do accept climate science... and don't accept that Trump won the 2020 election."

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Polis said Tuesday that his government had not received any communication from the White House about the NCAR review and dismantling, but "if true, public safety is at risk and science is being attacked."

"Climate change is real, but the work of NCAR goes far beyond climate science," he said. "NCAR delivers data around severe weather events like fires and floods that help our country save lives and property, and prevent devastation for families.”

The White House Tuesday said it objected to UCAR's "woke direction," including its efforts to "make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered" via the Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences and wind turbine research that aims to "better understand and predict the impact of weather conditions and changing climate on offshore wind production.”

The administration also said the review of NCAR will eliminate "green new scam research activities"—green energy research completed by many of the center's 830 employees.

Climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe warned that the dismantling of NCAR was an attack on "quite literally our global mothership."

"NCAR supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, the physicists who envision and code new weather models, and yes—the largest community climate model in the world," said Hayhoe. "Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet."

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Hurricane specialist Michael Lowry said the center is "crucial to cutting-edge meteorology and improvements in weather forecasting."

"It's far, far bigger than a 'climate' research lab," he said. "This is self-sabotage by a wildly ignorant and malicious administration cutting off their nose to spite their face."

The president this year has also pushed massive cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where major climate and weather research takes place. The cuts have come as 2024 has been named the hottest year on record and scientists have warned that planetary heating has contributed to recent weather disasters.

“Any plans to dismantle NSF NCAR," UCAR president Antonio Busalacchi told the Washington Post, "would set back our nation’s ability to predict, prepare for, and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters."

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The International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has condemned the decision of the Russian authorities to sentence members of a Marxist study group to prison terms ranging from 16 to 22 years, warning against the criminalization of communist ideology and political struggle.

More specifically, the statement, published in 902 portal, reads:

“The decision of the Russian authorities to impose prison sentences of 16 to 22 years on members of a Marxist study group—based on the absurd yet dangerous ‘expert opinion’ of an appointed committee that characterized Lenin’s State and Revolution as a ‘terrorism manual’—is utterly unacceptable and exposes the anti-communist and anti-democratic degeneration of bourgeois power in Russia.

The reliance of the Russian bourgeois judiciary on a lexicographical interpretation of the word ‘revolution,’ and the classification of the ‘ideology of socialism,’ ‘power to the Soviets,’ and the ‘establishment of Soviet power’ as ‘extremist ideology,’ in order to substantiate the alleged ‘violent nature of changing the fundamental principles of the existing regime,’ reveals a ruthless attempt to smear revolution and socialism. At the same time, it aims to suppress even the most minimal political activity that challenges the choices of the bourgeois class and struggles for the overthrow of capitalist barbarism.

This court ruling represents yet another link in the anti-communist chain employed by the Russian bourgeoisie. Notable examples include the hosting of an international fascist gathering—with the participation of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn—the operation of a political school at a public university dedicated to the Russian fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin, and the anti-Soviet and anti-communist arguments used by Vladimir Putin to justify the unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. That invasion marked the formal beginning of the ongoing imperialist war, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people from Ukraine and Russia—primarily from poor working-class backgrounds—in the interests of capital.

The KKE condemns this unacceptable verdict in the strongest terms. It is consistent with similar anti-communist trials and bans in Ukraine, more recently in Poland against the Communist Party of Poland, as well as with the ‘week against communism’ proclaimed by Donald Trump. These developments demonstrate that anti-communism is not an exclusive instrument of the Euro-Atlantic imperialist bloc, but can also be deployed by capitalist Russia whenever deemed necessary by bourgeois power. At the same time, Russia’s leadership falsely claims to be waging an ‘anti-fascist war’ and seeks every 9th of May to appropriate the Anti-Fascist Victory of the USSR and the resistance movements over Nazism—a product of capitalism itself.

We demand the immediate release of the convicted members of the Marxist study group and an end to anti-communist political persecution.

Hands off the communists.”

  **IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM**©   

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