A chilling report by +972 Magazine and Local Call, based on testimony from seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community, exposes the grim reality of Israel’s war on Gaza. It claims the IDF knowingly selects civilian targets, routinely wipes out entire families, and writes off hundreds of innocent lives at a time as “collateral damage”. The sources say these tactics are intended to instil fear in the population. Let us call things by their real names: this is terrorism.

Henry Kissinger was a key strategist for US imperialism and advised presidents from JFK through Biden. The red thread running through his blood-soaked career is the killing of masses of people to maintain the US Empire.

In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth have joined the Palestine solidarity movement. In this context the demand for a ceasefire has gained a wider echo as the movement asks itself: how can we stop the killing? How can we escalate our actions and actually end the catastrophe in Gaza?

While the nightmare continues in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians living in the West Bank are seeing growing attacks from Israeli soldiers and settlers. This had already started before October 7, but since then it has massively been stepped up, with close to 200 Palestinians killed. In some areas, whole communities have been forced to move under threat of being killed.

Far-right “libertarian” candidate Javier Milei has won the presidential run-off election in Argentina. The victory of such a reactionary candidate has caused shock and dismay amongst many left-wing and working-class activists in Argentina and beyond. However, as communists, it is our task to understand the reasons why Milei won.

The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions appealed to workers all over the world to stop Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing, in an open letter published Oct. 16.

The slaughter in Gaza has now reached the grim milestone of 10,000 killed, while more than a million have been displaced with nowhere to go.

When the UAW went on strike, president Shawn Fain put forward a strategy of the “stand-up” strike, which he argued would be this generation’s answer to the sitdown strikes of the 1930s. How did the union leadership’s strategy work out?

The Israeli army, after much prevarication, finally started ground operations in Gaza over the weekend. But it was not a full-scale invasion. The Israeli military leaders are fully aware of the great risk to their own soldiers if they commence street-by-street fighting with troops on the ground. They are also wary of giving Hezbollah the excuse they require to widen the conflict, opening a second front on the northern border with Lebanon. So what are Netanyahu and his generals preparing for?

As Israel prepares its forces for a land invasion of Gaza, all the western imperialist leaders – from Biden to Sunak, Scholz, and Macron – are getting very nervous. They worry about what their world will look like when this is over.