The Israeli regime, and the western powers who support it, are enemies of the workers and youth of the Middle East. They have been wreaking havoc in the region for more than a century, keeping it crushed under the jackboot of barbaric imperialist oppression.

The position of revolutionary communists in this conflict is clear. We stand with the oppressed against the oppressors. We stand against the reactionary imperialist state of Israel and with the oppressed Palestinians, and now Lebanese, who are at the receiving end of brutal military aggression. We support their right to defend themselves.

Protesters around the world often refer to the state of Israel as a ‘terrorist state’. The Israeli regime dislikes that epithet, but what else can you call it’s actions in Lebanon?

If the attack on Lebanon turns into a long, drawn-out war, it would have serious consequences both inside Israel and in the region as a whole.

There can be no business as usual at our universities while there are no universities left in Gaza.

It has now finally dawned upon a growing number of people in Washington that the Ukrainian war is not only lost, but lost irrevocably.

On the same day as the attack against Hezbollah, the Israeli cabinet had voted to expand its war aims to include the safe return of Israeli citizens who have been evacuated from the north of the country and to keep them safe from exchange of fire over the Israel-Lebanon border. That means Israel is now officially preparing an invasion of Lebanon, with the stated aim of establishing a ‘buffer zone’ to “guarantee security in the north of Israel”.

The warmongers are never satisfied. They will continue their dangerous and reckless course to the bitter end, and the ordinary people will pay the bill in full. It is the fundamental duty of communists and all advanced workers and youth to fight against war and imperialism.

In a debate marked by a cavalcade of lies, Trump and Harris demonstrated once again that the capitalists are no longer fit to rule society.

In Netanyahu’s callous calculations, the lives of the hostages are just so much small change to be used for political advantage. His cynical manoeuvres have alienated him from his own electorate, large sections of the Israeli ruling class and even many in his own cabinet.