There is another September 11, one that communists, socialists and progressive people around the world remember for very different reasons from the date that dominates mainstream Western political memory. On 11 September 1973, in Santiago de Chile, a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, with the active support of the United States, overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende.
Many news articles and commentaries have been written about the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement (Mecca Agreement), signed on August 7, 2026, between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
To prevent the exaggerations and contradictions in these comments from obscuring the significance of the development, they need to be examined more closely.
"The trade war with the United States is already causing devastation for workers across Canada. Despite doing the right thing and walking away from a bad deal on tariff negotiations, the response from the Carney government has been to make working people pay for the deepening trade war and to show a willingness to make profound concessions that will hurt working people.
"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) categorically rejects this latest and serious transfer of national assets carried out by the illegitimate and illegal triumvirate that holds de facto power in Venezuela.
“At a time when the ruthless occupying state of Israel, backed by the US and the EU, is continuing its deadly attacks and threats in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and the broader region, and as the US - Israel war against Iran is escalating, a highly dangerous series of settlement activities in the Palestinian West Bank is being resumed.
For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to disguise its aggressive imperialist policy toward Cuba as a question of “national security,” diplomatic pressure or concern for “democracy”.
Behind this sanitized vocabulary stands a far more brutal reality: economic strangulation, political coercion, extraterritorial intimidation and the deliberate worsening of the material conditions of life of an entire people because that people refuses to renounce its Revolution.
In a statement released on 17 July, the communist party accuses the United States of committing war crimes through attacks on civilian infrastructure, including transportation networks, railway lines, airports, grain storage facilities, water production plants and maritime installations.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez dismissed the document as another fabrication promoted by what he described as one of the most corrupt figures in the current U.S. administration, stating that "the thief thinks everyone is like him" aptly characterizes the accusations leveled against Cuba.
For the Russian working class, however, the election meant something entirely different. It marked the decisive consolidation of the capitalist counter-revolution that had begun with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In recent weeks, the Democratic
Socialists of America has claimed a handful of electoral “victories.” In
New York’s 7th and 13th Districts covering Queens, Brooklyn, and the
Bronx, candidates Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated
the Democratic Party old guard in the primaries. In Colorado’s 1st
District, Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Democrat Diana DeGette.
These candidates have run on common platforms such as Medicare For All,
Abolish Ice, Ending War, Housing for All, and Unions for All.
