Paul Robeson, who passed away on this day in 1976, singing what would become China’s🇨🇳 national anthem, the revolutionary resistance song ‘March of the Volunteers’.

Paul Robeson burying the McCarthyite House Un-American Activities Committee:

‘Wherever I’ve been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against fascism were the communists. I laid many wreaths on the graves of communists. That is not criminal.

The reason I am here today, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

The other reason I’m here today is because when I’m abroad, I speak out against injustices against the Negro people in this land. That is why I am here. I’m not being tried for whether I am a communist. I’m being tried for fighting for the rights of my people.’

Muhammad Ali on why he refused to be drafted to fight the Viet Cong in the US’ imperial war on Vietnam🇻🇳:

‘I’m not gonna help nobody get something my negroes don’t have, if I’m gonna die I’ll die right here fighting you. You my enemy, my enemy is the white people, not Viet Congs, or Chinese, or Japanese.

You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me here in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight when you won’t even stand up for me here at home.’

In under a minute, Muhammad Ali destroyed the hypocrisy of white US🇺🇸 politicians demanding African Americans go and fight Washington’s imperial war on Vietnam🇻🇳.

🚨SEASON PREMIERE OF GOING UNDERGROUND

2026 Begins in Crisis: Tariq Ali on Venezuela Regime Change, Looming War on Iran, Greenland, Ukraine

https://rumble.com/v74qomk-2026-begins-in-crisis-tariq-ali-on-venezuela-regime-change-looming-war-on-i.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Tariq Ali on Venezuela🇻🇪: To Nicolas Maduro’s credit, he REFUSED the US’🇺🇸 ultimatum to leave

‘We now know that behind the scenes, the Maduro government was negotiating quite intensively with the United States, offering deals of one sort or another in order to prevent themselves from being invaded or the country bombed.

And the Americans made it an absolute condition that they weren’t prepared to tolerate Maduro in power any longer.

So he was offered various things. He was offered lots of money. He was offered a semi-palace, a huge mansion in Turkey with all his needs taken care of. God knows what else they offered.

And they offered him Moscow. You can go there if you want to, but to his credit, he refused.’

-Tariq Ali on the season premiere of Going Underground

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v74qomk-2026-begins-in-crisis-tariq-ali-on-venezuela-regime-change-looming-war-on-i.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

🇻🇪Footage mainstream corporate media won’t show you:

Venezuelans took to the streets yesterday demanding the return of their President Nicolas Maduro, 20 days after the Trump Administration kidnapped him.

🚨🇻🇪Tariq Ali SLAMS Western leaders calling Trump undemocratic: ‘YOU WERE PART OF ALL THIS!’

‘Venezuela’s economy was in a mess, largely because of US vetoes and sanctions. And Carney, this Canadian prime minister who’s being hailed as the big saviour and fighter for Europe, was governor of the Bank of England when Boris Johnson said we need to freeze the billions of dollars’ worth of Venezuelan gold entrusted to the bank. So he did it.

And now they say, “Oh, Trump is being undemocratic.” Yeah, he is, and worse than that. But you people were part of all this, trying to squeeze Venezuela, isolate it, sanction it, pretending that absurd characters like Guaidó were actually the legitimate president. This was never the case.

They promised, the former US ambassador promised Machado, this slightly deranged lady who’s won the Nobel Peace Prize for demanding war on her own country. And they agreed to it. And Trump is still not happy with this decision.

It’s a crazed world we’re living in.’

-Tariq Ali on the season premiere of Going Underground

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v74qomk-2026-begins-in-crisis-tariq-ali-on-venezuela-regime-change-looming-war-on-i.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

In the US’ criminal economic war using illegal unilateral sanctions against Venezuela🇻🇪, 40,000 Venezuelans were estimated to have died as a result of the sanctions between 2017-18.

In the following years, former UN Special Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas estimated 100,000 Venezuelans had died as a result of US sanctions.

A 1st term Trump administration official even bragged that the US had a ‘Darth Vader grip’ on Venezuela’s economy.

Here’s Prof. Jeffrey Sachs detailing the brutality of US sanctions against Venezuela.

Tariq Ali: We don’t know the whole truth of what happened in Venezuela🇻🇪, the oil has been HANDED OVER to the US🇺🇸

‘It seems to me the Delcy Rodriguez administration has handed over the oil in their country to the United States. They could not defend Maduro against capture.

The whole world knew something was going on. But it has to be said the army stood back and watched him being taken.

The Cubans who guarded him, thanks to Fidel’s farsightedness, when he saw that Chavez’s own security was very weak after the 2002 coup d’etat by the United States, he said, we have got to get you guards all the time.

That’s when the Cubans first went in. And all these Cubans, you know, dozens of them were shot dead. In what circumstances? We don’t know who shot them.

Well, the Americans are claiming it and it’s quite likely true. But there’s something about this whole episode that makes me feel we haven’t had the whole truth, as yet. And we shall see what happens.’

-Tariq Ali on the season premiere of Going Underground

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v74qomk-2026-begins-in-crisis-tariq-ali-on-venezuela-regime-change-looming-war-on-i.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Venezuela’s🇻🇪 acting President Delcy Rodriguez on what happened the night Maduro was kidnapped and Venezuela was bombed:

‘Washington gave us 15 minutes to respond and comply with their demands otherwise they would kill us. The threats are constant, the blackmail is constant.’

Whether or not Maduro was betrayed, one thing is clear; the US operates as a mafia state, putting a gun to the head of smaller nations to steal their resources, using every dirty form of blackmail and threats possible to secure their objective.

Did Venezuela’s🇻🇪 Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello admit that Maduro was betrayed?

‘There will be NO MORE betrayal here. The people know that we are all committed to the same project, the Bolivarian project, Chavez’s project.’

Tariq Ali: The economic challenge posed by China🇨🇳 is the real reason for the US’🇺🇸 imperial rampage in Venezuela🇻🇪 and Greenland

‘The US has now reached a stage where, worried by the global economic challenge posed by China, which is going ahead on virtually every level now, they need to shore up their own defences.

And part of this shoring up of their own defences is to take the loot wherever they can find it. They took Venezuela not because they didn’t like Maduro or couldn’t have done a deal with him. Trump said it very clearly: “We need the oil. We want our oil back.”

So that was why they kidnapped him, because they found that they couldn’t have got it back as easily as they appear to have now. And this game isn’t over, because Trump is now fighting on too many fronts and taking on a fight with the Europeans on Greenland.

Greenland is neither here nor there, quite honestly. It’s a slab of ice, as he told the people in Davos. But underneath the ice they think there is mineral wealth, which they now want, which is why he’s stressing: “I don’t need to take it by force. We don’t need to use excessive force there at all.”

Legal ownership of Greenland must be transferred from Denmark to the United States of America.’

-Tariq Ali on the season premiere of Going Underground

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v74qomk-2026-begins-in-crisis-tariq-ali-on-venezuela-regime-change-looming-war-on-i.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘The US🇺🇸 is in a deeply neurotic funk. The cause is China🇨🇳.

China didn’t beat up its neighbours either. For 1000 years, China did not attack Japan. The US can’t even take a year off from attacking other countries.’

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92.

He devoted his life to dissenting from the mainstream, challenging power and institutions, exposing contradictions, and ripping the mask off of propaganda.

‘The third world is not poor.’

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92:

“Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, N. Korea, and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history.”

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92:

Here he is explaining why the US🇺🇸 has conducted so many covert CIA and over military interventions since WW2, and destroys the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy’.

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti passed away today at the age of 92.

Here he is rubbishing the argument that ‘pure capitalism’ has never been given a chance.

It had, and the results were disastrous.

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92:

Here he is explaining how foreign aid is intimately connected to imperialism.

The poor of the empire contribute the ‘foreign aid’. The economic elite collect the spoils of the colonies.

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) explaining what it means to be ‘left wing’ vs ‘right wing’.

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) on the ‘free market’:

‘The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us through something called the invisible hand.’