BRICS Summit here Letter: War in Yemen here
BRICS Summit in New Delhi
September 14— A 3-meter-tall sheet of white and blue fabric covered the poor working-class area of New Delhi as thousands of affluent diplomats, financiers, and high-ranking officials gathered for the BRICS2026 summit. The contradiction could not be starker.
The fabric barrier had a striking resemblance to the Israeli flag. The highways it covered were strangely named “Coolie Colony” and “Nelson Mandela Road.” BRICS2026 participants each spent over $2000 a night in ultra-luxury hotels.
Meanwhile, a heavy downpour left hundreds of thousands of New Delhi residents stranded in waterlogged streets. In nearby cities, filthy hospitals were so crowded that three patients had to share a single bed. Waterborne diseases killed thirty newborns.
BRICS originally comprised Brazil, Russia, India, and China. South Africa joined, then Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Ten other nations hold “partner” status.
Trump has declared BRICS ‘dead’. He has threatened to raise tariffs by 100%. BRICS, however, is relevant only because of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative. BRICS members have started trading in their own currencies, bypassing dollar domination.
The New Delhi summit declaration, without naming the US, criticized imperialist control. Chinese and Russian capitalists were the main forces that helped India’s Modi overcome his opposition to the BRICS currency.
Neither the BRICS countries nor the G7-led NATO, can resolve the sharpening contradiction as China emerges as a dominant force challenging US imperialism.
The workers have nothing to gain from these butchers and their last-ditch efforts to save capitalism. Modi saw that rebelling masses with a communist outlook can change the face of the earth. He derided the growing anger of the masses as ‘dimagi naxals.’ This was a clear reference to communists armed with dialectical materialism.
ICWP comrades in New Delhi will report in the next issue of Red Flag on the revolutionary significance of the BRICS2026 conference.
Letter: Escalating War in Yemen Is Dispute Among Capitalists
Some teachers who know us are enthusiastic about the US government’s military failure in Iran. And now, too, about Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”) taking control of the strategic port of Al-Maka (Mocha). It now controls Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and nearby islands.
Al-Maka is very close to the narrow Bab al-Mandeb Strait. This controls a critical route for crude oil and fuel travelling from the Gulf to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal. It’s also critical for Asian commodities and Russian oil.
Ansar Allah moved very quickly, following the withdrawal of National Resistance Forces of the recognized government. That government is supported by Saudi Arabia. Ansar Allah is allied with Iran.
This marks a sudden and sharp escalation of a bitter regional war that has split Yemen since 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people have died, mainly civilians, many from starvation.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman reportedly called US President Donald Trump twice, unsuccessfully requesting US strikes on the Houthis.
There is still anti-US imperialist sentiment among a segment of the population in Mexico and elsewhere. But many fail to see that this is a dispute among capitalists. As the working class, we do not gain anything by supporting the exploitative forces that are displacing US hegemony.
Here is what I wrote for all the WhatsApp groups I’m in:
We need the ICWP.
We need the World Association of Workers as promoted by Marx—a party of the International Working Class (ICWP).
We need the defeat of the US capitalists worldwide. However, if the working class itself does not achieve this, we will remain under the control of the rising exploiters and oppressors.
—Comrade Teacher in Mexico City
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