CHILLING — Marco Rubio Illuminates How He Is the Joseph McCarthy of Our Times

Absolutely chilling. The McCarthy era is now dangerously emerging in full force and this is an escalation. It is so obvious that those like Zohran Mamdani and Amy Goodman must be demonized by the current fascist administration because they represent such a huge threat to the growing grip of neoliberal fascism on our country. We must be aware of what is happening and join together in solidarity to defend justice, truth, equality, democracy, dignity, human rights, and the highest good for us all. — Molly

Prominent leftwing politicians, influencers and groups have been named in a US department of state report into Cuba’s “sustained campaign of subversion” against the US.

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, streamer Hasan Piker, Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and Ben and Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen, are among those named in the 100 page report entitled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” which was released on Monday.

The report, described by journalist Ken Klippenstein as a “blacklist”, also lists the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a major grassroots group that canvasses for and endorses leftwing politicians.

Presenting little if any evidence for its claims, the report says Cuba has conducted “a campaign that has infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists, backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism on American soil, and carried out one of the most durable and damaging foreign intelligence penetrations in American history.”

Promoting the report on X, secretary of state Marco Rubio wrote: “For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.”

Last week Rubio convened a conference of 66 countries to discuss supposed leftwing terrorism, with Rubio calling leftists “an encroaching darkness” and “the enemies of civilisation”.

The report openly mentions “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions, and a slate of anti-communist laws” in the 1950s which caused the Communist Party USA membership to collapse.

Over three pages are dedicated to the DSA, which counts representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, and New York mayor Zohran Mamdani among its members.

The report says the group “serves as a particularly potent illustration of the

ideological victory of Cuba’s effort to position itself as the spiritual capital of Third Worldist radicalism”.

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