Mick Hartley

The red-green alliance in comical action, as Christopher Helali, International Secretary of the American Communist Party (ACP), speaks with Russia Today TV live from Isfahan, Iran. He’s very excited by the determination of the Iranians to keep fighting. “Let’s finish the job once and for all”.

What a communist leader is doing cheering on a theocratic tyranny is left unexplained but presumably any enemy of the west has to be supported, despite the unfortunate slaughter of all communists and leftists by their erstwhile Islamist comrades after the 1979 revolution. Lessons not learned – but what else is new?

I’d say Marx would be turning in his grave if it wasn’t such a cliché: his corpse has been rotating at speed pretty much ever since he ended up in Highgate Cemetery.

He’s been on quite a tour.

Between February 13 and February 23, 2025, Helali traveled with fellow ACP founder Jackson Hinkle and Russian-American Haz Al-Din to Beirut, where they visited the assassination site of Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, followed by his funeral on February 22. A week earlier, on February 14, Helali and Hinkle were in Qatar, where they interviewed two senior leaders of Hamas, Basem Naim and Osama Hamdan.