the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Apr 14, 2025
This article is translated from the April 11 issue #2958 of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the paper of the revolutionary workers group of that name active in France.
The U.S. intensified its bombing of Yemen starting March 15. This worsened the situation in a country already devastated by nearly a decade of war.
U.S. bombs hit Saada in Yemen’s north on April 5 and 6. Other bombings were reported to have hit the Harib district in Marib province east of the capital Sana’a. With his trademark cynicism, Trump posted images of a bombing of dozens of Houthi fighters on his Truth Social network, with the comment: “Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!” A few days earlier, U.S. government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt boasted of “200 successful strikes” since mid-March against the Houthi regime.
Saudi Arabia launched a war with U.S. consent in March 2015 to overthrow the Houthis and support a regime the Saudis controlled. Now the population of Yemen suffers again from the renewal of war. The decade of war caused a serious humanitarian crisis from which the country has not recovered. Yemen is in ruins. Houses, schools, and hospitals were bombed into destruction. Markets get no supplies. The remaining food is unaffordable for most families. Almost five million people are displaced inside Yemen. Many live in tent camps.
People are hungry. They have no access to medical care. According to United Nations data, more than 19 million of Yemen’s 35 million people need aid. Seventeen million are victims of hunger. UNICEF estimates that a child dies of hunger, disease, or bombing every 10 minutes in Yemen. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is worried about Trump’s projected cutting of emergency food aid money in 14 countries including Yemen. This “would amount to condemning to death millions of people facing extreme hunger and famine.”
These disasters afflicting millions of Yemenis are the consequences of a system where major powers impose their domination no matter the cost to the people.