Russia-Based American Communist Activist Jackson Hinkle: I Moved to Russia for Free Speech; Western Leftists Are Just Liberals - They Don't Fully Support the Resistance Axis, Its Military, the Men Fig
Hinkle claimed that there is greater freedom of speech in Moscow than in the United States when it comes to speaking about how the world actually operates. 'I think it's much better to be here,' he said.
He also expressed admiration for Iran and the Iranian Revolution. Hinkle criticized Western leftists for being 'liberal-leftists,' rather than true communists or Marxist-Leninists. He described himself as a Stalinist who loves Mao, and said that Western leftists support BDS and economic measures against Israel, but fail to fully back the Axis of Resistance, its military stance, and the men who are putting their lives on the line fighting against the United States.
Between February 13 and February 23, 2025, Hinkle traveled with fellow ACP founder Christopher Helali 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. Hinkle attended the "Palestine: The Central Issue of the Nation" conference alongside Helali. In March, Hinkle traveled to Sana'a, Yemen, where he spoke at the opening session of a conference organized by the Iran-backed Designated terror organization Ansar Allah, a.k.a. the Houthis.
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