Eritrea is one of only five countries to have voted no on the 2022 UN resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of Russian Armed Forces from Ukraine. According to Wikipedia, during the country's struggle for independence, the precursor to the current governing party was at least nominally Marxist-Leninist until 1987.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/State_of_Eritrea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Front_for_Democracy_and_Justice
It's not easy to find much more information about the country. Does anyone here know more? Does modern day Eritrea deserve critical support as an anti-imperialist state? Does one, in any sense, 'gotta hand it to them'?
I would not bother giving Eritrea critical support as they are currently helping the new neoliberal Ethiopian government commit genocide against the Ethiopian state of Tigray.
The Maoist Tigrayan People's Liberation Front TPLF used to dominate Ethiopian politics and over saw much of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. In 2019, the Amharic states formed a neoliberal coalition called the Prosperity Party (PP). The PP won control of the government, signed a peace treaty with Eritrea and its leader was awarded a Nobel peace prize. The TPLF accused the PP of plotting with Eritrea against Tigray and went to ground.
In 2020 Eritrea and the Ethiopian national army invaded Tigray, slaughtering everyone in their way. Eritrea controlled the northern and western boarders of Tigray and stopped. While the TPLF militia was able to push back the national army into Amharic states (and return the slaughter in kind). But that push back was short lived. Right now Tigray is mostly under control of the TPLF but its complete locked out from the outside world. It seems the plan is to just starve them out from lack of food and more importantly medical supplies.
I went to college with an Eritrean and she at first Supported Tigray, but once Eritrea went in, she basically went full genocide denial.