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Hood Communist
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💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Podcast

O22: Organizing Against Police Brutality w/ Families Demanding Justice

Mia and Charlotta

Organizers with Families Demanding Justice discuss the October 22 National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, framing policing as structural state repression tied to racism and capitalism.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Article

Pentagon To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution — A Poem

A prose poem reacting to Pentagon plans to live-stream a firing squad execution, weaving that spectacle together with ecological grief and the commodification of death in America.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Living in the Ripe World: Reviewing "Beyond the Glittering World"

Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz

A review of the anthology "Beyond the Glittering World," discussing how Indigenous feminisms and futurisms imagine language revitalisation, kinship, and wholeness beyond colonial apocalypse.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
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AI, the Antichrist, and the Dajjal | Episode 2 Docuseries

A documentary series examining parallels between ancient Antichrist and Dajjal prophecies, science fiction, and the technological systems being built around artificial intelligence, surveillance, and control over reality.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Article

VPol Newsletter: October 9, 2026

A weekly round-up covering three years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinian prisoners and settler violence, Israel's failing propaganda war, US interference in Brazil's election, and French youth protests.

🧵 DigestOct 9, 2026
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Article

Communist Party of Ireland celebrates China's national day

The US blockade that helped bring down the Soviet Union is failing against China

A tale of two genocides: US congressman says it’s OK for America to sell massive bombs to Israel but not coffee in Xinjiang - Friends of Socialist China

From Norman Bethune and Dwarakanath Kotnis to Hussam Abu Safiya – medicine in the fight for national liberation - Friends of Socialist China

Gearóid Ó MachailGary Wilson

The Communist Party of Ireland marked the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China at a Dublin embassy reception, deepening party ties with Beijing through conferences and academic exchanges.

Washington's chip and AI blockade of China is compared to the Cold War CoCom embargo that helped sink the Soviet economy, arguing China's planned AI build-out and light military burden let it resist.

John Moolenaar demanded Starbucks close its two new Urumqi stores; he voted for a US$26 billion Israel aid package, while the Trump administration prepares a US$2.8 billion sale of 60,000 heavy bombs.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was illegally captured by the Israeli military on December 27, 2024; his weight dropped by one-third in captivity, where he remains alongside at least 160 other medical professionals, including 20 doctors.

🧵 DigestOct 9, 2026
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Article

Venezuela Proposes Implementation of National Orchestra in DR Congo

US Judge Denies Venezuela's Cilia Flores Medical Bail as Solidarity Campaigns Demand Her Release

Venezuela Reaffirms Commitment to Multilateralism at ECLAC Session in Dominican Republic

Despite US Pressure, Right-Wing Governments in Latin America Maintain Relations With China

Bruno Sgarzini

Venezuela's ambassador to the DR Congo proposes exporting El Sistema, the publicly funded youth orchestra programme, to Congolese youth reintegration centres, with Congolese government support.

A US federal judge denied medical bail for Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores despite her deteriorating cardiac condition, as solidarity campaigns demand the release of her and President Maduro.

Venezuela's foreign minister addresses the ECLAC session in the Dominican Republic, urging regional integration, diversified alliances, and an end to unilateral coercive measures against developing nations.

Washington is pressuring Latin American governments to expel Chinese capital from strategic ports, energy and infrastructure, but even far-right administrations keep ties with their main trading partner.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Article

Social movements prepare for the first protests against De La Espriella

Colombian unions, farmers, indigenous and student groups met in Bogotá to plan a national strike against President De La Espriella's security, austerity and privatisation policies, with regional mobilisations from October.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Midterms 2026: 'The Worst Democracy Money Can Buy'

Ben Becker

With 2026 midterm ad spending set to hit $11.6 billion and record dark money flooding races, a BreakThrough News editor argues billionaires and super PACs are buying elections while a likely Democratic majority would still fund ICE and the Pentagon.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
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What three years of Israeli genocide have failed to destroy, with Joseph Massad

Joseph Massad

Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, Palestinians continue to mourn, survive and resist, as a Columbia professor examines Zionism, Israel's power and the limits of Western solidarity.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Iran war expands into regional conflict: More countries join war

Ben Norton

The US war on Iran widens as Saudi Arabia restarts its war on Yemen's Ansarallah government, with Pakistan, Turkey and Syria drawn in, destabilising oil markets and the global economy.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Who Really Runs the World? The Entire System Explained

Fadi Lama

Geoeconomics consultant argues that sovereignty is a myth because privately owned central banks and control of the global financial system, not elected governments or armies, constitute the real pillars of imperial power.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Why Fools Rise to Power: Psychologist EXPOSES Western Elites | Dr. Niall McLaren

Niall McLaren

Psychiatrist Niall McLaren argues that narcissism, hierarchy and entitlement among Western elites explain imperial expansion, propaganda and the decline of democratic restraint in the imperial core.

💡 NewOct 9, 2026
Video

Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill

Nick Estes

A discussion of Ward Churchill's career and the phenomenon of "pretendianism", examining how settlers appropriate Indigenous identity and the violence this does to Native nations.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Podcast

Yemen Takes Land, Hits Saudi Airport / Update on the Maduros

Yemen's Ansarallah strikes Saudi Arabia's King Khaled airport and Abqaiq oil facility, exposing Saudi vulnerability, while US prosecutors pursue new charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Article

British chemical warfare commentator's MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails

Bolsonaro's Brazil victory powered by US evangelical infiltration

Biden's blood stained foreign policy team stages comeback

Kit KlarenbergMax BlumenthalMax Blumenthal and Aaron Mate

Leaked emails reveal that Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a prominent British chemical weapons pundit on the Salisbury poisoning, privately coordinated with MI6 officer Pablo Miller while profiting from inflated Novichok fears through his gas mask firm.

Max Blumenthal traces how US-funded evangelical Christianity, exported via USAID and the Rockefellers, helped build Brazil's right-wing movement and the Bolsonaro family's political rise.

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate examine Brett McGurk's attempted return to influence, his role in enabling Israel's assault on Gaza, and the revisionist history in his new memoir.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Podcast

News Round-up Ep. 271

Pakistan & Turkiye ENTER Saudi War on Yemen

A weekly news round-up marking the fourth year of Israel's genocide in Gaza and three years of Hezbollah's support front, plus Yemeni strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure and airports.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Podcast

IN SESSION #42: EXHIBIT G: Poems, Essays & Photographs of Gaza w/ Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah

Poet and physician Fady Joudah discusses his book Exhibit G, translating Palestinian poetry, and how Western culture commodifies grief while Palestinians insist on life-making amid genocide.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Podcast

The Master's Tools EP 1: Marx and Machines

A podcast series on how technology shapes the working class under capitalism returns to Marx's analysis of machinery in the Grundrisse and Capital, arguing that relations of production, not technological inevitability, determine how automation and AI are deployed.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Article

Glimmers of Hope from Brazil's 2026 Elections

Last One Out, Shut Off the Lights

Venezuela: Cardón Refinery Fire Contained, Gas Line Rupture Under Investigation

Chavistas March Massively in Caracas to Mark 14 Years Since Chávez's Final Electoral Rally

Fergie Chambers' Partner Says 'Pressure From the Zionist Regime Is Extreme'

Venezuela: 300 Megawatts Added to Electricity Grid in Less Than 24 Hours

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Plasencia Arrives in Dominican Republic for 41st ECLAC Session

During Final Stretch, Greenwald Tells the Outside World That Elections Were Manipulated for Lula

IRGC Says Myth of Israeli Invincibility 'Shattered Forever' After Al-Aqsa Flood

October 7, 2023: The Day That Changed the World

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez Strengthens the Social Programs of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Despite US Threats

October 7 and Al-Aqsa Flood: Resisting Two Years of Genocide and the Tasks of Our Movement

Brian MierJessica Dos SantosLluna BartualYuleidys Hernández ToledoAriadna EljuriPaulo MotorynGerald A. PerreiraThierry Deronne

Lula trails far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro by two points after Brazil's first round, with record abstentions and suspected foreign-funded turnout suppression shaping the October 25 runoff.

Venezuela's chronic blackouts stem from a structurally degraded power grid, yet the government's answer is privatisation and oil concessions to US firms rather than public investment in the system.

A gas line rupture sparked a fire at Venezuela's Cardón refinery, which PDVSA quickly contained without injuries, while the incident highlights how US sanctions impede maintenance of the country's oil infrastructure.

Chavista workers, students and communal organisers marched through Caracas and cities across Venezuela to mark 14 years since Hugo Chávez's final electoral rally, with PSUV leader Diosdado Cabello urging renewed organisation and political education.

Stella Schnabel defends her partner, US philanthropist Fergie Chambers, who faces extradition from Spain over donations to Gaza projects, calling the US case politically motivated persecution.

Venezuela's state power company synchronised two thermoelectric units at the Termozulia complex in Zulia, adding 300 megawatts to the national grid as part of a wider plan to restore generation capacity hit by years of US sanctions.

Venezuela's foreign minister Félix Plasencia attends the 41st ECLAC session in the Dominican Republic, where the country will advocate for regional integration and development across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Glenn Greenwald used English-language social media posts to tell foreign audiences Brazil's election was being manipulated by the judiciary for Lula, amplifying unproven claims about court interference and a US embassy closure.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards mark three years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, claiming it shattered Israel's military invincibility and strengthened the regional Resistance Axis against the US.

A defence of the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood operation as courageous anti-colonial resistance, framing it as the culmination of generations of Palestinian oppression and a turning point in the decline of US empire.

Venezuela's Bolivarian government under Delcy Rodríguez negotiates an oil agreement with the US to rebuild social programs, framing it as survival amid sanctions, military threats and the abduction of Maduro.

Marking two years since Al-Aqsa Flood, this statement frames October 7 as a historic anti-colonial victory and calls on the global movement to defend Palestinian and regional resistance against disarmament schemes and imperialist-backed genocide.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Article

It Took A Live-Streamed Genocide To Punch Through The Wall Of Western Apathy

Live-streamed images of Israel's assault on Gaza broke through Western apathy and propaganda, forcing ordinary people to confront a genocide their own governments enable and prolong.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Article

A new transition in Vietnam? Manoeuvring the new protectionism

Financing for development: Reconceptualising domestic resource mobilisation and the institutional architecture

From fragmentation to integration: Unlocking payments for growth in Africa

Redge NkosiShakirudeen Taiwo

A panel examines how Vietnam's export-led growth model, built on manufactured exports to Western markets, faces disruption from rising US protectionism and what this means for workers.

A heterodox critique of orthodox domestic resource mobilisation argues that money is endogenously created through sovereign fiscal and banking mechanisms, proposing a new financial architecture for Global South development.

A study of Africa's fragmented payment systems, where most intra-African transactions route through foreign intermediaries and settle in dollars or euros, and of African-led alternatives like PAPSS and mobile money.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Video

Iranian Monarchists Have More Freedom In Greece Than Greeks

Greek police detained journalist Dimitri Lascaris at a banned pro-Palestine gathering in Athens while allowing a pro-Israel demonstration by Iranian monarchists to proceed, exposing selective enforcement of protest bans.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Video

US Reorganizes Forces and Proxies in West Asia + What is "Project Meridian?"

Brian Berletic

US troop withdrawals from Iraq are repositioning rather than ending its occupation, while the Mecca Alliance and Project Meridian extend Washington's proxy and technological reach in its war on Iran.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Video

Why Zionism Needed The 'War On Terror'

Kees van der Pijl

An interview with Professor Kees van der Pijl on his book arguing that modern Zionism is a Western political ideology serving a transnational capitalist ruling class, and that the War on Terror advanced that project.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Article

China Daily reports on the Socialist China Conference 2026

DPRK commentary: Taiwan's return to China is a matter of time

“We need to see China as it actually is” – China Daily hosts ‘Vision China’ in London - Friends of Socialist China

From coast to coast: China’s national day marked in Canada - Friends of Socialist China

Xing YiKim Myong Chol

China Daily's London correspondent covered the third annual Socialist China Conference, where left-wing, anti-war and academic speakers urged the West to better understand China's peaceful rise, Global South contributions and multipolar vision.

A DPRK international affairs analyst accuses the United States of escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait through arms sales and military deployments, arguing Taiwan is part of China and its return is inevitable.

At China Daily's 'Vision China' event in London on September 17, MEP Ondřej Dostál argued the West must see China as it actually is, citing an enormous gap between the real China and Western perceptions.

More than 400 guests attended the Chinese Embassy's 77th national day reception in Ottawa, where Senator Victor Oh recounted Uyghur children in Urumqi saying they wanted to be doctors and Rob Oliphant affirmed Canada's One China policy.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Article

The World Can't Afford to Lose Brazil

Marcio Pochmann

Brazil's 2026 first-round results show Lula's vote falling across nearly all municipalities, reflecting a deeper shift in work as platform and digital labour outgrow traditional categories, raising questions of data sovereignty and who captures productivity gains.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Saudi Arabia Has Billions in US Weapons. Why Can't It Win in Yemen?

Gen Z vs. Macron: France's Student Rebellion Explodes

Elijah MagnierDanièle Obono

Saudi Arabia's $142 billion arsenal and US backing fail to defeat Ansar Allah in Yemen, as fighting over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Hormuz reshapes the Red Sea war.

French students shut down 1,800 schools and brought over 450,000 people into the streets in a nationwide youth revolt against Macron's austerity and neoliberal attacks on public education.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Video

Yemen battle footage reveals Saudi losses, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer

Combat footage from Ansarallah and Yemeni armed forces shows drone and missile strikes against Saudi Arabia, alongside Yemen's military support for Gaza and frontline operations.

💡 NewOct 8, 2026
Video

Anatol Lieven: The West Has Dug a Hole in Ukraine It Cannot Climb Out Of

Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven argues the West cannot end the war in Ukraine because Trump cannot deliver a settlement acceptable to the US Senate and all 27 EU members, and because US agreements no longer outlast a single administration.

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What is Western Marxism?

🗝️ Principle
Unlearning Capitalism

Western Marxism is the Marxism born from the profound crisis of 1914–18, which split the socialist movement and produced a rethinking of Marxist theory by intellectuals who were detached from political practice.

10articles·4podcasts·3videos·2books

History of Xinjiang Region

📚 Collection
Unlearning Capitalism

This collection covers the history of China's Xinjiang region from the 1980s to the present day and critically examines the nature of and persistent western narratives about China's relations with the Uyghur ethnic minority population.

10articles·2podcasts·4videos

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

📚 Collection
Amy Yang

48 years after the reform, many Western marxists still claim that "China is a capitalist country". It is crucial to recognise the socialist nature of China, as its development model has provided an alternative path for other third world countries.

12articles·2podcasts·2videos·1book

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core

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Anto

A selection of official news media that is from actually existing socialist countries to give a perspective on governance and administration never seen within the media of the imperial core.

9articles

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea

📚 Collection
Red Anti-Imperialist Collective

A growing collection of articles, news and podcasts on the DPRK that cut through the imperialist propaganda.

9articles·4podcasts·6videos·2books

Imperial Japan: Then and Now

📚 Collection
Voice of the Proletariat

A growing collection of books, news, and journal articles shining a light on Imperial Japan's history and how its legacy lives on today through neomilitarism and pushes for remilitarization.

29articles·1podcast·5videos·8books·6reports

US Imperialism is the Principal Contradiction

🗝️ Principle
Unlearning Capitalism

The foundation of a contemporary anti-imperialist understanding is the recognition of the principal contradiction in the world: the domination of the globe both militarily and economically by US and western capital.

11articles·2podcasts·5videos·2books·1documentary

Unequal Exchange, Multipolarity and the New Mood

🗝️ Principle
Unlearning Capitalism

A detailed history of the nature of unequal exchange, colonial exploitation of the global majority and the enduring spirit of resistance to empire raising the possibility of a truly multipolar world order for the first time in centuries.

12articles·4podcasts·3videos·3books·1documentary

The System Cannot Change From Within

🗝️ Principle
Unlearning Capitalism

An outline of various Marxist-Leninist critiques of liberalism and other counter-revolutionary tendencies within movements that draw focus away from the primary issue of transcending capitalist exploitation.

9articles·2podcasts·2videos·3books

De-Development and Imperialism: How Can We Fight Back?

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Amy Yang

Books, articles, and videos that help us understand how the imperialist West de-developed the third world / Global South, and how third world countries can break free from the curse of de-development.

10articles·2videos·3books

Russia-Ukraine War

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Socialista Champagne

Learn the history, policies, and dialectics of the Russia-Ukraine war and the Ukrainian civil war through both a geopolitical and domestic lens.

6articles·8videos·1documentary

Is China Capitalist?

📚 Collection
Amy Yang

Books, articles and videos explaining why China is not capitalist but in the primary stage of socialism.

11articles·2videos·2books

From the River to the Sea

🗝️ Principle
Unlearning Capitalism

A history of the Palestinian people's justified resistance struggle for freedom and self determination, the settler colonial history of the Zionist occupation and the relation to broader US and European imperial goals in West Asia.

13articles·1video·5books

Cuba's Relations with China, Russia, DPRK

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Voice of the Proletariat

Defying barbaric threats and sanctions by the US imperialists, China, Russia, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have firmly stood at Cuba's side.

11articles

China-Palestine Relations

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Voice of the Proletariat

China has long supported the State of Palestine and its inherent rights as a sovereign nation. Despite changes in diplomatic posture, China continues to support Palestinian rights today.

15articles·2videos·2reports

Nicaragua & Sandinismo

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Yaretzi Zuni

The Sandinistas rose out of a long tradition of Nicaraguan anti-imperialist resistance, to overthrow a brutally repressive, U.S.-backed regime. A nation founded on Marxism-Leninism, they have prioritized sovereignty, universal healthcare and education.

14articles·4books·2reports
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