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Podcast

Announcing "Islam and Muslim Societies, 550-1453" Online History Course

Adnan Husain

A discussion announcing a new online history course on Islam and Muslim societies from 550 to 1453, framed as accessible political education outside the university and as a model for left media.

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Iranian Strength Is What Killed The Republicans

Israel Claims It Had Nothing To Do With Trump's Decision To Attack Iran, And Other Notes

Republicans lost the 2026 midterms because Iran's military resistance imposed economic costs on US voters, not because Americans suddenly developed a moral opposition to war.

Israel's UN ambassador denies Israeli influence over Trump's attack on Iran despite Netanyahu's boasts, as Australia moves to fine universities millions for failing to curb antisemitism.

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Paraguay's Peña Resigns as Ueno Bank Crisis Triggers Impeachment Vote

María Corina Machado's Return Accelerates 'D-Day' in Venezuela

The Left in Argentina Has a Lot to Learn from Lula, Political Analyst Says

As Foreign Troops Shoot and Bomb Poor Haitians, Popular Anger and Resistance Grow

Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing Day 1

Trump Kidnapped Venezuela's President. Now Britain Looks to Profit

US Plans for an Attack on Iran

Cuba Demands an Ibero-America 'Free of Interference and Exclusion'

Bruno SgarziniKim IvesCraig MurrayAna Maria Monjardino and John McEvoyMargaret Kimberley

Santiago Peña resigned as Paraguay's president after Ueno Bank's collapse froze nearly three million accounts and put $355 million in pension funds at risk, prompting impeachment proceedings.

María Corina Machado's return to Caracas reignites anti-Chavismo street pressure and US-backed calls for new elections, sharpening the standoff with Chavismo over Venezuela's political and economic future.

Peronist leaders Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Sergio Massa met Lula's digital strategist André Janones in Buenos Aires, seeking to replicate Brazil's WhatsApp-driven comeback ahead of Argentina's 2027 elections.

Salvadoran troops deployed to Haiti have concentrated attacks on poor communities in the Plain of Cul de Sac, prompting mass protests and accusations of foreign-backed war crimes.

Eyewitness account of the first day of the UK Supreme Court hearing on whether proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group disproportionately breaches free speech and assembly rights.

BP and Shell are securing oil and gas deals in Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro's kidnapping, with Britain's Foreign Office facilitating their return amid a diplomatic rapprochement with Caracas.

Washington is reportedly preparing a large-scale attack on Iran once midterms end, with senators briefed on a war plan that ignores international law and Iran's right to self-defence.

Cuba's foreign minister denounces the tightened US blockade as collective punishment at the Ibero-American Summit, urging regional cooperation free of external pressure and unilateral coercion.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
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CIA & Neocons Set For More War After Trump Defeat | Larry C. Johnson

Larry C. Johnson

Larry Johnson argues that US midterm results open space for the CIA and neoconservatives to escalate confrontation with Russia and Iran while an energy crisis deepens.

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The Colonial Clock: Who Designed Africa's Retirement Models

Tulsa Race Massacre: When Jealous White Americans Destroyed 'Black Wall Street'

Okorie Uche

Retirement ages across Africa trace back to colonial labour systems designed for European needs, a legacy so normalised that few question why Africans must work longer than their former colonisers.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre saw local authorities arm white citizens to destroy a thriving Black community and murder hundreds, an atrocity the US took 76 years to acknowledge.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
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IDEAs research on climate finance: A brief overview of issues at COP31 Türkiye

A roundup of IDEAs research arguing that current climate finance flows favour private capital and the imperial core, and that debt swaps, green financialisation and dollar dominance deepen Global South inequality.

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Cuba Blockade Is an 'Act of War' – Will Democrats Stop It?

‘LAWYER UP’: Should Democrats Get Even With Trump?

Manolo De Los SantosBen Becker

Cuba enters its tenth month under a US fuel blockade that has crippled hospitals, schools and food production, as activists press the new Democratic-led Congress to halt it.

As Democrats prepare to take Congress after the 2026 midterms, a discussion weighs what a new majority can and won't do about Trump-era crimes and whether accountability comes from movements, not parties.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
Video

Israel destroys Gaza school, with Nora Barrows-Friedman

Nora Barrows-Friedman

A news report on Israel's destruction of a school in Gaza, part of a livestream marking day 1098 of the genocide, with a West Bank journalist joining the discussion.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
Video

Why the "China Overcapacity" Lie Works: Thermoeconomics, AI & Digital Sovereignty

Warwick Powell

Warwick Powell dismantles the "China overcapacity" myth behind US tariffs and EU trade curbs, contrasting China's production-based economy with the US financialised wealth-effect model through thermoeconomics, AI and digital sovereignty.

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VPol Newsletter: November 6, 2026

Republicans Punished For Israel, Iran War Loss

Max Blumenthal

Weekly roundup covering the US-Israeli war on Iran, Palestinian and Lebanese detainees, midterm electoral gains by Arab and Muslim candidates, and Europe's exposure to war and migration policy.

Max Blumenthal argues the US war on Iran and the US-Israel special relationship sank the Republican Party in the 2026 midterms, as voters rejected Trump and the neoconservative camp.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
Article

Cross-Class Snuggle with Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Non-Reformist Reform Is a Lie in the White Empire

A polemic arguing that DSA-style "non-reformist reform" within the imperial core is a lie, since electoral socialism cannot dismantle the empire and only channels working-class anger into pressure relief.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
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The Media Are Lying About The Protests In France

Eyewitness footage from a Paris general strike of 350,000 demonstrators shows a festive, peaceful march for social justice and against French militarism before riot police attacked marchers without provocation.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
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Michael Hudson: Western Democracy Was Always a Managed Oligarchy. Now It's Breaking

Michael Hudson

Economist Michael Hudson argues Western democracy has always functioned as a managed oligarchy, tracing oligarchic rule from ancient Rome to modern Washington, campaign finance and AIPAC influence.

💡 NewNov 6, 2026
Video

What Iran's Open Letter Means for Us

Hood Communist editors discuss the IRGC's open letter to the American people, arguing it exposes US imperialism, decolonises West Asia, and links domestic repression to warmongering abroad.

Nov 5, 2026
Podcast

Paraguay's President Resigns, Market Collapse, Global Hacking and more

Paraguay's president resigns after a major bank collapse, while a tech-driven market selloff and cyberattacks on European grocery freezers reveal deepening global financial and digital fragility.

Nov 5, 2026
Podcast

News Round-Up Ep. 279

White House Falls Apart Following Crushing Midterms Defeat

Weekly news round-up covering the fallout from US midterm elections, the Iran war's role in Republican losses, Marco Rubio's possible resignation, and Israeli coalition talks.

Nov 5, 2026
Podcast

The Ethics of Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir, Existentialism, and Revolutionary Politics

Breht and Alyson

A discussion of Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist ethics, examining ambiguity, bad faith, and her challenge to revolutionary politics that would turn History or the Party into new absolutes.

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Podcast

Government mind warfare and the Huey P. Newton you NEED to know

Government mind warfare and the Huey P. Newton you NEED to know

Dr. Delio VasquezDr. Delio Vasquez

A historian of the Black Panther Party recovers Huey P. Newton as a dialectical philosopher of collective consciousness while exposing the government mind-warfare programs used to destroy him.

A discussion of Huey P. Newton's life and thought beyond decades of slander and deification, and of the government mind-warfare programs-torture, psychosurgery, drugs-used against Black revolutionaries.

Nov 5, 2026
Podcast

What Yemen teaches the world

Isa Blumi

Historian Isa Blumi examines Yemen's history of anti-imperialism, the roots of the Ansarallah movement, and how Yemeni resistance offers lessons for West Asia and the wider world.

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Article

Cira Pascual Marquina: Building International Solidarity From a Venezuelan Commune

Venezuela's National Assembly Approves Draft Reform of Law Against Hate in First Discussion

Ayatollah Khamenei: 'Ever Stronger' Iran Is the Only Path to Absolute Deterrence

Iran to IAEA Chief: Where Was Your Concern When Sites Were Bombed?

Venezuela Installs Council to Review Supreme Court Candidates

BCV Reports 3rd Straight Month of Single-Digit Inflation in Venezuela

Ueno Bank Collapse Sparks Chaos, Arrests and Crisis in Paraguay

The Crisis in Poland

Laura SalcedoLaura MorCraig Murray

Profile of a Marxist internationalist who moved from US art-world activism to Caracas, co-founding the Escuela de Cuadros program and documenting Venezuela's communal movement.

Venezuela's National Assembly approved a first-discussion reform of the 2017 Law Against Hate, aiming to reframe it as a law for democratic coexistence, peace and tolerance, with opposition deputies withholding votes.

Khamenei marks Iran's National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance by calling for national unity and an 'ever stronger' Iran as the sole route to absolute deterrence against the United States.

Iran's Vienna mission accuses IAEA chief Rafael Grossi of warning about Iran's uranium stockpile while staying silent on attacks on its nuclear facilities, questioning his independence.

Venezuela's government and opposition-backed dialogue created a seven-jurist technical council to verify credentials of Supreme Court candidates, adding scrutiny alongside the National Assembly's Judicial Nominations Committee.

Venezuela's Central Bank reports October monthly inflation slowed to 6.2%, the third consecutive single-digit month, though year-to-date prices rose 245.5% and interannual inflation reached 376.9%.

Ueno Bank's insolvency froze accounts for nearly three million small savers, prompting street protests in Asunción, arrests of board members, and the central bank president's resignation.

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal standoff pits Prime Minister Tusk against President Nawrocki, rooted in court-packing, abortion politics, EU divisions and a bitter split over Ukraine.

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CPC resolution on party self-governance: A major contribution to the theory and practice of Marxist party building with global significance

Breaking the cycle of rise and fall: Xi Jinping outlines resolution on party self-governance - Friends of Socialist China

Developing countries need to be at the heart of WTO revitalisation – Remarks delivered at the Xiong’an Forum - Friends of Socialist China

Communist Party of Vietnam delegation pays working visit to China - Friends of Socialist China

Oman Sultan, Iran and Saudi envoys visit China - Friends of Socialist China

The CPC's new resolution on full and rigorous party self-governance is analysed as a programmatic Marxist document that advances party-building theory and practice for communist parties worldwide.

Xi Jinping's explanation of the CPC Central Committee's resolution on full and rigorous Party self-governance was published on November 1; the resolution itself was adopted on the final day of the 20th Central Committee's fifth plenary session, held in Beijing from October 26 to 29, 2026.

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, told a Xiong'an roundtable that revitalising the WTO means defending multilateralism and restoring confidence in rules-based trade; developing countries' voices must stay at the centre of reform.

Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Political Bureau member and CPV Central Committee Secretary, led a delegation on a working visit to China from November 1 to 5; in Beijing he met Wang Huning and held talks with Vice Premier He Lifeng, then visited Hangzhou in Zhejiang.

Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik Al Said of Oman paid a state visit to China from November 1 to 2; Xi Jinping held talks with him on November 2, seeking to steer their strategic partnership higher and help restore Middle East peace.

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Burkina Faso Brings Back Death Penalty For Terrorists, Traitors, Spies

The Roundtable Episode 9

Burkina Faso's National Assembly unanimously voted to reinstate capital punishment for those threatening national security, drawing Western media criticism that the article frames as imperial arrogance.

A roundtable discusses US-funded NGOs targeting Africa's legal systems, Bill Gates' work in Nigeria and Kenya, Ebola, AI, and unrest in France as colonial breakdown.

Nov 5, 2026
Video

Why Facing Ugly Realities is Essential for Winning, Not "Defeatism"

Brian Berletic

A response to accusations of defeatism arguing that confronting uncomfortable, evidence-based facts about US power and resistance is necessary for effective action, not demoralisation, and that multipolarity offers the real path forward.

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"Blue Tsunami" FLOODS Trump In The Midterms. But Will Dems End His Wars?

Blue Tsunami FLOODS Trump In The Midterms

David Gibbs

A Democratic midterm landslide rebuked Trump over war-driven price rises, yet the Democrats remain tied to the CIA and military-industrial complex, leaving open whether their progressive wing can break that consensus.

A post-midterm discussion argues voters punished Trump over war-driven fuel and food prices, while the left's symbolic identity politics and distance from the working class remain obstacles.

Nov 5, 2026
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Insider Reports: EU Getting DELUSIONAL about War with Russia

Michael von der Schulenburg

A sitting MEP argues European leaders have trapped themselves in unrealistic war aims over Ukraine while Washington withdraws, examining NATO, Ukrainian state fragility, and routes to de-escalation.

Nov 5, 2026
Article

Workers win illegal dismissal case vs Lazada, manpower agencies

Dominic Gutoman

The Philippines' NLRC ruled that Lazada riders and J&T-deployed workers were regular employees illegally dismissed, ordering backpay and damages against labour-only contracting schemes.

Nov 5, 2026
Video

Schumer & Jeffries Reap the Backlash to the Genocide They Enabled

Rania Khalek

Democrats' midterm landslide hands power back to leaders like Schumer and Jeffries who armed Israel's genocide and funded ICE, raising doubts about whether the party will honour its mandate.

Collections

What is Western Marxism?

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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.

11articles·4podcasts·3videos·2books

History of Xinjiang Region

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

12articles

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

Introduction to Marxism-Leninism

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Unlearning Capitalism

A comprehensive collection of books, articles, podcasts and videos to provide an in-depth understanding of the concepts and history of Marxism-Leninism.

3articles·2podcasts·5videos·6books
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