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Hood Communist
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Hood Communist

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💡 NewOct 15, 2026
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US Midterm Elections Won't Stop US Wars - How the Political Circus Ensures Continuity of Agenda

Brian Berletic

US midterm elections serve to distract from unelected corporate interests that drive foreign and domestic policy, ensuring continuity of wars against Russia, Iran and China regardless of who voters choose.

💡 NewOct 15, 2026
Video

Argentina's economic demolition: Javier Milei disappears 11 TONS of gold

Fabián Medina

Argentina's Central Bank lost over $1 billion in gold reserves as nearly 11 tons of gold left the country without public consent, raising questions about national wealth and economic sovereignty under Milei.

🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Podcast

The National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist! w/ Burqas and Beer Podcast

The National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist!

Madina Warkdak and Kyna WiseMadina Warkdak and Kyna Wise

Two social workers join the host to argue that US militarism, the expanding security state, and ongoing genocide are deliberately eroding Americans' mental health, calling for decolonized wellness and reparations instead of individualized self-care.

Two social workers discuss decolonising wellness and staying politically engaged amid genocide, an expanding security state, and militarism, asking how the wellness community's silence on ICE, Gaza and data centres affects mental health.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Podcast

Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes

Nick Estes

A discussion of Ward Churchill's career and the harm of pretendianism, arguing that false Indigenous identity claims undermine tribal sovereignty and the collective authority of tribal nations.

🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Article

Venezuela Condemns Interference in its Internal Affairs by Uruguay's Foreign Minister

Venezuela Facing the Uncertainty in Brazil

Yemeni Army Declares Saudi Aramco Facilities ‘Legitimate Targets,’ Orders Immediate Evacuation

‘Tortured’ or ‘Torturer’? – Corporate Media Fail to Ask the Question

Venezuela: Rubio Backs Opposition Leader Figuera, Announces Next Dialogue Steps

Qatar’s Revenues Crashes 42% in First Half of 2026 as Gas Exports Collapse

Brazil Elections: The Desert of the Real in the Tropics

Venezuela and Italy to Reestablish Air Connectivity

William SerafinoBecca RenkRicardo VazErnesto Cazal

Venezuela rejected Uruguayan Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin's demand that restored diplomatic ties depend on political change in Caracas, calling it unacceptable interference in its sovereignty.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Article

Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz

Writing is thinking, and outsourcing it to generative AI stunts personal growth, erodes cognitive clarity, and leaves people unchanged, while the technology's deeper dangers lie in surveillance, war, and data centres.

🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Article

China elevates ties with Botswana and Togo - Friends of Socialist China

In Berlin, Africans were not at the table – in Beijing, we are - Friends of Socialist China

China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

Myriam Kane of the Black Liberation Alliance told the Socialist China Conference 2026 that her September 2025 visit to China, as one of more than 70 African delegates to a China-Africa youth festival, showed engagement breaking the old colonial design.

🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Article

Israel Prepares For Iran-Lebanon Strikes As Saudi Airspace Closes Under Missile Threats

Yemen’s Resistance Thwarts Greater Israel Plot for Red Sea Dominance

Robert InlakeshAhmed Abdulkareem

Yemen's missile strike on Riyadh's airport and Iran's mining of the Strait of Hormuz escalate regional tensions, as Israel and the US weigh new attacks on Iran and its allies.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Video

Prof. Vincent Maphai: Trump, AfriForum & Destabilisation of South Africa

Vincent Maphai

An investigation into right-wing Afrikaner lobbying of the White House, foreign-funded Volkstaat ambitions, and claims of genocide examined against data, framed as destabilisation of South Africa.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Video

Israel's pager attack: viral investigative film goes behind the scenes

Radwan Mortada

Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada discusses his documentary The Trap, which investigates Israel's deadly pager attacks in Lebanon and the cover-up he says continues today.

🧵 DigestOct 14, 2026
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Video

The Undead Empire Strikes Back: How The UK Still Rules The World

Ex-Foreign Minister EXPOSES NATO's Dirty Tricks | Evarist Bartolo

Alex KrainerEvarist Bartolo

Alex Krainer argues that British imperial power persists through international banking networks, tracing debt, oil concessions and corporate finance from Yugoslavia's breakup to Bosnia and Enrico Mattei's case.

Former Maltese foreign minister Evarist Bartolo argues that small states can defend sovereignty through neutrality and diplomacy, drawing on Malta's removal of foreign bases to critique NATO, nuclear risk and Europe's foreign policy.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Article

After the Liberation of the Proletariat, There Remains the Liberation of Women: Quotations from Chairman Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara's 1987 speeches argue that women's emancipation is a necessity for revolutionary triumph, demanding that women themselves conquer equality through struggle rather than receive it as charity.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
Video

'Taxpayer Uprising' Targets Trump's $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget

Jodie Evans

CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans argues a mass "Taxpayer Uprising" is needed to block Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget, as both parties fund weapons makers and a US war economy profiting from conflict.

Oct 13, 2026
Podcast

Ukraine War, Diesel Prices, Cause the Trump Admin to Spurn Zelenskyy

A discussion of the Ukraine war's latest phase, covering Ukrainian and Russian strikes on data centres, disputed US intelligence sharing, Kyiv's power and water shortages, and Trump's personal hostility toward Zelenskyy.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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Podcast

Rock The Cradle Ep. 44

Omar Nashabe: The US has stripped Lebanon of sovereignty

The US has stripped Lebanon of sovereigntyOmar Nashabe

A Lebanese criminal justice specialist examines how US pressure, an under-equipped army and Israeli violations have eroded Lebanese sovereignty, leaving the LAF caught between disarming Hezbollah and preventing civil war.

Criminal justice and human rights specialist Omar Nashabe argues that US pressure has eroded Lebanese sovereignty, examining the country's institutions, judiciary and resistance in the face of foreign interference.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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Article

Venezuela Commemorates Indigenous Resistance Day, Reaffirming Original Peoples

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez Presents Overview of Care for Families Affected by June 24 Double Earthquake

Venezuela Announces Food Plan at FAO, Holds Talks With Angola & Dominican Republic

IRGC Navy Says Another Oil Tanker Hit in Strait of Hormuz, Warns Against Cooperation With US

President Maduro: Lies and Injustice Will Be Defeated

French Student Revolt vs. NATO Spending Push

The Donroe Doctrine of Epstein Nears Completion: Brazil Makes a Last Stand for Latin America, as Israeli Influence Expands

Leaked Files Expose Britain's Covert Influence Campaign in Iraq

Palestine Action & the Extradition Case of Fergie Chambers: From Protest to Terrorism

Medea BenjaminKit KlarenbergBaltasar Garzón

Venezuela marks Indigenous Resistance Day on October 12, honouring ancestral leaders and original peoples, a commemoration formalised by Hugo Chávez in 2002 to replace Columbus Day.

Venezuela's acting president reports on the Venezuela Reborn Plan, detailing rehabilitated homes, restored public services, and health and education repairs more than 100 days after the June 24 earthquakes.

Venezuela's acting president announced the Venezuela Alimenta food plan at the FAO World Food Forum in Rome and held bilateral talks with Angola and the Dominican Republic on food security and energy cooperation.

Iran's IRGC Navy reports a third oil supertanker struck in the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring warnings, vowing decisive responses against vessels cooperating with US forces as transit through the waterway collapses.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, imprisoned in New York after his abduction by US forces, writes from jail that lies and injustice will be overcome, as a judge denies bail to his wife Cilia Flores.

French high school students protest for education funding as the government cuts public services while raising military spending under NATO's new 5 percent GDP target.

Brazil's 2026 election pits Flávio Bolsonaro's far-right machine against Lula amid US and Israeli interference, while Putin's Valdai silence on Gaza and Yemen's Ansarallah resistance expose the hollowing of multipolarity.

Leaked British files reveal how London funded and directed the Iraqi youth platform Yalla through contractor M&C Saatchi to run a covert influence and behaviour-change campaign.

The extradition case of activist Fergie Chambers, arrested in Spain at Washington's request, is examined as political persecution of Palestine solidarity activism dressed up as terrorism and money-laundering charges.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

When The Gates Of Tech Dystopia Snap Shut

A viral boar-trap video becomes a metaphor for how oligarchs and empire managers are quietly building surveillance, AI, drones and digital currency into a cage to crush any revolutionary movement before it can end capitalist abuses.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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Video

Sweden's Terrible Nuclear Weapons Mistake | Mattias Forsgren

Europe Can't Win a War With Russia — British Commodore Explains

Why China is NOT Scared of the USA | Zhang WeiWei

Mattias ForsgrenSteve JermyZhang Weiwei

Mattias Forsgren argues that Sweden's abandonment of neutrality for NATO membership deepens nuclear coercion and strategic dependence on the United States, and asks whether diplomacy can offer an alternative.

A British commodore argues Europe is courting a war with Russia it cannot sustain, examining Kaliningrad escalation risks, NATO readiness, failed diplomacy and the gap between public narratives and battlefield realities.

Professor Zhang Weiwei argues at the East-West Forum in Istanbul that China's civilizational state model and strategic patience underpin a multipolar vision built on peace, development and Asian integration rather than confrontation with the United States.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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Article

Beyond Polarity: For a Marxist Theory of the World Order

The Land to Those Who Work It: Land Reform and Socialist Agriculture in the German Democratic Republic

Stephanie SandovalStephanie Sandoval

A Marxist critique of unipolarity and multipolarity, arguing that counting great powers obscures the class relations, imperialist chains, and transnational capital that actually constitute the world order.

A study of the German Democratic Republic's agricultural transformation, tracing land reform, cooperative farming and large-scale socialist production as an alternative to capitalist agribusiness and global hunger.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

Marco Rubio declares West must dominate world, praises colonialism, erases history

Ben Norton

Marco Rubio's Athens speech praising colonialism, erasing Indigenous genocide and demanding Western global domination is analysed as a fusion of neoconservative warmongering with MAGA's white-supremacist and Christian-nationalist rhetoric.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

China’s AI rise – can jobs and education keep pace with the rise of the robots? - Friends of Socialist China

China's humanoid robot makers held more than 97 percent of global shipments in the first half of 2026; UBTECH opened a Liuzhou factory targeting over 10,000 robots a year, and Unitree's US$900 million IPO drew 8,000-fold retail demand.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

Homelessness In Australia's Northern Territory

Liam Grealy

The Northern Territory government's closure of the YiSSA accommodation facility threatens to evict nearly 400 residents into an already overwhelmed homelessness system, raising questions of systemic collapse.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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How Western Intelligence Agencies Use AI To Manipulate Public Opinion

Hostile Reception For Israeli Tourists In Greece

Stanislav KrapivnikDimitri Lascaris

A former US Army officer and media analyst explains how Western intelligence agencies deploy AI, bot networks and skewed databases to shape public opinion, citing the Maidan operation and secret disinformation contracts.

Anti-genocide activists in Kalamata, Greece protest the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship, erecting posters accusing Israeli soldiers of war crimes while a journalist is harassed by Greek police.

Oct 13, 2026
Video

Prof. Barney Pityana: Trump, Afrikaners: Attempt at bolstering USA Rightwing Voter Base

Barney Pityana

Prof. Barney Pityana examines right-wing Afrikaner lobbying in Washington, arguing it serves to bolster Trump's voter base while undermining South African sovereignty and social cohesion.

Oct 13, 2026
Video

Why the end of Israel will not be the end of US imperialism

Laith Marouf

Journalist Laith Marouf argues that dismantling Israel would not end US imperialism, discussing West Asian resistance, Lebanon's crisis, the China-Iran land corridor, and fractures within imperial societies.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

NDN Fund's Construction Loan Supports Native Movement's Nankat Wellness and Resilience Center

NDN Fund issues a construction loan to Native Movement to improve the Nankat Wellness and Resilience Center, an 180-acre land-based healing facility on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Alaska.

🧵 DigestOct 13, 2026
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Spain Heads for a Snap Election as Youth Uprising Rocks Europe

130 Million Voters Erased: Inside India's Youth Uprising

Irene ZugastiNitheesh Narayanan

Spain's housing crisis sparks mass protests, tent encampments in Madrid and a general strike, prompting snap elections as youth-led revolts spread across Europe against rearmament and the far right.

Thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner faced mass detentions and internet shutdowns, as a youth-led movement opposes a voter roll purge removing over 130 million names.

Oct 13, 2026
Video

Iran Is Weaker Than It Looks? Trita Parsi on the War and What Comes Next

Trita Parsi

Trita Parsi challenges claims that Iran is on the verge of collapse, arguing that internal pillars of state power and legitimacy matter more than immediate military metrics in assessing the conflict.

Collections

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

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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

📚 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?

📚 Collection
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

📚 Collection
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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