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Fernando Cerimedo: From Moral Prophet to Potential Murderer of Women

Susana Bejarano|Orinoco Tribune

Bolivian prosecutors charge far-right strategist Fernando Cerimedo with masterminding the attempted femicide of his ex-partner, citing phone evidence, while his political influence and illicit enrichment come under scrutiny.

Aug 23, 2026

The Twin Cities Fight Back: ICE, the New Red Scare, and Socialist Organizing

Aminah Sheikh|Rev Left Radio

Aminah Sheikh discusses Minneapolis resistance to ICE raids, the Minnesota 15 prosecutions, DSA's electoral strategy, and the role of Islam in revolutionary politics.

Aug 22, 2026

Zionists Stomped on Ali Taher, Retaliation on Zawtar's Farms

Ali Mazloum|Free Palestine TV

Reports from southern Lebanon on Israeli drone attacks and white phosphorus strikes on Ali Taher Hill and Zawtar's farms, detailing the destruction of agricultural land and the resistance's response.

Aug 22, 2026

Insights from a Delivery Driver

Haig Kisherian|Red Anti-Imperialist Collective

A former PhD tutor turned gig worker recounts his time delivering for Dominos and UberEats, detailing exploitation, unsafe conditions, and arguing that these unprofitable platforms should be nationalized and run as public monopolies.

Aug 21, 2026

From organising in the US to teaching in China: the Long March spirit lives on

Mark Levine|Friends of Socialist China

A veteran US socialist living in China reflects on the enduring Long March spirit, seeing it in rural development, disaster response, and ethnic minority students' perseverance.

Aug 21, 2026

Jean-Pierre Page: Socialism works, and China is living proof of it - Friends of Socialist China

Friends of Socialist China

Former CGT international department head Jean-Pierre Page concludes that socialism works and China is living proof, citing its nearly 100 million-member party, nearly 150 countries involved in Belt and Road infrastructure projects, and Xi Jinping's pledge to serve 1.4 billion people.

Aug 21, 2026

The Culture War Is the Class War: A Letter to the 'Post-Woke' Left

Tony Chamas|Orinoco Tribune

Argues that the culture war is not a right-wing distraction but a direct consequence of the woke left's cultural maximalism, asserting that class-first socialists must actively discipline this tendency rather than tolerate it as a fringe nuisance.

Aug 21, 2026

Israel murders children, police in Gaza

Nora Barrows-Friedman|The Electronic Intifada

Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, killing police and children in missile strikes, blocking fuel and water, and destroying evidence of war crimes while expanding attacks on the West Bank and Lebanon.

Aug 21, 2026

Yemen Targets Saudi Sites in Najran After Airspace Violation

Orinoco Tribune

Yemen's Armed Forces struck Saudi targets at Najran Airport and Aramco in response to Saudi airspace violations, escalating tensions after the 2022 truce collapsed.

Aug 21, 2026

Hamas Says Israel Killed Members While Discussing Disarmament as Part of Trump’s Deal

Orinoco Tribune

Israel strikes a Gaza café, killing seven Palestinians, after Hamas members gathered to discuss disarmament under Trump's ceasefire plan, exposing the deal's fragility.

Aug 21, 2026

Latin American Youth Solidarity Brigade Arrives in Venezuela

Leonardo Fernandes|Orinoco Tribune

A 30-member youth brigade from nine Latin American countries visits Venezuela for ten days of solidarity, volunteering, and political education, supporting earthquake victims and denouncing US aggression and the kidnapping of President Maduro.

Aug 21, 2026

China Lands Rocket, Russia Launches N. Korean Missiles, and US-Israeli Theater

The New Atlas

China advances reusable rocket technology to rival US launch rates, while Russia's use of North Korean missiles suggests deeper Chinese backing, and Israeli strikes on Syria mask a US-proxy arrangement.

Aug 21, 2026

Western Governments Betray Their Citizens Again

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Israel declines to prosecute the killers of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, prompting a critique of Western governments' tepid responses and a look at accountability options.

Aug 21, 2026

China’s Niu Lai Shows That Moviegoers Crave Connection

Park Jee-hoon|Voice of the Proletariat

A Chinese animated film made by a mother-son duo on a $200 budget and without AI draws global attention, showing that audiences value human labor and emotional connection over polished, capital-intensive productions.

Aug 20, 2026

Seeds of Tyre: Displaced Women's Ecological Resistance

Hajjeh Zainab Mahdi|Free Palestine TV

Displaced Lebanese women reclaim a bombed-out site near Tyre into a thriving organic farm, using indigenous methods to feed their community and resist Israeli ecocide and genocide.

Aug 19, 2026

Voice of the Proletariat Launches "China-Palestine Relations" Collection on Unlearning Capitalism

Park Jee-hoon|Voice of the Proletariat

Voice of the Proletariat introduces its third curated collection on Unlearning Capitalism, 'China-Palestine Relations,' compiling news reports, diplomatic statements, and analyses to document China's evolving support for Palestinian liberation.

Aug 18, 2026

Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other for Systemic Abuses

Caitlin Johnstone|Orinoco Tribune

Under capitalism, systemic crises are framed as individual failures, weaponizing blame against the vulnerable while shielding elites and profiteers from accountability.

Aug 18, 2026

The Torture of Palestine's "Doctor of the Poor"

Saja Misherqi|Sovereign Media

Legal expert Saja Misherqi discusses the detention and torture of 71-year-old Palestinian physician Mazen Rantisi, who faces medical neglect and abuse in Israeli custody for leading a health committee charity.

Aug 18, 2026

The Real Reason AOC & Mamdani Are Throwing 'Woke 1' Under the Bus

BreakThrough News

AOC and Zohran Mamdani's dismissal of the 2020 George Floyd uprising signals a calculated pivot by Democratic Party 'progressives' to protect the ruling class from socialism's rising popularity, warning of capitulation on abolition, Medicare for All, and Palestine.

Aug 18, 2026

Episode 40 - Prof. Zine Magubane: How Class, Capitalism & Race Shaped Women's Rights

Zine Magubane|African Renaissance Podcast

A conversation with sociologist Zine Magubane on how racism, capitalism, and colonialism shaped South African women's struggles, from apartheid's impact on Black families to today's feminist and labour movements.

Aug 17, 2026

Humiliated Zionists Massacre Civilians in Deir al-Zahrani and Ansar

Ali Mazloum|Free Palestine TV

Field report from southern Lebanon documenting Israeli airstrikes on Nabatieh-area villages that killed civilians, including children, after failed military advances near Ali Taher Hill.

Aug 17, 2026

Did Hamas rape on October 7? Norman Finkelstein responds

Norman Finkelstein|India and Global Left

Norman Finkelstein examines October 7 sexual violence allegations, rebellion, war crimes, and Hamas resistance within the history of occupation and international law.

Aug 14, 2026

Mansouri Village Defiant Against Jewish Colony's Terrorism & Vichy Regime Betrayal

Ali Mazloum|Free Palestine TV

Displaced residents of Lebanon's Mansouri village protest at the border, demanding return while accusing both Israeli occupation and local collaborators of betrayal.

Aug 14, 2026

National Planning: The Soviet Union Model

International Development Economics Associates

This webinar examines the Soviet Union's planning model, its achievements in raising living standards and literacy, its characteristics, modifications, and the causes of its decline in 1991.

Aug 12, 2026

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 5

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Bourgeois multi-national states cannot resolve national contradictions, which imperialism transformed into inter-state struggles; the Soviet system, by proclaiming the right of nations to secede, struck at the root of national enmity and won non-Russian workers' confidence. Victory of the Soviets and proletarian dictatorship are fundamental conditions for abolishing oppression.

Jun 3, 2026

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 6

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Volume Six of Stalin's Collected Works gathers his 1924 writings and speeches, the first year without Lenin, which played a cardinal role in defeating Trotskyism and defending Leninism. The volume opens with pieces exposing Trotsky's errors, including his call for freedom of groups.

Jun 3, 2026

Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future

Torkil Lauesen|Iskra Books

Industrialized countries transfer value by exchanging one hour of their labor for 5–15 hours of labor in underdeveloped nations. The work details mechanisms like global production chains, labor arbitrage, and ecological costs, examines political consequences such as the 'imperial mode of living' that fractures working-class solidarity, and shows how unequal exchange drives polarized development.

Mar 22, 2026

Haggadah for Believers and Heretics

Moshe Altshuler|Iskra Books

This Soviet Yiddish Communist Haggadah reworks the Passover liturgy for Bolshevik ends: it recasts the search for leaven as cleansing counter-revolutionaries, ties the seder to Soviet reconstruction, and replaces blessings with curses on rabbinic institutions. It reads the bread of affliction as capitalist exploitation, dismisses the rabbis' 'next year in Jerusalem' promise.

Mar 31, 2025

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 3

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Stalin's 1917 writings chart a course from critiquing the Provisional Government's insufficient national equality decree—advocating political autonomy and self-determination—to exposing Milyukov's imperialist war aims as contradicting the government's stance. He argues workers and soldiers should support only the Soviets, which represent the toiling masses.

Feb 5, 2025

The Journey of the Farmers' Rebellion

Ranjana Padhi, Prof. Sukhpal Singh, et al.|Iskra Books

The 2020–21 farmers' movement in India protested three farm acts seen as harmful, with farmers occupying highways for over a year, building shelters, kitchens, and libraries, and uniting across caste, religion, and geography. The book documents how this intersectional, creatively protesting movement (including boycotts and own media) forced a historic repeal in November 2021.

Jan 15, 2025

The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898

Conor McCabe|Iskra Books

Compiling James Connolly's writings from 1889 to 1898, this volume recovers eighteen lost items and reevaluates his intellectual roots. By arguing that John Leslie was influenced by the Connolly brothers rather than shaping James, it revises standard biographical narratives through newly rediscovered primary sources.

Oct 15, 2024

Reading in Al-Mushtarak: A System for Democratic Socialism

Ibrahim Allawi|Iskra Books

The text posits that Islam’s historical treatment of land and water as collective property aligns with Communist Manifesto demands. It separately contends that Western Marxism relies on medieval Islamic philosophers like Ibn Sina, arguing that translating universal socialist principles into local cultural contexts offers a viable path for social revolution.

Aug 21, 2024

Collected Works of Josef Stalin - pt. 2

Josef Stalin|Iskra Books

Stalin's collected writings and speeches from 1907-1913 detail the Bolshevik struggle against the Mensheviks and Cadets, exposing the 'Cadet danger' as real while the 'Black-Hundred danger' was a liberal myth. The book recounts electoral tactics and the national question, showing how Menshevik opportunism led workers to prefer Socialist-Revolutionaries, and how Bolsheviks isolated the Cadets.

Aug 14, 2024

Let Us Rise: Trade Unionism in Ireland (Volume 2)

Róisín Dubh|Iskra Books

The Independent Workers' Union (IWU) president introduces a volume of the Let Us Rise series that examines the struggles and organizing of women workers in Ireland, especially post-pandemic. It highlights pervasive wage theft, gig economy exploitation, and workplace injustices, arguing that official figures understate the problem.

Mar 23, 2024

Alive and Paranoid

D. Musa Springer|Iskra Books

D. Musa Springer's 'Alive and Paranoid' is a survival-driven, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist collection composed under American labor pressures. Springer resists co-optation, confronting state violence and capitalist exploitation through poems that traverse Atlanta, Cuba, and Palestine. With introductions framing poetry as refusal, the work offers weaponry and wisdom.

Mar 15, 2024

Why Socialism?

Albert Einstein|ProleWiki

In this thought-provoking essay, Albert Einstein delves into the profound social, economic, and ethical questions that challenge our modern society. With the precision and clarity that heralded his scientific genius, Einstein navigates through the inadequacies of capitalism, unveiling its propensity to foster inequality, injustice, and a sense of alienation among individuals.