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🧵 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
Article

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

Robert Inlakesh

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
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.

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.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

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

Stephanie Sandoval

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

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.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

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

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.

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

Irene Zugasti

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.

Oct 12, 2026
Podcast

News Round-Up Ep. 272

Yemen and Iran are RESHAPING West Asia

Weekly round-up analysing Yemeni missile and drone strikes on Saudi airports, the weakening of the petrodollar and Riyadh's Vision 2030, and the wider reshaping of West Asia by Yemen and Iran.

Oct 12, 2026
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Briefing No. 31: Stopping the Gears of War

A briefing on dockworkers' coordinated strike against NATO's war machine, plus reports on India's electoral roll purge, Brazil's runoff, and farmer and labour struggles worldwide.

Oct 12, 2026
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Warwick Powell: AI's Money Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Warwick Powell

AI firms that once resisted regulation now seek government protection as capital spending soars without a path to profit, while cheaper Chinese open models undercut them and data centres drain US construction.

Oct 11, 2026
Article

Brits in revolution: Weaving the struggles of British and Chinese people into a community of shared future - Friends of Socialist China

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, recounts in 'Brits in Revolution' how Michael Lindsay joined a 1938 guerrilla railway attack and sent the first 'Xinhua News Agency Yan'an' English broadcast in 1945, arguing British and Chinese struggles were one fight.

🧵 DigestOct 10, 2026
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Rita Giménez on China's Role in Building a Multipolar Global South

China Leads On Gig Economy Labour Protection

Rita GiménezRita Giménez

Rita Giménez discusses China's gig worker protections, Belt and Road infrastructure, multipolarity, EU anti-China rhetoric, and cultural barriers to cross-border cooperation from her base in Shenzhen.

Rita Giménez joins Ileana to challenge claims of oppressive Chinese labour conditions and explain China's gig economy reforms, platform worker protections and algorithm rules compared with the Global North.

Oct 10, 2026
Article

The day of truth has come

A revolutionary poem tracing five centuries of colonial lies and indigenous resistance, arguing that empire's military and financial dominance is collapsing as the oppressed reclaim their land and build a socialist world.

Oct 10, 2026
Article

Venezuela: Delcy Rodríguez Highlights Economic Growth and Slowing Inflation at Fedecámaras Assembly

Yuleidys Hernández Toledo

Venezuela's acting president reports 22 consecutive quarters of growth, 6.5% third-quarter expansion, slowing inflation and rising consumption at the Fedecámaras business assembly, alongside new oil, gas and mining agreements.

Oct 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.

Oct 9, 2026
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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

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.

Oct 9, 2026
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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.

Oct 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.

Oct 9, 2026
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Zionism is Racism: The Rhetoric Shift in British Politics

Asa Winstanley

Asa Winstanley and Jake Green examine how British political rhetoric on Israel's occupation of Palestine is shifting, from Labour's tonal change to the Green Party's motion defining Zionism as racism.

Oct 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

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

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

Brian MierThierry 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.

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.

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.

Oct 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.

Oct 8, 2026
Video

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

Danièle Obono

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.

Oct 8, 2026
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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.

Oct 7, 2026
Article

The Ark and the Flood of our Time

Drawing on the story of Noah and the martyrdom of Imam Husayn at Karbala, this essay frames resistance as an ark of salvation that carries dignity through the flood of falsehood, linking that inheritance to Palestine and the Axis of Resistance today.

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