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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

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.

💡 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 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.

💡 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.

💡 NewOct 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.

💡 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.

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.

🧵 DigestOct 7, 2026
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Socialist China Conference 2026: another landmark in building friendship and solidarity with China - Friends of Socialist China

Socialist China Conference 2026: Closing Rally

Friends of Socialist China

Friends of Socialist China held its third annual Socialist China Conference in north London on 3 October 2026, marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; more than 150 people attended.

Speakers at a London rally marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China defend Chinese socialism, critique anti-China propaganda, and argue China's development model offers an alternative to Western-centric modernisation.

Oct 6, 2026
Podcast

Ep 328 - Tenants Need Unions Too

Tenant and worker organising takes centre stage, from mass housing protests and strikes in France and Spain to New York home care and taxi drivers, plus a DoorDash wage theft settlement.

Oct 6, 2026
Podcast

Gamified Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism w/ Max Haiven

Max Haiven

Max Haiven argues that financialised, gamified capitalism traps people as cheated players, breeding a 21st-century entrepreneurial fascism built on revenge against the "cheating other" rather than mass mobilisation.

Oct 6, 2026
Article

Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro Head to Runoff in Brazil

Brazil's presidential election heads to an October 25 runoff after Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly led Lula da Silva in a first round marked by high abstention and gains for Bolsonarist forces in Congress.

Oct 5, 2026
Podcast

Vote Blue no Matter Who? Running as a Socialist in 2026 w/ Greg Levy

Greg Levy

Socialist candidate Greg Levy discusses his Ohio Senate campaign with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, arguing third-party runs can build working-class power against the two-party establishment.

🧵 DigestOct 5, 2026
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Podcast

Dr Judy Dlamini: Power, Accountability & the Burden of the African Woman

Dr Judy Dlamini: Power, Accountability and the Burden of the African Woman

Judy DlaminiJudy Dlamini

Dr Judy Dlamini discusses women's leadership, inequality, institutional culture and the barriers facing Black women in South African business and society, arguing leadership is a responsibility rather than a title.

Dr Judy Dlamini discusses women's safety in South Africa, barriers facing Black women in leadership, inequality, medicine and health research, and why leadership should be a responsibility rather than a title.

🧵 DigestOct 5, 2026
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Snap Protest Demands Labor Pressure US To Stop Its War on Cuba, Venezuela

The Petty Bourgeoisie in the Thought of Amilcar Cabral and Walter Rodney

Jim McIlroyIssa G. Shivji

Australian solidarity groups rallied to demand the Labor government pressure Washington to halt alleged invasion plans and lift the decades-long blockades of Cuba and Venezuela.

A close reading of Amilcar Cabral's and Walter Rodney's analyses of the petty bourgeoisie in colonial and neocolonial Africa, examining Cabral's idea that this class must "commit suicide" to serve national liberation.

Oct 4, 2026
Article

Spain: Violent Eviction Leads to Explosion of Anger Over Housing

R. Adrián

The brutal eviction of an 87-year-old Madrid tenant sparks mass protests, a Puerta del Sol campout and demands for a housing decree, exposing Spain's speculative housing crisis and the failures of both ruling parties.

Oct 4, 2026
Article

Critical minerals are behind Washington's push against Lula

Nandita Lal

Brazil's new critical minerals law gives Lula leverage over foreign deals like USA Rare Earth's Serra Verde takeover, as Washington backs Flavio Bolsonaro to secure rare earths for its war machine.

Oct 4, 2026
Article

Iran Strikes Vital Facilities As Evidence Emerges Of US Invasion Preparations

Robert Inlakesh

Missile and drone strikes hit oil and power infrastructure in the UAE and Saudi Arabia while open-source evidence points to a US military buildup in the Caspian region, fuelling accusations against Iran.

🧵 DigestOct 2, 2026
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Workers World salutes socialist China at 77

AUKUS at five - Friends of Socialist China

Workers World

An editorial marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China credits socialist construction for mass literacy, the elimination of extreme poverty for 800 million people, and global solidarity with Iran, Cuba and Africa.

Five years after AUKUS, Australia became the first country to break its non-nuclear status with nuclear-powered submarines; Britain supplies the welded propulsion system from Derby, and Australia pays A$4.6bn to expand that site.

Oct 2, 2026
Article

Chilean Police Crack Down on Student March Against Budget Cuts

Chilean militarized police used tear gas and water cannons against thousands of students marching peacefully in Santiago against President José Antonio Kast's education budget cuts, detaining at least five people.

Oct 2, 2026
Article

Yemen's War Reignited

Yemen's frontlines collapsed after Ansar Allah seized Mokha, Dhubab and Perim Island, taking the Red Sea coast and Bab al-Mandeb approaches as Saudi-backed forces regroup for a possible offensive.

Oct 1, 2026
Podcast

Interwar Germany pt3: The Kapp Putsch

The Kapp Putsch of March 1920 briefly overthrew the Weimar Republic as a military dictatorship, but was defeated by a general strike, exposing the republic's reliance on the army and Freikorps against the left.

Oct 1, 2026
Article

Seventeen Years in the Cellblock: Anwar Yassine on the Making and Unmaking of Palestine's Prisoner Movement

Anwar Yassine

Anwar Yassine recounts 17 years in Israeli prisons, the collective political life Palestinian detainees built before Oslo, the fracture the accords produced, and today's repression under Ben-Gvir.

🧵 DigestSep 30, 2026
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Workers Party leader George Galloway: “We want an economy like China’s” - Friends of Socialist China

We need to talk about China - Friends of Socialist China

George Galloway, Workers Party of Britain leader and former MP, tells Beijing Review his party wants an economy like China's but with British characteristics, praising Xinjiang's new infrastructure and China's democratic elements.

Carlos Martinez, Friends of Socialist China co-editor, sets out the third annual Socialist China Conference in London on Saturday 3 October, 11am to 5pm, at the Cypriot Community Centre in Wood Green.

Sep 30, 2026
Article

Istanbul Declaration: "Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars!"

Dockworkers' unions from over 35 European and Mediterranean ports, meeting in Istanbul, declare ports are being turned into war infrastructure and call for coordinated strikes and arms blockades.

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