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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
Video

Why China is NOT Scared of the USA | Zhang WeiWei

Zhang Weiwei

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.

Oct 11, 2026
Podcast

Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians beyond Black, Brown, and White

Rhea Rahman

An ethnographic study of Islamic Relief examines how Muslim transnational philanthropy operates within racial capitalism and responds to Islamophobia, questioning the racial categories shaping humanitarian aid.

Oct 11, 2026
Article

China calls out western human rights hypocrisy at UN - Friends of Socialist China

Sun Lei, China's deputy UN representative, rebutted Western criticism at the Third Committee, condemning smears by the UK, Australia, Japan and others while citing China's poverty gains and UK poverty figures.

Oct 10, 2026
Article

Farewell, Anwar Shaikh

Emiliano López and Facundo Barrera Insua

Two Argentine economists pay tribute to Anwar Shaikh, whose Marxian reconstruction of national accounts and theories of competition and trade gave Global South scholars tools to study capitalism empirically.

Oct 10, 2026
Article

Critical Minerals and the 'Donroe Doctrine'

Vijay Prashad

Washington's push to reorganise Western Hemisphere mineral wealth around US industrial and military needs, from Latin American lithium to Greenland's rare earths, extends the Monroe Doctrine and pressures sovereign development.

Oct 9, 2026
Video

Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill

Nick Estes

A discussion of Ward Churchill's career and the phenomenon of "pretendianism", examining how settlers appropriate Indigenous identity and the violence this does to Native nations.

Oct 8, 2026
Article

“We need to see China as it actually is” – China Daily hosts ‘Vision China’ in London - Friends of Socialist China

At China Daily's 'Vision China' event in London on September 17, MEP Ondřej Dostál argued the West must see China as it actually is, citing an enormous gap between the real China and Western perceptions.

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.

🧵 DigestOct 8, 2026
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Article

Financing for development: Reconceptualising domestic resource mobilisation and the institutional architecture

From fragmentation to integration: Unlocking payments for growth in Africa

Redge NkosiShakirudeen Taiwo

A heterodox critique of orthodox domestic resource mobilisation argues that money is endogenously created through sovereign fiscal and banking mechanisms, proposing a new financial architecture for Global South development.

A study of Africa's fragmented payment systems, where most intra-African transactions route through foreign intermediaries and settle in dollars or euros, and of African-led alternatives like PAPSS and mobile money.

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 5, 2026
Video

NATO Threatens Kaliningrad: Worst Mistake Yet | Stas Krapivnik

Stanislav Krapivnik

Stanislav Krapivnik argues that NATO's public threats against Kaliningrad test Russia's red lines and risk a wider European war, examining escalation beyond Ukraine, US interests, and the human costs of continued conflict.

Oct 4, 2026
Video

Debunking MI5's Anti-China Propaganda: Spy Tractors, Super Embassies and Imperial Double Standards

Ileana

MI5's espionage alert against a Chinese research institute is debunked as baseless fearmongering, exposing a double standard where Western universities partner openly with military and intelligence agencies while Chinese civilian research is branded espionage.

Oct 3, 2026
Video

Europe's Industrial Collapse: Companies Are Fleeing

Stephan Ebner and Rolf Landgraf

Two German lawyers advising mid-sized firms describe how energy costs, bureaucracy and succession problems drive deindustrialisation, foreign buyouts and the loss of industrial expertise across Europe's core economies.

Oct 2, 2026
Video

China, Russia and the Battle for Eurasia

Ryan Perkins

Ryan Perkins examines how the US, China and Russia are competing for influence in Central Asia through rival transport corridors, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Moscow-Beijing partnership.

Sep 28, 2026
Article

Ward Churchill: Free Speech Warrior or Pretendian?

Nick Estes

Ward Churchill's legacy is examined through decades of Indigenous challenges to his claimed Native identity, arguing that self-Indigenization is a colonial theft enabled by universities and media that ignore tribal sovereignty.

Sep 28, 2026
Article

Be Kind To Your Adult Children Or They'll Stop Talking To You

Rising family estrangement in the US is driven less by TikTok than by parents who mistreat their children, as declining patriarchal pressure means parents must earn relationships through kindness.

Sep 28, 2026
Article

Degradation by design: Money, finance and the structural drive towards environmental crisis

Jeffrey Althouse

A political ecology of money and finance argues that monetary and financial systems are socio-ecological institutions whose design drives ecological degradation by shaping extraction, value, and who bears environmental costs.

🧵 DigestSep 28, 2026
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Video

Neocons In Defeat Denial, Trump Schizophrenia Getting Worse | Daniel Davis

New Data on War Mentality in Europe: Why Swiss Reject Strict Neutrality

Daniel DavisPascal Lottaz

Daniel Davis argues that NATO's Ukraine proxy war is failing, that Trump's contradictory diplomacy toward Iran, Russia and China reflects a White House without strategy, and that NATO lacks the capacity for war with Russia.

Switzerland's referendum rejecting a strict neutrality initiative reveals a deepening Russophobic war mentality across Europe, shaped by sanctions, media framing and anxiety about Russia.

Sep 23, 2026
Article

This is a book above all for the new generation mobilised by Gaza - Friends of Socialist China

Keith Bennett, co-editor with Carlos Martinez of 'China's Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World', told the 20 September online launch that Gaza changes everything and the book aims to reach the new generation entering anti-imperialist politics.

Sep 22, 2026
Video

Keith Bennett: The battle for public opinion is a front in the class struggle

Keith Bennett

A book-launch contribution arguing that Western media systematically misrepresent China, and that contesting imperialist narratives in public opinion is a central front of the class struggle today.

Sep 18, 2026
Article

The IMF in Asia and Latin America: Historical and Contemporary Reckoning

A panel discussion of two IDEAs research reports examining IMF lending and conditionality across Latin America and Asia, tracing the Fund's role from the 1980s debt crisis and the 1997-98 Asian crisis to today's debt vulnerabilities.

Sep 18, 2026
Article

How to Understand Key Terms in Large Language Models

A practical glossary explaining core large language model concepts - tokens, context windows, prompts, memory, retrieval-augmented generation, tools, agents and open-source models - with everyday examples.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

Tings Chak: Fifty years after Mao – a legacy for changing the current of history - Friends of Socialist China

Tings Chak, Asia co-coordinator of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, marks fifty years since Mao Zedong's death, noting Mao's Selected Works rose to first place on Tsinghua University's library borrowing list in 2019 and has repeatedly returned since.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

Dilemmas Posed by Recent Discovery of Oil in Brazil's Amazon

Vijay Prashad and Miguel Stedile

Petrobras's Morpho well off Amapá confirms oil in the Foz do Amazonas basin, raising questions of Brazilian sovereignty, environmental risk, and whether revenue will fund industrialisation and an energy transition.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

Report from the Penang Peace Dialogue: Southeast Asian Confidence and the Limits of Multipolarity

Pascal Lottaz

A report from the Penang Peace Dialogue describes growing confidence among Asian intellectuals that the region can shape its own future, while unresolved questions about Bandung, Taiwan and UN reform expose limits to multipolar solidarity.

Sep 15, 2026
Video

Israel's Hidden Victory: The 'Defeat' Of The West Is a Myth

Yakov Rabkin

Historian Yakov Rabkin questions claims of Western decline, arguing that regional fragmentation may serve strategic objectives, and examines Zionism, colonial ideology, and shrinking civil liberties in Israel.

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