May 2026
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Socialism Is Slow to Mature: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2026)
While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world. Continue reading
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Putin in China: The New U.S.–Russia–China Equation| Pepe Escobar
Has Putin finally given up on the illusion of a grand deal with the United States after this visit to China? Continue reading
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How Zionists created Tommy Robinson
Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined by hip hop artist, activist and journalist Lowkey and author and investigative journalist from the Electronic Intifada, Asa Winstanley. They discuss the rise of the far right in the UK and its connections to Israel, the unprecedented legal proceedings facing direct action activists and the ongoing Israeli genocide… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report May 20, 2026
Wednesday, 20 May 2026 — Black Agenda Report Betrayal in Venezuela Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Venezuela’s betrayal of Alex Saab in handing him over to the U.S. leaves little room for debate. The Bolivarian revolution has been seriously undermined and can only be revived by the Venezuelan people themselves. Continue reading
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Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell?
The super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces – to prevent change Continue reading
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Hezbollah Flattens Israeli Bases With FPV Drone Swarms | The Target with Robert Inlakesh
Monday, 18 May 2026 — MintPress News BREAKING: Hezbollah’s FPV Drone Revolution Exposes Israeli Military Vulnerability Continue reading
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Iran SMASHES Trump’s Threat, Drones ERUPT Over Gulf as World War 3 Escalates | KJ Noh
Monday, 18 May 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong We talk the latest developments in the US war on Iran as Trump and Israel rush to prepare renewed strikes. PLUS, we dive deeper into Trump’s professed victory in China and much more Continue reading
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Strategic Stability or Strategic Pause: The Trump–Xi Summit and the Fracturing of the American Century
Washington arrived in Beijing carrying sanctions, aircraft carriers, and the exhausted myths of neoliberal supremacy, while Silicon Valley and Wall Street arrived carrying spreadsheets, supply-chain dependencies, and demands for access to the very industrial system the empire now seeks to contain. Beneath the summit’s choreography unfolded a deeper crisis of hyper-imperial decline, where deindustrialization, financialization,… Continue reading
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Iran SEIZES Ship, Trmp STUNNED as China Summit BACKFIRES | Greg Stoker & Elina Xenophontos
We talk the latest in geopolitics as Iran consolidates control of Strait of Hormuz and Israel threatens renewed war with Iran as soon as Trump touches down on US soil. Join us for this and much more! Continue reading
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Italy jails Palestinian over videos on his phone
On 14 April, a court in Campobasso, southern Italy, sentenced Ahmad Salem, a Palestinian asylum seeker, to four years in prison. The decision followed a now-familiar pattern in Italian – and, more broadly, European – courts: charges of alleged terrorism. Continue reading
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NHS: Wes Streeting’s final Bill
On Wednesday, it was named the NHS Modernisation Bill; a day later it was published as the Health Bill, with this funny line in Hansard: “Secretary Wes Streeting, supported by the Prime Minister”… oh. Clause 1 is wonderful: “NHS England is abolished”, but they didn’t stop there. Continue reading
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Direct Action, Terrorist Consequences
Four Palestine Action activists convicted in a retrial over a protest at a UK site owned by Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer could be sentenced as terrorists. No case in British legal history has seen direct action activists sentenced under terrorism provisions – until now. Continue reading
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The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary: The Twentieth Newsletter (2026)
The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive. Continue reading
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Urgent – can you do this today?
The government announced new legislation in yesterday’s King’s Speech to create a single patient record (SPR) for each NHS patient, and reporting from the Guardian suggests the new law will force GPs and hospitals to share our health data for these records.[1] Continue reading
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PLO Lumumba: Macron Is Raiding Africa Again | France, Kenya & The New Scramble
In this powerful episode of PLO Lumumba Explain, Prof. PLO Lumumba breaks down Emmanuel Macron’s renewed push into Africa, especially through Kenya, Angola, South Africa, and other countries that were not historically part of France’s colonial empire. Continue reading
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Iran LOCKED & LOADED on US Navy, Trump UTTERLY HUMILIATED by China | Ben Norton
Thursday, 14 May 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong it’s a late show because we are reporting on the Trump-Xi summit as it happens, as well as the latest geopolitical developments with Ben Norton who joins from China. See you tonight! Continue reading
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Françafrique 2.0: Macron, Multipolarity, and the Quiet Reassembly of Empire
A French president’s interruption at a Nairobi summit exposed more than diplomatic arrogance; it revealed the lingering psychology of empire dressed in the language of “equal partnership.” Behind the spectacle of green investment pledges and startup rhetoric lies a deeper struggle over African sovereignty, debt dependency, military influence, and the geopolitical restructuring of imperial power… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report May 13, 2026
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 — Black Agenda Report France Out of Africa! PASAI Shows the Way Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist An international gathering of anti-imperialists in Nairobi, Kenya revealed the lies of “Africa Forward” as the presidents of France and Kenya made plans to continue the exploitation of a nation and… Continue reading
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The Emperor has no clothes and no cards
SHANGHAI – China’s powerhouse moves on like a speed-breaking EV. The atmosphere is electric. At a business dinner in a landmark Cantonese restaurant, Trump’s visit to China at least propels the conversation towards something more tangible: the conflicting paths for future generations from the West down to the East. Continue reading
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Empire at the Table: Trump, Xi, and the Crisis of Unipolar Power
France 24 frames the Beijing summit as a poker match between rival strongmen, masking the deeper structures of imperial crisis, technological warfare, and geopolitical coercion beneath the spectacle. Beneath the summit theater lies a dense architecture of sanctions, military encirclement, semiconductor conflict, rare earth dependency, and unresolved sovereignty struggles stretching from Taiwan to the Strait… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 