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Macron vs. The People: Millions Revolt Against War and Austerity in France | Aymeric Monville
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 — Radhika Desai Transcript Continue reading
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Palantir – last chance before we hand this in
The government’s decision on Palantir’s NHS contract could be announced any day. And right now, rumours are swirling about what they’re planning to do. Continue reading
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State of the Climate 2026: ‘A New Age of Temperature Extremes’
The year 2026 continues the protracted streak of exceptional global temperatures, melting ice and rising sea levels, with a very strong El Niño event set to unleash even more heat and extreme weather well into 2027, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the knock-on risks to the environment,… Continue reading
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France’s students light the fuse, workers stop the country
When French workers walked out on Nov. 5, trains slowed, schools emptied, and refineries and power plants cut production until France had to import electricity. For a day, France’s workers held the country in their hands. Continue reading
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The Definition Of The Right To Protest
Every time politicians and the police talk about ‘recognising’ the right to protest, they take our rights away. Continue reading
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Dr Anthony Fauci ~ a celebrated doctor who epitomises all that is wrong with the pandemic industry
On the 27th July 2026, Dr Anthony Fauci – the most celebrated infection-control expert in the US – appeared before a Senate hearing, ostensibly to be interrogated about his conduct during the covid era. Astonishingly, he refused to answer any questions, repeatedly responding with the statement, ‘On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to… Continue reading
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China’s Communist Party turns the blade on itself
The Communist Party of China has just adopted a sweeping program of self-discipline, and the document itself points to the reason. The party is fighting the capitalists and the capitalist relations that the market reforms created inside China, and it is fighting them inside its own ranks. Continue reading
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🚨 More misleading Palantir claims
Are ministers being lied to about Palantir, or are they just not brave enough to stand up to it?! Today the Financial Times reported that ministers are considering handing US spy tech company Palantir a 2-year extension on its £330m NHS contract, while claiming to look for a British alternative. Continue reading
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France strikes against the rulers who sold Europe to United States gas
From high school blockades to a national strike, workers in France are on the move. The government they face is one of the European governments that handed Europe over to the United States gas monopolies and lined up behind the United States war on Iran. Continue reading
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Lula and the Terrible Realities of the Era of Counterrevolution: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 5 November 2026 — The Tricontinental This October, millions of Brazilian workers mobilised to defeat the far right; now the essential task begins: strengthening mass movements and forging a sovereign economic policy that develops Brazil’s productive forces. Cândido Portinari (Brazil), Morro (Hill), 1933. Continue reading
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Trump Lost Congress: The Empire Kept Its Weapons
POLITICO hears power draining out of Trump’s White House, but the freedom of a banker to turn down a presidential favor tells us damn little about who can stop a war. From Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia through the post-9/11 grants of authority and the surveillance powers Democrats helped renew, Washington spent decades building the… Continue reading
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A landslide against Trump, his war and ICE
The Nov. 3 midterm elections were a mass vote against Donald Trump, his war on Iran and his terror campaign against immigrant workers. At the ballot box, the two-party system gave working people only one way to strike at the administration, and tens of millions of them took it. The party that collected those votes,… Continue reading
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Our right to protest – and how we defend it
Does the ‘right to protest’ mean legal protections for “peaceful protest”, or “lawful protest”, or only protests that cause no disruption? Continue reading
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Transcendental Marxism and 21st Century Quantum Science
When Friedrich Engels walked through the intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth century, his great philosophical crusade was to extract the dialectic from the ethereal clouds of Hegelian idealism and anchor it firmly within the soil of the material world. Yet, the material world available to Engels, Karl Marx, and their contemporaries was culturally dominated… Continue reading
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‘There was terror, absolute terror’: Israel is targeting children on their way to school in Gaza
“Do we keep our children away from school and deprive them of their education, or do we send them out, knowing that they could be targeted at any moment?” Continue reading
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The Empire Lost Its Monopoly: Multipolarity, Class War, and the Fight to Own the Future
The world the imperial powers built to keep the colonized dependent is beginning to crack, and China’s socialist construction has helped put the hammer in the hands of nations once condemned to serve as suppliers of cheap labor and raw materials. From BRICS development finance to Washington’s desperate efforts to fortify its hemispheric empire, the… Continue reading
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From Genoa to Oakland, dockworkers refuse to load the war
Dockworkers on five continents are striking, stopping work and picketing Oct. 30 to keep the ports out of the wars of the United States and Israel. Their banner reads “Dockworkers do not work for war.” Continue reading
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Lyor Cohen: The Shady Israeli Executive Running YouTube Music & the Global Hip Hop Industry
When most people are asked “who controls hip hop?” they are unlikely to think of a 67-year-old Israeli Zionist who comes from a family of Israeli spies and state officials. But Lyor Cohen is the real deal. The brash, cigar-smoking 6 ft 5 in head of YouTube Music is the undisputed king of rap, and… Continue reading
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From racist terror in France, to enforcing belonging in the UK
This week’s Calendar of Race and Resistance features the shocking act of racist terror in Trappes and La Verrière, west of Paris, in which a gunman targeted Black and Brown people in a drive-by shooting which killed a young French man of Congolese origin, Pengo Bossio Wangi, and injured five people including a 12-year-old girl,… Continue reading
