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Minawi urges restraint as fallout from deadly Sudan-Egypt border strikes widens
Darfur governor Minni Minnawi has urged Sudanese and Egyptian authorities to establish the facts surrounding deadly strikes on artisanal gold miners near the Egyptian border, warning against collective blame as tensions rise between the two countries. Dozens of Sudanese miners were reportedly killed in airstrikes in North Wadi on Saturday. Minawi said most of the reported victims came from Darfur and called for an end to the demonisation of the joint forces, stressing that individual incidents must not fuel accusations against entire communities.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/minawi-urges-restraint-as-fallout-from-deadly-sudan-egypt-border-strikes-widens

March and March-affiliated parolee detained after securing bail
After being granted R1000 bail, Nsibande was intercepted immediately before he could leave the court. Nsibande was previously convicted for kidnapping and robbery in 2009. He was released on parole in April 2022 and was to remain under state supervision until 2034. The department’s spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo, explaining the processes of a parolee being re-arrested, says the parole board will have to decide on Nsibande’s fate.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/march-and-march-affiliated-parolee-detained-after-securing-bail/

Crowds throng New Delhi and wave Indian flags amid escalating protests
Protests by the youth and opposition parties have intensified over an ongoing review of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million names since last year. Critics say the exercise is politically motivated, threatens to disenfranchise millions more, and has disproportionately affected minorities, particularly Muslims. They have demanded the resignation of election chief Gyanesh Kumar. The Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration deny the allegations and say the revision is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-protests-voters-elections-fc2868da068525b11506c97f2ee8932e

‘Clean air is not a favour’: Indonesia’s neighbours fed up with acrid haze as Singapore threatens to prosecute
Lawrence Wong, the Singaporean prime minister, said his government was distributing masks to vulnerable citizens and working with countries in the region to deal with the smoke. “At the same time, we are looking into which companies may be responsible for the fires,” he said in a Facebook post on Thursday, adding that he was exploring the idea of “joint action with other countries”.Singapore has no plantations or forests of its own, but several companies with concessions in Indonesia are reportedly based in the city-state.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/singapore-threatens-prosecute-indonesia-fires-toxic-haze-smoke

Brush fires trigger evacuations in Los Angeles, Orange counties amid Santa Ana winds across SoCal
Strong Santa Ana winds are whipping across Southern California as the dangerous conditions spark fires across the region and leave tens of thousands without power. Firefighters are battling blazes in San Clemente, Malibu and Azusa. While forward progress has stopped with the Peak Fire in Azusa, the Norte Fire in Orange County and the Bryson Fire in Malibu has forced evacuations.
https://abc7.com/live-updates/southern-california-fire-watch-red-flag-high-wind-warnings-effect/19941220/

Case against Leon Black dismissed after plaintiff said she was ‘medically incapable of continuing’
A federal judge has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Leon Black after the plaintiff in the case, who had accused the private equity billionaire of rape, said she was “medically incapable of continuing” and at risk of “acute psychiatric crisis”, including suicide. The woman known only as “Jane Doe”, who claimed in a lawsuit that was first filed in July 2023 that she had been “handed off” to Black by his associate Jeffrey Epstein and then sexually assaulted by him, had been acting without a lawyer in the case. Doe has alleged that the assault occurred in 2002, when she was a teenager.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/leon-black-civil-rape-lawsuit-dismissed-epstein

ICE pursuit in Houston that broke a man’s leg targeted a suspect who died years ago, family says
After the episode Saturday, ICE said in a statement that officers had observed a suspect they were targeting, identified as Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, enter a vehicle with Parra Hernandez. But on Friday, Harris County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Rafael Lemaitre told The Associated Press that Mendoza-Cervantes was not in that vehicle. ICE did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-houston-miguel-parra-hernandez-6382785b512a3d9579c979144a248e38

The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax
With the election less than a month away, those funds are being spent at a stepped-up pace. During the first 19 days of September, according to the most recent campaign filings, the opposition campaign plowed through at least $21.2m to fight the billionaire tax – surpassing $1m per day. Voters are being inundated with robotexts, mailers and advertisements that warn a tax on billionaires would “expose all Californians to higher taxes”, as one ad reads.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/16/billionaires-fight-california-prop-40

New York Democrats want parking lot owners to ban ICE from their properties
The plea came after immigration officers shot 28-year-old Dominican national Oscar Belgal during an arrest last week as he rode in a car with his young son. The shooting sparked protests and drew renewed attention to the federal government’s immigration crackdown. The federal officers had been using a nearby private parking lot as a staging area before the shooting, according to Friday’s letter.
https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-ice-ban-parking-lot-democrats-cf31d5eb7ebbf49fd2726c70610a738d

Erik Houdini: Why Do Some Americans Live in Motels?
Why do some Americans live in hotels, motels, inns, lodges, and whatever other word we want to use? We know what we're talking about. We're talking about housing that is supposed to be temporary, typically for a night, a weekend, maybe a week. But more and more Americans find themselves living in hotels. Let's put those numbers in perspective. Statistics show that in America about 700,000 people experience homelessness, and most of those people are living in hotels. But the actual hard number of people who are experiencing this is surprisingly difficult to track down, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that the statistics surrounding things like unemployment and homelessness and poverty in this country are cooked. Just the way that things are reported, and the way things are self-reported, the way these statistics are gathered, it would be very difficult to put a real number on the amount of people who are experiencing hotel poverty, hotel homelessness. Would they even be considered homeless? Some statistics point towards yes, some point towards no. And that's intentional. It would be a shame if the emperor was revealed to be wearing no clothes. So let's put the numbers in perspective based on real-world experience
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-10-11-why-do-americans-live-in-hotels

The rise of the far right in Europe: Capitalism's useful ally and the tasks of communists: Nikos Mottas Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism
The growing influence of nationalist and far-right forces across Europe is neither accidental nor a development occurring outside the capitalist system. It is closely connected with the needs of capitalist power itself, at a time when imperialist rivalries are intensifying, preparations for war are accelerating and the established bourgeois parties are finding it increasingly difficult to secure popular consent for their policies. The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), France's National Rally and Britain's Reform UK, alongside the experience of Giorgia Meloni's government in Italy, points to significant changes in Europe's political landscape. Far from representing a genuine challenge to capitalist domination, these forces offer additional political options to sections of the bourgeoisie seeking to adapt to the changing international situation. Capitalism does not merely create the social discontent exploited by the far right. It also provides the political conditions in which nationalist and reactionary forces can channel that discontent away from the struggle against capitalist power. The sharpening competition between the United States and China, the confrontation between NATO and Russia, and the struggle over markets, energy resources and trade routes are aggravating contradictions within the Euro-Atlantic bloc itself. Different sections of European capital have competing interests concerning relations with Washington, Moscow and Beijing, the future of the European Union, military expenditure and the consequences of sanctions and economic confrontation. These disagreements inevitably find expression in the political systems of the capitalist states.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/10/the-rise-of-far-right-in-europe-capitalisms-useful-ally-and-tasks-of-communists.html

It’s a Class Struggle, Godamnit! Speech by Fred Hampton
We started the Black Panther Party in 1966. I’m gonna tell you the whole story in a minute. We started dealing with pigs. You think we scared of a few karangatangs, a few chumps, a few male chauvinists? They tell their women “Walk behind me.” The only reason a woman should walk behind a faggot like that is so she can put his foot knee deep in his ass.
We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you. You heard your Field Lieutenant talking about a fire in the room, didn’t you? What you worry about when you got a fire in this room? You worry about water or escape. You don’t worry about nothin’ else. If you say “What’s your culture during this fire?” “Water, that’s my culture, Brother, that’s my culture.” Because culture’s a thing that keeps you. “What’s your politics?” Escape and water. “What’s your education?” Escape and water. When people ask us about our culture, we say our culture’s guns, baby. Our culture’s revolutionary art, like that. And when you see those two Brothers who picked up them guns and went out into Babylon in ’66 when a lot of us were scared to do anything except lock ourselves up in the closet and listen to Coltrane—ain’t that something for woopin’ a motherfucker’s ass. And this turned us on and this made us black enough that we were bad. Then this made us black enough to get out and launch a blanket indictment at the murder-mouthin’ rest of the black people. uyghur, you ain’t got no natural. uyghur, how come your name ain’t changed? Ask the pigs in California. Ask ‘em. “Who do you fear most? Ron Mamalama Karenga, or Huey P. Newton, who is named after a demagogic, lyin’ politician, Huey P. Long?” And pigs don’t care about that. Because you don’t have to call, if your shotgun’s a Browning, you don’t have to give it no African name, because believe me, it shoots the same. You understand? It shoots the same…. Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements. The only thing that’s gonna change our set of arrangements is what’s gotten us into this set of arrangements. And that’s the oppressor. And it’s on three stages, we call it the three-in-one: avaricious, greedy businessmen; demagogic, lyin’ politicians; and racist, pig fascist, reactionary cops. Until you deal with those three things, then your set of arrangements will remain the same. The only difference will be that you’re still under fascism, but instead of Fred being under fascism, I’ll be Oogabooga under fascism. But I’ll feel the same. Instead of me goin’ to the gas chamber, I’ll go to an African section of the gas chamber.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/1969/11/class-struggle-godamnit.htm