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Liberal Capitalism’s Long Authoritarian Streak
We’re coming up, in two years, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Some of you may know of Hirschman as one of the main characters in that not-so-good, pulpy Netflix series Transatlantic, which depicts the efforts of Hirschman and others to rescue European Jewish intellectuals from the Nazis in France. If you’re a political scientist or sociologist, you may know of Hirschman for his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. If you’re a theorist, you may know his Rhetoric of Reaction. If you’re an economist or a Latin Americanist, you might know of his work in development economics. But, for me, Hirschman will always be the author of The Passions and the Interests. Its main thesis is that early-modern writers, from Machiavelli to David Hume, saw in the idea of interests — initially understood as a reasoned form of passion, later as a strictly economic pursuit of money and material well-being — as a counter to dangerous forms of political passion: glory, heroism, virtue, excessive civic-mindedness. It’s a wonderful little book, which in many ways has inspired some of the counterarguments that I am making in my book King Capital. But there’s a little-noticed element in Hirschman’s book, which I only just stumbled upon in a recent rereading. Given when the book was written, in 1977, and given Hirschman’s extensive involvement in Latin American politics and economics and his many efforts to save Latin American Marxists and leftists who were being threatened by right-wing goons and governments in the 1970s, that subplot seems worth mentioning.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/liberal-capitalism-authoritarianism-neoliberalism-hirschman

Amazon Web Services crash: who owns the internet?
In the early hours of 20 October, a simple error disrupted the operations of a data centre hub for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern Virginia. The ripple effect over the next few hours caused global outages to services as diverse as banking and real-time trading, tools for office management, social media, and even advanced manufacturing. In all, a total of 2,000 large companies were impacted, including a number of BrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’
His bid to lead Local 623 came up short in 2016. But in 2020, the married father of four became the first Black man to ever lead the union, which represents workers at companies including UPS and Greyhound. Now Hooker is running to replace O’Brien at the top of one of the most influential unions in the US, due to frustrations over his decision to align with Trump, the 2023 UPS contract as UPS recently reported cutting 48,000 jobs, and allegations of intimidation against criticizing O’Brien’s administration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/teamsters-union-leadership-trump

Protesters rally in San Francisco over detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi
Hamdi, a reporter and political commentator, was detained on Sunday at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as he was preparing to fly to Florida for a speaking engagement. He had been on a US speaking tour when authorities transferred him to a detention facility in southern California.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protesters-rally-san-francisco-over-detention-sami-hamdi

Poll shows Zohran Mamdani's lead in NYC mayoral race narrowing during final weekend of early voting
Meanwhile, a new poll shows the frontrunner's lead could be narrowing. The Atlas poll, which survey over 1,500 people through Oct. 30, shows Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani with 40% of the vote, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo at 34% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at 24%.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-mayors-race-latest-poll-early-voting/

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed
The group allegedly discussed carrying out an attack around Halloween, referring to “pumpkin day,” according to one of the people. The other person briefed on the investigation confirmed that there had been a “pumpkin” reference. HoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Sudanese Communist Party: Statement on the Massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher
Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horrifying massacres being committed against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not accept ambiguity or justification. The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee… and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organizations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime's forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/sudanese-communist-party-statement-on-massacres-by-rapid-support-forces-in-bara-and-el-fasher.html

Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
Despite securing a sit-down with Putin in the summer of 2013, they did not succeed in convincing Russia to support Assad’s ouster, but their negotiations set the stage for U.S.-Russia cooperation on disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal a few months later. Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., wrote in his memoir that Israel’s diplomatic leadership was told to “avoid being perceived as a player” in Syria. Clandestine actors sought to shape agendas in Moscow and Washington, while Israeli officials denied involvement and used the media to legitimize “red lines” for air strikes inside Syria. After their failed attempt to remove Assad, Barak and Epstein sought to leverage the Russian channel again in 2015, as Barak pushed for U.S. strikes on Iran and rejPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Starbucks workers hold strike vote amid anger over pay and conditions
Butit has yet to obtain a contract. Starbucks Workers United claims company management started to “majorly stonewall” the union; Starbucks claims the union walked away from the bargaining table. A strike authorization vote called by Starbucks Workers United began last Friday, 24 October, and will continue until Sunday 2 November. About 70 pickets have been planned in 60 cities across the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/starbucks-workers-strike-vote

Trump administration ordered to fund SNAP benefits during government shutdown
Roughly 42 million Americans are set to lose their supplemental food benefits Saturday — and it's unclear if Friday's ruling will be enacted fast enough to guarantee recipients get their money in time. Judge John James McConnell Jr. ruled Friday that the administration must fund SNAP, and asked for progress report by Monday, according to news reports.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump
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Tennessee officials drop charges against man jailed over Charlie Kirk meme
Whereas many people across the US lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as one of the few instances where such online speech has led to criminal prosecution. His arrest – on a charge of threatening mass violence at a school – alarmed free speech advocates, who said the Perry county sheriff, Nick Weems, had targeted Bushart because of his political views. Bushart was released on Wednesday after prosecutors sought to dismiss the charge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/tennessee-man-jailed-charlie-kirk-meme

Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers
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Episode 499: Libbing Out (TrueAnon)
We talk to ACLU bigwig Ben Wizner about Trump's war on law firms, his shadow battle with the judiciary, NSPM-7, Mahmoud Khalil, and more
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/libbing-out

Venezuela Case: Oil, Capital, and Class Struggle
Examining how control over oil resources fuels imperialist ambitions and what a socialist perspective offers as an alternative Venezuela stands once again at the crossroads of imperialist aggression and national resistance. Its oil-rich soil − potentially a foundation of social progress and independence − remains the object of fierce contest between foreign capital, domestic oligarchs, and bureaucratic interests. While this wealth should belong to the Venezuelan people, it continues to be treated as a commodity for global profiteers. Recently, Donald Trump and U.S.-backed figures like Maria Corina Machado have stepped into the spotlight, pushing privatization schemes and openly aligning with corporate interests. Their rhetoric of “freedom” and “democracy” conceals a brutal reality: a plan to hand over Venezuela’s national wealth to imperialist monopolies, deepening inequality and exploiting the working class. In this renewed struggle over oil, capital, and sovereignty, the stakes could not be higher − not only for Venezuela but for all workers confronting imperialist domination worldwide.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/venezuela-case-oil-capital-and-class-struggle.html

Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?
Seemmingly contradictory processes are at work. We may have reached peak AI, at least in terms of growth of use of the seemingly dominant type, large language models, which are conflated with “generative AI” (sticklers are encouraged to clear up fine points in comments). Several key growth measures are stalling out or even falling. Yet a wave of igh profile employers like Amazon, UPS, and Walmart announcing of big headcount cuts, citing AI implementation as the driver of the firings, says AI uptake is gaining steam. What gives? And more important, evPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
NPR has obtained the draft text of a proposed rule that would prohibit federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. It also prohibits reimbursement through the Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP for patients under age 19.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care

Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, cutting jury amount nearly in half
A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago. The new amount is roughly half the $667 million that a jury had awarded to the pipeline company that brought the claims, Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access.
https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit-4c5430585daccda6458181fd91662593

Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester
Martin, 55 and Smith, 54, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a NPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Interviews with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
[Video] https://odysee.com/@richardmedhurst:3/inside-the-mind-of-a-militant-an:f
[Text] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22318/

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise
In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary representation at 71, ahead of the traditional parties of the left, the Socialist Party and Communist Party. The personality most identified with it is Jean Luc Melenchon, who has run for president three times, the last time in 2022, when he gathered 21.9 percent of the votes, finishing third after second-placer Marine Le Pen of National Rally and Emmanuel Macron. La France Insoumise describes its orientation as democratic socialist and ecosocialist. The following is a composite interview. When he visited Paris in July 2025, Walden Bello interviewed some of the leaders of LFI, including Nadege Abomangoli, vice president of the National Assembly; Aurelie Trouve, chairwoman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Assembly; and members of parliament Arnaud Le Gall, Aurelien Tache, and Aurelien Saintoul. This was followed in September 2025 by an email interview with LFI leader Jean Luc Melenchon (JLM).
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/29/france-in-crisis-an-interview-with-jean-luc-melenchon-and-la-france-insoumise/

Caerphilly by-election: A harbinger of things to come
On 23 October, residents of Caerphilly, a town in South Wales, turned out in record numbers to vote in a by-election for the Senedd, the devolved Welsh Parliament. Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle was elected, on an unprecedented turnout of over 50 percent. While just a single constituency, this result has far-reaching implications. It is often remarked that the Welsh Labour Party is the most successful political party in history. Labour’s dominance in Wales has remained practically unrivaled for over a century – uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
For Israel, losing control of its data to authorities overseas was a significant concern. So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators. To clinch the lucrative contract, Google and Amazon agreed to the so-called winking mechanism, according to leaked documents seen by the Guardian, as part of a joint investigation with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

Pro-Palestinian students threaten to sue US university amid antisemitism definition controversy
“As a public university, the law is crystal clear that GMU may not censor its students or student organizations on the basis of viewpoint,” the letter added, demanding the university allow SJP to repost the video by Friday. “GMU cannot utilize the veneer of anti-discrimination in order to censor student speech that may be disfavored by the administration.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/george-mason-university-virginia-ihra-antisemitism-definition

spending $5M to slam House Dems over political violence
The ads vary by district, but accuse Democratic incumbents of voting against funding for law enforcement and feeding into or not condemning political violence, according to the ones viewed first by Axios. Many feature images from the assassination attempt on President Trump, ammunition engaved with "anti-ICE," the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina and a clip of Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough saying "there has been left-wing violence."
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/house-republicans-ads-political-violence
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The Billion-Dollar Car Heist
Across the country, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans — a particularly dire economic indicator because car loans are usually the last payment that Americans are willing to miss. As the economy stagnates and both cars and car insurance have become more expensive, new research from the consumer protection-focused nonprofit Consumer Federation of America shows that executives from top auto insurance companies are netting massive compensation packages. The average price for a new vehicle topped a record-breaking $50,000 in September. Meanwhile, auto loan delinquency rates are at all-time highs for those with subprime credit ratings — those with credit scores below 670 — doubling since 2021 to reach 6.43 percent. The default rate is now worse than during the last three recessions: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Recession, and the dot-com bust. Unlike defaulting on a rent or a mortgage — where tenants and homeowners can have months of legal proceedings before they’re evicted — vehicles can be repossessed in a matter of days, leaving car-dependent Americans stranded.
https://www.levernews.com/the-billion-dollar-car-heist-no-ones-talking-about/

Trump’s Argentina “Rescue” Is Just Debt Colonialism
In early October, Donald Trump’s Treasury Department announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina — potentially doubling to $40 billion with private financing from Orix Capital, J.P. Morgan, and allied funds. The official story is that this is about “stabilizing Argentina’s economy.” But in reality, it’s about stabilizing a regime that serves imperial interests. Trump sold it as a “rescue.” Javier Milei, the self-styled anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina, celebrated Trump’s intervention as proof of the strength of the two governments’ relationship. What it really proves is that debt remains the most sophisticated weapon of domination the United States has ever invented. According to CNN en Español the bailout is tied to a free-trade framework opening Argentina’s strategic sectors — lithium, energy, agribusiness — to U.S. corporations. Behind the photo ops are deals to privatize public wealth and guarantee profits for the same financial institutions that fueled Argentina’s last crisis.
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US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
The officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity did not know how many members of the U.S. Defense Department had been asked to sign the agreements and did not offer further details on the scope of the NDAs. While the Defense Department has turned to NDAs from time to time since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary in January, the Pentagon's use of non-disclosure agreements specific to activities in Latin America has not been previously reported.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-officials-required-sign-ndas-tied-latin-america-mission-sources-say-2025-10-28/

Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently
United Parcel Service has disclosed about 48,000 job cuts this year as part of turnaround efforts, which arrive amid wider shifts in the company’s shipping outputs. … In September, Lufthansa Group said it would shed 4,000 jobs by 2030 — pointing to the adoption of artificial intelligence, digitalization and consolidating work among member airlines. … In May, Microsoft began began laying off about 6,000 workers across its workforce. And just months later, the tech giant said it would be cutting 9,000 positions — marking its biggest round of layoffs seen in more than two years.
https://apnews.com/article/layoffs-2025-amazon-ups-job-cuts-8413af9ac5b434b092ed76d6fa6cd196

The quiet collapse of America's reproductive health safety net
In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor. Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.
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On the 2025 Malagasy Protests
On September 25th, 2025, Madagascar joined the growing multitude of countries currently undergoing widespread protests fueled by an accused uneven distribution of resources and encroaching government authoritarianism, leading to the deaths of at least 22 protestors at the hands of President Andry Rajoelina’s security forces and leaving as many as 100 non-lethally injured according to figures reported by the United Nations. Initially organised via social media platforms such as Facebook and Tiktok, the newly-formed Gen Z Mada cites recent youth-led movements in Nepal and Morocco as inspiration for their rebellion, which began in the capital city of Antananarivo and has since spread throughout the country. Madagascar’s rising unrest further exemplifies Gen Z’s unique approach in the context of the digital age to class struggle, revolution, and the lasting impacts of imperialism on national political stability.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/10/23/on-the-2025-malagasy-protests-international/

The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Going to Grow Stronger: Review of Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism by Mauro Lubrano (Polity, 2025)
In August 2011, a mail bomb exploded at the Monterrey Institute for Technology and Higher Education in Mexico. Two scientists at the institute were injured — one mildly, escaping with light burns, the other more seriously, with shrapnel from the bomb piercing his chest and perforating his lung. At first, the Mexican authorities did not know who had carried out the attack. State Attorney General Alfredo Castillo Cervantes told the press that it might have been the action of a criminal gang, or perhaps a disgruntled student. Yet they soon realized that it had been a deliberate terrorist attack. The bombing formed part of a campaign against scientists involved in the development of nanotechnologies. The perpetrators called themselves the Individualists Tending Toward the Wild (ITS), a group that would go on to proudly adopt the label “eco-extremist.” The worldview espoused by the Individualists — “nature is good, civilization is evil” — sums up the ethos of a variety of groups and ideologies. Building on the legacy of figures like Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, they want to bring down tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Honduran immigrant dies while fleeing ICE, bringing raids death toll to three
Jose Castro Rivera was killed on Thursday morning after running onto a busy highway and being struck and fatally injured while trying to evade ICE agents, local authorities said. … The fatal incident took place on the busy Interstate 264 eastbound at the Military Highway interchange in Norfolk in south-east Virginia. The Virginia state police said they were not involved in the pursuit and the fatal crash remains under investigation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/honduran-immigrant-dies-trying-to-flee-ice

ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws
Exxon Mobil Corporation is suing the state of California over a pair of 2023 climate disclosure laws that the company says infringe upon its free speech rights, namely by forcing it to embrace the message that large companies are uniquely to blame for climate change. The oil and gas corporation based in Texas filed its complaint Friday in the U.S. Eastern District Court for California. It asks the court to prevent the laws from going into effect next year.
https://apnews.com/article/exxon-mobil-california-climate-d8a52052f881ed288864f27c28997300

Body cam shows Baltimore County officers stunned after gun scare was just a bag of chips
With guns drawn, Baltimore County Police surrounded a group of students after the Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders that a student had a gun. Body camera footage shows police detaining all of those students and then searching one of them. Though the student never had a gun. Instead, what Omnilert detected was a bag of chips.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/ai-gun-detection-system-kenwood-high-school-mistakes-a-bag-of-chips/

New Jersey officer stopped at ATM and pizzeria instead of investigating double-murder
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Gaza genocide: Why we seek to have a British-Israeli soldier prosecuted
As western leaders jostle and preoccupy themselves with US President Donald Trump’s so-called "peace plan", the media buzz has started looking to "what’s next", rather than reflecting on the 734 days of genocide Palestinians have endured. Trump’s plan is filled with red flags about eroding Palestinian agency, about neocolonial British-American control over Gaza, and about failing to stop Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire. These concerns are all vitally important, but equally important is accountability for the perpetrators of the genocide, from the most senior generals to the most junior foot soldier. That is why the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has applied for a court summons to prosecute a dual national British-Israeli soldier for allegedly enlisting in the Israel army, in violation of Section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870. The individual is believed to have served in an Israeli army unit on the Lebanese border before deployment to the Occupied West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-why-icjp-seeks-to-have-british-israeli-soldier-prosecuted

How UN Betrayal of West Papua Led to Genocide, Step by Step
The United Nations has recently come under attack from the Trump Administration and, much as it goes against the grain, it’s difficult to argue with real-estate-developer-cum-ambassador-Representative for U.N. Management and Reform [sic], Jeff Bartos: "Over 80 years, the UN has grown bloated, unfocused, too often ineffective, and sometimes even part of the problem. The UN’s failure to deliver on its core mandates is alarming and undeniable." Yet the problem isn’t really the UN. One notable symptom of its malaise is the Security Council and its five veto-playing permanent members—the US, UK, France, China and Russia—countries representing the world system that assist and cover up for their allies who commit human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide, and that also outsource such crimes. But lèse-humanité is the crime par excellence of the international system. It’s a basic principle of colonial “development”. So what follows isn’t about kicking the UN when it’s down, but about how Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Pop-Up Database Siphoned Crypto From Conservatives to Doxx Charlie Kirk Critics, Then Went Dark
The website listed six cryptocurrency blockchains and asked supporters to fund “a highly sophisticated enterprise system that will be impervious to Leftist attacks.” Over a two-day period, the website’s anonymous developers collected more than $30,000, per CoinTracker, software used for crypto-based taxes. About 190 payments were made to the six crypto addresses between September 12 and 14.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/pop-up-database-siphoned-crypto-from

Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly
American life expectancy has stagnated since 2010 after decades of steady progress. While recent research has characterized this trend as a “double jeopardy” affecting both working-age adults and retirees, mortality at retirement ages has proven more consequential to the nation’s life expectancy crisis than trends among younger populations.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/24/qakp-o24.html

DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay
President Donald Trump announced the donation Thursday, saying that a “friend” offered the money out of a sense of patriotism. As the shutdown grinds on, Defense Department officials have shifted unused research funds to ensure that troops did not miss their mid-month paycheck, but the status of their next direct deposit is uncertain.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219
https://archive.ph/7xyXA

Trump officials to send election observers to California and New Jersey
Election monitoring is a routine function of the justice department, but the focus on California and New Jersey comes as both states are set to hold closely-watched elections with national consequences on 4 November. New JersePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 498: Deal Flow Donald (TrueAnon)
Dylan Saba joins us to talk about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, what’s in the 20-point plan, and what the present looks like in Gaza.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/deal-flow-donald

CPI Maoist Statement: On Sonu And Satish Gang‌ Treason And The Unavoidable Path Of The Revolution
We call upon the people of the revolution to punish Sonu, Satish and their followers, who have become revolutionary traitors, who have committed a revolutionary treason, who have succumbed to the enemy. Sonu and Satish are being expelled from the party. Our party’s Central Committee, Politburo member Sonu, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee member Vivek, DKSZC Deepa, 10 Divisional Committee/Company Committee members, party members, PLGA. A total of 61 members surrendered to the police in Gadchiroli in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 14. Our party and 50 guns of the revolutionary people were handed over to the enemy. This is a revolutionary betrayal of the party, a revolt against the party.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22109/

Ukraine: From sporadic resistance to war to the first hotbeds of collective struggle
Since the beginning of the summer, a wave of mass protests has been sweeping across the planet from the United States to South Asia. Ukraine is no exception. At the end of last year, we pointed out: “Both Ukrainian and Russian public opinion is currently focused on the presidential elections in the United States, with many having the misguided hope that a Trump victory could provide the basis for a quick, peaceful settlement of the war. It seems that only the failure of these expectations can open the way for mass interest in a revolutionary alternative. We are at a turning point in history.” The beginning concentration of anti-war direct action around certain locations marks a new stage in this process. This summer, the region of Volyn became one of the country’s leaders in this regard. Then, on September 19, according to the regional TCR (territorial center for recruitment), its employees fought off a crowd of workers in the town of Kovel with tear gas. While the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
An unverified rumor that Venezuelan gang members were preparing to kill police officers spread like wildfire through US law enforcement agencies last year, internal records reveal, only for federal officials to later quietly acknowledge the claim was mistaken. The intelligence report, which appears to have first been disseminated by a local New Mexico police department in July 2024, suggested that the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang had directed its members to “fire on or attack” law enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-gang-police

US court rejects Trump officials’ effort to delay rulings on veterans benefits
Wednesday’s decision came after secretary of veterans affairs, Doug Collins, asked the court to halt work on nearly all cases until the government shutdown concludes. “Pausing VA’s deadlines in nearly every case before the court is a significant and extreme request, and the secretary has failed to demonstrate that such sweeping relief is appropriate,” the judges wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/court-trump-veterans-benefits-rulings

At Request of Billionaire ‘Friends,’ Trump Pulls Plug on Troop Deployment to San Francisco—For Now
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “But friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-stop-trump-troops-san-francisco

Injuries reported as protesters, federal agents clash in San Francisco Bay Area
Protesters gathered Thursday morning outside the Oakland entrance to Coast Guard Island, clashing with federal agents as Customs and Border Protection personnel arrived at the Coast Guard’s Alameda Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Catherine Connolly: Ireland’s left candidate
Connolly has brought together the largest grouping of left-wing political parties, trade unionists, cultural and community organisations, anti-war and solidarity groups-in a presidential election since the foundation of the Irish state. But her election is not a forgone conclusion in spite of her polls being high. The October 17 edition of the Irish Times carried a headline in reference to the forthcoming Irish presidential election which read: “Connolly holds commanding 18-point lead entering the final week.” She was on 38 per cent to Heather Humphrey’s 12 per cent. However, while such a headline might be of comfort to Connolly’s supporters some of the more cynical among us would think there could have been an ulterior motive in writing such a headline. Could it have been a sort of clarion call to those who do not desire a left-wing candidate as president to come out and vote for her opponent? We all know of the story of the Trojan Horse and the old saying “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” (No offence to Greeks.) So was there an ulterior motive?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/catherine-connolly-irelands-left-candidate

My Time in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center: This is an excerpt from The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas by Belén Fernández, now available from Rutgers University Press.
The first time I spoke with survivors of the Darién Gap, I was in jail in Mexico. It was July 2021, and I was serving a brief stint as the token gringa inmate in Siglo XXI, Mexico’s largest immigration detention center, located in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, just west of the border with Guatemala. Over two thousand kilometers to the southeast of Tapachula lies the Darién Gap, known in Spanish as el Tapón del Darién or “the Darién Plug”: a 106 kilometer stretch of territory that straddles Panama and Colombia and constitutes the only roadless interruption in the Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to the tip of Argentina. The Darién Gap encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle that has in recent years become a mass migrant graveyard, as hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers from across the world are forced to contend with its horrors while pursuing tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Deputy US marshal and man shot during Ice operation in Los Angeles
During the operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents surrounded and boxed in a man in his vehicle. Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS assistant secretary, said the man used his vehicle to ram the federal agents’ vehicles in an attempt to flee. Officers then fired “defensive shots”. The man was shot in the elbow. The deputy marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, the DHS said. Both were taken to the hospital.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/deputy-marshal-shot-los-angeles

State websites blame Republicans for food stamp cuts as shutdown drags on
States have started to warn that millions of families could go without food aid next month, and some have adopted the Trump administration's more partisan tone. "Because Republicans in Washington, D.C., failed to pass a federal budget, causing the federal government shutdown, November 2025 SNAP benefits cannot be paid," the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services website said. "Federal officials with the Trump Administration have told all states that if the Republican federal government shutdown continues, it won't pay for SNAP (food stamp) benefits in November," the Illinois Application for Benefits Eligibility website said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/snap-benefits-trump-democrats
https://archive.ph/9OSg6

Trump nominates new Army vice chief with current general just two years into the role
The nomination and replacement come less than a week after Adm. Alvin Holsey, the Navy admiral who is overseeing military operations against alleged drug boats off Venezuela, announced a surprise, early retirement in December. About a month ago, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, head of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, also suddenly announced his retirement, citing “personal and family reasons.”
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-army-vice-chief-of-staff-penPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The China spy trial fiasco and Britain’s decline on the world stage
What is Britain’s place in the world? The British ruling class has been asking itself this question for the best part of a hundred years, as it has struggled to come to terms with its ever-deepening decline, decade after decade. The latest event to expose its diminished status and prompt a bout of soul searching is the collapse of the China spy trial, an episode reminiscent of the recent Netflix spy drama Black Doves. Two British citizens, Chris Cash and Chris Berry, were accused of spying on Britain for China over a sustained period of time. But last week, the case against them collapsed, for what are on the surface technicalities: the law was changed after they had been charged, which now required the government to state that the country in question (China), was a threat to national security at the specific time those charged were spying on its behalf. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, it proved impossible to get the government to state this. Instead, it said that “the UK Government is committed to pursuing a positive relationship with China.” It is therefore clear that the trial collapsed because Starmer has changed the government’s attitude to China, from it being a “threat”, as Liz Truss defined it, to a country with which to seek a “positive relationship”.
https://communist.red/the-china-spy-trial-fiasco-and-britains-decline-on-the-world-stage/

Blame finance capital, not Brexit, for budget crisis
LABOUR Party members are clear on what Rachel Reeves’s priorities should be as she prepares to present her Budget next month. They believe she should protect public services by raising taxes, if needs be, according to a poll by Survation. More than three-quarters of party members back that view, the survey found. The members are prepared to see the government set aside its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, National Insurance for workers, or VAT if needs be. It is not normally good politics to break clear promises made at election time. It only increases cynicism towards politicians, whose public standing is already very low. But here Labour is in a vice of its own making. The tax pledges it made cover most of the available means of raising government revenue.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tech jobs bloodbath continues with Amazon announcing new round of layoffs
Amazon announced last week it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs by the tech giant. The latest cuts will focus on its human resources division known as the People eXperience Technology team. Fifteen percent of a worldwide staff of 10,000, or approximately 1,500 employees, are being let go.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/20/zabr-o20.html

US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages
Hamilton also handed NSO a significant break on the damages awarded in a recently concluded jury trial, reducing the punitive damages it owes Meta from about $167 million to $4 million. The injunction is likely to pose a challenge to NSO, which has for years been accused of facilitating human rights abuses through its flagship hacking tool, Pegasus.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-court-orders-spyware-company-nso-stop-targeting-whatsapp-reduces-damages-2025-10-18/

‘A Betrayal’: Ranchers Slam Trump Plan to Buy Beef From Argentina With US Tax Dollar
“President Trump’s plan to buy beef from Argentina is a betrayal of the American rancher,” Christian Lovell, an Illinois cattle producer and senior director of programs at the organization Farm Action, said in a Monday statement. “Those of us who raise cattle have finally started to see what profit looks like after facing years of high input costs and market manipulation by the meatpacking monopoly.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/argentina-beef

DHS purchase of business jets during shutdown draws Democrats’ ire
Democrats in Congress on Saturday criticized the Trump administration's decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million during the ongoing government shutdown that are to be used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior leaders. The U.S. Coast Guard entered into a solPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

We Shut Elbit Down! Reflections from the Cambridge, Massachusetts Campaign Against Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. On September 8, 2021, Elbit announced it would open an “Innovation Center” in Cambridge, Massachusetts for its subsidiary company KMC Systems. The Innovation Center lasted less than three years before activists forced it to close. Last year’s early-lease termination of the KMC office is the first time that activists in the United States have forced Elbit Systems to close a facility. It is also one of the few successes that the US Palestine solidarity movement has achieved since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in 2023. This anonymously submitted analysis explores the year-long targeted direct action campaign that successfully evicted KMC Systems from Cambridge.
https://crimethinc.com/2025/10/10/we-shut-elbit-down-reflections-from-the-cambridge-massachusetts-campaign-against-elbit-systems

"Moscow and Tel Aviv: "Anti-Imperialism" is an Aesthetic" - Internationalist Workers’ Group (2025)
Russian president Vladimir Putin commented that “Israel is almost a Russian-speaking country” in a press release when he was asked why Russia would not be providing Iran with military aid. This may surprise some observers when Russia, which is in an alliance of convenience with Iran, didn't provide direct military support in the wake of IAF air strikes and indiscriminate missile and drone barrages primarily targeting Tehran which displaced millions and killed thousands of workers in Iran. During the “12 day war” on June 13-25th, 2025 which saw the USA act as a direct belligerent alongside Israel against Iran and carried out a coordinated attack on Iran’s Fordow’s plant with bunker buster munitions, which had minimal impact and didn't knock out Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities. Putin responded by proclaiming Russia’s historical solidarity within the Middle East, but that there's over 2 million Russians living in Israel and that Russia has already done enough. Putin also responded that Russia already defends Iran’s right to have a nuclear power program and had built reactors in Iran, have contracts to build two more and lastly that Russia hasn't evacuated diplomatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘No Kings’ protests against Trump bring a street party vibe to cities nationwide
People carrying signs with slogans such as “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting” or “Resist Fascism” packed into New York City’s Times Square and rallied by the thousands in parks in Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. Demonstrators marched through Washington and downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside capitols in several Republican-led states, a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and at hundreds of smaller public spaces.
https://apnews.com/article/no-kings-rallies-demonstrations-trump-4baa5de2fab057a0e6ab726f5d7747fd

US Senate poised to approve industry lobbyist to lead chemical safety at EPA
Troutman is currently the chief lobbyist for the American Cleaning Institute, a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF, Dow and Procter & Gamble. If approved, he would oversee the EPA’s office of chemical safety and pollution prevention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/senate-epa-confirmation-douglas-troutman-lobbyist

California labor leader’s felony charge over immigration protest is reduced
David Huerta had been charged with obstruction, resistance or opposition to a federal officer — a class A felony, according to a Friday filing by Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in federal court. However, prosecutors filed a proposed order Saturday seeking dismissal without prejudice of the original felony charge of conspiracy to impede an officer.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-los-angeles-protest-huerta-union-arrest-36f2ad59b7babd67969b89148a29fe90

Vermont Lawmaker Resigns Over Racist Messages in Republican Group Chat
He issued a lengthy statement laying out his reasons for resigning, saying, in part: "I know that this decision will upset many, and delight others, but in this political climate I must keep my family safe. And if my GoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Communist Party of Pakistan: Statement on the escalating Pakistan-Afghanistan confrontation
"We express deep concern over the recent escalation of tensions and cross-border hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Such confrontations neither serve regional peace nor the well-being of the working people of both nations. We firmly believe that both countries sharing deep historical and people’s ties must resolve their differences through dialogue and mutual respect rather than armed confrontation. We categorically condemn all acts of aggression and interference in each other’s internal affairs. Afghanistan must ensure that its territory is not used for militant activities against Pakistan, while Pakistan must fully respect Afghanistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/communist-party-of-pakistan-statement-on-escalating-pakistan-afghanistan-confrontation.html

Congress’s Military Budget Carries Perks for Israel
As displaced Palestinians return to a leveled Gaza amid the Trump administration’s precarious Israel-Hamas “ceasefire,” senators quietly worked through a government shutdown to deliver $914 billion in 2026 military spending. The budget fulfills a number of expensive surveillance and weapons funding requests from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. Through its donor-funded war chest, AIPAC has secured more than $38 billion in US taxpayer–funded contributions toward Israel since October 7. In a 77-20 vote last week, senators passed their version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which expanded the Pentagon’s already outsize annual budget by more than $100 billion — including lucrative subsidies for the Israeli military. That includes $75 million in funding for counter-drone technology, $80 million for anti-tunnel engineering, and $50 million toward “emerging technologies in warfare” like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and automation. Research shows that the Israeli military’s use of automated technologies has accelerated the country’s mass killings and surveillance operations, while shirking the moral and legal burden of war to an algorithm. Also buried deep in the defense budget isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Man who fought for Hamas in October 7 attack fled to US and lived in Louisiana, FBI alleges
Al-Muhtadi was an operative of the Gaza-based military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, according to the complaint prepared by FBI supervisory special agent Alexandria M Thoman O’Donnell and submitted to a federal judge on 6 October. O’Donnell serves on a taskforce investigating the murder and kidnapping of American citizens during the 7 October attack. On his US visa application, al-Muhtadi denied he had ever been involved in terrorist activities and became a legal permanent resident in 2024, the complaint says.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/hamas-fighter-louisiana-fbi

Thousands set for fresh ‘No Kings’ protests
A FRESH round of “No Kings” protests is set to take place across dozens of United States cities on Saturday. The rallies come amid opposition to President Donald Trump’s military clampdown in Democrat-run cities and growing frustration over a government shutdown that is dragging on.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-set-fresh-no-kings-protests

Mahmoud Khalil can freely travel around US as he fights his deportation case, judge rules
“He wants to travel for the very significant First Amendment reasons that are at the bottom of this case,” his lawyer, Alina Das, said during a virtual hearing Thursday. “He wants to speak to issues of public concern.” An attorney for the government, Aniello DeSimone, opposed the move, arguing that Khalil “has not provided enough of a reason why he couldn’t attend these and other events telephonically.”
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-travel-deportation-b77624b37ee32f6757c510e1f22b0c58

Body Cam Footage Shows Alleged ICE Officer Pulled Over for Drunk Driving Racially Profiling Arresting Officer
The man has been charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and two felony counts of reckless chilPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Communist Party of India (Marxist): BJP Govt’s Policies Deepen Discontent in J&K and Ladakh
MASSIVE protests in Leh over statehood, legislature and Sixth Schedule left some dead, dozens injured and number of people arrested including widely known environmentalist, Sonam Wangchuk The reorganization of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 was pushed forward as a move, ‘to strengthen integration, elimination of terrorism, and ushering in development’. Five years on, however, the discontent that began in Kashmir has spread to Jammu and lately to Ladakh, raising uncomfortable questions about the path chosen by New Delhi. Instead of bringing stability, the changes appear to have eroded the diversity and unity that once defined the region. Jammu and Kashmir, before its division, was a multi-layered landscape of religions, languages, and cultures, bound together despite differences. Jammu’s pluralist character had Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and other communities living side by side, deeply interwoven in daily life. Kashmir too reflected such mosaic where Muslims, Pandits, Sikhs, Shias, Sunnis, and others were integral to its shared story. Ladakh, with Buddhists, Muslims, and smaller groups, formed another vital thread of that diversity. It was this diversity rather than uniformity that gave strength to the unity of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. History records that opposition from some quarters to Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India was not just about borders, but about resistance to secularism and diversity. On one extreme were Islamist groups rejecting coexistence, and on the other, Hindu communalists such as the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha, who sought religious homogeneity and thereby joined those who advocated two nation theory. In between, ordinary people of different faiths lived and identified with the plural spirit of the region. ….
https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2025/1005_pd/bjp-govt%E2%80%99s-policies-deepen-discontent-jk-and-ladakh

What’s behind the Green surge?
The Green Party’s annual conference would usually have passed by as a political afterthought. But not this year. Continuing the trend set by his eye-catching leadership bid, Zack Polanski has come out swinging: attacking Starmer’s haPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Unions sue Trump over surveillance and allege First Amendment breach
The lawsuit, alleging First Amendment breaches, targets the State Department's "Catch and Revoke" program, which "includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts." The Electric Frontier Foundation represented the United Automobile Workers, the Communication Workers of America and the American Federation of Teachers in the suit. The suit also requests the removal of all records created and stored by the administration's surveillance program.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/trump-surveillance-first-amendment-union-lawsuit
https://archive.ph/qWhWM

US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Adm Alvin Holsey’s abrupt departure comes less than a year after he took over as head of the US military’s southern command, which oversees operations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The posting typically lasts three years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/admiral-alvin-holsey-caribbean-venezuela

Family files suit over immigrant postal worker who died in police custody
On October 10, the family of Bimpong filed a lawsuit against the police and correction officers and Dakota County for violations of Bimpong’s constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment and due process violations. The lawsuit is demanding $120 million in addition to policy changes. The attorney representing Bimpong’s family told the local KARE11 news that it is “one of the worst jail deaths we’ve ever seen.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/16/wwai-o16.html

‘Textbook Authoritarianism’: Trump Aims IRS Criminal Division at Left-Leaning Groups, Donors
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, citing various people familiar with the shift in policy, reports that a “senior IRS official involved in the ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Iraqi Left Ahead of the 2025 Elections: Between Unity and Renewal
In the context of the transformations taking place within the Iraqi and international left, it is essential to combine traditional forms of leftist struggle with new arenas in the digital space and within official institutions. Political participation in all its forms is one of the essential tools of struggle. The struggle is not limited to the streets, factories, farms, offices, or theoretical critique; rather, it is necessary to engage in all fields, including work within state institutions, parliaments, and local councils, as they are important arenas through which the leftist voice — and the voice of the manual and intellectual workers — can reach the public and broaden its social influence. We are well aware that Iraq’s electoral laws are still incomplete and in need of radical reforms, and that the political environment is filled with structural problems, political money, sectarian and nationalist influence, and the power of militias. However, Iraq remains, despite all this, a country of the Middle East that cannot be compared with stable and advanced democracies. Nevertheless, any limited space of freedom or opportunity for participation must be utilized by leftist and progressive forces to build their presence, influence political and legislative decision-making, and expand the scope of their struggle through the tools of the state itself. Participation in elections is not submission to reality, but rather an attempt to change it from within, and it is one of the multiple arenas of struggle in which political, organizational, social, media, and digital work must be integrated.
https://libcom.org/article/iraqi-left-ahead-2025-elections-between-unity-and-renewal

Gaza protests show we need union power to hit the system where it hurts
Israel’s genocide in Gaza - supported directly by the ruling classes in the West, and indirectly by their counterparts in the Arab world - has shone a spotlight on many pre-existing political realities: the crumbling global liberal order, the crisis of US hegemony, the extent of Israeli integration into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-centred Middle East, and the brittleness of civil liberties around the globe. It has also clarified much for pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Chicago man fined $130 by ICE agents for not carrying identification
Cruz, who suffers from heart problems and lives in a government-subsidized apartment, said agents placed him in their vehicle, drove around the neighborhood and questioned him before verifying his identity. The agents eventually confirmed he is legally in the country, and let him go — but not before writing him a $130 citation for not having his documents on him.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-man-fined-130-by-ice-agents-for-not-carrying-identification/3838101/

'Bitcoin Jesus' strikes deal with Trump administration to resolve US tax charges
The agreement calls for the indictment against Ver, 46, to be dismissed after one month if he abides by the deal's terms, under which the Internal Revenue Service may collect up to $49.9 million, covering his tax liability, civil penalty and interest.
https://www.reuters.com/world/crypto-investor-bitcoin-jesus-reaches-deal-resolve-us-tax-charges-2025-10-14/

Republicans Aren’t Just Gutting Health Care. They’re Taking Your Sick Leave, Too
In Missouri, voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum guaranteeing statewide paid sick leave, and an increase to the state’s minimum wage. Shortly after the mandate went into effect, Republicans in the legislature repealed it outright. In Nebraska, Republicans tacked on an amendment to a similar law — also passed by referendum — that significantly narrowed the pool of businesses covered, and which employees were entitled to the benefit. The amendment also stripped employees of the right to sue over the enforcement of the law.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/paid-sick-leave-under-attack-republican-states-1235445210/
https://archive.ph/bl6tA

New bank with tech and Trump ties clears kPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Making postal work great again: Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back with significant success, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
IN MOST traditional workplaces, any new worker will usually hear those irrepressible words “this used to be a great job” — and nowhere is this truer than in Royal Mail. When I first started in Royal Mail, the longest-serving worker in my delivery office was Willie Jackson. Jackson started as a postie in 1964 and retired in 2024, after nearly 60 years’ service. Jackson was a member of the CWU (and its predecessors) for the entirety of that time. In workplaces with such a solid historical memory, you will always get a strong sense of perspective. This is inevitable for a number of reasons, nostalgia being one, but also in the case of Royal Mail, it has been driven by a very real sense that the job itself is no longer what it used to be. One of the principal misconceptions out there is that the job is all “Postman Pat” riding round Greendale, drinking tea and having chats. A quaint, fulfilling and stress-free life. Nothing could be further from the truth.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/making-postal-work-great-again

‘Greater Israel’ and the annexation of the West Bank: The burial of the ‘two-state solution’
Whilst the eyes of the world have been fixated on the horrors in Gaza, the Zionist regime has maneuvered to seize control of the West Bank. At the beginning of the year, ‘security’ in the occupied West Bank was declared an official Israeli war aim. Under the cover of ‘war’, Operation Iron Wall was launched in January – the largest IDF campaign in the West Bank in decades. Israel Katz, the foreign minister, declared that the battle in the camps was “a war in every sense”, insisting that Palestinians be treated “exactly” as in Gaza. The assault began in Tulkarem and Jenin, before spreading to camps in Nablus and Tubas. Armoured bulldozers followed Israeli airstrikes, upending life in the camps. The brutal siege on Jenin was described by one refugee as “worse than the Second Intifada”. Roads, water, and sewage infrastructure were deliberately targeted, while entire residential blocksPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

46,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers begin 5-day strike
Tens of thousands of nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, therapists, and other healthcare professionals across the western United States are preparing to launch a five-day strike Tuesday against Kaiser Permanente. The walkout by 46,000 workers organized in the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHCU) expresses the explosive anger of healthcare workers confronting intolerable conditions amid soaring corporate profits and social inequality.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/14/tdcq-o14.html

Meta removes Facebook page allegedly used to target ICE agents after pressure from DOJ
Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the Facebook takedown in an X post, and said that the DOJ “will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.” A Meta spokesperson confirmed that the tech giant removed the Facebook group page, but declined to comment about its size and the specific details that warranted its removal.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/meta-facebook-page-ice-agents-bondi.html

‘Citizens United 2.0’: GOP Pushing a Pair of Supreme Court Cases That Would Further Legalize Bribery
One of the cases, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC), was launched in 2022 by then-Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance (R-Ohio), now the vice president of the United States, and several other Republicans, who argued that limits on coordinated spending violated the First Amendment. The limits in question, which were imposed after the Watergate scandal, put a cap on the amount of money that outside donors can spend in direct coordination with their favored candidates.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-scotus-legalize-bribery-sirota

Trump administration revokes 6 visas over comments about Charlie Kirk
"A Mexican national said that Kirk "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated thaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 496: Money for Nothing (TrueAnon)
Jacob Silverman is back to walk us through the absurd levels of crypto corruption in the White House and his new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/episode-496-money-for-nothing

Madagascar: army splits and president flees – the mass movement has won a first victory
Events have developed at lightning speed over the weekend in Madagascar. The mass youth movement, which started on 25 September, has now overthrown the old regime. A section of the army refused to continue carrying out repression against the masses and mutinied. The president had to be airlifted by the French military on Sunday, 12 October. The spark for the movement was the constant electricity cut-offs, which make daily life very difficult. But that was just the most striking symptom of a deep malaise against corruption, the obscene contrast between the wealth of those at the top (including prominent businessmen close to the president) and the dire conditions of the masses on an island where 79 percent live under the poverty line. What started as a peaceful protest movement by the student youth, partly inspired by the GenZ revolutions in Indonesia and Nepal, became a national uprising after the regime of President Rajoelina used brutal repression against the demonstrators, leaving at least 25 dead. As repression did not cow the youth, the regime attempted concessions, dismissing the government and then appointing a new prime minister. It was too little too late. The aim of the movement had become the overthrow of the whole bloody regime. …
https://marxist.com/madagascar-army-splits-and-president-flees-the-mass-movement-has-won-a-first-victory.htm

闯 Chuang: Keeping Each Other Afloat, Pt. 2 – Young Workers: “Swallowing our Wretched Shares”
Due to changes in statistical methodology, the youth unemployment rate data in 2024 cannot be directly compared with previous years. However, according to Zhaopin’s “2024 College Graduates Employment Survey,” the rate of job offers for those with a master’sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report
Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across the education department also impacted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which oversees programs that support millions of children and adults with disabilities nationwide, according to sources speaking to various outlets.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/special-education-department-layoffs

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals
The cuts have hit offices including the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the National Center for Health Statistics and the CDC's Washington office, which is the channel for communications with Congress, sources said. Also hit was the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which supports Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, and an ethics office that reviews conflicts of interest, Debra Houry, who recently resigned as the agency's chief medical officer, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/13/trump-kennedy-cdc-firings-rehirings
https://archive.ph/YBTdo

Another Arizona mobile home park sued for ‘deadly’ conditions, pressure mounts for change
Mayes filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Palo Verde Mobile Home Park, LLC; Landon Asset Management, LLC, the owner of 18 homes at the park; and Landon Management Services PC, the property company managing the park, according to a state attorney general announcement Thursday. The suit alleges the businesses failed to inform residents that the park’s “electrical system was extremely dangerous, unreliable, and overloaded.”
https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-kris-mayes-arizona-legal-proceedings-general-news-b647c92328888c9b670669e5f31009bc

Missouri governor launches attack on SNAP recipients under guise of “nutrition reform”
MissoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Nobel Peace Prize or "How to Whitewash Imperialism"
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to the US-sponsored Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, Western newspapers chorused their approval. They called her a “beacon of democracy,” a “symbol of peaceful resistance.” But beneath the chorus of moral self-congratulation lies a century-long truth: the Nobel Peace Prize has never been a neutral honor. It has functioned as an ideological weapon — a ceremonial tool for legitimizing imperialism, sanctifying its agents, and discrediting those who resist it. From Marshall to Kissinger, from Sakharov and Gorbachev to Lech Wałęsa, Obama, and Al Gore, the Nobel Committee has consistently rewarded the representatives of imperial power and its ideological foot soldiers. The 2025 award to Machado is not an aberration — it is a continuation. The contamination began early. In 1953, the Committee granted the Peace Prize to General George C. Marshall, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff turned Secretary of State, for the so-called Marshall Plan. The official story described it as a benevolent act of reconstruction — the United States rebuilding a devastated Europe out of generosity. In reality, the Marshall Plan was an act of economic warfare: a massive transfer of capital designed to cement Western Europe’s dependence on American finance, resurrect capitalism under U.S. supervision, and isolate the socialist bloc. It was the first major offensive of the Cold War, a mechanism for preventing communist influence in France, Italy, and beyond, while tying Europe’s industrial base to Washington’s dictates.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/nobel-peace-prize-or-how-to-whitewash-imperialism.html

In France, Too, Billionaire Tycoons Are Silencing Their Critics
Attacks on free speech are growing. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Donald Trump’s administration has launched a cynical cancel-culture campaign against anybody not deferential enough to Kirk and the ideas he stood for. Take the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pressure that led to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show in September. FCC commissioner Brendan Carr leaned on ABC parent company Disney to ditch him after Kimmel joked about Trump’s attitude to Kirk’s death.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

No survivors in Tennessee explosives factory blast, officials say
The families of 18 people had been waiting anxiously on Saturday as their loved ones had been feared dead since explosions ripped through the plant near McEwen in western Tennessee early on Friday. The initial toll had been believed to be 19 people but that figure was later revised. The Humphreys county sheriff, Chris Davis, spoke to the public and media early on Saturday afternoon and revealed that authorities were assuming that anybody who was inside the building that exploded the day before was dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/no-survivors-tennessee-explosives-factory

While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
The final vote on the Senate’s $925 billion version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 was 77-20, with Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) not voting. The passage tees up talks with leaders in the House of Representatives, where nearly all Republicans and 17 Democrats approved an NDAA last month.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2026-ndaa

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury
A grand jury has indicted a woman shot by federal agents in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood after allegedly ramming agents carrying out immigration operations last weekend. Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were both indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for assault and attempted murder of a federal employee.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/grand-jury-marimar-martinez-shot-by-federal-agents-brighton-park-chicago/

Mass firings hit CDC
The agency’s Washington office was terminated, as well as employees in the Global Health Center and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, according to a current CDC official and aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

"The problems with PMC Theory" - Sam Badger (2025)
In 1976, Marxist sociologists Barbara and John Ehrenreich published two essays on what they called the “Professional-Managerial Class”, or the PMC. This class, they argued, is distinct from the classic Marxist categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat, as well as the old petit bourgeoisie of small businessmen usually associated with the middle class. This PMC is the new middle class, and though it shares many properties with the working class (like selling their labor for a living), it has distinct class interests as well as a sense of entitlement and elitism thanks to their education. The Ehrenreichs blame the conflicting worldviews and goals between the PMC and the working class for the failure of socialism to advance in the United States, the dominance of “progressive” politics over class politics, and the general state of degeneracy of the American political left. Today, many on the left (and some on the right) make use of the Ehrenreich’s category to blame the PMC for identity politics, “wokeness”, and other targets for criticism. The Ehrenreich’s argument has a lot of strengths, as it does identify real political divergences and conflicts within the American left. This explanatory power has given the theory legs, hence its widespread influence in political discourse to this day. Yet the PMC is not a distinct class, but an agglomeration of skilled mental workers, managers, administrators, and the professional petit bourgeoisie. What the Ehrenreichs identify as a class is rather a cross-class cultural milieu, and the political issues they blame on the PMC is rather a conflict largely (but not entirely) within the working class. These internal class conflicts are not uncommon historically, and emerge from real divergences of interests.
https://libcom.org/article/problems-pmc-theory-sam-badger-2025

General Pinochet and the Vans of Death
Early in the afternoon of March 24, 1999, my wife, Angélica, and I were seated high up in the gallery overlooking the chamber of the House of Lords in London, where a panel of law lords (the English equivalent of a Supreme Court) was to decide whether there were grounds to extradite General Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s eighty-three-year-old former dictator, to Spain to face charges of torturPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US could fire air traffic controllers who fail to work during shutdown, transportation secretary says
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Thursday that the government could dismiss air traffic controllers who repeatedly fail to show up for work during the government shutdown, saying a spike in absences is causing significant air disruptions. "If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don't show up to work, and they're the problem children … if we have some on our staff that aren't dedicated like we need, we're going to let them go," Duffy said on Fox Business. "I can't have people not showing up for work."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-could-dismiss-air-traffic-controllers-who-fail-work-during-shutdown-2025-10-09/

Mangione prosecutors reject idea that DOJ biased case with Trump reposts
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said two of its employees reposting a video of President Trump criticizing Luigi Mangione does not violate his right to a fair trial. … “The attempts to connect Mr. Mangione with these incidents and paint him as a ‘left wing’ violent extremist are false, prejudicial, and part of a greater political narrative that has no place in any criminal case, especially one where the death penalty is at stake,” they argued.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5547817-mangione-fair-trial-doj/
https://archive.ph/75Ccb

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
The newly formed company, Liberty Vote, also vowed to follow the executive order Trump signed last spring seeking sweeping changes to election policies that multiple judges have put on hold for violating the Constitution. KNOWiNK, a St. Louis-based provider of electronic poll books that allow election officials to confirm voter information, announced the deal and the name change. In a possible nod to a groundless conspiracy theory that linked Dominion to the late Venezuelan Precedent HuPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

ICE is Coming to a City Near You feat. Memo Torres (Chapo Trap House)
Will interviews Los Angeles reporter Memo Torres, whose site L.A. TACO shifted from covering food and culture in the city to some of the most indispensable and horrific coverage of ICE raids available. Memo tells us about what happens to people when they get kidnapped, covering the horrors of fortress America, and practical advice for those who might find themselves in ICE’s crosshairs.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/unlocked-ice-is-coming-to-a-city-near-you-feat-memo-torres

France Is Experiencing a Full-Blown Regime Crisis
For more than a year now, French politicians have been struggling with the lack of an absolute majority (or even a comfortable relative majority) in the National Assembly. In December 2024, for the first time since the founding years of the Fifth Republic, a government fell after a vote of no confidence by MPs, triggering the resignation of Michel Barnier as prime minister. Barnier’s successor, François Bayrou, suffered the same fate in September 2025, and a third prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, resigned from his post after less than a month earlier this week, giving the political crisis a farcical appearance. At the time of writing, Lecornu is still trying to piece together an agenda for government in a caretaker role. Uncertainty looms over the possibility of fresh elections next summer. What is at stake here is a crisis of the entire political regime known as the Fifth Republic and its entry into a new phase in its history. This third phase comes after the first, dominated by the Gaullist right and its allies, and the second, where alternation between governments of left and right became the norm.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/france-regime-crisis-lecornu-macron

James Connolly: Our Disappearing Liberties
One of the commonplaces of the political orator is the saying that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” a saying which implies that the liberties of mankind are continually endangered from the inroads of unscrupulous enemies against whose attacks we must ever be on the alert.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested in Boston after clash with police
Everyone arrested at Tuesday’s protest was from the area and ranged in age from 19 to 27, police said. They are due to be arraigned Wednesday and Thursday, most on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace. Local news footage showed protesters and police officers shoving one another and even wrestling on the ground. Video showed protesters shouting, “Get off of him,” as officers were restraining someone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/pro-palestinian-protesters-arrested-boston

Food crisis looms as Trump's deportations cut farm wages, Labor warns
To offset the fallout, the administration pushed through an emergency rule last week that could gut the paychecks of domestic farmworkers by replacing them with foreign guest workers subject to lower wages.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/trump-food-crisis-farmworker-wage-cuts
https://archive.ph/y71FR

Trump asks conservative allies for names of antifa activists, backers
Trump requested participants at the Wednesday event to name groups they say carry out violence, as well as their funders. Guests included right-wing social media personalities Jack Posobiec, Savannah Hernandez and Andy Ngo. Trump and members of his cabinet, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who were in attendance at the event, said they would look into the groups named and solicit more information if needed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-we-will-be-very-threatening-antifa-2025-10-08/

Texas charges eight people over links to midwife accused of illegal abortions
The midwife, Maria Rojas, earlier this year became the first person to be charged under Texas laws that outlaw virtually all abortions. She is now facing three counts of perforPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

European Communist Action: The war machine of Euro-Atlanticism, NATO and the EU against the peoples
The European Communist Action Parties met via teleconference hosted by Communist Party of Turkey on 28 September 2025 under the title: “The war machine of Euro-Atlanticism, NATO and the EU against the peoples - The communists’ proposal for a way out in conditions of intensifying imperialist competition”. This meeting took place only days after the 80th United Nations General Assembly, which showcased the inter-imperialist rivalries, conflicts and regional wars around the world . Once again, the hypocrisy of bourgeois governments—whose interests are tied to war,—became apparent.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/european-communist-action-war-machine-of-euro-atlanticism-nato-and-eu-against-the-peoples.html

A Youth Revolt in Madagascar Is Shaking the Government
Since September 25, an organization calling itself Gen Z Mada has organized spontaneous demonstrations in most of the country’s cities, particularly in Antananarivo, the country’s capital. In response to crackdowns, students and young people from the big cities have also gathered in front of one of the capital’s universities to denounce the government’s authoritarian turn and the police’s violent repression. In many ways, this protest movement resembles those that have taken place in recent weeks in Indonesia, Nepal, and, now, Morocco: young people on the front line, organizing through social media, who are deeply opposed to the economic and political elites and their luxurious lifestyles amid deep poverty. In fact, protesters even burned down the private residences of three politicians close to the administration. The water and electricity cuts symbolize the humiliation endured by millions of Malagasy workers. The dilapidated state of public infrastructure reflects the contempt of the local bourgeoisie and the broken promises of Andry Rajoelina, the current president, who presented himself as a modernizer. It also reflects two centuries of submission to imperialist powers, enabled by successive governments since the country was colonized by France. Madagascar is among the world’s poorest countries, even though the island possesses enormous naturaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

White House says furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay amid shutdown
“The legislation that ends the current lapse in appropriations must include express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made,” said Mark Paoletta, OMB’s general counsel, in a draft addressed to White House budget director Russell Vought, the Washington Post reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/government-shutdown-federal-workers-pay

FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers
In a post on X, Patel said that CR-15, which aided in Smith's probe, was "dismantled" after they "weaponized law enforcement against the American people." "Transparency and accountability aren't slogans, they're promises kept," Patel wrote. It was unclear if the CR-15 agents were fired or simply reassigned.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/fbi-kash-patel-agents-fired
https://archive.ph/KVjLX

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt
Trump administration officials have also discussed the issue with finance industry executives, including potential buyers of the debt. The talks earlier this year briefly involved DOGE officials embedded at the Education Department and elsewhere, but they are being led by senior political appointees, according to the people familiar with the conversations who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/trump-administration-selling-federal-student-loan-portfolio-00595456
https://archive.ph/ra6dX

AFL-CIO opposes major crypto legislation
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58th congress of Britain’s communist party: renewal and change in a dangerous time
HISTORY has shown us in the clearest possible terms that when the Communist Party is strong, Britain’s labour movement, left and working class are strong — the struggle for socialism is strong. Around the world, the unique record of communist parties for challenging the ruling class, raising the political consciousness of working people, winning and holding working-class state power and building socialism speaks for itself. One of the many negative forces, but one of the most fundamental, facing the working class today in Britain is the absence of a communist party with this critical mass, strength and influence. This, then, is the reality and the scale of the task facing our cadres and delegates who meet on November 14-16 for our 58th congress. Significant progress has been made over the last two years. Rejecting the stagnation faced by much of the left in Britain, our party has fought to renew and adapt to new circumstances and methods of struggle. A new generation has been inducted into our ranks and is now at the helm of our youth wing, the Young Communist League.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/58th-congress-britains-communist-party-renewal-and-change-dangerous-time

Brief History of the Communist Movement in Palestine and Israel
The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East. It is not the story of dominant political forces or large armies, but of a small and persistent current that, for over a century, has tried to carve out a political path distinct from partition, conquest, and exclusion. Palestinian and Israeli communists—Arabs and Jews—built joint organizations, resisted colonialism, opposed military occupation, and spoke for coexistence at moments when the surrounding climate favored division and hostility. The communist ideology arrived in Palestine during the last years of Ottoman rule and the early British Mandate. In 1919, Jewish socialist immigrants from Eastern Europe created a nucleus that soon became the Communist Party of Palestine (PCP).¹ For its first years it was dominated by Jewish cadres, but under guidance from the Communist InternatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Eswatini confirms arrival of 10 more people as part of US deportation deal
A statement by the Eswatini government posted on social media before their arrival on Monday said: “The individuals will be kept in a secured area separate from the public, while arrangements are made for their return to their countries of origin.” It added that it would work with the International Organization for Migration on the returns. The statement did not specify where the deportees were originally from or the reasons given by the US for deporting them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/06/us-deportees-eswatini-lawyers-ngos

House Dems Demand Trump, Rubio Free Sumud Flotilla Americans Held by Israel
Congressman Ro Khanna and two dozen other California Democrats wrote to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, urging them to demand that Israel release the Americans it detained while intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla before the boats could reach the Gaza Strip.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza

As winter months approach, LIHEAP low income heating program still non-functional after entire staff laid off
With the winter months approaching in the United States, millions of low-income households are in danger of being unable to pay for heating. In April, President Donald Trump fired all federal employees managing the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) energy assistance program. The program dispenses $4.1 billion annually in grant money to all 50 states.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/06/ubfd-o06.html

Judge refuses to block Trump’s deployment of national guard to Illinois
Troops from Texas could be deployed to Chicago on Tuesday or Wednesday, and Trump is also seeking to federalize the Illinois national guard. A similar effort to deploy troops to Portland was blocked by a judge in Oregon. Illinois sued the Trump administration on behalf of the state and the city of Chicago on Monday after the president ordered national gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

James Connolly: Our Rulers as a Study
The most interesting study for an intelligent worker to take up and make his own is, in our opinion, the study of the natural history of the ruling class. It is not only interesting in itself, but leads to and makes necessary excursions into all sorts of allied fields of study, so that once you have begun to take it up seriously you are led on almost unconsciously to a broadening of your field of vision, and a deepening of your insight into the heart of things. Also, as you grasp more firmly the lines on which the ruling class proceed, and the policy which enables them to retain their place in the saddle, you receive a higher opinion of the worth to the world of the mere toilers and humble ones whose place is among the ruled, whose backs itch with the gall sores of the saddle these gentry bestride Some such thoughts as these must surely be arising in the minds of many Irish workers in Dublin and throughout Ireland to-day. They must see around them continually accumulating evidences of the unscrupulous methods by which the ruling class strive to ensure a continuance of their ruling. They must see how in times of security the ruling class bully, brow-beat and tyrannise over the people, and how in times of insecurity these same rulers come around whining and crawling, and protesting their common interest with those whom but yesterday they denounced as dogs and rabble.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/01/rulers.htm

What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin: Conclusion
The history of Russian Social-Democracy can be distinctly divided into three periods:
The first period embraces about ten years, approximately from 1884 to 1894. This was the period of the rise and consolidation of the theory and programme of Social-Democracy. The adherents of the new trend in Russia were very few in number. Social-Democracy existed without a working-class movement, and as a political party it was at the embryonic stage of development. The second period embraces three or four years—1894-98, In this period Social-Democracy appeared on the scene as a social movement, as the upsurge of the masses of the people, as a political party. This is the period of its childhood and adolescence. The intelligentsia was fired with a vast and general zeal for Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

US Supreme Court to hear Exxon bid for compensation from Cuban entities
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear ExxonMobil's bid to obtain compensation from Cuban state-owned firms for oil and gas assets seized in 1960 under a federal law that lets Americans sue foreign companies and individuals over property confiscated by the communist-ruled Caribbean country. The justices took up Exxon's appeal of a lower court's ruling that undercut its legal efforts to win such compensation from Cuban state-owned companies that allegedly have profited from stolen property in litigation invoking a 1996 U.S. law called the Helms-Burton Act.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-supreme-court-hear-exxon-bid-compensation-cuban-entities-2025-10-03/

Border Patrol agents shoot woman amid Chicago immigration protests
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement Saturday that no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group, including the shot woman, rammed cars into vehicles used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The woman, a US citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement. No additional information was immediately available about the woman’s condition.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/border-patrol-agents-shoot-woman-amid-chicago-immigration-protests
https://archive.ph/tSx14

Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara arrives in El Salvador after his deportation from the U.S.
On Wednesday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Guevara's deportation could go forward, finding that, while the journalist did have the First Amendment right to report on the protest, he had not filed the proper paperwork to apply for permanent residency.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/journalist-mario-guevarPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

UNLOCKED: The Sumud Flotilla Interview (feat. Zue Jernstedt) (Chapo Trap House )
Zue Jernstedt joins us live from the Global Sumud Flotilla to talk to us about delivering aid to those in Gaza and weathering attacks from Israel.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/unlocked-the-sumud-flotilla-interview-feat-zue-jernstedt

Democrats Are Screwing Up the Shutdown
Schumer, Jeffries, and other senior Democrats always mention health care at some point in their statements, but it’s hard to escape the impression that their real passion is reserved for issues of process and decorum. They seem especially concerned with establishing that the other side drew first blood. Their core complaint seems to be that Trump and the Republicans broke from precedent by presenting the Continuing Resolution (CR) that would have continued funding as an ultimatum rather than negotiating about details. A video released on Thursday by Schumer’s Senate colleague Bernie Sanders exemplifies a strikingly different approach. In this walk-and-talk video, Sanders starts by saying he just ran into democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). After an opening thirty seconds of sweet and slightly silly greetings, the two cut to the case. Bernie asks AOC why she didn’t vote for the Continuing Resolution. She replies, simply and directly, that by cutting subsidies for buying health insurance for state exchanges, the immediate effect of the CR would be that millions of Americans would see their monthly insurance premiums double.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/democrats-shutdown-health-care-bernie-aoc

The Gen Z revolutions: India next?
After Nepal joined Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the list of countries yet to be roiled by revolution on the Subcontinent has been reduced to three: India, Pakistan and the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. [Even as these lines are being written, a mass movement is unfolding on the Pakistan side of the Line of Control in Kashmir.] Events just across the Indian border in Nepal unfolded in a matter of hours and days. If and when this revolutionary wave comes home to India, iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump Bombs Another Boat in Caribbean
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on social media Friday that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean—at least the fourth alleged drug-smuggling vessel attacked by the US military since early September.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bomb

Newsom signs bill giving 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize
The new law is part of an agreement made in September between Newsom, state lawmakers and the Service Employees International Union, along with rideshare companies Uber and Lyft. In exchange, Newsom also signed a measure supported by Uber and Lyft to significantly cut the companies’ insurance requirements for accidents caused by underinsured drivers.
https://apnews.com/article/lyft-uber-rideshare-driver-union-california-68c0e55f90b779ae38e315538087d1b3

Leqaa Kordia has been held since March for overstaying a visa, after participating in multiple pro-Palestinian protests=
In her first interview since her arrest, Kordia said recently that she was motivated to protest because of deep personal ties to Gaza, where more than 170 relatives have been killed. The government has cast those ties as suspect, pointing to Kordia’s money transfers to relatives in the Middle East as evidence of possible ties to terrorists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/leqaa-kordia-campus-protesters-gaza

‘Taking On AIPAC Again,’ Cori Bush Launches Campaign to Win Back House Seat
Former Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush is running again in Missouri to reclaim the US House seat from which she was ousted last year amid a tsunami of campaign spending against her and other progressives by the Israel lobby.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cori-bush-running-for-congress
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The Forgotten Holocaust: 60 Years Since The Massacre of Indonesian Communists
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Indonesian massacres of 1965–66 — one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century, carried out under the banner of anti-communism. More than a million communists, workers, peasants, intellectuals, and their families were butchered, while countless others were jailed, tortured, or disappeared. This was no “local tragedy.” It was a calculated counter-revolution engineered by U.S. and British imperialism, executed by their Indonesian puppets, and designed to break the spine of one of the world’s most powerful communist movements outside of China and the Soviet Union. Six decades on, we must refuse silence. We must call the massacre by its true name: a holocaust of the Indonesian left, carried out in the service of imperialist domination. When ruling classes speak of “genocide” and “human rights,” they selectively highlight some atrocities while burying others. The Nazi Holocaust and the Armenian genocide are well remembered - and rightly so - but the annihilation of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) (1) is systematically erased from official history. Why? Because the bloodbath of 1965–66 was a victory for global capitalism. It was a triumph for Washington, London, and the imperialist corporations that sought to plunder Indonesia’s vast resources.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/10/the-forgotten-holocaust-60-years-since-the-massacre-of-indonesian-communists.html

The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump's Gaza plan
Arab and Muslim leaders can claim to have been duped into giving their backing to the plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump on Monday. The plan announced in Washington was substantially different to the one they agreed to in New York. But that is the charitable way of reading what they have done. Betrayal is another word that comes to mind. A betrayal performed as a genocide is in full motion and which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given a green light by Trump to continue. The Qataris are furious they were written out of a mediation role and that Trump refused to delay the announcement. The Egyptians, too, are furious thaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League amid conservative backlash
FBI Director Kash Patel made the announcement on Wednesday after prominent conservative influencers, including Elon Musk, pounced on the ADL’s inclusion of the murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate”. In a brief statement, Patel singled out the ADL’s associations with former FBI Director James Comey, a strident critic of President Donald Trump who was indicted last week on charges of obstruction and lying to the US Congress. Patel said Comey had written “love letters” to the ADL and embedded agents within the group, which he accused of running “disgraceful ops spying on Americans”. “This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs,” Patel said in a social media post.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/fbi-cuts-ties-with-anti-defamation-league-amid-conservative-backlash
https://archive.ph/9NcCG

Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money
USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund — which President Donald Trump previously tapped to provide $28 billion in farm aid during his first-term trade war with China — has just $4 billion left in the account. Trump officials, including those at the Treasury Department, are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding to supplement the payments without triggering a messy fight in Congress.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/02/trump-bailouts-farmers-tariffs-usda-00591846
https://archive.ph/mxOeo

US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for federal funds
The memo said foreign students should be supportive of "American and Western values" and urged colleges "to screen out students who demonstrate hostility to the United States, its allies, or its values." It also says universities should share all known information about foreign students, including discipline rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

PFLP Declares, “We Will Remain Loyal to the Blood of the Martyrs and Committed to the Resistance”
On the first anniversary of the martyrdom of its Political Bureau member Nidal Abd al-Aal and his comrades Imad and Abd al-Rahman, the PFLP declares: “We will remain loyal to the blood of the martyrs and committed to the resistance until liberation and return. There is no fear for the resistance, and Gaza will remain the day after… The will of the people is steadfast against all attempts at liquidation.” The leaders were assassinated on September 30th, 2024 in Beirut. “Their blood has become a testament to the great truth: that martyrdom is a deeper presence in the collective conscience of our people and our nation, and that the martyr has become an idea that never fades, a legacy that flows through the veins of the resistance, becoming a seed that sprouts a thousand fighters, and a resounding voice that awakens an entire nation.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21641/

Here to fight, here to stay: Imperial Typewriters strike
Three years ago in September 2022, Leicester made national headlines for communal clashes between Asians, initiated by a 200 strong march of Hindutva inspired fascists. The march and clashes took place in the shadow of the Imperial Typewriter building, which still stands today on East Park Road. The cruel irony of the act was that 50 years ago, this very area was the epicentre of one of the largest anti-racist strikes to rock Britain, led by Asians together.
https://communist.red/here-to-fight-here-to-stay-imperial-typewriters-strike/

Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of Palestine
Three weeks after Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas’s lead negotiators in a series of airstrikes on the group’s offices in Doha, Qatar, President Donald Trump hailed the public announcement of his 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.” The framework was drafted in coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top adviser, Ron Dermer, and spearheaded by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared KushPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Harvard study exposes deadly toll of private equity hospitals
Research led by Dr. Zirui Song of Harvard Medical School published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, September 2025, has delivered one of the clearest warnings yet about the dangers of private equity in American hospitals. The study demonstrates in no uncertain terms that when hospitals fall under the control of private equity firms, the pursuit of profit takes precedence over patient care, leading to deadly consequences in the most critical areas of medicine—the emergency departments and intensive care units of US hospitals.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/29/wiwn-s29.html

Labor unions sue OMB, OPM for ‘unlawful’ threats of mass layoffs ahead of shutdown
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The unions are asking a judge to declare the layoff threats illegal and to invalidate any actions the administration takes to conduct layoffs during the shutdown.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/labor-unions-sue-omb-opm-00589170
https://archive.ph/DmlQt

White House puts on hold $18 billion in funding for New York City rail tunnel and subway projects
President Donald Trump's administration said Wednesday it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and an extension of the city's Second Avenue subway because of the government shutdown. The White House budget director, Russ Vought, said on a post on X that the step was taken due to the Republican administration's belief the money was based on unconstitutional diversity, equity and inclusion principles.
https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-team-puts-hold-18-billion-funding-new-york-city-rail-tunnel-subway-projects/1791Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Nepal Turmoil
"The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish over the loss of 20 precious young lives during the GenZ protests in Nepal. These protests reflect the widespread anger stemming from the growing grievances of the people, particularly the youth, against the repeated failures of successive governments to resolve their genuine problems and meet their aspirations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/09/communist-party-of-india-marxist-on-nepal-turmoil.html

Doha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising Israel
Every time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tries to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, it ends in humiliation for Israel. The first time was back in 1997. Mossad agents acting on orders from the Israeli prime minister entered Jordan, posing as Canadian tourists. Two of them waited at the entrance to Meshaal’s office in Amman, and when their target walked in, one held a device to his left ear that transmitted a fast-acting poison. Meshaal’s bodyguards chased the two agents down, and others in the team fled to the newly installed Israeli embassy for refuge. At first, it was thought that the attack had failed. Meshaal described the attack as a “loud noise in my ear” and “an electric shock”. But as the poison began to take effect, his condition deteriorated. Meshaal was a Jordanian citizen at the time, and King Hussein was angry. He demanded that Israel turn over the antidote, and threatened both to put the Mossad agents on trial and pull out of the historic peace agreement he had signed three years earlier in Wadi Araba, recognising Israel. Former US President Bill Clinton forced Netanyahu to comply. Humiliatingly, Danny Yatom, then the head of Mossad, flew to Amman with the antidote. Meshaal, who was by then in a coma, survived. Not only that, but Hussein had only released the two Mossad agents that Hamas bodyguards had caught. Six other members of the team were holed up in the Israeli embassy, and the king would only let them go if Israel released from prison Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, along with a large number of other Palestinian prisoners. The whole affair proved a big blow to Israel. The sheikh began a victory tour of the region. Meshaal’s career iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

House Passes NDAA to Push Military Spending Approved This Year Beyond $1 Trillion
Nearly all Republicans and 17 Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday evening for a military bill that would push the figure for defense spending approved this year beyond $1 trillion. The final vote for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026 was 231-196, with just four Republicans opposing the bill, which will still need to be reconciled with the Senate's version.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ndaa-2026

Rightwing influencer accompanied Ice agents during raids in Chicago
Usually based in Fresno, California, Bergquam has been traveling to the Illinois city since at least 2019, according to Block Club Chicago, when he falsely accused a local pastor of being part of a transnational group that guided migrant caravans from Central and South America. He is a part of the same rightwing network, Real America’s Voice News, that hosts shows by Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and other far-right figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/rightwing-influencer-ice-raids-chicago

Senate GOP blocks amendment to release Epstein files
The amendment was stopped despite many congressional Republicans calling for more transparency from the federal government around the Epstein investigation. Schumer introduced the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday. It mirrors a discharge petition in the House led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) The Senate has so far largely avoided getting pulled into the Epstein saga the way the House has.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/senate-republicans-schumer-epstein-files
https://archive.ph/7Zn8w

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
The document shows that immigration officials are aware that someone with a valid visa was among the people arrested during the raid at the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.