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by Majid Maleki Meighani

The article examines how the revolutionary left should approach resistance by non-left forces against imperialism. It distinguishes the material anti-imperialist effects of struggles by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran from the political and class character of those forces. It argues that defending resistance does not require endorsing the movements or states leading it. The article applies this distinction to Palestine, Iran and Venezuela, while warning against both campism and the denial of imperialism. It calls for an independent politics that opposes imperialist domination while maintaining criticism of domestic repression, exploitation and class power. For the author, resistance can weaken imperialism without itself constituting liberation.

A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version. In reality, the two seem to be converging around a model of state and oligarchic control over online communities and debates.

Centrist Democrats like potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel are presenting heightened great-power rivalry as the path to US national renewal. Socialists need to articulate an alternative to their New Cold War fantasies.

Anna Dorman on joy, confidence, and dragging your community to the polls

Britain’s Labour government has brought forward a bill that’s supposed to address the legacy of the Troubles in the North of Ireland. But the latest changes to the bill will shield British soldiers from any threat of being prosecuted for their crimes.

Library News (Oct. 2026) (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 122, October 2026)

The Commons and the Dangers of a Reactionary Derailment : Amorós in Rodrigo Mora’s Looking Glass

PARIS—By the time Cléo made it to Greek class, she had gone completely pale. It was a Wednesday in June during France’s second consecutive heat wave this year, and the 16-year-old was struggling to cope with the rising temperatures. She pushed through, thinking she was just tired. But the following day at her sweltering high […]

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity. Atrazine is the second-most widely used weed killer in the U.S. after glyphosate, which you might know as Roundup. Much like glyphosate, atrazine can disrupt hormones and has […]

Plenty of storms have hit Pensacola, Florida’s westernmost city, in the 450 years since its founding, but among the worst has been the storm over the toxic waste site nicknamed “Mount Dioxin.”  Bureaucratic mismanagement led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relocating about 400 households from the neighborhoods around the site beginning in the mid-1990s. […]

Where the test actually bites

La existencia social determina la conciencia. Lo que sigue son cuatro razones de Mandel para no ser determinista.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources filed a motion Friday to join in a lawsuit against the federal government’s plan for Colorado River operations over the next 10 years. “Arizona believes the federal government’s new operating framework ignores basic elements of the law of the river and could result in cuts to the state apportionment […]

Employees at Dattner, the firm behind some of New York City’s most distinctive public buildings, from subway stations to sanitation facilities, are organizing with the International Association of Machinists and seeking a card-check neutrality agreement.

"Safeguarding Indigenous defenders is our strongest defense against environmental crime, and they must not be left to fight it alone.”

The post Amazon Indigenous Leaders Head to Vienna To Demand a Voice in Global Fight Against Organized Crime first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Typical bills climb by over $100 a month as data centers demand more energy RICHMOND, VA — Dominion Energy’s newly filed 2026 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) update projects that the utility’s carbon pollution will more than double compared to last year’s plan while customer bills climb steadily for the next two decades. Under the IRP’s […]

The post Dominion’s Updated Energy Plan Doubles Pollution as it Prepares to Merge with NextEra appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

NO CONTRACT, NO CODELessons from the First Official Tech Worker Strikes The Editors 16 October 2026 Partway through autumn 2026, the official strikes of workers at The New York Times and Kickstarter still represent high watermarks of organizing and militancy in tech. As workers, our power begins in talking to each other, in reflecting together, […]

ON THE LINE, ONLINEHow Kickstarter Workers Organized a Fully Remote Strike Arleigh Atkinson 16 October 2026 Just days before our strike was set to begin, the Contract Action Team had to move quickly to figure out a format to accommodate our fully remote shop. There was no technical need to assemble together in order to […]

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It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious challenge to Narendra Modi’s rule in years.