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William Bowles
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[l] at 11/7/26 2:27am
Saturday, 7 November 2026 MROnline Originally published: Socialist Voice on November 3, 2026 by Richard Mullen (more by Socialist Voice)   (Posted Nov 06, 2026) More than three years ago, I reviewed Bresnihan and Millner’s book All We Want Is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism [socialistvoice.ie/2023/09/environmentalism-capitalism-and-vibes/] for Socialist Voice. In that []

[Category: Books, Environment, Socialism]

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[l] at 11/6/26 3:48pm
The Communist Party of China has just adopted a sweeping program of self-discipline, and the document itself points to the reason. The party is fighting the capitalists and the capitalist relations that the market reforms created inside China, and it is fighting them inside its own ranks.

[Category: China]

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[l] at 11/6/26 10:29am
Are ministers being lied to about Palantir, or are they just not brave enough to stand up to it?! Today the Financial Times reported that ministers are considering handing US spy tech company Palantir a 2-year extension on its £330m NHS contract, while claiming to look for a British alternative.

[Category: Health, UK, nhs privatisation, Palantir]

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[l] at 11/5/26 9:56am
From high school blockades to a national strike, workers in France are on the move. The government they face is one of the European governments that handed Europe over to the United States gas monopolies and lined up behind the United States war on Iran.

[Category: France]

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[l] at 11/5/26 9:45am
Thursday, 5 November 2026 — The Tricontinental This October, millions of Brazilian workers mobilised to defeat the far right; now the essential task begins: strengthening mass movements and forging a sovereign economic policy that develops Brazil’s productive forces. Cândido Portinari (Brazil), Morro (Hill), 1933. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social []

[Category: Tricontinental]

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[l] at 11/4/26 1:14pm
POLITICO hears power draining out of Trump’s White House, but the freedom of a banker to turn down a presidential favor tells us damn little about who can stop a war. From Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia through the post-9/11 grants of authority and the surveillance powers Democrats helped renew, Washington spent decades building the presidency it now pretends Trump invented. The midterms broke his congressional majority while the military and intelligence apparatus, financed with public money and increasingly built with private technology, remained at his command. The fight now is to turn that opening into independent working-class power capable of cutting off the means of repression and war and deciding what our labor builds in the first place.

[Category: USA]

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[l] at 11/4/26 9:05am
The Nov. 3 midterm elections were a mass vote against Donald Trump, his war on Iran and his terror campaign against immigrant workers. At the ballot box, the two-party system gave working people only one way to strike at the administration, and tens of millions of them took it. The party that collected those votes, the Democrats, will now work to bring that anger back under control.

[Category: USA]

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[l] at 11/4/26 4:12am
Does the ‘right to protest’ mean legal protections for “peaceful protest”, or “lawful protest”, or only protests that cause no disruption?

[Category: Liberties, UK]

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[l] at 11/2/26 6:31am
When Friedrich Engels walked through the intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth century, his great philosophical crusade was to extract the dialectic from the ethereal clouds of Hegelian idealism and anchor it firmly within the soil of the material world. Yet, the material world available to Engels, Karl Marx, and their contemporaries was culturally dominated by the monumental successes of Isaac Newton. Classical science viewed reality as a massive, deterministic clockwork assembly. In that universe, nature was ultimately reducible to individual, self-contained, unchangeable pieces of matter, billiard balls that populated an absolute space and time, interacting only through external collisions and localised forces. Materialism, under this lens, became synonymous with a dull, passive, and mechanical reductionism.

[Category: Science]

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[l] at 10/31/26 2:48pm
“Do we keep our children away from school and deprive them of their education, or do we send them out, knowing that they could be targeted at any moment?”

[Category: Palestine, Gaza Genocide]

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[l] at 10/30/26 9:31am
The world the imperial powers built to keep the colonized dependent is beginning to crack, and China’s socialist construction has helped put the hammer in the hands of nations once condemned to serve as suppliers of cheap labor and raw materials. From BRICS development finance to Washington’s desperate efforts to fortify its hemispheric empire, the struggle over who controls production, credit, technology, and territory is reshaping the international order.

[Category: imperialism]

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[l] at 10/30/26 7:51am
Dockworkers on five continents are striking, stopping work and picketing Oct. 30 to keep the ports out of the wars of the United States and Israel. Their banner reads “Dockworkers do not work for war.”

[Category: World]

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[l] at 10/29/26 4:04pm
When most people are asked “who controls hip hop?” they are unlikely to think of a 67-year-old Israeli Zionist who comes from a family of Israeli spies and state officials. But Lyor Cohen is the real deal. The brash, cigar-smoking 6 ft 5 in head of YouTube Music is the undisputed king of rap, and arguably the most important and influential person in the entire music business.

[Category: Propaganda, hip-hop, Lyor Cohen, Youtube]

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[l] at 10/29/26 10:46am
This week’s Calendar of Race and Resistance features the shocking act of racist terror in Trappes and La Verrière, west of Paris, in which a gunman targeted Black and Brown people in a drive-by shooting which killed a young French man of Congolese origin, Pengo Bossio Wangi, and injured five people including a 12-year-old girl, shot eight times, and two African school cleaners. The attack followed right-wing commentary claiming Black and Arab youth are behind violent protests.

[Category: UK]

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[l] at 10/29/26 8:30am
On Feb. 29, 2024, the Viv Ansanm (Live Together), an alliance of greater Port-au-Prince’s neighborhood armed groups, blocked the capital’s international airport thereby thwarting the return to Haiti of reviled de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

[Category: Haiti]

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[l] at 10/29/26 7:55am
As Iran and Ansar Allah strain the US security architecture in West Asia, regional powers are building new arrangements of their own, raising one central question: whose security do these arrangements serve?

[Category: Tricontinental]

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[l] at 10/28/26 12:00pm
Netanyahu lost big in the election, or did he? Election chaos in Israel is masking something a lot more consequential: a pathway toward all-out war...

[Category: Palestine, Videos]

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[l] at 10/28/26 9:30am
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 — ColdType Read Issue 286 at  https://coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType286November2026.pdf and at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype285november2026 - In case of problems youll find the issue by clicking on the links at https://www.coldtype.net or https://issuu.com/coldtype Or Contact editor@coldtype.net - BACK COPIES All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype []

[Category: Coldtype]

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[l] at 10/28/26 9:16am
Chancellor John Healey has just announced the first Budget of this new Burnham-led government. I wish I could say it marked a turning point for our struggling NHS. But the government has instead refused to deliver additional investment into our health service.

[Category: Health, UK, nhs funding]

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[l] at 10/28/26 8:04am
Capitalism's last line of defense is that it innovates best. But what if China has already proven otherwise? Recording live from the Global Governance Initiative conference in Xiong'an, China's brand new city south of Beijing, I am joined by regular guest Warwick Powell. We report on our visits to the energy giant Huaneng and to China Mobile, already trialling 6G, and Powell explains why the "overcapacity" Western media decry is in fact abundance. Meanwhile, monopoly capitalism, built on rents rather than competition, now blocks the very innovation it claims to champion.

[Category: China, Videos]

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[l] at 10/28/26 7:56am
The historic re-election of President Lula da Silva in Brazil is a victory for BRICS, Palestine, Latin America, and the Global South, and a significant blow to the United States, Israel, and dollar hegemony. Ben Norton explains the major geopolitical and economic implications of Brazil's 2026 presidential election.

[Category: Brazil, Videos]

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