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Festival Granma Rebelde

The 3rd International Meeting of the Theoretical Publications of Leftist Parties and Movements (15–17 October) and the 1st Festival Granma Rebelde (17–19 October) constituted an important programme leading to the Cuban National Culture Day on 20 October this year. Organised in a period of extreme difficulty for the people of […]

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People Without Wagons. Consequences of the Trade War: VW Production Expected to Stop Next Week Due to Chip Shortage

The German auto industry is burning out. Next Wednesday, the production lines at Volkswagen will stand idle. According to information from Bild, production of the VW Golf at the Wolfsburg plant will be suspended. The production break will then be gradually extended to other models and to other locations. The […]

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Thirty-five years after reunification, East Germans earn less, hold fewer top positions and no significant government posts. They remain defined by narratives written in the West.

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans still earn roughly 21 percent less than their western counterparts. According to figures from the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), full-time employees in the east make on average €13,400 less per year. Symbolically, that means from 16 October until […]

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Che Guevara and Palestine: When the Latin American Revolution Met the Spirit of Palestinian Resistance

More than half a century ago, on 9 October 1967, the rifle of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara fell silent in the Bolivian mountains. Yet the echo of his words has remained alive across the Global South, from the Andes to the refugee camps of Gaza. Today, 58 years […]

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From Gaza to Sao Paulo

In recent years, the government of São Paulo, led by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, has spent over 37 million Brazilian Reais on contracts with Israeli military companies. These include Israel Weapons Industries, Meprolight, and Cellebrite, known for their weapons and surveillance technologies. These tools, often described as “combat-tested,” are now […]

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The Communist Party as the Vanguard – Lenin’s Lessons for Today

Over the first seven articles in this series, we demonstrated how public ownership, democratic planning, and socialist economics offer a compelling alternative to the chaos, inequality, and destruction of capitalism. But economic theory—no matter how coherent—remains inert without the political power to implement it. Equally, political power without a class-based economic programme devolves […]

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GHF: Weaponising Humanitarian Aid as a Colonial Tool in Gaza

Since February 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has presented itself as a relief initiative to ease hunger and suffering in Gaza, promising food, water, medicine, and shelter while blocking aid from reaching Hamas. Yet, this condition revealed its deeper purpose: aid transformed into a political weapon to reshape Palestinian […]

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From the Fields of Ireland to the Hills of Palestine: A History Bearing Witness to Injustice

In past centuries, Ireland endured one of the harshest colonial experiences in European history. During the British era, Irish farmers saw their lands confiscated and were forcibly displaced from their farms to make way for Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. This policy—known as the Plantation Policy—entailed the large-scale seizure […]

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No MAS: A View on Bolivia’s Elections from the Highest City in the World

Last month’s spectacular collapse of Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has felled one of the last bastions of Latin America’s “Pink Tide”, dealing a devastating blow to the country’s indigenous, peasant, and working classes. Now, Bolivians must choose between two right-wing candidates in the country’s first-ever runoff elections, while progressive […]

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First National Meeting of Cubans Residing in Ireland and Their Descendants: Dublin, 11 October 2025

As an unequivocal expression of the deepening of ties with its nationals abroad—in this case, with Cubans and their descendants living in Ireland—the Consular Office of the Cuban Embassy in Dublin has convened the First National Meeting of Cubans Residing in Ireland and Their Descendants for 11 October. The date […]