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  • German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel facts for kids

    Originally published: Kiddle on 2025 by Kids Encyclopedia Facts Staff (more by Kiddle) (Posted Jul 24, 2025)

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770—died November 14, 1831) was an important German philosopher. He is known as one of the main thinkers in German idealism and a key person in modern Western philosophy.

  • The Politics of Donald Trump: Where Ignorance and Arrogance Collide

    Not knowing the ‘enemy’

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on July 21, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jul 24, 2025)

    I am always amazed how little western governments are aware of their own (lack of) capabilities as well as of the nature and capabilities of their ‘enemies’.

  • America - Religion (Photo: loongese.com)

    The Shadow Gospel & Why Religion Went Obsolete – Book Review(s)

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on July 19, 2025 by Guy Lancaster (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2025)

    Karl Marx’s description of religion as the ‘opiumof the people,’ in his 1844 A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, constitutes one of his most famously misinterpreted statements.

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    Europe’s imperial power play

    Originally published: Red Flag on July 20, 2025 by Ben Hillier (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Western imperialism’s key military alliance, describe recently announced increases in European arms spending as a collective effort to “safeguard our freedom and democracy”.

  • A young demonstrator holds a banner objecting to the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to the United Kingdom, in Belfast

    America’s 25 year tax cutting & fiscal train wreck

    Originally published: Jack Rasmus on July 11, 2025 by Jack Rasmus (more by Jack Rasmus) (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    Last week the U.S. Congress passed the Trump Tax Cuts.

  • Photo via Unifor on Twitter.

    Amazon workers in B.C. have won Union certification

    Originally published: The Maple on July 21, 2025 by Adam D.K. King (more by The Maple) (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.

  • SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila speaks at a party congress held in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. | Photo via SACP

    What future for South Africa’s Tripartite Alliance?

    Originally published: People's World on July 17, 2025 by Sabina Price (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.

  • Georg Lukács

    Georg Lukács: the final interview

    Originally published: Verso Books on March 2022 by András Kovács (more by Verso Books)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    We publish here the text of one of the last interviews with Georges Lukács, given to Hungarian television. The interview was prepared and conducted by András Kovács. Lukács talks about his youth and the influence Lenin had on his own development as a revolutionary activist.

  • Friedrich Engels

    Friedrich Engels facts for kids

    Originally published: Kiddle on 2025 by Kids Encyclopedia Facts Staff (more by Kiddle) (Posted Jul 21, 2025)

    Engels is best known for working with Karl Marx to create what is now called Marxism.

  • The Wall Street Journal (7/10/25)

    Writing about the oil business and ignoring the fate of the Earth

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 18, 2025 by Olivia Riggio (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jul 21, 2025)

    Despite this dire backsliding on climate policy, with consequences that are clear as day, it’s business as usual in the realm of business news.

  • Workers for a Free Palestine

    ‘The working class has no country’: What do Marxists mean by this?

    Originally published: Counterfire on July 15, 2025 by Alex Snowden (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2025)

    Alex Snowdon on Marxism and internationalism.

  • Che Guevara

    Che Guevara facts for kids

    Originally published: Kiddle on 2025 by Kids Encyclopedia Facts Staff (more by Kiddle) (Posted Jul 19, 2025)

    Ernesto “Che” Guevara (born 14 June 1928 – died 9 October 1967) was an Argentine revolutionary. He was a very important leader in the Cuban Revolution. His famous picture has become a symbol of rebellion around the world.

  • Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader (Photo: middleeastmonitor.com)

    New left party’s polling a wake-up call for Labour

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on July 15, 2025 (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2025)

    IF KEIR STARMER’S stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it.

  • Youths assemble at the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos Nigeria to protest the killings by SARS officials

    Glorifying and celebrating the Martyrs of June 25, 2024 Gen Z Revolution in Kenya

    Originally published: Pambazuka News on July 10, 2025 by Willy Mutunga (more by Pambazuka News)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2025)

    Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government’s attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.

  • István Mészáros (photo credit: Carrie Ann Naumoff)

    What impels modern society toward ever more massive waste

    Originally published: The Columbus Worker on April 2024 by C.O.R.S. (more by The Columbus Worker) (Posted Jul 18, 2025)

    Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital’s incessant drive to expand involves overcoming two interlocking contradictions.

  • Israeli teenagers burning draft orders at Habima Square in Central Tel-Aviv on last Tuesday, July 15, 2025 (Photo: Zo Haderekh)

    Israeli teenagers burning draft orders in Central Tel-Aviv

    Originally published: The Communist Party of Israel on July 17, 2025 by CPI (more by The Communist Party of Israel) (Posted Jul 18, 2025)

    Dozens of Israeli teenagers burned at Habima Square in Central Tel-Aviv on Tuesday, July 15, their draft orders during a demonstration, refusing to serve in the Israeli army in protest against war and genocide in Gaza. They claimed, “We won’t take part in genocide” and “won’t serve apartheid, occupation and war crimes.”

  • Amílcar Cabral with Fidel Castro in Cuba for the Tricontinental Conference. January 1966, Wikimedia Commons.

    “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories”: The Cuban Revolution, social vulnerability, and revolutionary ethics.

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on July 17, 2025 by Isaac Saney (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Jul 18, 2025)

    In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

  • A memorial for the lives lost in the Texas flash floods in Kerr County, Texas, July 2025.

    Climate denial paved the way for the Texas flooding

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 15, 2025 by Laurie Mazur (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2025)

    Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

  • Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 – January 14, 2016)

    Ellen Meiksins Wood facts for kids

    Originally published: Kiddle on 2025 by Kids Encyclopedia Facts Staff (more by Kiddle) (Posted Jul 17, 2025)

    Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.

  • Brazilian President Lula da Silva wearing hat "Brazil is for the Brazilians". Photo: Lula / X

    Lula to Trump: If you charge us 50%, we’ll charge you 50%. Brazil must be respected!

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 15, 2025 by Pablo Meriguet (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2025)

    The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

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