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143 years since Marx passed away. "The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces." Record profits. Record hunger. Wars for markets and minerals. Public systems gutted. His scalpel cuts deeper every year. The task remains unfinished.

Regimes and Resistance: Kenyan Resistance History Through Underground and Alternative Publications. revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-tool/…

Tomorrow at Cheche Bookshop

The Struggle for Socialism in Kenya: The Case Of Kenya's People Union, 1966-1969.

Kenya Resists series!

🚩 On Feb 12, as part of the All-India General Strike, 600,000 workers downed tools and almost 100,000 participated in street actions in South India’s largest state, Karnataka. Read Pavan Kulkarni’s riveting account of the strike ⬇️ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/20/ana…

Proud of our @inkanibooks republication of Govan Mbeki's Peasants' Revolt, one of the great Marxist texts on southern African people's history. Needs to be read and re-read. With an introduction by Solly Mapaila, General Secretary of the @SACP1921. Get it here: inkanibooks.co.za/product/peasan…

The 60+-year US war on Cuba. The United States has radicalized its blockade and attacks on Cuba, going to the point of seizing oil tankers bound for the Caribbean island and cutting off all supplies of fuel. Cubans have vowed to resist, as they have done for over 60 years, facing and defeating all sorts of efforts to sabotage, assassinate, destabilize and undermine their revolutionary, socialist project. Here's some notable elements of the six-decade US war on Cuba. #LetCubaLive

Dedan Kimaathi Day, 2026.

"Kimathi tuwie radhi, bado tunaishi kwa magoti" #KimãthiDay #Dorphanage

Join us this year for Red Books Day on February 21, 2026, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Look for more details: redbooksday.org

Meanwhile, on @LibMindsPod, we are back with a fresh episode. I headed to Ngong and caught up with @artbywama, an accomplished fine artist, visual storyteller, art teacher & community organizer. 📹: youtu.be/g8YgEtenn-s?si… #LiberatingMindsPodcast #Dorphanage #WamaArts

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) died today. He has, as his son Christian said, 'gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky'. A socialist from early into his life till the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way and spoke bluntly the truths that were not always easy to digest in a wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars and suffered the consequences of this because he could keep and then hold academic jobs even in liberal states such as Vermont. The toughest test for all of us came when the USSR collapsed, and it was in this period that Michael Parenti played an important role in the Battle of Ideas, fighting the reactionary Western media and the intellectual cowardice of his peers. His books on Yugoslavia's destruction earned him terrible attacks, which he brushed off as the necessary price you pay in this struggle. In the midst of it all, Michael wrote 'Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism' (1997), a rebuttal to the anti-Marxist and anti-Communist blather that had begun to infect the world. The book remains an essential tool to fight against the ridiculous anti-communist historiography that demeans the great achievements of the workers' movements. He spent the last period of his life within himself, which was a loss to the rest of us, and now his departure leaves us without that anchor which he provided. Michael Parenti. Comrade. Our Red Flag dips in your honour.

Form ya this Saturday. "Reflecting on protest art in 2025 and beyond. +" Going down at Macmillan Library, Nairobi from 12 p.m. Powered by @UkomboziLibrary @ukombozireview_ Performances by yours truly & @Ach13ng Panel discussion with @Dorphan_age, Wangui wa Ndooro & Eric Rugara.

🚩How did Kerala eradicate extreme poverty? Science and Socialism! Kerala, a small state in southern India ruled by Communists, has achieved the remarkable feat of eradicating extreme poverty — becoming the first state in the country to do so. Swipe through to explore how people’s planning and collective action made this historic achievement possible. Design by Midhun PP and text from Abdul Rahman and Atul Chandra.

• #Nairobi #PublicForumKE• 📚 Revolution & Social Movements in Post-Independence Kenya (1963–2024) 🗓️ Fri, Nov 7 | ⏰ 5PM 📍 Macmillan Library 🎤 @NGithethwa x Neo Musangi x Nicholas Mwangi 🎙️ Mod: @monajamwenyewe 💥 Powered by @UkomboziLibrary | Free entry! #SherehePlug

On Saturday, November 1, India’s southern state of Kerala officially declared itself free of extreme poverty. This makes the left-ruled state the first and only state in the country to achieve such a milestone. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/03/lef…