On Oct. 16, 1953 Fidel Castro spoke for 4 hours at his sentencing for the July 26 attack on the Moncada Barracks, concluding with the words "History will absolve me." Using this as a title, the speech became the manifesto of the July 26 Movement.

Kyuichi Tokuda, an early member and leader of the Japanese Communist Party, died in exile in Beijing on Oct. 14, 1953 following a purge of Communists from elected offices by US occupation forces. Tokuda spent 18 years in prison from 1928 to 1945.

Captured Soviet Red Army officer and Jew, Alexander Pechersky led a revolt at the Nazi Sobibor death camp in German-occupied Poland on Oct. 14, 1943 in which most of the camp guards were killed and 300 Jewish prisoners were able to escape.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we remember the horrific genocide that founded the so-called United States and the continued settler colonialism on Turtle Island. From Palestine to Turtle Island, we stand with Indigenous peoples resisting colonialism and oppression.

The Donald Trump administration plans to use $20 billion of US government money to bail out Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei. Ben Norton explains the scandal. youtu.be/HSt6LWjw0YU?...

🇨🇺 Grito de Yara: When the Cuban people revolted against Spanish colonialism! On a day like today in 1868, the Cuban people began an uprising that started the 10 Year War, the first Cuban war for Independence from Spanish colonial forces.

Ben Norton shows how Latin American governments are standing in solidarity with Palestine, and resisting US imperialism. youtu.be/mik74Pri9bY?...

Join KJ Noh and Carlos Martinez on The China Report as they explain the details of China's recent clean energy boom youtu.be/nhFABRmqd1Y?...

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to use US cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within". Ben Norton reports. youtu.be/kPKiKWkVqdE?...

🇨🇳Congratulations to the Chinese people on the 76th anniversary of the founding of People's China. The Chinese people have stood up, shaken off extreme poverty and underdevelopment, and are blazing a trail towards a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, multipolar future for humanity.

‘This is the highest award for patriots and I am proud that I am going to get it. They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They may crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirits’. - Bhagat Singh, when he heard about his death penalty.

¡PRESENTE COMARADA! Rest in power ✊️❤️🖤💚

Laura Marx, was born Sept. 25, 1845 to Jenny Von Westphalen and Karl Marx. She would marry Paul Lafargue and together they would translate much of her father's work into French and build the socialist movement in France and Spain.

Due in part to Trump's tarriffs, Russia is integrating with Asia, while Europe faces a crisis that is devastating its manufacturing sector. Political economist Ben Norton explains. youtu.be/n6wtK8Hrpl4?...

Former Venezuelan Deputy Minister for North America Carlos Ron joins Amanda to discuss Trump’s current escalation, Venezuela’s relationship with China over the last 25 years since the Bolivarian Revolution, and what influences Venezuela takes from China’s development path. youtu.be/MTC9WLGdF9o?...

"Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution." ~George Jackson, born on this day in 1941.

Inessa Armand, a French-born feminist, Bolshevik, close collaborator, and possible lover of Lenin died of cholera on Sept. 24, 1920 at age 46. She was director of Zhenotdel, a body empowered to advance women's equality in the Communist Party and trade unions.

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Happy birthday to Dean Reed, aka the Red Elvis! 🥳🎤🎸 Rest in power comrade ✊️🙏 youtu.be/lBZziSBxwwY?...

The US has, six times now, unilaterally vetoed resolutions in the UN Security Council that called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, a United Nations commission stated conclusively that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Ben Norton reports. youtu.be/thjVQp9wafs?...

Today, we remember the birthday of Paulo Freire, legendary Brazilian educator, revolutionary, and author of the renowned text ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed.'

ipa-aip.org/latin-americ... "International solidarity with Haiti cannot be postponed. It is our task today to support its people in their resistance, to defend their right to live with dignity, and to accompany their struggle against violence, racism, and imperialist domination."

Chairman of the South African Communist Party, Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo died in exile in London on Sept. 19, 1983. A leader of the South African Indian Congress, Dadoo was forced into exile by the Apartheid government following the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre.

This past week Israel brazenly bombed ANOTHER US ALLY 'because Hamas', with a narrative that makes no sense, and absolutely zero consequences for doing this thus far. youtu.be/qxSsm7PTonA?...

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela continue to rise. While an outright US invasion of the Caribbean nation has not happened, in addition to sending soldiers and warships to the Caribbean Sea, the US continues to take provocative action. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/18/i...

Why has Donald Trump consistently attacked the Federal Reserve and its chair Jerome Powell? And was the US central bank ever truly "independent"? Geopolitical economist Radhika Desai discusses with economist Michael Hudson. youtu.be/6Fcwg6eFGu4?...

Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez became the first Black person to travel to space on September 18, 1980, as part of the crew on the Soyuz 38.

Today, we remember António Agostinho Neto Kilamba, revolutionary leader and general secretary of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, as well as the first president of the country. Neto was born on September 17, 1922.

On this day Sep. 16th of 1973, Chilean singer and communist activist Víctor Jara was brutally tortured and killed by the US backed military. Fascists crushed his fingers, stepping on his hands and smashing them with the butt of a gun, to symbolically silence his guitar, and then shot him 44 times.

The meeting in Harlem in 1960 between Malcolm X and Fidel Castro was a watershed moment for the people engaged in struggles of liberation in the United States and across the globe. Read the full article by Manolo de los Santos: peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/15/a...

Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss Trump's tarriffs on U.S. allies versus the equitable multipolar goals of BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. youtu.be/wpYgXMkzWc8?...

Bolshevik-inspired peasants in Budjak launched the Tatarbunary Uprising on Sept. 15, 1924 in a failed attempt to establish a Moldavian Soviet Republic in the territory occupied and annexed by Romania in 1918.

With U.S. support, Col. Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (later known as Mobutu Sese Seko) launched a military coup overthrowing the government of the newly independent Republic of the Congo led by Patrice Lumumba (pictured) on Sept. 14, 1960.