Haitian monument honouring the battle By Guillermo Barreto This year marks the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières. It took place on November 18 south of Le Cap, in what was then known as Saint Domingue. In that battle, which lasted five hours, Napoleon Bonaparte’s elite troops were defeated by battalions of former slaves led by Jean Jacques Dessalines, who consolidated the independence of what would henceforth be called Ayti or Haiti. Haiti is always mentioned in th

People march in Belem, Brazil on November 15 as part of the popular protests outside of COP30 -- news screenshot via X By Cade Dunbar On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report . For the first time, the report directly evaluates their multidimensional poverty data against climate hazards, exposing the extent to which the world’s poor are threatened by the environmental crisis. According to th

Image via the PCC Speech by Emilio Lozada García, Head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba at the BRICS EUROPE meeting (November 14-15), translated from the Spanish Dear Representatives of Political Parties, Distinguished Participants and Guests: On behalf of the Communist Party of Cuba, I thank United Russia for organizing this BRICS Europe space, which we find highly relevant and timely given the current inter

As consumers flock to “reef-safe” and “ocean-friendly” skincare, beauty brands are selling a vision of ocean purity that is more marketing-driven than science-based. By Kate Petty The personal care industry has mastered the art of marketing eco-consciousness— evolving beyond familiar labels like “green,” “clean,” and “natural”—into a new wave of sea-inspired branding that claims to champion ocean conservation. Terms such as “reef-safe” and “ocean-friendly” evoke images of cry

Amid US threats of an attack on Venezuela, we look back at some of the most infamous chapters in the history of US military invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean. US Marines outside a destroyed Panamanian Defense Force building during the US invasion of Panama, 1989 By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump began carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea under the auspices of waging a war on drug trafficking ove

The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York mayor has inflated the illusion that radical change is possible without changing the mechanics of power. Image via Mamdani's Facebook page By Ali Ridha Khan & Joshua Reed, Elitsha, South Africa There is a seduction in the story of Zohran Mamdani. The insurgent from Queens. The son of an African exile and South Asian cinema royalty. A hunger striker for taxi drivers. A face of the new New York – brown, Muslim, global, young, fluent in

The coming months and years mark the most critical fight for truth in the conflict’s history. Catastrophic devastation in Gaza -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv reestablish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide , but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built on myths and outr

Trump at Fort Bragg, 2025 -- public domain image By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India Imperialism today no longer requires colonies in the traditional sense. It governs through networks of finance, data, and technology — invisible chains binding nations to the logic of capital accumulation. The world that emerged from the ashes of the Cold War falsely promised unending prosperity under the banner of globalisation and neo-liberalism. What we have instead is

The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. People amid the catastrophic devastation in Gaza as winter approaches -- UNRWA video screenshot from November 2025 By Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza . Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinian

The most effective approach to homelessness is simply to house people. But some states — and the White House — want to lock them up instead. JMSuarez, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jeremy Saunders No one wants people sleeping on our streets. For years, experts have agreed the best way to prevent that is to create more housing everyday people can afford, and to provide housing — coupled with supportive services for addiction, mental health, and other help — to those liv

A grazing cow in the US -- public domain image By Adam Bronstein, Oregon Capital Chronicle The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Beef Industry Plan arrived in October wrapped in flowery language of industry revitalization and rejuvenation.  At the core of the plan — a joint venture between USDA and the Department of the Interior — is a pledge to “streamline and expand grazing on federal lands.”  Translation: fewer environmental safeguards, more cows.  The Public Lands Co

Trump claimed immigrants were “taking your jobs.” But during his brutal crackdown, the job market has only gotten worse. Anti-ICE rally in Chicago, October 26, 2025 -- Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By A.J. Schumann Donald Trump rode back into office by leaning on the same faux populist refrain he weaponized a decade ago: immigrants are “ taking your jobs !” Since then, Trump has launched an immigration crackdown of historic proportions. Yet

Humanity’s evolution into a super predator has reshaped ecosystems and instilled a primal fear in much of the animal kingdom. Representational image - public domain By John Divinagracia Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly resulted from our adaptation to hunting, including our large brain size. Over time, however, the

AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out in response to the climate emergency. Meta’s Mesa Data Center, Arizona -- image via Meta By Jean Su & John Fleming, Common Dreams What started as rivulets of hype, hope, and alarm over artificial intelligence have combined into a tsunami-level wave washing over the American consciousness. ChatGPT is the most downloaded application in history, AI stock prices are hitting record ma

Trump on November 7, 2025 -- public domain image South African Communist Party SACP totally rejects Donald Trump’s racist propaganda about South Africa, reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s genocide on Palestinian people and the attacks by the same regime on Lebanon Sunday, 9 November 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns and totally rejects United States president Donald Trump’s latest rant of blatant false in

From journaling to essay writing, the simple act of writing is one of the most powerful tools for improving clarity, creativity, and critical thinking. Kristin Hardwick, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ellen Feld and Reynard Loki What kind of writer are you? Do you write from the heart, the mind, or the gut? Some writers produce words intuitively, without conscious thought, while others edit meticulously as they create. Writing is not only an act of expression; it is a process

The Berlin Freedom Week, hosted by Mayor Kai Wegner (Christian Democratic Union), brings together an international cast of regime change actors. Credit: Mo Wüstenhagen/visitBerlin By Susann Witt-Stahl. Junge Welt, 8 November 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. The German capital has been bathing in a sea of freedom. While Berliners were able to withstand the scurrilous attacks by high priests like Ronald Reagan against the "Evil Empire" in 1987 ("Tear down this wall!"),

No to the “Service-citoyen”: A Scam in Favour of Rearmament, the EU and NATO! : Communist Party (Switzerland) The popular initiative “for a Service-citoyen” (national civic service) claims to address the crisis of Switzerland’s militia system by generalising compulsory service. This proposal is presented with appealing arguments — gender equality, national cohesion, and the promotion of civic engagement — but in reality, it hides numerous pitfalls. The initiative aims to intr

The Workers Party of Ireland, together with our comrades across the world, celebrates the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, on 25 October (7 November) 1917. The October Revolution remains a seismic moment in the history of the world. For the first time in human history, workers proved their ability to overthrow the capitalist order and establish a workers’ state. By establishing the world’s first socialist state

By Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ( translated from the Spanish ) Today we commemorate an event that forever changed the course of history: the Great October Socialist Revolution. On November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Julian calendar), the Russian working class and people, guided by the light of Marxism and Lenin's leadership, demonstrated that a new world was not