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Happy birthday to Black Panther Party deputy chairman and socialist Fred Hampton. “You can kill a revolutionary, but you can never kill the revolution.”

Bernie Sanders in 2020 on Trump's push for war with Iran: “I know that it is rarely the children of the billionaire class who face the agony of reckless foreign policy. It is the children of working families.”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum: “Lula’s victory is a breath of fresh air for Latin America.”

BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces a first-of-its-kind office focused on organizing workers in New York City. The Mayor’s Office of Worker Power will provide workers with resources needed to organize their workplaces, hold public hearings on major worker issues, and more.

"Socialists not only understand economics just as well as capitalists... but can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles." — Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Today is the first Israeli election since October 7, 2023, but it isn’t a democratic election. Because Israel isn’t a democracy.

Canadian democratic socialist party COPE elected all 12 of its candidates for municipal offices in Vancouver over the weekend. Among the winners is the youngest person ever elected to the city council, 21-year-old Solomon Yi-Kieran.

Lula to Zohran: “I hope that you are prepared to transform yourself into a great soldier to put an end, or to diminish, poverty and the invisibility that poor people live.”

Anwar Shaikh’s brilliant teaching and scholarship helped an entire generation understand the inner logic of capitalism. He will be missed not only by colleagues and students in the field, but by the countless people whose understanding of the world was enriched by his work.

A communist-led left-wing alliance holds power in Kerala, India because it has a remarkable track record of improving living standards for its people.

Zohran Mamdani: “I would not recognize any state’s right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race or religion... And part of that is because I’m an American who believes in the importance of equal rights being enshrined in every single country.”

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali refused army induction to serve in the Vietnam War.

Actor John Leguizamo: “I’m a democratic socialist.”

Black Panther Party deputy chairman Fred Hampton was drugged by the FBI then assassinated by local police on this day 56 years ago. He was only 21 years old. Listen to his words and see if you can discern why he would be their target.

“Had I intervened on behalf of the rich... it would have been deemed worthy of reward rather than punishment.” John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on this day in 1859. Listen to the final speech he gave before being executed by the slave state of Virginia for his actions.

Lula: "Brazil refuses to be anyone's backyard."

Anti-apartheid martyr Steve Biko was killed by South Africa's apartheid government on this day in 1977. “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Today we remember Grenadian socialist revolutionary Maurice Bishop, who was murdered 43 years ago.

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Happy birthday, Anthony Anthony Bourdain.

This is how the guy who just won in the bluest Congressional district in the country talked about the Democratic Party and its messaging.