An "orgy of pillage" — no other words can describe the behaviour of the capitalists during the war. This orgy is leading to national disaster. We cannot keep silent. We cannot put up with it. — Vladimir Lenin, The Capitalists Must Be Exposed
Efforts are being made to vilify and defame the revolution, to erase it from the memory of the people. But in no country has the working class ever yet allowed its enemies to take from it the chief attainment of every revolution at all worthy of this name, viz., the experience of mass struggle, the conviction of millions of working and exploited people that this struggle is essential for any serious improvement of their position. – Vladimir Lenin, Towards Unity
Toxic "forever chemicals" are now found in 99% of human blood samples. The US, EU, and the Netherlands have all weakened regulations on them after lobbying by industrial groups.
Details. A Dutch government body reported that every breast milk sample it tested contained unnatural “forever chemicals”, with 1 in 5 women having dangerous amounts in their breast milk. The same health institute stated that these chemicals can negatively impact the immune system, as well as the development of the unborn child. These chemicals can increase the risks of certain cancers, cause low birth weight, and reduce fertility.
▶ “Forever chemicals”, also known as PFAS, are man-made chemicals that accumulate in the human body or environment. They have been used in industry and consumer products since the 1940s because of their useful properties and low cost. Nowadays, PFAS are found in excessive amounts nearly everywhere: in drinking water, food packaging, personal care products, and even in soil and water near waste sites and factories.
▶ PFAS are poisoning people worldwide. Despite scientists’ warnings, capitalist governments are failing to protect us. Although “forever chemicals” were found in the blood of 99% of tested Americans, the USA recently repealed its PFAS regulations for drinking water. The EU scaled back on its proposed PFAS ban, after heavy lobbying by German industrial groups. The Dutch government has also loosened its own restrictions on PFAS contamination, arguing that stricter rules would disrupt the construction industry.
▶ Capitalism structurally produces this outcome. No individual capitalist has a profit incentive to control the environmental consequences of their production, these costs are externalised onto workers. PFAS enters water supplies through industrial processes controlled by the capitalist class, whose influence over legislators ensures they remain lightly regulated.
Context. The capitalist system has mismanaged several recent public crises. In 2020, the USA was not ready for Covid-19 and suffered over a million deaths due to it. Likewise, this year’s hantavirus outbreak could have been avoided – the vaccine was nearly ready a decade earlier, but was cancelled when researchers ran out of funding.
Notice the way in which the capitalists are trying to escape from the economic crisis. They are reducing the workers' wages as much as possible. They are reducing the prices of raw materials as much as possible. But they do not want to reduce the prices of food and industrial commodities for mass consumption to any important extent. This means that they want to escape from the crisis at the expense of the principal consumers, at the expense of the workers and peasants, at the expense of the working people. – Joseph Stalin, The Tasks of Business Executives
And through all its trials the working class of Russia will preserve the readiness for revolutionary struggle, the mass heroism, by which it conquered in 1905 and which will enable it to be victorious more than once in the future. – Vladimir Lenin, Towards Unity
In all bourgeois republics, even the most democratic, the police (like the standing army) is the chief instrument of oppression of the masses..... The police beats up the "common people" in the police stations of New York, Geneva, and Paris; it favours the capitalists either because it is bribed to do so (America and other countries), or because it enjoys wealthy "patronage" and "protection" (Switzerland), or because of a combination of both (France). – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
The US is considering Raúl Castro's grandson as a potential leader of a pro-American regime. He gives interviews to state-controlled American media, lives in luxury, and personally helped push through the 'reforms' to open Cuba to American capital.
Details. The Trump administration has been searching for a Cuban official willing to take over the government in Havana. The CIA is reportedly weighing Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro and Interior Minister Lázaro Álvarez Casas as potential candidates
► In his first interview with a US outlet, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro positioned himself as Cuba's negotiator, saying he “can negotiate with anyone designated by the US”, even Trump.
► Rodríguez Castro met with Rubio, State Department official Jeremy Lewin, and was present when CIA Director Ratcliffe visited Havana in May. He sent a secret letter to Trump proposing economic cooperation and sanctions relief – intercepted at Miami airport. Tellingly, he was not sanctioned by the US, unlike Cuba's president and other senior officials.
► The current US government is seeking to mimic what it executed in Venezuela, replacing current Cuban leadership with a “pragmatic” and more pro-US leader, whilst preserving the ruling regime, maintaining some stability whilst avoiding an expensive conflict, like what has happened with Iran.
Who is Rodriguez Castro? He is Raúl Castro's eldest grandson and son of the late General who ran GAESA, he holds no elected office and rarely appears in state media.
► He presents himself as a continuation of the revolution. He wears a gold chain bearing the initials of Fidel and Raúl Castro, saying "if there's anything I believe in, it is these two men”, and frames his negotiations with Washington as fulfilling his revolutionary duty: "I've never been interested in politics. It's never been a calling of mine. But if at some point the revolution needs me to step up, I will do it”. At the same time, he claims he would never sacrifice the principles of Cuba's revolution.
► He conducted the interview in Hugo Boss and Hermès sneakers, has made at least 23 private jet trips to Panama, claiming to look for investment opportunities for Cuba, and appears in leaked videos on private yachts and in nightclubs. While millions of Cubans endure blackouts and food shortages, he said: "It pains me that many people can't live the way I do”.
► He gave his interview the day after the 176 reforms passed, with it suggesting he personally helped push them through, directly dismantling the revolution he claims to uphold. He points to China and Vietnam as Cuba's model.
Context. The 2026 package of 176 reforms in Cuba formalised a capitalist economy that had been developing for decades. The reforms included full privatisation of state enterprises and opening the economy to foreign investment.
► GAESA – the military conglomerate whose profits account for an estimated 37% of Cuba's GDP – already dominated the Cuban economy before the reforms. The 176 measures expand the conditions for the military-bourgeois elite to accumulate further. Rodríguez Castro's father built and ran it until 2022, Rodríguez Castro now oversees it informally, while claiming in the interview it represents only 15% of the economy.
► Figures like this are not exclusive to Cuba. In China, many relatives of Party Officials (referred to princelings) obtained privileged economic positions. Whilst the term refers to a wide range of people, it includes entrepreneurs who enriched themselves as China’s economy was opened up to foreign capital. In Vietnam, one of the architects of the opening up and privatisation of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Oanh, was allowed to travel abroad to open up channels for foreign investment.
We must face the truth squarely. We must not gloss it over, we must tell it to people in a straightforward manner. We must not brush the class struggle under the carpet, but clarify what relation it bears to the high-sounding, specious, delightful "radical" reforms. – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
The trouble is that once we forget the harsh and rigid conditions of capitalist domination, then all such platforms, all such lists of sweeping reforms are empty words, which in practice turn out to be either harmless "pious wishes", or simple hoodwinking of the masses by ordinary bourgeois politicians. – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
The interests of the bourgeoisie demand the embellishment of capitalism and the concealment of the gulf that divides the classes. The interests of the proletariat demand the exposure of capitalism and of the exploitation of wage-labour; they demand that the eyes of the masses be opened to the immensity of the gulf that divides the classes. – Vladimir Lenin, Bourgeois Gentlemen on "Family" Farming
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An "orgy of pillage" — no other words can describe the behaviour of the capitalists during the war. This orgy is leading to national disaster. We cannot keep silent. We cannot put up with it. — Vladimir Lenin, The Capitalists Must Be Exposed
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Efforts are being made to vilify and defame the revolution, to erase it from the memory of the people. But in no country has the working class ever yet allowed its enemies to take from it the chief attainment of every revolution at all worthy of this name, viz., the experience of mass struggle, the conviction of millions of working and exploited people that this struggle is essential for any serious improvement of their position. – Vladimir Lenin, Towards Unity
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Toxic "forever chemicals" are now found in 99% of human blood samples. The US, EU, and the Netherlands have all weakened regulations on them after lobbying by industrial groups.
Details. A Dutch government body reported that every breast milk sample it tested contained unnatural “forever chemicals”, with 1 in 5 women having dangerous amounts in their breast milk. The same health institute stated that these chemicals can negatively impact the immune system, as well as the development of the unborn child. These chemicals can increase the risks of certain cancers, cause low birth weight, and reduce fertility.
▶ “Forever chemicals”, also known as PFAS, are man-made chemicals that accumulate in the human body or environment. They have been used in industry and consumer products since the 1940s because of their useful properties and low cost. Nowadays, PFAS are found in excessive amounts nearly everywhere: in drinking water, food packaging, personal care products, and even in soil and water near waste sites and factories.
▶ PFAS are poisoning people worldwide. Despite scientists’ warnings, capitalist governments are failing to protect us. Although “forever chemicals” were found in the blood of 99% of tested Americans, the USA recently repealed its PFAS regulations for drinking water. The EU scaled back on its proposed PFAS ban, after heavy lobbying by German industrial groups. The Dutch government has also loosened its own restrictions on PFAS contamination, arguing that stricter rules would disrupt the construction industry.
▶ Capitalism structurally produces this outcome. No individual capitalist has a profit incentive to control the environmental consequences of their production, these costs are externalised onto workers. PFAS enters water supplies through industrial processes controlled by the capitalist class, whose influence over legislators ensures they remain lightly regulated.
Context. The capitalist system has mismanaged several recent public crises. In 2020, the USA was not ready for Covid-19 and suffered over a million deaths due to it. Likewise, this year’s hantavirus outbreak could have been avoided – the vaccine was nearly ready a decade earlier, but was cancelled when researchers ran out of funding.
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Notice the way in which the capitalists are trying to escape from the economic crisis. They are reducing the workers' wages as much as possible. They are reducing the prices of raw materials as much as possible. But they do not want to reduce the prices of food and industrial commodities for mass consumption to any important extent. This means that they want to escape from the crisis at the expense of the principal consumers, at the expense of the workers and peasants, at the expense of the working people. – Joseph Stalin, The Tasks of Business Executives
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And through all its trials the working class of Russia will preserve the readiness for revolutionary struggle, the mass heroism, by which it conquered in 1905 and which will enable it to be victorious more than once in the future. – Vladimir Lenin, Towards Unity
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In all bourgeois republics, even the most democratic, the police (like the standing army) is the chief instrument of oppression of the masses..... The police beats up the "common people" in the police stations of New York, Geneva, and Paris; it favours the capitalists either because it is bribed to do so (America and other countries), or because it enjoys wealthy "patronage" and "protection" (Switzerland), or because of a combination of both (France). – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
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The US is considering Raúl Castro's grandson as a potential leader of a pro-American regime. He gives interviews to state-controlled American media, lives in luxury, and personally helped push through the 'reforms' to open Cuba to American capital.
Details. The Trump administration has been searching for a Cuban official willing to take over the government in Havana. The CIA is reportedly weighing Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro and Interior Minister Lázaro Álvarez Casas as potential candidates
► In his first interview with a US outlet, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro positioned himself as Cuba's negotiator, saying he “can negotiate with anyone designated by the US”, even Trump.
► Rodríguez Castro met with Rubio, State Department official Jeremy Lewin, and was present when CIA Director Ratcliffe visited Havana in May. He sent a secret letter to Trump proposing economic cooperation and sanctions relief – intercepted at Miami airport. Tellingly, he was not sanctioned by the US, unlike Cuba's president and other senior officials.
► The current US government is seeking to mimic what it executed in Venezuela, replacing current Cuban leadership with a “pragmatic” and more pro-US leader, whilst preserving the ruling regime, maintaining some stability whilst avoiding an expensive conflict, like what has happened with Iran.
Who is Rodriguez Castro? He is Raúl Castro's eldest grandson and son of the late General who ran GAESA, he holds no elected office and rarely appears in state media.
► He presents himself as a continuation of the revolution. He wears a gold chain bearing the initials of Fidel and Raúl Castro, saying "if there's anything I believe in, it is these two men”, and frames his negotiations with Washington as fulfilling his revolutionary duty: "I've never been interested in politics. It's never been a calling of mine. But if at some point the revolution needs me to step up, I will do it”. At the same time, he claims he would never sacrifice the principles of Cuba's revolution.
► He conducted the interview in Hugo Boss and Hermès sneakers, has made at least 23 private jet trips to Panama, claiming to look for investment opportunities for Cuba, and appears in leaked videos on private yachts and in nightclubs. While millions of Cubans endure blackouts and food shortages, he said: "It pains me that many people can't live the way I do”.
► He gave his interview the day after the 176 reforms passed, with it suggesting he personally helped push them through, directly dismantling the revolution he claims to uphold. He points to China and Vietnam as Cuba's model.
Context. The 2026 package of 176 reforms in Cuba formalised a capitalist economy that had been developing for decades. The reforms included full privatisation of state enterprises and opening the economy to foreign investment.
► GAESA – the military conglomerate whose profits account for an estimated 37% of Cuba's GDP – already dominated the Cuban economy before the reforms. The 176 measures expand the conditions for the military-bourgeois elite to accumulate further. Rodríguez Castro's father built and ran it until 2022, Rodríguez Castro now oversees it informally, while claiming in the interview it represents only 15% of the economy.
► Figures like this are not exclusive to Cuba. In China, many relatives of Party Officials (referred to princelings) obtained privileged economic positions. Whilst the term refers to a wide range of people, it includes entrepreneurs who enriched themselves as China’s economy was opened up to foreign capital. In Vietnam, one of the architects of the opening up and privatisation of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Oanh, was allowed to travel abroad to open up channels for foreign investment.
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We must face the truth squarely. We must not gloss it over, we must tell it to people in a straightforward manner. We must not brush the class struggle under the carpet, but clarify what relation it bears to the high-sounding, specious, delightful "radical" reforms. – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
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The trouble is that once we forget the harsh and rigid conditions of capitalist domination, then all such platforms, all such lists of sweeping reforms are empty words, which in practice turn out to be either harmless "pious wishes", or simple hoodwinking of the masses by ordinary bourgeois politicians. – Vladimir Lenin, They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
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The interests of the bourgeoisie demand the embellishment of capitalism and the concealment of the gulf that divides the classes. The interests of the proletariat demand the exposure of capitalism and of the exploitation of wage-labour; they demand that the eyes of the masses be opened to the immensity of the gulf that divides the classes. – Vladimir Lenin, Bourgeois Gentlemen on "Family" Farming
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