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zetkin.forumDie Weltordnung jenseits der Polarität: Der 43. Newsletter (2026)Der relative Rückgang der unipolaren Vorherrschaft Washingtons eröffnet wichtige geopolitische Chancen. Doch eine Verschiebung der Machtzentren allein reicht nicht aus, um die Unternehmensmonopole zu ...

Ist Polarität überhaupt ein sinnvolles Konzept? Wer den Newsletter interessant findet, sollte unbedingt das dazugehörige Dossier lesen.

Zetkin Forum for Social Research@zetkinforum.bsky.social

Der wirtschaftliche Schwerpunkt liegt heute stärker in Asien. Doch neue Machtzentren schwächen nicht automatisch die Unternehmensmonopole, die Produktion, Finanzwelt und Technologie weltweit prägen. @tricontinental.bsky.social newsletter zetkin.forum/2026/10/26/n...

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Danke, Brasilien!

Yeah #Brasil! Now it's time for Lula to initiate agrarian reform, breaking the power of big agri-business in Brasil once and for all.

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You know, how some just come naturally to a person. Boycotting Tesla is one of those things. Don't need to be reminded, don't sigh about it, never even crossed my mind not to.

Mr. Elias@theeliasrework.bsky.social

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Ned Richardson-Little

@historyned.bsky.social

Christdemokratie in der letzten Woche.

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Tony

Zionism vs Judaism. Here is an image that should explain the difference, Jewish photojournalist Heidi Levine being punched, kicked, stamped on and robbed, by Zionists. #ZionismIsRacism

Berlin became a dictatorship while I was gone: no more Feierabendbier or take -one-for-the-road-drink on public transportation!

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BREAKING - Flavio Bolsonaro has said he will REFUSE to take part in the last debate on Friday against Lula if live fact checking is used. Because it will constantly say he is lying.

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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” 100 years ago, on October 20, 1926 Eugene V. Debs, US labor leader and five times presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, died.

Und wenn die schon mit Zahlen rumwerfen, wie viele Demonstranten sind verletzt?

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Genauso Frechheit! Entschädigungslose Enteignung verbessert das soziale Klima!

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zetkin.forumNach dem Waffenstillstand geht Israels Gewalt gegen Palästina weiter: Der 41. Newsletter (2026)Der Angriff auf die Existenz der Palästinenser*innen beschränkt sich nicht auf Bombardierungen. Die Zerstörung der Infrastruktur, die israelische Kontrolle über palästinensische Gelder und die Kompliz...

#FreePalestine

Zetkin Forum for Social Research@zetkinforum.bsky.social

Elf Monate nach dem Waffenstillstand leben Palästinenser*innen in Gaza weiterhin in Zelten und Trümmern – ohne Sicherheit und Würde. @tricontinental.bsky.social newsletter zetkin.forum/2026/10/12/n...

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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ

@rajannaidu.bsky.social

#MédecinsSansFrontières Three years on, Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival

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rote-hilfe.deKonto bleibt: Rote Hilfe gewinnt HauptsacheverfahrenDie Rote Hilfe e. V. hat heute auch das Hauptsacheverfahren gegen die Sparkasse Göttingen gewonnen. Das Landgericht Göttingen hat entschieden, dass die Kündigung des Kontos der bundesweiten linken Sol...

Right now Israel is invading Gaza and breaking the Ceasefire to blow up the last few habitable buildings and complete their Ethnic Cleansing so they can move onto completing their Genocide. And there is silence, TOTAL SILENCE. The West are as guilty of Genocide as Israel.

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Rote Hilfe e.V.

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Rote Hilfe gewinnt auch in der Hauptsache gegen die Sparkasse Göttingen! Das Landgericht erklärt die Kündigung unseres Kontos für unwirksam. Ein wichtiger Erfolg gegen politisch motiviertes Debanking und für solidarische Arbeit. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

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Darren Dahly

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They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Zetkin Forum for Social Research

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Die US-Sicherung kritischer Rohstoffe folgt einer kolonialen Logik: Der Globale Süden verliert die Hoheit über seine Ressourcen und wird zum Versorgungsreservoir. @tricontinental.bsky.social newsletter zetkin.forum/2026/10/05/n...

zetkin.forumDie kritischen Mineralien hinter dem Trump-Corollary: Der 40. Newsletter (2026)Das Bestreben, kritische Rohstoffe zu monopolisieren, offenbart eine neue strategische Architektur: Die Sicherung militärischer und industrieller Lieferketten erfordert zwingend die Unterordnung perip...

I think you deserve to dream even bigger.

Scary Sydney Scott (romance author and part-time succubus)@sydneyscottauthor.bsky.social

Them: What's your biggest fantasy? Me: Someone making me dinner and not asking me to do the dishes afterwards. 🥵

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You will hear a lot about the violence of protestors in France but little about the violence of the police. Here the officer shoots one lone protestor in the face with a stun grenade launcher, causing him to lose most of his teeth As usual the Police are the MOST violent

Und/aber?

Robert Fietzke@robertfietzke.bsky.social

Ich kann jeden Schüler und jede Schülerin verstehen, die aufgrund von Lehrer*innenmangel, Unterrichtsausfall, kaputten Schulklos, maroden Dächern und Rassismus wütend ist und deswegen keinen Bock mehr hat, diese Zustände, die die Erwachsenenwelt geschaffen hat, weiterhin zu erdulden.

My first thought exactly

Lowerclassjane@lowerclassjane.bsky.social

Ich finde eher beunruhigend, dass man bei der roten Hilfe austritt, wenn zu viel Karriere oder so

You meant to say reparations, right?

Mark Gerretsen@markgerretsen.bsky.social

Today, we honour the children who never returned home, Survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities. Today is also an opportunity for all of us to listen, learn, reflect, and continue the work of reconciliation in our communities. Every Child Matters. 🧡

Warum ist sie nicht mehr Mitglied?

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Outspoken™️

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Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.

With all due respect. Die (Selbst) Abschaffung der CDU bedauern wir als Linke, weil ...

Der Volksverpetzer@volksverpetzer.de

Solange die Union nicht begreift, dass sie so viele Wähler verliert WEIL sie den Rechtsruck vorantreibt und der AfD nacheifert, wird die AfD stärker & die Union schafft sich selbst ab. Nicht nur weil Rassisten natürlich das Original wählen - sondern auch, weil Demokraten sich von der Union abwenden.

What you eat for breakfast IS breakfast food.

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social

My husband and I are having a big disagreement. Is grilled cheese a breakfast food? My perspective might be skewed here because my dad made them for me all the time for breakfast. But he also couldn’t cook.

@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

#Schulstreik #Wehrpflicht #FreeAugust Fight of the season: August against Merz!

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Anne Roth

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Angesichts der Möglichkeit, eine linke Berliner Bürgermeisterin zu verhindern, scheint vielen, die sich als 'Mitte' verstehen, völlig nebensächlich zu sein, dass die afd demnächst möglicherweise alle Ministerien in #Sachsen-Anhalt übernimmt. Was viel darüber sagt, wo sich diese 'Mitte' hinbewegt.

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Saul Staniforth

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"The UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese must not be silenced for telling the truth" President Lula at the UN General Assembly this afternoon.

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"In Cuba the world watches in horror as collective punishment is imposed on 10m people by an illegal economic & energy embargo" President Lula at the UN General Assembly this afternoon.

Awesome example of the pot calling the kettle black.

Human Rights Index 💙@humanrightsindex.bsky.social

As we consider military and logistical support for Saudi Arabia, a quick reminder: At least 356 people were executed there in 2025. Since January 2026, at least 134 more have been executed. Many for non-lethal drug offences. Apparently, human rights have strategic exceptions.

One of my favourite slogans. Und aktuell wie selten in Zeiten von Säbelrasseln.

Albert Scharenberg@albertscharenberg.bsky.social

Bei einem Polizeieinsatz zur Räumung von acht besetzten Häusern stirbt am 22. September 1981 der Hausbesetzer Klaus-Jürgen Rattay in Berlin. In der 11. Folge des Podcasts #RosaluxHistory dreht sich alles um die «Geschichte der Hausbesetzerbewegung».

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Die Tierschutzpartei hat in MV mehr Stimmen als die #FDP. Wer sagt, es gibt keinen Grund zu feiern?

zetkin.forumModernisierung bedeutet nicht Kapitalismus: Der 38. Newsletter (2026)Entwicklung für den Globalen Süden lässt sich nicht durch Nachahmung des Entwicklungsweges des kapitalistischen Westens erreichen. Es ist vielmehr erforderlich, imperialistische Abhängigkeiten durch S...

21 Sept

Kapitalismus und Modernisierung sind längst nicht dasselbe.

Zetkin Forum for Social Research@zetkinforum.bsky.social

Die Entwicklungstheorie des Kalten Krieges versprach Modernisierung durch Kapitalismus. Doch westlicher Reichtum beruht auf kolonialer Ausbeutung – andere Kulturen wurden für ihre Armut verantwortlich gemacht. @tri_continental newsletter zetkin.forum/2026/09/21/n...

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20 Sept

«Von hier und heute geht eine neue Epoche der Weltgeschichte aus», soll Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bei der «Kanonade von Valmy» am 20. September 1792 gesagt haben. In der 29. Folge des Podcasts #RosaluxHistory dreht sich um alles diese neue Epoche: «Die Französische Revolution».

20 Sept

Now that Canada is Europe, they could send Justin Bieber to the #Eurovision and totally win.

20 Sept

Heut geb ich mein Ja dem Kapital, Wahlsonntag ists, da hab ich keine Wahl. (Peter Hacks)

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18 Sept

Like Assange, Maduro is a hero, in prison for the sole crime of not bowing to the USA and letting them rob Venezuela.

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil The silence from the international community is deafening They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes

19 Sept

Favorite dish. Glorious simple invention.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social

I have made spaghetti aglio olio peperoncino for lunch and feel I’ve already won the weekend. How can something so simple taste this good?

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internet.exchangepoint.techWhat It Means to Lose Autistici/Inventati_By_ Anne Roth Nineteen years ago, I started a blog to document our experience after my partner was falsely accused of terrorism. Now, a terrorism designation is about to force that blogging platform off of the internet. Sometime late in the summer of 2007 I was looking for a place where I could publish a pretty unusual story. My partner had been arrested early in the morning in our family’s apartment in the center of Berlin by special police forces. That was the moment when we found out that he was suspected of being the master mind of a terrorist organization. Anti-terror surveillance had been directed at him for a year, and also at me at times. (He’s not a terrorist and never was, he was released eventually after some weeks and the investigation was later dropped. That’s a story of its own.) ## Sign up for Internet Exchange Feminist perspectives on digital justice and tech Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. I wanted to write about what that feels like and what it entailed in our daily lives. I had heard about a still somewhat new phenomenon called ‘blogs,’ or web logs, that could be useful when you wanted to publish content without setting up a full-blown website. That was what I needed: to be able to publish without the headache of taking care of software updates, security, or domain registration. I was a digital rights activist (which you can read about here) before this had happened, and wasn’t keen to create something that would subject my readers to any sort of tracking, be it commercial or otherwise. So I was very happy when I discovered a blog platform that was run by Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian tech collective that promised not to allow any of that. As I write this their policy is still accessible at noblogs.org. It says: “ _Those who gathered around this blogging platform of ours share our manifesto and broadly our aims: struggle for a world where fairness, equal rights and freedom are the corner stones of people’s life; fight back a society too interested in controlling us and in knowing who we are instead of what do we think or love/hate; resist to the widespread idea that any single moment of our life can be traded with money or economically valuable stuff._ ” I had already known A/I for some years. I’d met some of their members in 2001 during the protests against the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, at the independent media center where hundreds of activists came together to report about the protests, long before social media existed. Together we watched in horror as the police attacked a school across the street where many activists slept after the demonstrations. ### A terrorist designation For 25 years, A/I has given activists like me a place to share our thoughts, but now it is being treated as a threat. Noblogs.org might not be online anymore when you read this. On August 26 A/I sent out an announcement that the US government had declared them to be supporters of terrorism. According to a press release by the State Department. “Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) is an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world.” The collective quickly rejected the allegations and wrote that they “ _strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations_.” Two days later, their domain autistici.org disappeared. At first it wasn’t clear what had happened, since no one had bothered to tell A/I about it. According to A/I’s press release, the decision to make the domain unreachable was made by Public Interest Registry (PIR), a non-profit created by the Internet Society (ISOC) to manage the .org domain and “serve the public interest online”. The Italian chapter of ISOC protested vehemently against this in an open letter addressing not only PIR and ISOC, but also to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its European section, European Regional At-Large Organization (EURALO). In the letter they describe that at the point of writing, no evidence existed that Autistici had engaged or supported terrorist activities. In the words of A/I: “ _the U.S. government has decided to apply an extra-judicial procedure that makes it impossible to appeal through a due process and that exposes both those who provide services to A/I and those who use A/I services within the U.S. to the risk of being designated as terrorists_.” ISOC Italy went on to say that their concern was the role of PIR: > “ _Dot org is not U.S. property nor a for-profit corporate undertaking, but rather a global, supranational resource vital to freedom of expression and association online. Its management must reflect this objective, as was understood when it was awarded in perpetuity to the Internet Society and its wholly-owned operational entity, Public Internet Registry. The stewards of dot org should strive to ensure that no government has control over the online presence of non-profits that do not belong to or operate within its jurisdiction, and more generally that no single government can decide who gets to keep or lose a dot org domain name anywhere in the world_.” And this should indeed be a concern of everyone in the wider internet governance community. If the .org domain registration is, in effect, subject to the arbitrary decisions of the US government, then we need to consider whether and how this can be changed. Again a few days after the designation, A/I’s bank, the Italian Banca Etica, told the collective that it planned to close its account. Its PayPal account had already been shut down on the first day without any notice. The closing of bank accounts of organizations accused of terrorism or support of terrorism is not an uncommon measure. However, here, too, there was no legal procedure that forced the bank to close the account. Instead, when the US government. places an organization on a terrorism list this can mean there will be further sanctions. The bank decided to suspend A/I’s account out of fear of the possibility of those further sanctions. Since September 4, A/I has been unable to access its own funds, which were gathered through donations from its users. A former director of Banca Etica, Alessandro Messina, commented: “ _It is plausible that many banks would choose to close A/I’s account. One would expect, however, something different from an organisation founded to promote ethical finance, when faced with a designation of such markedly political nature (._.)” Another two days later A/I announced it would completely shut down: > “ _Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us._ > _It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity._ > _We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action_.” ### An attack on political opponents A shock went through the community of people that use A/I’s services. It’s a huge community. A/I has existed for 25 years and says that they hosted 20,000 blogs, 20,000 mail accounts, 5,000 mailing lists and 1,500 websites. At this moment my blog is still online in read-only mode. I have lost access to the administration. Soon it will be gone, and with it nineteen years of my writings on digital policy and rights. The same is true for the many other blogs and websites from many countries, on a huge variety of topics including climate change, anti-militarization, Indigenous rights and healthcare reform as well as Antifa. When it goes, many, many links from websites around the internet will lead nowhere. Once more, I’ve become the collateral damage of a terrorism accusation. And so have many other voices. Article 19 warned that “In addition to violating freedom of expression standards, this designation already spreads a chilling effect.” Twenty thousand blogs are going dark and there has been no outcry, because people are asking themselves whether it is wise to defend an organization the US has designated as terrorist. When authoritarian governments attack non-commercial, independent digital communication infrastructure like in this case, we can’t underestimate the impact. This time it was Italy, but next time might be closer to you. It is still much too quiet. _A political scientist by education,_ Anne Roth_is senior advisor for digital policy for the Left Party in the German federal parliament. She co-founded the first interactive media activist website, Indymedia, in Germany in 2001 and has been involved with media and digital rights activism ever since. Anne was senior advisor for the Parliamentary Inquiry on Mass Surveillance of the German Bundestag 2014 – 2017. Conferences she spoke at include the Chaos Communication Congress, re:publica and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference._ **Related:** The Rise Against Big Tech coalition pledges solidarity with Autistici/Inventati, after the US labeled it a terrorist group, and calls for more community-run internet infrastructure. https://howto.riseagainstbig.tech/t/we-remain-human-solidarity-with-autistici-inventati/254 * * * ## Consultation: Language, Culture and Everyday Use of AI – Perspectives from South Asia Digital Futures Lab and the IEEE Standards Association invite researchers, developers and policymakers based in South Asia to a multistakeholder consultation on how AI systems perform across the region's diverse languages and cultures: where current safety guardrails work, where they fall short, and what safety mechanisms suit such diverse environments. Held under the Global South Network on Trustworthy AI, the consultation will inform the _Global South AI Safety Report_ , due for launch at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in May 2027. Consultation on Language, Culture and Everyday Use of AIOrganised by Digital Futures Lab, in association with IEEE-SA, the findings from the Consultation will inform the Global South AI Safety Report, a flagship initiative of the Global South Network on Trustworthy AI. The Report explores how AI systems are being built, deployed, used, and maintained across Asia, Africa and Latin America, and identifies the safety concerns, governance gaps, and structural risks that emerge at each stage. This consultation invites stakeholders from South Asia to discuss how AI systems perform across distinct language and cultural environments in the region, to identify where existing safety guardrails are effective or fall short and determine the most appropriate safety mechanisms for environments characterised by diversity.Google Docs **Date:** 12 October 2026 **Time:** 11 am – 5 pm IST **Location:** Bangalore, India, and online Register by 27 September Spots are limited, and registrants will be contacted to confirm participation. Please share with anyone in your network who may be interested. Want to appear here? Sponsor a newsletter. ****Support the Internet Exchange**** If you find our emails useful, consider becoming a paid subscriber! You'll get access to our members-only Signal community where we share ideas, discuss upcoming topics, and exchange links. Paid subscribers can also leave comments on posts and enjoy a warm, fuzzy feeling. Not ready for a long-term commitment? 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18 Sept

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17 Sept

Something I wanted to write very much:

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A terrorism designation is forcing Autistici/Inventati to shut down operations, and forcing its blogging platform NoBlogs off the internet.

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17 Sept

Ed Sheeran is now going to have Free Palestine shouted at him wherever he goes for the rest of his life. He wanted to ignore Genocide, now he will never be able to. We call that Karma.

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John Clarke

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16 Sept

The Western establishment, it's politicians, its institutions and its media all operate on this basis of this unspoken assumption. #FreePalestine

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15 Sept

Am 15. Sept. 1963 explodierte eine vom Ku-Klux-Klan platzierte Bombe in der 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Vier Schwarze Mädchen starben. Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley: Wir werden Euch nie vergessen!

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14 Sept

Am 14. September 1867 kündigt das «Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel» eine Buchveröffentlichung an: «O. Meißner in Hamburg. 7571. Marx, K., das Kapital. Kritik der polit. Oekonomie. 1. Bd. Buch 1.: Der Produktionsprocess d. Kapitals. gr. 8. Geh. 3 1/3». (1/2)