In The Worldwide Family of Militant Women by Arlene Eisen. It’s published by Iskra so digital copies are available for free too https://www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/worldwide-family

Someone had posted this video about Cuba’s new breakthrough treatment for Alzheimer’s a while back. It’s just one example of the fact that AES countries continue to move humanity forward in the right direction, and will continue to do so, regardless of the backwardness of capitalist/imperialist countries and their atrocities. It’s important to remember that there are good things happening in the world, even if it doesn’t feel like it a lot of the time.

That being said, I agree with what others have suggested about logging off. To maintain our mental health and stamina for a prolonged revolutionary struggle, we need to have some other hobbies that aren’t directly related to news/politics.

Really enjoying the Imperial '80s podcast on Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. They go over '80s movies and discuss from an anti-imperialist Marxist perspective, super interesting and fun to listen to. It’s been my go-to thing lately for when I want something more relaxing to decompress in the evenings after catching up on all the more serious news and analysis.

A few of my favorites that I read in the last year:

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America By Brian Goldstone https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871/there-is-no-place-for-us-by-brian-goldstone/

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night By Julian Sancton https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602593/madhouse-at-the-end-of-the-earth-by-julian-sancton/

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex By Nathaniel Philbrick https://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/in-the-heart-of-the-sea

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/what-in-me-is-dark-9781662602801/

I completely understand, I’m also disabled and have similar feelings about not wanting anyone to see me (I honestly can’t even remember the last time I left my apartment). And I know what you mean about people being so judgmental if you’re unemployed, it really sucks. Feel free to message me if you ever want someone to chat with. I wish you all the best in finding whatever level of comfort or stability you can in your situation.

I’m really sorry that life has been so rough for you. I wish I could offer you some sort of comfort. Your post was very relatable to me, although your situation is definitely much worse than mine.

Have you thought about reaching out to Steve? Maybe sending him a message on that social media site where you found his profile? I know it’s easy to think “oh they wouldn’t want to hear from me” or something similar, but you never know. He might be very happy to hear from you, maybe he’s been missing you too over the years and just didn’t have your contact info.

This interview demonstrates how to respond to many of the Western talking points, and has a lot of info you could potentially use https://www.pambazuka.org/Iran-vs-US-Imperialism

The recent webinar about Michael Parenti was a much-needed mental pick me up for myself, personally, so if you haven’t seen that yet I would recommend it https://www.youtube.com/live/eGPXwOPDD-g

There was a new Tankie Group Therapy video a few weeks ago that was good too https://www.youtube.com/live/rX2hbS3eKqg

Friends of Socialist China regularly posts articles with positive news/analysis that can be uplifting. For example, this one about China supporting Cuba with solar power https://socialistchina.org/2026/02/25/with-chinese-support-cuba-triples-solar-power-in-one-year/

Venezuela: Kittens are starving in Venezuela due to economic mismanagement of the communist regime

That’s great, I’m glad it’s going well for you! I’ve also been teaching myself Spanish and have been really enjoying the process of learning it.

I agree that it helps a lot to immerse yourself in the language. So in addition to Duolingo lessons daily, I’ve been reading news websites completely in Spanish (TeleSur in particular), reading short stories on https://www.fluentwithstories.com/, and have a browser extension called Toucan that changes many of the words on webpages into Spanish.

Definitely. I’m not sure who to attribute this quote to, but I’ve heard it said a few times that “cooking is more like an art, baking is more of a science.”

This article goes over some of the history of the Baltic states: ‘The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, revisionism and U.S. imperialism’ https://mronline.org/2025/12/24/the-baltic-roots-of-russophobia-neoliberalism-revisionism-and-u-s-imperialism/

They can be a lot of fun, for sure! If you’re interested, I use Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org/

I listen to podcasts or YT videos while playing a simple flash game called Bubble Spinner. Because the game doesn’t require any real thinking, it actually helps me to focus on what I’m listening to.

Who runs Brave? And if anyone has a suggestion for a better browser please let me know. Genuinely asking, thank you.

• I use Brave browser, and it automatically blocks ads without the need to even have U-block Origin or other plug-ins
• PocketTube (https://pockettube.io/) is a nice extension for organizing channels - that way you can keep an eye on new videos from channels you actually care about, and ignore whatever propaganda crap the algorithm is trying to throw at you
• YT search is indeed awful, you’re better off using the web search engine of your choice and sorting by videos
• I would love to stop using YT altogether, but as of right now there aren’t any alternatives that are comparable in scope - Tankie Tube is cool, but it doesn’t have uploads of all the channels I follow, so still have to use YT

Samir Amin’s essay on Contemporary Imperialism: https://monthlyreview.org/articles/contemporary-imperialism/

And chapter 17 ‘Imperialism’ of Sweezy’s book Theory of Capitalist Development: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461479/page/n313/mode/2up

Paul Sweezy’s Theory of Capitalist Development, in particular chapter 17 ‘Imperialism’, though the whole book is very good. Internet Archive link to the book: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461479/page/n313/mode/2up

In my opinion, Drop Site News has some issues: they have a noticeable anti-Russia and anti-China bias, and they shill pretty hard for the U.S. socdem/demsoc politicians (Ryan Grim in particular seems obsessed with defending Graham Platner). That said, they do some great reporting on Palestine, and their Drop Site Daily newsletters can be useful for an overview of what’s happening broadly.

I do the same as you, check the bourgeois headlines and read them critically. There are also some email newsletters I subscribe to, such as Monthly Review’s mronline.org, consortiumnews.com, and Friends of Socialist China (socialistchina.org). For Palestine, my go-to source is Electronic Intifada electronicintifada.net.

Then for analysis of the news, Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report is great (though it can get repetitive if you watch every video, as he tends to go over the same information). Danny Haiphong does some good interviews, though they can be kind of hit or miss depending on who the guest is - same with India & Global Left. And of course Lemmygrad.

Edit: links were wonky so had to adjust them