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Leftist News and Current Events?

I've been meaning to ask this question: What news sites, blogs, and journalists do you follow for news and current events?

Maybe we'll set up a repository somewhere for people to reference, that can be updated over time as people and publications become more or less relevant/reliable.

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From the responses:

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  • I'll add a couple that I've only just recently been looking at:

    • Reading the Grayzone 3/4 years ago was instrumental in breaking my orientalist and anti-communist thinking. I know Max Blumenthal has gone a little sideways politically since then, though, which makes me trust it a little less.

      Mr. Norton is obviously much more principled, and geopolitical economy/Multipolarista are absolutely incredible sources.

  • Liberation News, Fight Back! News, Workers' World, MintPress News, Geopolitical Economy Report, CovertAction Magazine, Monthly Review, BreakThrough News.

  • If I am not mistaken, ProleWiki has a page on this but I can’t seem to find it.

    It may be useful to add all the websites that isn’t on there yet. I’ve been meaning to create an account but haven’t got round to it yet.

  • Most of the ones I follow have already been named, so here's some non-English ones

    Esquerda.net, in Portuguese

    Junge Welt, in German

    TeleSur, in both Spanish and English

    Al-Mayadeen, in Arabic

    Qudsn.co, in Arabic

  • I don't read much current news, but here goes some sources I've found reliable for the past month or so.

    Prensa Latina is a Cuban government press agency that has developed a lot in recent years, and is very good for reporting on Actual Americans (read: not only Unitedstadians). They have Spanish, Brazilian, English, Russian, Arabic and Italian.

    Haïti Liberté is another Caribbean leftist newspaper but this time Haitian. They have some stuff in English, but it's mostly French and some Creole. Obviously they focus mostly on Haiti from an anti-imperialist perspective, but that also often extends to the rest of the Caribe.

    But also, if you're trying to get news from some particular industry or location, it's always useful to go straight for the reporting that is meant for the professionals of that area rather than the general public. So if you're into hollywood, touching grass deadline.com is often useful, and if you're a gamer, get some help gamedeveloper.com (old gamasutra) usually has more in-depth reporting. Usually the more in-depth reporting comes out from the specialist newspaper rather than some multinational outlet.

  • Maybe it would be best to write the organization/affiliation/standpoint (or if applicable the specific ideology) next to the sites. Would be good to know when reading the articles to have some context.

    • I think this is a good idea. I don't think I'm the right person to gather that data since much of these are new to me too 😅. If people want to reply to this comment with that info for the ones they know I'll update the post.

      • I can start a bit: workers.org is affiliated with the Workers World Party

        And for the suggested German ones: "junge Welt" is ranging from far left social democracy to classic ML.

        demvolkedienen.org seems to be some kind of Maoist (no surprise with that name)

        Indymedia is open to everyone so every part of leftism is represented

        taz is social democratic/left liberalism

        neues Deutschland is left wing social democrats

        I'd argue that it is fine to include the social democratic sites. If you're aware of their position you can still get the necessary information out of their articles and they usually have a higher budget than far left ones.

        Also I can recommend to read a serious bourgeois newspaper (not pure propaganda rags like the Sun) to every comrade. The bourgeoisie isn't stupid so they have papers that tell the truth on many things. Their analysis and "solutions" are obviously different but the information is still valuable. Also it's good to know how the bourgeoisie judges the situation. Know your enemy.

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