January 2026

Major Actions In Support Of Palestine Mark The New Year

January 1, 2026 Middle East Monitor. Resist! International Solidarity, New Years Eve, Palestine, Sweden, Türkiye

Over half a million people gathered early Thursday at Istanbul’s Galata Bridge for a massive march in support of Palestine, organized under the umbrella of the Humanity Alliance and the National Will Platform, Anadolu reports. The New Year’s Day demonstration, held with the participation of more than 400 civil society organizations and led by the Turkish Youth Foundation (TUGVA), was carried out under the slogan “We won’t cower, we won’t keep quiet, we won’t forget Palestine.” At the event, around 520,000 participants called for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Xizang’s Leap From Serfdom To Socialism With Chinese Characteristics

January 1, 2026 Arnold August, Friends of Socialist China. Educate! China, Self-Determination, Serfdom, Tibet, Xizang

“Tibet” has long been shrouded in mystery and misinformation. But the reality before 1951 was stark. Under a feudal theocracy, about 5% of the population were serf-owners, while at least 95% were serfs. I will never forget the film about a mother, a grandmother, and a small child, all born in the cowshed of a serf-owner. They lived there as the fourth generation under such conditions. After 1951, Xizang underwent significant changes, notably the rapid expansion of transportation. Yet, the event that remains most vivid for the people we spoke to is the abolition of serfdom on March 28, 1959.

China / United States – Latin America And The Caribbean

January 1, 2026 Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, Workers World. Create! Caribbean, China, Development, Foreign Relations, Latin America

As if by fate and unplanned twists of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere is Washington’s property, thus reviving the Monroe Doctrine and its Trump corollary for the 21st century, the government of the People’s Republic of China released its third document on its foreign policy toward the region. In 2008, the Chinese government published the first Document on China’s Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean, in which it set out the objective of establishing a China-LAC Comprehensive Cooperation Partnership based on equality, mutual benefit and joint development.

Pan-African Progressive Front: ‘70% Of Africans Back Reparations’

January 1, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, Colonialism, De-colonization, Reparations

A recent communiqué and continent-wide survey released by the Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) signals a crucial shift in Africa’s reparations movement, moving it from symbolic demands to a coordinated political and institutional agenda. The survey, conducted across all regions of Africa and involving 1,861 respondents from 57 African countries and the diaspora, found that 70.3% of Africans support demanding reparations from former colonial powers, while more than 78% favor an interstate reparations fund under public oversight.

Creative Action Was Off The Charts In 2025

January 1, 2026 Rivera Sun, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Authoritarianism, Creative Action, Mass Actions, Nonviolence

The rise of authoritarianism in the United States had devastating consequences in 2025. It was a year of unrelenting injustice, maddening and terrifying at once. Amidst the cycles of heartbreak and hope, resistance surged to unprecedented levels. Along with mass demonstrations and powerful boycotts, there were countless acts of creative protest that rekindled spirits, made us laugh out loud, and kept us rising up. In nonviolent struggle, creativity is an enduring superpower — and we’ve seen it working powerfully for us in 2025.

Shreveport City Council Disrupted Over Secretive AI Data Center

January 1, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Artificial Intelligence (AI), City Council, Data Centers, Shreveport

Shreveport, LA – On December 18, community members packed a Shreveport city council meeting Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. to oppose a proposed artificial intelligence data center being introduced through a special use permit. The meeting became a flashpoint for public anger over secrecy, environmental harm and corporate control of local government. City council members met to discuss and vote on the proposal despite having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that conceal critical details of the project from the public.

Gift Economies And Cultural Commons

January 1, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Anti-capitalism, Capitalism, Gift economy, Local Economy

In the late 1970s, well before I became interested in the commons, one of the most formative books that I encountered, at age 23, was Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. I first read an excerpt in the Whole Earth Review – the countercultural quarterly edited by Stewart Brand – and shortly thereafter the book. I was thunderstruck by the invisible social relationships wrought by gifts and their karmic ramifications, all of which Hyde brought vividly into view. Drawing on anthropologist Marcel Mauss’ famous 1923 book on gift-exchange, Hyde took the idea much further, showing how gift exchange is a ubiquitous social phenomenon for forging and maintaining reciprocal relationships.

‘Phytomining’ Could Put The Green In The Green Transition

January 1, 2026 Sarah DeWeerdt, The Tyee. Create! Environment, Green Transition, Human Rights, minerals, Mining, Phytomining

Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into beautiful flattened seed pods that, in the words of botanist Liz Rylott from the United Kingdom’s University of York, “resemble a British old penny.” But alpine pennycress (Noccaea caerulescens) is notable for far more than its penny disguise. The plant is one of a select group — representing just 0.21 per cent of the world’s known vascular plant species — that have evolved the ability to pull impressive amounts of valuable metals out of the soil.

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