Xi Attacked Corruption & Poverty Last 2 Terms—CPC Congress Decides ‘What’s Next?’
The Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress, a multi-day decisionmaking event every five years, begins this weekend in Beijing to set the priorities and leadership for the Party. What has China achieved recently and where is it headed? Will CCP General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping secure a third term and what does that mean […]
On the Ground for Brazil’s Historic Election: Grassroots Leaders Rally to Lula, Denounce Bolsonaro
For the final days before the election, BreakThrough has been on the ground interviewing leaders and community members in Brazil’s working-class and majority Black areas. They explain the crimes of the Bolsonaro administration and why this is the most important election since the end of the country’s dictatorship.
Healthcare Profiteers Are Quietly Devastating Small-Town America. For the Poor, It’s Life or Death.
Healthcare profiteers are destroying small towns across America.Hospitals deemed unprofitable are being closed by investors, leaving entire communities without a healthcare provider. The costs are deadly. Kei Pritsker was embedded with Put People First! PA, a group that’s fighting to make healthcare a human right in the state of Pennsylvania.
This is What Got Katie Halper Censored & Canceled By The Hill: Israel Is An Apartheid State
Katie Halper recorded a segment for The Hill’s Rising defending Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from attacks over calling Israel an apartheid state. The Hill presents itself as a channel that opposes cancel culture and censorship. Halper says she was told that The Hill has a ban on opinion videos about Israel. When she pushed to have […]
Indian Journalist Takes Down Tucker Carlson on ‘Revisionist, Racist History’: British Did Commit Genocide
Tucker Carlson declared that the British Empire was a “benign” force that brought civilization and beauty to India, while asserting the country had produced nothing of comparable value since independence. Indian journalist Prasanth R. of NewsClick and People’s Dispatch reacts, explaining just how wrong Carlson is. This kind of full-throated defense of colonialism has been […]
Venezuelan Foreign Minister: U.S. Gov’t Failed in Regime Change, Failed in Isolating Us
In his first interview with a U.S. media outlet, Venezuela’s new Foreign Minister Carlos Faria sat down with BT’s Rania Khalek during the UN General Assembly. They discussed his personal background in the Venezuelan left, how the Russia-Ukraine conflict has affected his country and how the U.S. effort to isolate Venezuela has instead isolated imperialism […]
No Celebration for a Colonizer: Communists in Kenya on Queen’s Brutal Legacy
In the first year of Elizabeth’s reign (1952), the British brutally put down the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, which continued for several years as the Kenya Land and Freedom Army fought for the self-determination. National Organising Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya, Booker Ngesa Omole, sheds light on the real legacy of Queen […]
The Crown’s Crimes in Ireland: Colonization System Exported to the World
The newly-crowned King Charles began his tour of Northern Ireland on Tuesday. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Eugene McCartan, discusses Britain’s legacy of violence and colonial repression in Ireland. During Elizabeth’s reign, the British carried out widespread repression in northern Ireland while super-exploiting Irish workers.